Nervous System Realign
"If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer."
Stephen Porges The Polyvagal Theory
Stephen Porges The Polyvagal Theory
I am now offering Nervous System Reset courses and 1-1 sessions. Below is specific information on each course and dates. To book or find out more information please use my contact form below.
Rebalancing our nervous system is a crucial part of emotional regulation and serves as a way to maintain healthy foundations for moving forward with our lives in this increasingly stressful world.
The courses will all offer an array of simple methods from the Chinese Medicine and Yogic traditions that I have been teaching and using for my own practice for over three decades. These will include acupressure point location and use, meditation techniques and Qi Gong and Yoga exercises and vagal nerve exercises.
The courses will all offer an array of simple methods from the Chinese Medicine and Yogic traditions that I have been teaching and using for my own practice for over three decades. These will include acupressure point location and use, meditation techniques and Qi Gong and Yoga exercises and vagal nerve exercises.
Next in-person NSR course:
Next online NSR course:
13th February to 6th March 2025
Online with Penny Brohn Cancer Centre, Bristol 3 to 4pm, listed as Self Care Toolkit
For booking contact Penny Brohn Centre via the link below:-
Online with Penny Brohn Cancer Centre, Bristol 3 to 4pm, listed as Self Care Toolkit
For booking contact Penny Brohn Centre via the link below:-
Nervous System Realign 1-1 & Mentoring
I am offering 1-1 Nervous System Realign courses both online and in person, that can be stand alone or can run alongside my mentoring programmes.
*These are 1.5 hour sessions, with an initial check-in and then discovery call before the session, and a follow up call after.
*All resources covered will be available via my YouTube links or information documents.
*The investment cost for these 1-1 sessions are £200.
*These are 1.5 hour sessions, with an initial check-in and then discovery call before the session, and a follow up call after.
*All resources covered will be available via my YouTube links or information documents.
*The investment cost for these 1-1 sessions are £200.
Traditional approaches to support self care
"Regardless of who and where we find ourselves the world is full of imagined tigers around the corners. Our nervous systems are spent and our health pays the price. As Steven Porges rightly point out in The Polyvagal Nerve World,
"There’s a brutal irony to the fact that many of the features of our built world that are billed as keeping us safe also make us feel unsafe. If one wanted to take a cynical point of view, one might posit that, at times, this is an intended outcome. And that certain individuals or institutions may want us to feel unsafe for their own selfish ends. But why would anybody actively want to make us feel unsafe? "
Why indeed, though I suspect you already know the answer. It easier to control people when they are scared. And we are scared, with health, finances, our families. Every choice we make is laced with potential fear.
The real question is, do we have a choice?
Once again Steven Porges comments;
''...state shifts in the neural regulation of the autonomic nervous system are usually not voluntary, although the state shifts have profound impact on behavior. The state shifts occur in a more reflexive manner when we are confronted by specific cues in the environment."
Stephen W. Porges, The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe.
So these states of deregulation are normative reactions to stressful situations. Therein lies the rub, they are reactions to events perceived as unsafe that we have no control over. And the reactions are designed to support us finding safety with the reflexive fight or fight response.
Ergo once the event or situation is taken away our nervous system should find regulation right?
All good in theory but the amount of perceived threat around us is constant. And many of us, traumatised or not, have fallen into the norm of chronic stress response.
Ancient practices were developed to support the homeostatic balance, strength and flexibility of the body. To expand and train our minds. Only in this modern day are we understanding the implications of how the body is impacted by regular practice.
The vagal, or 10th cranial nerve runs from our brain to our stomach. There is a feedback loop from the enteric nervous system in our gut to our brain and vice versa. It is one of the main factors in allowing our nervous system to go from sympathetic fight or flight stress response into parasympathetic rest and digest state, where optimal health lies.
The struggle has been how to offer my work in a world of distraction. The answer was to make what I do bite sized. And my latest offering to this world is an array of courses that pull together techniques from ancient cultures, under the banner of Nervous system realign.
Excerpt from https://substack.com/@wildlyslily Blog Feb 2025
"There’s a brutal irony to the fact that many of the features of our built world that are billed as keeping us safe also make us feel unsafe. If one wanted to take a cynical point of view, one might posit that, at times, this is an intended outcome. And that certain individuals or institutions may want us to feel unsafe for their own selfish ends. But why would anybody actively want to make us feel unsafe? "
Why indeed, though I suspect you already know the answer. It easier to control people when they are scared. And we are scared, with health, finances, our families. Every choice we make is laced with potential fear.
The real question is, do we have a choice?
Once again Steven Porges comments;
''...state shifts in the neural regulation of the autonomic nervous system are usually not voluntary, although the state shifts have profound impact on behavior. The state shifts occur in a more reflexive manner when we are confronted by specific cues in the environment."
Stephen W. Porges, The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe.
So these states of deregulation are normative reactions to stressful situations. Therein lies the rub, they are reactions to events perceived as unsafe that we have no control over. And the reactions are designed to support us finding safety with the reflexive fight or fight response.
Ergo once the event or situation is taken away our nervous system should find regulation right?
All good in theory but the amount of perceived threat around us is constant. And many of us, traumatised or not, have fallen into the norm of chronic stress response.
Ancient practices were developed to support the homeostatic balance, strength and flexibility of the body. To expand and train our minds. Only in this modern day are we understanding the implications of how the body is impacted by regular practice.
The vagal, or 10th cranial nerve runs from our brain to our stomach. There is a feedback loop from the enteric nervous system in our gut to our brain and vice versa. It is one of the main factors in allowing our nervous system to go from sympathetic fight or flight stress response into parasympathetic rest and digest state, where optimal health lies.
The struggle has been how to offer my work in a world of distraction. The answer was to make what I do bite sized. And my latest offering to this world is an array of courses that pull together techniques from ancient cultures, under the banner of Nervous system realign.
Excerpt from https://substack.com/@wildlyslily Blog Feb 2025