Hidden Gems: Meet Viviana Liang of SOLCORE 覺域

Today we’d like to introduce you to Viviana Liang.

Hi Viviana, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I began my career in the performing arts at 18, working across film, television and commercial productions in Taiwan and across Asia. Along the way, martial arts, movement and physical training became a big part of my life. I learned how to make my body stronger, more capable and more disciplined.

Over time, I became curious about what existed beyond physical strength and performance. I wanted to understand the body in a deeper way, not only how it moves and performs, but how it holds emotions, stress and our sense of connection to ourselves.

That curiosity led me to explore yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound and different ways of working with the body. I completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Bali and further training in singing bowl sound healing in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I also spent years traveling and challenging myself through different environments, from Everest Base Camp to the Amazon and Peru.

The idea for SOLCORE 覺域 came to me during a sunrise at Machu Picchu. I realized I wanted to create a space where people could reconnect with themselves through the body, not just understand themselves intellectually, but actually feel that connection.

Looking back, I don’t see my past as an actress and martial arts practitioner as something I left behind. They became the foundation for the work I am creating today.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It definitely hasn’t been a completely smooth road. One of the biggest challenges has been learning to redefine what strength means to me.

I came from a world where performance, discipline, physical ability, and achievement were highly valued. For a long time, I was very comfortable with pushing myself, staying strong, and moving forward. But building SOLCORE required me to slow down and question some of those beliefs. I had to learn that strength is not always about pushing harder or being able to handle more. Sometimes, strength means knowing when to pause, listen, and change direction.

Another challenge has been turning something as internal and experiential as embodied awareness into a language that people can understand and apply in everyday life — especially in professional and corporate environments. I didn’t want SOLCORE to remain something that sounded abstract or spiritual. I wanted to find a way to make the work practical, grounded, and relevant to modern life.

That process is still evolving. But I’ve learned that not having everything figured out can also be part of the journey. Some of the most meaningful parts of SOLCORE have come from continuing to explore, question, learn, and refine what I believe.

Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about SOLCORE 覺域?
SOLCORE 覺域 is a Taiwan-based embodied awareness brand that helps people reconnect with themselves through the body. What began as a personal exploration of movement, awareness and inner strength has grown into a broader practice spanning retreats, workshops, educational experiences and corporate programs.

At the heart of SOLCORE is the belief that awareness should not remain something we only understand intellectually, it should be something we can experience and practice through the body. Our work brings together movement, breathwork, meditation, sound, grounding and sensory awareness to help people develop greater awareness of their nervous systems, build resilience and create a deeper connection with themselves.

More recently, I have been developing this approach for organizations through the lens of neuroleadership and embodied performance. Neuroleadership helps us understand the “what” and “why” behind how the brain, stress, emotions, and decision-making influence performance. SOLCORE focuses on the “how”. Using bottom-up embodied interventions that work with the body and nervous system first, creating the conditions for clearer thinking, emotional regulation, resilience, and more sustainable performance.

This approach can be applied across multiple levels: individual nervous system regulation, team co-regulation and connection, and everyday practices that support long-term organizational resilience. We design corporate workshops, retreats and longer-term programs around themes such as stress regulation, focus, leadership resilience, team connection, burnout prevention and creativity. Our broader methodology is designed to move from an immediate “reset” toward resilience as a trainable capacity, rather than treating wellbeing as a one-time experience.

My own professional background is also an important part of the methodology. I completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training (RYT 200) in Bali, trained in Singing Bowl Sound Healing Therapy and Vibration Massage Therapy with Nepali singing bowl specialist Aman Shahi in Chiang Mai, and have a long-standing background in martial arts, physical training, performance, and outdoor exploration. I continue to explore interdisciplinary learning across the body, medicine, psychotherapy and mental health.

What I’m most proud of is that SOLCORE sits at the intersection of the physical and the psychological while remaining grounded and practical. We are interested in making embodied awareness relevant not only to personal wellbeing, but also to leadership, teamwork, and the way people navigate an increasingly fast-moving world.

Before we go, is there anything else you can share with us?
One thing I would love for readers to know is that my vision for SOLCORE goes far beyond building a wellness brand. I hope to develop it into a long-term system and body of work that can continue evolving over the next decade and beyond, helping people reconnect with themselves and build greater awareness in the way they live, work and relate to others.

I also believe this work is especially important for the next generation. Alongside my work with SOLCORE, I’ve started collaborating with a foundation to bring children into nature through hiking and outdoor experiences, where we introduce simple practices such as emotional awareness and breathing exercises.

We live in a world that is becoming increasingly fast, stimulating, and demanding. I believe learning how to recognize what is happening inside us, how we feel, how we breathe, and how we respond under pressure, is a form of life education that should begin much earlier.

Ultimately, I hope SOLCORE can become something that lasts beyond me: a continuously evolving system of embodied awareness that can serve different generations, cultures and communities around the world.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://solcore.ink/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/viviana_weiwei
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivianaliang%EF%BC%BFsolcore

Image Credits
Photo 1 — Small tiger
Photo 2–5 — Miriam
Photo 6 — Dylan
Photo 7 — Joshua Lin