Connect to calm vagus nerve regulation in person session

Are you looking for strategies to help you manage the stress and anxiety of the last few years?

Would you like to learn how to break the cycle of being in survival mode?

Would you like to feel more comfortable in, and connected to your body?

In the words of Bessel van der Kolk

“When the alarm bells of the emotional brain keep signalling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it”

Using the framework of Polyvagal theory, which looks at the nervous system’s adaptive survival response via the body’s neurophysiological process, these sessions are aimed at helping you to manage stress and embody returning to a state of calm and connection. Learn how your body can regulate itself by creating the right conditions for it to do so. Each session is personalised to help you become familiar with your own nervous system and how you can bring about a sense of calm and balance. Interventions such as:

• vagus nerve regulation strategies,

• sensing into your felt experience by becoming familiar with how your body experiences safety and stress,

• noticing the role that your breath plays in calming your system,

• experiencing the soothing nature of touch so that you may be able to apply self touch as a supportive companion in between sessions

• education about what happens in the body when you are in different nervous system states.

You will be encouraged to apply what you learn as part of your daily self care routine. Be gently guided to listen to your body so that you can remember what it feels like to connect to the calm places that reside within you

Who would benefit from Connect to calm sessions?

• those experiencing anxiety

• people who would like to learn strategies to be able to self regulate in times of stress

• those experiencing acute or chronic stress or burnout

• people who are undergoing prolonged or intense medical treatment and looking for a way to manage their feelings

• those who may be grieving and finding the grief process triggering

• anyone with a nervous system

Benefits of Connect to calm sessions

• better able to manage the ups and downs of life’s journey

• those who wish to better recover from challenges and life stressors

• the ability to interrupt the survival response

• better able to concentrate and take in information

• more capacity to listen to your body’s needs

• greater emotional regulation

• enhanced capacity for improved relationships