The wrong experience
at the wrong moment
costs more than you think
In Healthcare: demand, uptake, adherence, outcomes
In life: trust, dignity, the willingness to try again
These are the moments most organizations fumble — and the moments I've spent 25 years designing for.
I specialize in turning avoidance into approach, discomfort into delight, and transition into transformation — using a science-backed framework: Health · Hospitality · Harmony™
Our Work
Strategic Consulting and Creative Strategy
For health organizations, mission-driven brands, and leaders whose work turns on sensitive moments — including the people who were never going to walk through the door at all. Behavioral science. Relational Architecture™. 25 years of pattern recognition applied to the hardest human moments.
Your work is sound. Your mission is real. Something is still breaking between you and the people you most need to reach.
Elixir Artifacts
Designed to delight your senses and shift your state — our created and curated kits, talismans, and objects of mischief are invitations to pause, smile, and reconnect. Each one is built on the same behavioral science and relational intelligence as the consulting work, translated into something you can hold in your hands.
Starting with the Emergency First Moon Kit™ — because every girl deserves to have this moment designed for her.
Portable portals for the moments that matter.
The Elixir Philosophy
People get frozen in fear and shame. They move when they feel well, welcomed, and genuinely connected to the work, the mission, and each other.
Health creates steadiness. Hospitality creates trust. Harmony creates the conditions where collaboration and courage rise naturally.
Experience is strategy. Beauty is operational. Connection is a growth driver.
Elixir designs the conditions — cultural, sensory, relational — where people show up fully, and brands earn the trust they're asking for.
Health · Hospitality · Harmony™
Meet the Alchemist behind Elixir
I’m Manya—behavioral strategist, experience designer, writer, and long-time believer in the power of human connection.
After 25 years in global health across 25+ countries, I founded Elixir to bring something essential back into modern life and work:
The feeling of being well, welcomed, and woven into something meaningful.
Everything I create—consulting, events, or artifacts—begins with one question: What would this look like if the answer was care?
The Grimoire
A living archive of experiments, stories, and spells from the messy middle of becoming.
Not everything I make behaves itself.
The Grimoire is where I keep the beautiful trouble—poems that taste of unfinished business, spells that smirk, unfinished sketches from dreamed up oracle decks, and rough draft chapters that escaped my memoir and refuse to return quietly. Here lives the raw stuff, caught in the act of becoming—before it’s shaped into artifacts of insight and awe.
Think of it as an alchemist’s junk drawer, if the junk was wonder, mischief, and a little too much truth.
Open at your own risk.