Healing Trauma Myths Busted! Experientally. “Close your eyes and center yourself.” “Take a deep cleansing breath.” “Ground into the Earth.” All these statements are common in the mind-body and somatic trauma healing worlds and while they seem harmless and even nice in concept, such directives can backfire [...]
Somatic Chakras! Taught by Seth Lyon What are chakras? The word chakra comes to us from Sanskrit, and it simply means wheel, disc, or circle. In the ancient Vedic traditions the chakras are a system of 7 such energetic wheels aligned along the spine from tailbone to [...]
The Basics + Biological Gratitude This drop-in class is all about the basic foundations of somatic, nervous system based trauma healing: Orienting Following impulse Connecting to the ground (environment) Noticing and following breath Positive external resources PLUS, I weave in what I like to call, biological gratitude. [...]
Basics of Potent Posture Posture is more than head up, spine straight, shoulders back. If anything, when we follow "military" rules of posture, not only do we use extra energy, strain muscles and limit our breathing, we also lose connection with the environment and our biological needs. [...]
The Blueprint For Restoring Nervous System Regulation (as an adult) While there's no one-size-fits-all technique for restoring regulation to our nervous system there is a blueprint that Irene Lyon has found works well for healing trauma and rewiring the nervous system. During this drop-in class Irene will [...]
Nervous System Health Basics This class will blend the essential aspects of what I like to call ‘the basics of nervous system health’ and some personal practices that keep me tethered in times of stress and chaos. This will be about the nervous system *and* it will be about [...]
Earth and Ether This class will blend the essential aspects of what I like to call ‘the basics of nervous system health’ and some personal practices that keep me tethered in times of stress and chaos. This will be about the nervous system *and* it will be about resourcing [...]
3 Class Series: Practice with Irene "The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes." – George Leonard (from the book, ‘Mastery’) This series is all [...]
Nervous System Hygiene The world these days is constantly at our fingertips. This means the world's stressors, dramas, and traumas (that are often not ours to deal with nor solve) are also at our fingertips. To live well in this current information rich, technological age, it is essential [...]
Softening The Eyes (& the entire nervous system) The eyes are essentially a part of our brain, and our brain is part of our central nervous system, and all these parts influence how we live, act, and feel safe (or not) in the world.Working directly with the eyes is [...]
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