Awaken your Somatic Intelligence

Why Nervous System Coaching?

Your nervous system is the lens through which you interpret reality. The filter that shapes how you experience yourself, others, and the world around you. Because it is beyond your conscious control, lasting change requires more than insight alone—it requires retraining the body’s deeply conditioned patterns of protection.

Regulation VS. Dysregulation

When your nervous system is dysregulated, your stress response is stuck in high alert. You interpret the world around you as threatening, and you engage in behavior that often makes the situation worse by over-doing, attempting to control, withdrawing, numbing, lashing out, or abandoning your own needs.

When your nervous system is regulated, you naturally orient towards openness, creativity, and possibility. You relate to challenges as invitations to show up with greater curiosity, love, and compassion, and you act in alignment with your deepest values. When you are thrown off of your center, you readily employ tools and resources to help you return to regulation.

In reality, it’s not simply a binary of being regulated vs. dysregulated—it’s a non-linear journey of building the neural pathways of regulation so that you return more quickly, expanding your resilience and capacity. Whether you're navigating big transitions or braving the complexities of everyday life, regulating your nervous system is the key to shift from surviving to thriving.

Guidance and support

I am here to help you decode the language of your nervous system. Everyone's stress patterning is different, and we all need a unique approach for regulation. I assist you in discovering the modalities that best fit your body’s physiology and your lifestyle, using somatic practices which draw from modern neuroscience and ancient wisdom traditions. These include breathwork, targeted stretches, intuitive movement, vocalization, and more.

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do you know your polyvagal type?

To learn about your nervous system and receive regulation exercises for your unique stress response, take this quiz to discover your Polyvagal Type.
You can read more about Polyvagal Theory below.

Polyvagal Theory
& The Vagus Nerve

What is the Vagus Nerve?

The vagus nerve is a major pathway for sending sensory information from the body to the brain, with signals traveling up from nearly every organ to the brainstem. This major cranial nerve governs our inner awareness and controls the autonomic nervous system states. Therefore, when regulating our nervous system, a "bottom-up" body-based approach is more efficient than trying to think our way to a different state. A toned, healthy vagus nerve promotes greater health and wellbeing and more time in the optimal states of rest, digest, connect, create, and play.

What is the Polyvagal Theory?

In a nutshell, Polyvagal Theory explains the different vagal (vagus nerve) pathways involved in our autonomic nervous system response. The nervous system states that support wellbeing and social connection come online when our systems perceive safety, while other states that support defense and self-preservation come online when our systems perceive danger. This perception of safety vs. danger occurs at a brainstem level (beneath our conscious control), and therefore it is important to send our body signals of safety if we want to move from a stress response back to a calm, regulated state.

The three main Polyvagal states are:

1. Ventral Vagal – calm, connected, creative (social engagement system)

2. Sympathetic – high-energy stress response (fight or flight)

3. Dorsal Vagal – low-energy stress response (shut-down)

I will help you understand and navigate these states, plus the blended/hybrid states as described by Dr. Stephen Porges, creator of the Polyvagal Theory and Deb Dana, expert in the clinical applications of Polyvagal Theory in therapy.

Primary & Blended States in the NeuroFit Ring

What does it mean to have a “healthy” Vagus Nerve?

“Vagal Tone” is the measure of the vagus nerve’s ability to return us quickly to the ventral vagal state after a stressful event, and high vagal tone is synonymous with a healthy vagus nerve. Remember, the goal is not to always stay in ventral vagal—stress is a natural part of life and we’re meant to move into defense states as we respond to stress. However, it’s a problem when we get stuck in sympathetic or dorsal vagal and our vagus nerve can’t effectively return us to the ventral vagal state.

we’re In This together

A key component of Polyvagal Theory is social engagement—healthy co-regulation with others plays a major role in proper vagal functioning. Unfortunately, the increasing isolation brought about by modern society, technology, and most recently the pandemic is a huge contributor to poor vagal tone.

The somatic exercises I share will help restore vagal tone, but the singular most effective method to build healthy vagal tone is co-regulation and attunement with a person or people you feel safe with. In addition to support from my 1-1 sessions, you can also check out my workshops for safe places to connect with others in a heart-centered way.

I’m here to walk with you as we navigate the path of your healing and growth, one step at a time. Through our work together, you will restore balance and find solace within the sacred realm of your own nervous system.

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Session Details

All sessions take place online with Zoom, based in Pacific Time Zone (San Francisco)

Regular Rates:

• 1-1 sessions: 60 minutes @ $240 per session

• Couples sessions: 90 minutes @ $320 per session

  Discounted package rates are available.

  I offer a limited amount of sliding-scale spots, please inquire.

  
  

Introductory package:

• 6-week Nervous System Reset Program @ $200 for 6 sessions

Free intro session:

Click below to book your complimentary 30-minute exploratory call.

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