Retrain Your Nervous System

For those of us who suffer from things like chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and most inflammatory conditions, learning to manage and enhance our nervous system can be life changing. In doing so, we learn how to activate our own internal self-regulation system, training our entire body to be in a state that’s calm and relaxed, yet alert and ready to respond to whatever life throws at us. This is the state in which we are best able to connect with ourselves and others, and experience a sense of overall wellbeing.

In this introductory class, you’ll learn the role of the vagus nerve in managing stress and whole body wellbeing, how it’s activity can be measured, and some simple research-backed techniques that you can use at home to improve Vagus nerve functioning for improved cognition, athletic performance, and emotional wellness and resilience.

THE SCIENCE

The vagus nerve has long been known to impact upon physiology. In more recent years, researchers have been interested in the potential of the vagus nerve to act as an indicator of general wellbeing. Its activity is measured via heart rate variability (HRV), a metric derived from the difference between beat-to-beat time and power output of the heartbeat. Measurement of vagus activity - known as vagal tone - has lead to the realisation that not only can it be used as an indicator of wellbeing, but, through interventions that increase vagal tone, the nervous system can be retrained to coordinate responses that improve social, physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.

In this workshop, we will go through the following concepts;

• The role of the nervous system as a coordinator of human physiology

• Polyvagal theory

• Heartmath’s coherence theory

• Simple and effective techniques for improving vagal tone

You will leave the workshop with a well-rounded understanding of how your nervous system impacts your health and wellbeing, as well as some simple and effective research-backed techniques to improve vagal tone over time and during moments of stress.

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