Nurturing the Nervous System

Embodiment Practices for resource and regulation.

This course explores how we can use yoga, somatic movement and embodiment tools to support resource and regulation in in the body and consequently the autonomic nervous system. This is a foundational course that uses nervous system education as a lens to understand how our own systems might be responding to perceived stress and lack of safety. The aim of this course is to help each participant understand how they might begin to create more stability, resource and safety inside their own body. No previous experience of yoga is necessary. The practices are simple and accessible to all.

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Month 1 - Nervous System Education

• Learn about the nervous system through the lens of Polyvagal theory (course manual provided) and the Somatic Experiencing® definitions of trauma and nervous system regulation.

• Explore Somatic Experiencing® Principles of Orienting, Grounding and Resource.

• Explore how to listen to the body’s signals through sensation and how it receives cues of welcome and warning from our environment, relationships and inside the body itself (Neuroception).

Month 2 - Mapping the Nervous System

• Map how different nervous system zones of fight/flight, freeze & regulation might affect your body, emotions, thoughts, impulses, behaviours and responses.

• Start to explore how the body might be communicating with us through sensation

• Revisit tools from month 1.

Month 3 - Self Regulation: Focus on the sympathetic nervous system response of mobilisation

• Explore embodied practices that support bringing the sympathetic nervous system online and the healthy mobilisation out of freeze.

• Explore how to work with the sensations and movements that discharge excess energy and support a return to regulation.

Month 4 - Deepening Safety & Resource

• Explore and deepen our connection with the resources we have identified that support us in life.

Month 5 - Integration

• A creative session to support the integration of all that has been shared and experienced on this course.

one - to- one session

• Booking a one - to - one session each month during the course is helpful to explore more in depth what is coming up for you.

• This is a suggestion and not a requirement to participate in the course.

• One - to - one sessions will be an extra cost of £60 per 1hr.

Dates

• Saturdays - TBC

• 10:00 - 13:00

Cost

• £250 - payable by BACS. All info sent on booking.

• I self fund subsidies to make this work more accessible for those experiencing financial hardship. I especially welcome enquiries from anyone experiencing financial hardship who identifies as being marginalized due to race/ethnicity, disability, gender, from the LGBTQI+ community and those in reciept of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Jobseekers Allowance.

• Payment plans welcome- your welcome to pay in installments if you need to please be in touch to arrange dates.

• Cancellation/refunds - If you need to cancel no refunds are available but you are welcome to send someone in your place or for a £25 admin fee I can try my best to fill your space if there is a waiting list. If I need to cancel, you will be refunded the full amount.

• Please note this course is not a substitute for individual therapy. Feel free to ask any questions surrounding this.