“This course was exactly what I needed. After a lot of talk therapy, I hadn’t acknowledged how much I had overlooked the “felt” experience. This course has given me a path home.” Participant, 2024
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“A truly powerful and transformational four week course. It was a beautiful journey inwards. Each week I grew the courage to be with myself more." Newcastle participant, 2024
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This 4 week series will give you the courage to unwind these little, invisible strings of tightness and stress so that you can feel safe and grounded to thrive​
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A warm and supportive space to deepen your understanding of the nature of stress , while offering you somatic practices and resources for regulating your nervous system and supporting you in cultivating feelings of safety within your own self.
Are there problems in your life that seem like they’ll never change?
It turns out being stuck is not an endpoint, it’s a clue.
Wherever there is something in your life that is impossible to think, feel, or do, you’re finding the exact spot where the next steps in your life are waiting to unfold.
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It doesn’t matter how long ago it got all jammed up. The right next step of your life can still happen. And when you understand that transformation happens where something in your life feels impossible, it becomes possible to lean toward what feels bad. You can gather it to you, listen to it, love it. The place that seems so hopelessly stuck will untangle itself when you give it the attention it needs.
Living in survival mode can feel like an endless battle. When your nervous system is locked into survival responses, every day is a struggle. Here are symptoms to look out for: constant anxiety, difficulty sleeping, feeling on edge, and more. The good news is you can train your nervous system to leave survival mode behind. . Release stress and trauma from your body, find calm, sleep better, and regain control. Stop living in survival mode and start feeling at ease again.
you might be noticing these survival mode symptoms:
✨ constant anxiety
✨ feeling on edge or jumpy at the slightest noise or movement
✨ difficulty with sleep
✨ difficulty concentrating or remembering simple tasks
✨ everything feels urgent
✨ emotional numbness or difficulty connecting with others
✨ a constant sense of dread or impending doom
✨ physical exhaustion despite minimal exertion
✨ can only focus on 1 day at a time
Each week we address each of the stress responses, moving with the poly-vagal ladder (vagus nerve) with a rich variety of resources, somatic practices, breath work and guided meditations to support and strengthen your process.
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The Vagus Nerve
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is what enables our body to move into Parasympathetic dominance (rest and digest mode). When we work to stimulate our vagus nerve we are communicating to our brain and the rest of our body that we are “safe” and that it is okay to calm down. This is taught widely in many different health circles, and may be something you are familiar with.
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This four week course offers you a warm and supportive space to deepen your understanding of somatic practices and resources for regulating your nervous system and supporting you in cultivating feelings of safety within your own self and coming into a more kind and nourishing relationship with your body..
“Felt Sense”, an embodiment.
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Felt Sense is about bringing awareness inside of the body. Slowing down to notice the ever changing energetic, emotional and sensory landscape. The goal of focusing on sensation, movement and feeling is about going inward; moving from external stimuli {and things out of our control. Leaving you with a felt sense and internal memory of what ‘home’ feels like for you and a toolkit of resources to help you keep coming home long after the session has passed.
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At every moment in time your subconscious mind speaks to you through your body, in a language that is as refined, systematic, and complete as your verbal language. This "somatic" language that your body communicates in forms the basis of the non-cognitive wisdom known as felt sense, intuition, or "somatic intelligence." Becoming fluent in somatic language can help you to think less, yet know more. It is like having your own personal consultant, who you can ask for additional insight. Understanding the subtle yet systematic communication of the body can help you achieve breakthroughs in your personal health and well-being, as well as adding significant value to your existing skills and abilities.
Interweaving Lucinda’s knowledge in yoga therapy, somatic psychotherapy, poly vagal theory and Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry and currently deepening her knowledge in somatic experiencing this will be an experiential series with a rich combination of kundalini yoga, meditation and mantra, you are invited to slow down and attune to the language deep inside your body - coming to know your bodily sensations, listening to your patterns of holding and tension and the ways in which your body may be stuck in survival responses as a result of stress.
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​​Each week we will explore:
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Somatic release practices, grounding and resourcing and felt sense. ​Resourcing is the practice of inviting our mind/body to attune to sensations of safety or goodness, however small they may be.
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A deeper, embodied understanding of fight. flight, freeze, fawn
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Bite sized chunk of theory: - Identify how our body and mind collaborate with the stress responses
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Explore Vagal Toning exercises - Learn simple tools and techniques to incorporate into your self care routine by working to engage your vagus nerve to find relief from stress and notice how an anxious mind cannot exist in a calm body.
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Kriya - Physical postures and movement
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Breathwork or pranayama
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Sacred sound and rhythm, mantra (including planetary gong and sound baths)
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Meditation and mudras (hand gestures)
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Explore practices for inviting your body into a place of rest and relaxation
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Deepen your awareness of what brings joy and nourishment to your body.
​You don’t have to be flexible or strong. You don’t need any experience. All you need is to come as you are and open yourself up to to your own bodies innate ability to heal.
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​All welcome and please give me a call if you have any questions.