Stressed out and Cortisol levels through the roof?
Holiding onto excess belly fat
Feeling like you are constantly sick or battling inflammation?
Digestive system not working the way it should?
The body and mind are incredibly connected and in this interactive workshop we will be learning tools to release tension internally and externally. If we are living in fight/flight, or possibly lower down the circuit to our Dorsal Vagal (shutdown, numb) we are unfortunately interrupting our digestive system. Our Fight flight, and Freeze responses are not bad, we just cannot chronically live in these states.
Meaning...things get stuck. Therefore, we are on the train to inflammation, sickness and dis-ease.
If we are holding onto excess belly fat, especially around our organs, its likely that you may be constantly in a survivial state - meaning your body thinks you are about to die. No need for the body to digest food, burn calories or reproduce when you are running from a tiger.
It's not only our digestive system that gets blocked, so does the mind. Many of us struggle to learn when we are in the above states as the body is living to survive. So, learning difficulties, concentration, our self-talk, social media addiction, and overthinking is all addressed in these teachings. This also applies to teenagers that may be studying and find it hard to take in information.
Megs shares from lived experience of nearly three decades living in a state of shutdown and reactivity from trauma. In Watch YA Language, Meg had to learn and understand her body from the inside out to rewire her brain and retrain her nervous system to change well practiced patterns and behaviors.
We cant access the part of our brain that can make new neural pathwways (new behaviours) if our bodies are in survival or shut-down. The prefrontal cortex is responsible for awareness, thinking, creativity, imagination and choice. We lose access to this when the body is in fight/flight or freeze state, meaning that we cant create new neural pathways that result in different behaviour.
Understanding our brain and ANS gives us an understanding of our pre-programmed patterns of reactivity, stress and overwhelm. Incorporating Stephen Porgess' Ph.D Polyvagal Theory, which unravels the hierarchy in which our nervous system operates, and the hand model of the brain from Dr Daniel Siegel (mindsight) we can see the relationship between the brain, body, or thoughts and nervous system.
This, in conjunction with the BE HERE Method Meg speaks about in Watch YA Language, combines together effortlessly to give us tools to move forward with presence so we can choose again.
When we can recognise where we are in our bodies, the quicker we are able to return back to an equanimous (ventral vagal) state, the place of social engagement and presence.
This workshop is ideal if you have had inflammation that tends to show up consistently, stubborn belly fat, your self talk is constantly judgemental, or feel rigid and tense in the body and mind. This may open a door to help your body reset itself and find equanimity and balance.
A healthy body and mind must start from within.
ALL WELCOME ! ONE AND A HALF HOURS - 25% DISCOUNT AVAILABLE IF YOU BOOK BEFORE THE 14TH OF OCTOBER
SATURDAY MORNING - (REPLACING THE USUAL YOGA CLASS) 9am - 10.30am.