Nancy Zabaneh

Marking another year around the sun today ✨

Twenty six years with Dubai as home through many chapters of my life, alongside experiences across places and relationships that have shaped who I am.

This point in time arrives amidst so many shifts across the world, bringing clarity to what truly matters and highlighting the responsibility each of us carries in the way we show up and contribute.

I feel, yet again, a heightened awareness in the role we each play in shaping the fabric of our shared humanity, and service is reflected in how we show up for one another and in the choices that shape what we bring into the world.

As Khalil Gibran wrote,
“You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

Grateful for the incredible journey🤍

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Life places real demands on the body and nervous system. How we meet those moments impacts how we move through our lives 🙏🏻

Indeed, resilience grows as the capacity to stay present, to feel, and to respond with awareness 🙏🏻

Embodied Resilience: A Practice for Inner Strength

March 28 | 10:00 AM | Toronto

An immersive eight-day journey through Beijing, Dali and Lijiang.

We move through imperial history and ancient architecture, mountain landscapes and village life, sacred temples and vibrant city streets. Along the way, we experience regional cuisine, traditional practices, local culture, and daily contemplative time woven into each day.

It is a journey through history, landscape, and living tradition; shared in meaningful company.

The retreat dates have recently been updated, and the new schedule is now confirmed.

A few spaces remain. Deposits are due this week.

✨Details in link in bio✨

Join me for an online Compassionate Inquiry® Facilitated Short Course, beginning March 30, 2026 and meeting every two weeks through the summer.

Compassionate Inquiry®, created by Dr. Gabor Maté and developed further by Sat Dharam Kaur ND, invites us to look beneath coping, identity, and adaptation, and to meet what we find with presence.

This is a space to slow the pace.
To listen inwardly. To understand the roots of our emotional responses and relational patterns.

Through guided inquiry, reflective practice, and shared dialogue, we cultivate clarity, compassion, and a deeper intimacy with ourselves. From that place, how we lead, parent, partner, and serve begins to shift.

You will leave with:
• A clearer understanding of the patterns shaping your life
• Greater emotional literacy and attunement
• Practical inquiry tools you can integrate immediately
• A shared language for deeper conversations
• A renewed relationship with your own inner experience

We gather live, online.
Beginning March 30, 2026.

A meaningful lunch co-created through the collaboration of and bringing together and an inspiring circle of women leaders.

Deep appreciation to and Diana Szyszka-Pompei for their vision and stewardship, alongside the many women whose presence shaped the tone of the afternoon.

There is something powerful about helping bring a room like this together; where generations meet, experience is shared with candour, and leadership is explored as an evolving practice.

Three reflections stayed with me:

Leadership begins within. The depth of our self-awareness informs how we lead and relate.

Visibility brings responsibility. True growth emerges when our public leadership reflects a deeply integrated sense of self.

Ecosystems flourish through collaboration. When women gather across sectors and nations, bridges strengthen; between Canada and the UAE and across the communities we serve.

Grateful to have played a role in convening this gathering and contributing to dialogue where meaning, humanity, and shared purpose converge.

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Join us today at 5:30pm GST!

As AI and digital tools become part of everyday work, how do we design environments that support clarity, connection, and long-term wellbeing?

nybl Dialog returns with a conversation that brings together wellbeing, leadership, and technology to explore how organisations can support people in fast-paced, global workplaces.

Join the conversation with:
🎙Nancy Zabaneh – Wellbeing Educator, Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer, Practitioner and Arab Country Coordinator of Compassionate Inquiry®️
🎙Ed Rawles – Chief People Officer at nybl
🎙Moderated by Hala Alnsour – Chief Marketing Officer at nybl

📅 16 February 2026 | 5:30 PM GST

In the UAE 🇦🇪 conversations like this offer guidance, an anchor and plenty of inspiration to get curious ❤️

They remind us that how we live inside ourselves shapes how we lead, parent, work, and relate. They invite us to remember that emotional, physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing are within our reach, and that we owe it ourselves and to each other to strive toward a better world, closer together in authenticity ❤️

Thank you for opening up this dialogue to serve consciousness.

Thank you to all the amazing people who upheld this platform and helped make it happen ❤️

An eight-day immersive journey through China awaits.

From imperial cities to mountain villages, along ancient pathways and into sacred temples, we attune to the frequency of each unique place.

Our days unfold through shared meals, village walks, daily practice, meaningful reflection, and time within expansive landscapes.

This is a living encounter within storied landscapes experienced through the body and the breath.

Journey between worlds
May 11-18

Very limited spaces.

What sustains our vitality and conscious response amidst the pressures of our world?

Today’s class was a call to develop a deeper relationship with our inner stamina and attention, the kind that supports clear action, presence, and focus 🩷

See you again on Fahid Island, Abu Dhabi to address these and other facets of life and to take our conversations around physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing to the next level ✨

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Join me at 1:30pm this Friday for an energizing session dedicated to awakening the life force.

Through movement, breath, and focused awareness, we open space for vitality, presence, and inner radiance.