About this Event
Viva Las Vagus Monthly!
Monthly workshops to deep dive into polyvagal theory’s master magician – the vagus nerve – exploring in practice vagal toning.
These workshop(s) provide the HOW TO DO VAGAL TONING – diving into the different practice modes/modalities, to lay out the palette of possibilities for use, for yourself and to include in treatment plans for clients as pre-therapy, in session, homework.
These Sessions will be held online every second Thursday of the month 1-3 PM UK Time.
Every Session has a special focus, a theme which will explore one modality in depth, and also show links across vagal toning practices.
Attending monthly sessions will allow you to PRACTICE and BUILD VAGAL TONE and RANGE.
As a reminder, vagal tone is important for:
- regulation, resilience, digestion, longevity, heart health and is a proven path to alleviate stress, depression, anxiety, dementia, and trauma.
- the vagus nerve is where the switch for sympathetic ON lives. It is also the switch for sympathetic OFF. Vagal tone improves understanding of ON/OFF
- improves window of tolerance, and ability to r(e)find reliably the window of tolerance.
- improves neuroception and increases interoception bringing better ability to listen, hear and have compassion and also feel safe in the world.
- a benefit (not to be under rated) is that vagal tone improves our longevity by slowing the shortening of our telomeres! All the more reason for therapists to pursue vagal tone for themselves.
- doing vagal toning with clients can cultivate relational depth, and trust, and also explore regulation and access buried emotional burdens, sometimes memories.
These monthly workshops will lead you through the pros and cons of each modality, how to combine them, the practice shortcuts to follow, and the pitfalls to avoid.
The practices and techniques are guided in trauma and neuro-diverse informed perspective, giving case examples of how to modify practice for different client-contexts.
You’ll leave knowing by doing, and able to integrate these in your client practice – after you have, of course, learnt-practiced-integrated them for yourself!!
There will be an LIVE FORUM for on-going feedback and chat about the vagal toning practices – allowing to share, report and know how vagal toning practices are experienced by others in the community, the insights, the adaptions, the breakthroughs and ah-ha moments.