Nurturing the Nervous System

Yoga has long been known to have many beneficial effects on the nervous system through its focus on specific body and breath based practices which have the ability to directly affect the nervous system. This course is for anyone who wants to:

• Gain an understanding of the nervous system through the lens of polyvagal theory.

• Explore tools for affect regulation, grounding, centering and resource through yoga and applied polyvagal theory.

No previous experience of yoga is necessary.

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Month 1 - Poly Vagal Theory

• Learn about the nervous system through the lens of Polyvagal theory

• Explore safely bringing awareness into the here and now and into the body (essential for nervous system regulation) with practices designed to orient in time and place, ground and center. These specific practise tools are designed to be used off the mat in everyday life and can take as little as one minute, they will be expanded on and revisited each week.

• Explore how to listen to the body and how it recieves 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 affect your body, emotions, thoughts, impulses and responses.

• Touch in on embodied self regulation techniques.

Month 3 - Self Regulation: Focus on the fight/flight response

• Explore befriending your nervous system with practices that can help self regulate and shift out of the sympathetic fight/flight nervous system response.

Self regulation is the ability to be able to feel what you feel and to be able to choose your response.

Month 4 - Self Regulation: Focus on the immobilisation response

• Explore befriending your nervous system with practices that can help self regulate and shift out of the dorsal vagal immobilisation response.

Month 5 - Yoga for Nervous System Resilience

• Explore a trauma sensitive yoga practice that invites the movement between states of activation and rest inviting the body to experience a range of states without getting stuck.

• A focus on what lights up the ventral vagal system (safety, connection, resource)

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 1.25hr.

Dates

• Saturdays - TBC

• 10:00 - 13:00 with optional shared pot luck lunch afterwards.

Cost

• £275 - payable by BACS. All info sent on booking.

• If financial hardship is a barrier please be in touch. I self fund subsidies to make this work more accessible. Especially welcoming enquiries from those who identify as being marginalized due to race/ethnicity, disability, gender & LGBTQ+ and experiencing financial hardship.

• 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.