Breathwork for Nervous System Regulation - Sarah Hunt

As the master-regulator of the body, our nervous system is the key to creating a “felt-sense” of well-being that we experience in the body. Whether the nervous system is triggered into an intense stress response, or whether the body is dealing with long-term stress and adrenal fatigue, it can be difficult to get into the body out of this sympathetic nervous response and back to feeling calm and at ease.

As much as we have been trained to rely on the mind and our cognitive abilities, the mind cannot communicate directly with our nervous system. While we might try to convince our minds we are safe and all is well, it is much more difficult to convince the body. We cannot simply tell ourselves to ‘calm down’ when life events have triggered us into a stress-response.

The breath, however, has a direct line of communication with the nervous system. And because it is a semi-autonomous process, we can use the breath as both an honest measure of our stress levels and as a way to communicate directly with the nervous system and guide the body back to a felt-sense of well-being and safety.

Using specific techniques from yoga and modern breathwork, this workshop will show participants how to use the breath to gently guide the body away from sympathetic nervous system response and back to parasympathetic nervous system regulation. It will explain the ways the breath shifts the chemical and physiological stress responses in the body, including reducing adrenal response and slowing heart-rate.

This session with help us experience a few breathing practices, and it will give guidance on how to teach/share these breathing practices with clients.

When we combine physiological and embodied practices such as breathwork with cognitive and therapeutic practices, we further empower ourselves (and our clients) to self-regulate in moments of stress and cultivate our own inner sanctuary of calm, ease and an embodied sense of well-being.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• An understanding of how to use the breath to speak directly to the nervous system & why it works so well
• 3 Breathing practices to guide ourselves and our clients out of a sympathetic nervous system stress response
• 1 breathing practice to ‘check in’ with our current stress levels
• How to teach/share breathing strategies with clients who have never worked with their breath before

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• This workshop is open to all therapists and those interesting in learning more about tools for nervous system regulation.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• This workshop will give participants a chance to explore how breathing practices can help regulate the nervous system in cases of acute and chronic disregulation.

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Sarah Hunt

Sarah Beth Hunt is a meditation and breathwork coach, yoga teacher and founder of Messy Luminous Being online platform. She received Ph.D. in Indian Studies from the University of Cambridge, and has trained in both the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhist meditation and traditional yoga through the British Wheel of Yoga. She currently works with clients using movement, breathwork and mind-training practices to harness the body's physiology and the mind-body connection and transform their inner state.

Website | www.sarahbhunt.com

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