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STRESS RELEASE CLASS

Online Somatic Stress Release Class

New dates coming soon!

Set aside conscious time to attend to your inner world and process your life experiences so youā€™re not doing it while trying to sleep, parent your children, in relationship, or while working!

Join me to begin your journey to transforming your physical, mental & emotional health & wellbeing, as you process the stress & challenges from the week so that you're not bringing them with you into the next week!

This class is for you if you want to:

  • Release stress from your body
  • Attend to your inner world
  • Process your life experiences
  • Get out of your head & into your body
  • Reconnect with & befriend your body
  • Connect with & prioritise your needs
  • Experience more regulation
  • Shift patterns of dysregulation, discomfort or tension
  • Navigate challenges with more ease
  • Build your capacity & tolerance to deal with life's challenges
  • Build your resilience
  • Learn how to lean into rest & relaxation
  • Increase your access to positive emotions & sensations
  • Learn how to focus on the here & now rather than ruminating about the past or worrying about the future

The class & the science:

  • Niamh will guide you through 75 minutes of somatic, body-based practices, Polyvagal & neural exercises, mindful movement, grounding & conscious breathing
  • The language of the nervous system is the felt sense. You will learn how to connect with sensations in your body so that you can process any experiences that your body is holding onto
  • You cannot think yourself out of a stress or threat response, you need to show your nervous system & body that it is safe so that it can soften its defenses. This is done somatically through the body
  • Each class will start with a few minutes of psychoeducation so that you can learn to recognise the different regulated & dysregulated states of your autonomic nervous system through the Polyvagal Ladder

  • You will meet your body where it is on the day, attending to the nervous system state that it is in, before down-regulating or up-regulating to get you closer to regulation

  • The unresolved physiological activation that accompanies stressful & traumatic events can lead to holding patterns in theĀ body. By working with the body, you can deactivate this arousal energy that is keeping you stuck
  • You will create balance, flexibility & resilience within your nervous system as you alternate between mindful mobilisation via the sympathetic nervous system and purposeful immobilisation within a felt sense of safety to engage the parasympathetic nervous system. Greater balance of the autonomic nervous system can potentially reduce the intensity and duration of physical and mental health symptoms
  • The goal is to facilitate greater responsiveness of the Vagus Nerve. This is done by strengthening your current vagal tone so that your homebase becomes more regulated; building vagal efficiency to both engage & remove the vagal brake, allowing you to mobilise to meet challenges & return to states of rest & ease more easily afterwards
  • By building your nervous system's capacity via the Vagus Nerve, you are expanding your window of tolerance & will be able to step towards the more expanded life that you may want with more ease

Do any of these sound familiar?

  • Difficulty falling, staying asleep or wanting to sleep all the time
  • Feel stressed, overwhelmed or burnt-out
  • Unable to slow down or rest
  • Feel stuck in your life, job, relationships or purpose
  • Feel unmotivated
  • Often feel anxious, nervous or over-react
  • Unable to reach the goals you set for yourself
  • Struggle with time management or making time for yourself
  • Personal health & wellbeing have fallen to the wayside
  • Know what you want to do with your life but don't know where to start
  • Unexplained pain, tension, gut issues
  • Turning to unhealthy behaviours to cope with your experience

Do any of these sound like better options?

  • Fall asleep easily, stay asleep, feel refreshed upon waking
  • Feel ease, peace & balance
  • Be able to slow down, switch off & rest your body & mind
  • Have direction in your life, job, relationships or purpose
  • Not have to rely on motivation to get up off the couch but actually want to get up & move/do
  • Able to handle & process emotions
  • Set goals & achieve them
  • Manage time well & make time for self
  • Nourish your mind & body through positive lifestyle habits
  • Able to set tasks & do them without freezing
  • Healthy gut, less tension & pain
  • Develop healthy ways of coping with your experience