A monthly experiential hour to sharpen your nervous system skills from the inside out, and regulate while you do it.

Nervous system regulation is increasingly central to therapeutic work. But it's a skill that deepens through your own practice, not just your understanding of it. The more familiar you are with regulation in your own body, the more accurately you can recognise it, track it and support it in the people you work with.

This is a monthly session for building and maintaining that skill from the inside out. Each hour is a guided, experiential practice working with simple somatic tools: breath, attention, movement, orientation, and rest, that bring the nervous system towards safety and ease. You'll get to feel these processes in your own body rather than only knowing them conceptually, which is what makes them usable in the room with a client.

Along the way, you'll sharpen your ability to notice the subtle signals of activation, depletion and settling, first in yourself, where they're easiest to learn, and then, by extension, in others. This kind of embodied familiarity is hard to get from reading.

There's a second benefit that participants in my workshops name again and again: they leave more regulated and rested than when they arrived. People in helping roles spend their days attending to other nervous systems and routinely postpone their own care. This session deliberately makes space for that, so tending to your own regulation becomes a steady professional practice rather than an occasional rescue.

No prior somatic training is needed. Come as you are, ideally with a quiet space, and treat this as both skills practice and a genuine hour of rest.

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