Everyone is talking about the nervous system these days

Join me this fall and learn to teach people how to breathe and settle their nervous systems. Develop class plans and materials for a 4 week class at your local yoga studio, library, medical or therapy clinic, community center or online.

Our nervous systems are struggling with heightened fear and anxiety. We long for peace and safety and for a mind that is able to focus and is not consumed with catastrophic thinking and anxiety. Yoga, meditation and mindfulness build strength in our mind, body and nervous system over time. We can also help people immediately with some basic survival skills.

Our nervous system has one job

It is 100% committed to keeping us alive. It has a negativity bias (better safe than sorry) to help keep us alive. We are always unconsciously assessing our level of safety and danger in our environment and with other people.

We are all uncomfortable with not knowing, and our mind will often explore every possible worst case scenario thinking that will make us safer. This actually works against us. Our brain believes our thoughts and we sap our energy through the stress of imagining the worst.

As we pay attention in our body, we realize we are holding our breath and our shoulders are up around our ears. We are in a survival response, preparing to flee or fight. Then we remember to breathe. What a relief! You can bring that relief to your friends, family, students and community.

Our nervous system is fairly straight forward. We assess and respond to threat. We can learn reliable tools and practices to reduce hypervigilance and anxiety. We become stronger and more emotionally regulated.

The stress of being in a survival response is hard on our body and our mind. When in survival mode we are unable to access kindness and compassion for ourselves or others.

As we learn to more reliably regulate our nervous system, our hearts open up, we heal old hurts, and we experience more joy and connection in daily life.

The depth of simplicity

All of the practices in our class together are presented in a simple manner, with trauma informed foundations, without jargon, and that are understandable and accessible to the general public. When we know our nervous system, breath and mind on a deep level, that is when we are able to make it simple.

COURSE COMPONENTS

Education: the basics of regulating our nervous system, reconnecting with our body, survival responses of fight/flight/freeze/fawn; how trauma affects the brain, and how to explain these deep practices so everyday folks can understand.

Practice: live guided practice during class; guided practice recordings; transcripts, handouts and class materials.

Teaching: practice with each other in class, and branching out to family and friends

Handouts you can print, link to, or edit to make them your own.

Links to my guided practices on Insight Timer and scripts to make your own.

Where to teach: Ideas on where you can teach, and marketing guidance and templates for approach

Sharing and questions are welcome during class and in my weekly office hours Tuesdays at 4:30PM Eastern

(ALL CLASSES LIVE ON ZOOM WITH VIDEO REPLAYS FOR ALL SESSIONS)

ABOUT LYNN

Lynn Fraser brings the depth of twenty eight years experience teaching meditation and yoga. She specializes in holding a safe, trusted space for healing trauma in her online groups and classes. Lynn lives near family, ocean and forest in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Lynn is a senior teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Meditation tradition and founder of the Stillpoint Method of Healing Trauma.