IreneLyon

About Irene Lyon

Irene Lyon, MSC. and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives. To date her online work has reached people in over 57(!) countries – but you can often find her teaching with Elia Mrak at their signature Up & Down workshops or hiking in the mountains or along the Pacific ocean in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. She has her Master’s in Biomedical and Health Science and also has a knack for making complex info easy for ALL of us to understand and apply to our lives. She has extensively studied and practices the works of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, Peter Levine (founder of Somatic Experiencing) and Kathy Kain (founder of Somatic Practice).

How to help anxious kids who are behaving ‘badly,’ with Stephen Terrell

2024-04-20T15:59:04-07:00September 24th, 2023|5. Parenting & Child Development, 6. Practitioners & Professionals|

I’m re-sharing an important interview featuring my wonderful mentor and colleague, Stephen Terrell. Here’s what we’ll cover: What this ‘bad’ behaviour actually is from a nervous system perspective. Why attempts to fix or change this behaviour are often futile (and what parents can do instead!). Why even parents [...]

Choose your own learning (aka healing) pathway

2024-04-20T16:03:21-07:00September 18th, 2023|4. Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, 5. Parenting & Child Development|

Maya Angelou once said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”  If there’s one thing I know for sure after more than a decade of teaching people around the world how to heal, it’s this…learning is healing.  When people [...]

Want to Become a Master Somatic Practitioner? Here’s What It Will Take.

2024-04-20T16:13:23-07:00September 3rd, 2023|1. Trauma & Survival Physiology|

A doctor goes to medical school.  A lawyer goes to law school.  A master somatic practitioner goes to…there’s really no equivalent in the worlds of somatic healing, working with trauma, and nervous system health. Yet.  I’m working on changing that!  But for those considering this path, I want [...]

Mental Health and Illness – The Nervous System Connection

2024-04-20T16:19:57-07:00August 20th, 2023|3. Pain & Chronic Illness, 4. Mental Health & Neuroplasticity|

This article is an update of a blog post originally published in July 2019.  Some important context, four years on: The unpredictability of our world is now apparent and our need for healing, increasingly urgent. As the paradigm of conventional “wisdom” around our health and well-being shifts, it’s [...]

Will this heal my ‘XYZ’? (3-year update from ’21 Day’ student Elisabeth)

2024-04-20T16:24:58-07:00August 13th, 2023|3. Pain & Chronic Illness|

Most of the people who find this entire world of nervous system health and healing are looking for a way to solve a particular struggle.  Maybe it’s a chronic illness, a mental or physical health condition, a pattern of self-sabotage and choosing toxic relationships, or any number of [...]

The origin story of procrastination, self-sabotage, & fleeing from health

2024-04-20T16:59:02-07:00August 6th, 2023|4. Mental Health & Neuroplasticity|

Find yourself regularly fleeing from what you want or need to do for your health and happiness? Not really sure why?  I’ve got a good one for you today: The origin story of procrastination, self-sabotage, & fleeing from health. The vlog was inspired by my most popular social [...]