ARGULUT: A journey to your roots
Coaching for women after burnout, change, or losing themselves.
A six-session journey, built around you, combining applied neuroscience, self-regulation and coaching with horses, so change takes root in both mind and body.
Sometimes life happens.
A career that asked for everything. A move, a loss, a relationship, a body that finally said no. Or one part of your life stopped working, and slowly pulled the rest with it.
Argulut is coaching for women after burnout or change who want to come back to who they are. It’s based in Dubai, with sessions in Menorca and online, and uses tools grounded in how the brain and nervous system actually work.
You've just lost sight of it.
Most women who come to Argulut aren’t in crisis. They’re capable, they’re functioning, and from the outside everything looks fine. Underneath, something has gone quiet.
You might recognise some of this:
You keep going, but you’re running on reserves. You react in ways that don’t feel like you, and then wonder why.
Rest doesn’t restore you the way it used to.
You understand what’s wrong, yet nothing changes.
You can’t remember the last time you felt fully yourself.
None of this means something is wrong with you. It means your nervous system has been adapting to more than it was built to carry, for longer than it should have. Whether you’re going through burnout, a life transition, or the quieter sense of having lost yourself, the starting point is the same.
Why you can't think your way out of burnout.
When stress becomes chronic, the brain changes its priorities. The prefrontal cortex, the part that plans, reflects and chooses, works less efficiently. Older survival circuits take the lead, and you fall back on habit and reaction. This is not a lack of willpower. It’s your brain protecting you.
It’s also why insight alone rarely holds. The vagus nerve, the main line of communication between brain and body, carries most of its signals upwards, from the body to the brain. If your body is still signalling threat, your mind keeps reading life through that lens, however well you understand your situation.
The good news is that the brain keeps changing throughout life. Neuroplasticity lets you build new patterns at any stage, under two conditions: a nervous system that feels safe enough to learn, and repetition. Argulut is designed around both.
When I was a child, I gave trees a name: Argulut.
A tree grows in two directions at once. Its roots reach down, deep enough to hold it through weather it never chose. Its branches reach up, open enough to use the light it’s given. Between them, the trunk carries everything, both ways.
People grow the same way. The roots are your body and nervous system, the sense of safety everything else depends on. The trunk is your mind: how you understand yourself and why you react the way you do. The branches are the life you live every day. Work on only one, and the change doesn’t hold.
The Argulut method: roots, trunk and branches
The Roots: Feeling Safe
Everything begins with feeling safe in your own body. A nervous system that senses threat protects what it already knows. One that feels safe can learn something new. This is the ground change grows from.
We build it through different self-regulation techniques.
The Trunk: Neuroscience
Understanding how the brain works gives change its strength and structure. When you know why you react the way you do, you can rewire the patterns that keep you stuck.
The Branches: Daily Practices
Meditation, breathwork, movement, horses… are what help your branches keep growing, giving you the freedom to expand into the woman you are becoming.
How your six-session journey works.
A FREE Discovery Call
We talk about where you are and what you’d like to change. If Argulut is right for you, I’ll tell you. If it isn’t, I’ll tell you that too.
Your Journey is Designed
I build your six sessions around you: which of the three ways of working, in what order, and in which format.
Six Sessions
Each one builds on the last, and you leave every session with a clear practice for the week ahead.
Closing
In the final session, we look at where you started, where you are now, and what you’ll carry on by yourself.
One session can change how you feel. Six give your brain the repetition it needs to make that change last.
Combined for you
Your journey draws on one, two or all three of these.
No two Argulut journeys are the same, because no two women arrive with the same roots.
Coaching with horses in Dubai
Horses are prey animals. They read posture, tension and intention in the people around them, and respond straight away, without judgement or politeness. Working alongside them on the ground shows you, in real time, how present, clear and congruent you really are. No riding or horse experience is needed.
Applied neuroscience
Practical, evidence-informed tools to understand your stress response, your habits and your patterns of thought, and to change them with intention.
Wellbeing practices
Breathwork, meditation, visualisation, journaling and somatic practice. Simple techniques to recognise your state and change it, wherever you are.
In person or Online.
Argulut in Dubai, or online.
Dubai: my main base. In-person sessions in all three ways of working, including coaching with horses, for women living in the UAE.
Menorca: a few times a year, the full experience in the calm of the island. A natural fit if you’d like to combine your sessions with time away.
Online: available worldwide for neuroscience and self-regulation. Coaching with horses is in person only.
Combined: many women mix formats, with online sessions from home and one or more in person.
Ready to start your transformation?
Inquiry about the Signature Six-sessions journey: ARGULUT.
About Maria Ollero
Hello! It’s me, Maria.
I spent over a decade building luxury hospitality brands in Dubai, until a brain injury took my body and my sense of who I was at the same time.
What brought me back was learning to regulate my own nervous system, the neuroscience of change, and a horse that wouldn’t let me perform.
Now I work with women who know underneath exactly what they’re capable of, and who have lost sight of it because life happened, or because one part of their life has stopped working and they can’t quite name why.
Dubái · Menorca · Online worlwide.
FAQ's
Is ARGULUT therapy?
No. Argulut is coaching, not therapy or medical treatment. If you’re experiencing depression, anxiety or severe exhaustion, please speak to a doctor or mental health professional first. Argulut can work well alongside that support.
How do you decide which way of working I need?
We decide together on the discovery call. I listen to where you are, what you’ve already tried and what you want to change, then design a journey that fits. It might use one way of working, or all three.
If we do coaching with horses, do I need experience?
No. All work with horses is on the ground, with no riding involved. Many women who come to it have never been near a horse, and that’s often where the most useful insights come from.
Can I do ARGULUT online?
Yes. The neuroscience and self-regulation parts of the journey work fully online, from anywhere. Coaching with horses takes place in person, in Dubai, Menorca and other locations on retreats.
How often are the sessions, and how long is each one?
Sessions usually take place every one to two weeks and last about 60 minutes. The space between them matters: it’s where you practise, and where change settles in.
Why six sessions?
One session can change how you feel. Lasting change needs repetition, because that’s how the brain builds new patterns. Six sessions give you enough time to learn, practise and see the difference in daily life.
What does ARGULUT cost?
Each journey is designed individually, so the investment depends on the format and ways of working it includes. I’ll share it clearly on the discovery call.
Journeys start from 4,770 AED
Menorca
Online worldwide
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