The Nervous System Series
Welcome to The Nervous System Series – a transformative journey crafted for those seeking to deepen their understanding of mind and body. This series bridges neuroscience and somatic techniques, weaving a holistic approach to well-being. Our sessions go beyond theory, providing tangible tools to integrate newfound insights into your daily life. Expect to emerge from each session feeling grounded, empowered and alive.
Each workshop in "The Nervous System Series" is a unique opportunity for growth, healing, and insight. Whether you choose to attend one or all, be prepared for a transformative experience led by a masterful teacher.
Join us in building a vibrant community of individuals committed to healing, growing, and making the world a better place!
Nervous System Foundations: March 16th
Come learn the foundations of the autonomic nervous system and grow an in-depth understanding of how your body responds in situations of fight, flight, or freeze. You will gain insights into how your body responds to stress and threat as well as tools to help regulate your system and return to states of relaxation.
Trauma and the Nervous System: April 13th
Delve into a gentle exploration of how trauma impacts the nervous system. This workshop will explain exactly how and why trauma dysregulates the nervous system and offers practical somatic practices to help heal and regulate after experiencing trauma. Additionally this workshop will help you develop a more compassionate understanding for others who have experienced trauma. This course is educational in nature and intended as a replacement for therapy or other treatment. You are welcome whether or not you consider yourself a trauma survivor. If you have questions, please email oliviabarbersomatics@gmail.com
Vagus Nerve Masterclass: April 27th
Uncover the power and influence of the "super nerve" that orchestrates the rhythm of your autonomic responses. This workshop provides a step-by-step understanding of the significance and importance of the vagus nerve, and teaches practices that harmonize and invigorate, inviting balance into your mind, body and spirit.
Theory to Practice: Tools for Regulating the Nervous System: May 11th
Bridge the gap between theory and practice to fully embody resilience and regulation. This workshop will build upon the teachings from previous workshops to equip you with practical, hands-on tools to understand and regulate your nervous system. This movement-based workshop is open to all, but a foundational understanding of the nervous system is highly recommended.
Emotions and the Nervous System: June 8th
Immerse yourself in the profound connection between your emotions and the nervous system. This workshop will teach you how to navigate and honor the intricate interplay of feelings, sensations and nervous system states to build emotional literacy. Together we will explore the connection between fight, flight, freeze, fawn and corresponding emotions to build greater resilience and regulation in every area of life.
Pricing:
$55 per class or $200 for the whole series
The Art of Being Human (Adults- In Person)
A 6-week Course that brings together nervous system science and emotional literacy through a somatic and embodied lens to help you become a happier, healthier, more resilient human.
30 Days to Feel
Emotional intelligence is more than just being able to name your feelings- it’s being able to actually feel, be present with, work with, and learn from the sensations and emotions that arise in the body. This course is a daily dose of actionable practices to help you build these skills.
Every morning for 30 days you will receive an email with journal prompts, guided practices, and teachings around embodied emotional intelligence. Each missive will be directly applicable to your life and help you cultivate the practices and skills for better emotional health, healthier relationships, and communication skills.
$30 for 30 days of teachings and practices to help you build embodied emotional intelligence.
To register send an email to oliviabarbersomatics@gmail.com and $30 to @IrisOlivia via venmo.
Moving With Emotions
This workshop explores the sensations, energies, and pathways of expression of our emotions. By feeling, moving, and expressing ourselves we create freedom and expansion in our capacity to be healthy and thriving humans. Together we will move, breathe, write, and explore the sensational landscape of our bodies to build greater health and emotional intelligence.
30 Days Towards Embodied Emotional Intelligence
$30 for 30 days of teachings and practices to help you build embodied emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence is more than just being able to name your feelings- it’s being able to actually feel, be present with, work with, and learn from the sensations and emotions that arise in the body.
This course is a daily dose of actionable practices to help you build these skills. Every morning for 30 days you will receive an email with journal prompts, guided practices, and teachings around embodied emotional intelligence. Each missive will be directly applicable to your life and help you cultivate the practices and skills for greater emotional health, happier relationships, and better communication.
$30 for 30 days. We begin July 10th.
To register, respond to this email and send $30 to @IrisOlivia via Venmo.
The Nervous System Workshop: An Introduction to Understanding and Healing the Nervous System
This three-hour workshop will teach you the foundations of how the nervous system functions in relation to stress and relaxation. Through an engaging presentation and gentle movement practices, you will gain an embodied understanding of how the nervous system works while building skills to support your resilience and healing. This workshop is appropriate for all levels and is designed as a gentle and nourishing introduction to the nervous system.
Price: Sliding Scale $35-55.
Location: Breath + Oneness
Register here: https://www.breathandoneness.com/classes
Summer Solstice Weekend Retreat
Join us for three days on a beautiful piece of land in Pescadero, California!
Our Summer Solstice Weekend Retreat will be three full days of connecting with the Earth, each other, and our hearts, bellies, and bones. It will facilitate the gentle sinking down and into our truer deeper Nature. Daily movement and breath, circling, workshops in many vital areas like embodied emotional literacy, deep connection with other women, and lots of self-connection time for journaling and inner listening while sitting next to the creek and under the trees, will nourish us well from the inside out.
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Woman's Way Daylong
Come gather as women in sacred intentional community. We are healing the woman's line through the application and willingness of our Love. We are remembering how to deeply embody, slow down, resonate in our deepest being, and call Life forth through the power of our inner resonance. We weave with the moons, anchoring our bodies back into the creational cycles of Life, and remember how to create lives full with meaning and beauty. We will help bring this beautiful planet back to a verdant state of well-being and prosperity for all, through our own inner work, work with each other, and that which we anchor back into being through our willingness. These are the times - and this is the work - that we were born for. Join us.
This daylong gathering will including yoga, dance, song, art, deep sharing, collective rest and deep connection to the land.
Embodied Revolution: Santa Cruz
This daylong immersion will include a Movement Lab, Healing Arts Circle, Collective Choreopoem, and a Performance Art Ritual Offering. As we intentionally gather on Memorial Day to explore themes of grief, loss and change–we invite the opportunity to let go and liberate your being while discovering “How do we take feelings of compression and contraction into a state of acceptance, presence and emergence?”