Calm Your Body, Calm Your Mind
This 4-week course is an invitation to slow down, listen, and begin to
understand your body in a new way.
We will explore both body-based (somatic) and mindful practices, sometimes called bottom-up and top-down approaches, grounded in neuroscience and guided with care.
Rather than pushing through or overriding what you feel, we gently turn toward the body with curiosity and care.
Through the lens of the nervous system and the vagus nerve, you’ll begin to recognise that many of the sensations you experience — tension, anxiety, exhaustion, overwhelm — are not problems to fix, but signals from a body that has been working hard to protect you.
When we meet these signals with awareness and compassion, something begins to shift.
Do You Recognise Yourself Here?
• Feeling tired but wired, unable to fully rest
• Pushing through, even when your body is asking you to slow down
• Feeling anxious, tense, or constantly “on edge”
• Carrying tightness or discomfort that doesn’t fully release
• Experiencing stress, burnout, or low energy
• Not quite feeling like yourselfThese are not flaws
They are patterns your nervous system has learned in order to keep you going.
The Body’s Wisdom
Your body is not working against you
It is communicating with youWhen stress builds over time, the body can remain in protective states — holding tension, staying alert, or shutting down.
This course offers a gentle way to begin supporting your nervous system so it can shift out of constant stress and into a state of greater ease, rest, and repair.
The Nervous System Lens
Your nervous system is always responding to what it perceives as safe or unsafe.
At times this can look like:
fight, flight, freeze, or feeling disconnectedBy working with the body through breath, movement, and awareness, we can begin to support the vagus nerve — the pathway that helps bring the body back to calm, connection, and balance.
You’ll learn to understand your body not as something to control,
but something to work with.
Weekly Themes
Week 1 – Understanding Your Body & Stress
Learn how your nervous system responds and begin to notice your own patterns.Week 2 – Learning to Listen
Build awareness with compassion instead of pressure or control.Week 3 – Releasing Tension & Restoring Flow
Gentle practices to support the body in letting go of stored stress.Week 4 – Coming Back to Yourself
Integration and simple ways to bring this into everyday life.
Each week includes:
• Gentle, guided movement (Kundalini Yoga inspired)
• Simple breathwork to calm the system
• Nervous system education in clear, practical language
• Time for rest, integration, and personal pacing
• Optional reflection prompts and home practices
Who This Is For
This course is for anyone who is:
• feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or run down
• wanting to feel calmer and more grounded
• looking for a gentle and supportive approach
• new to yoga or returning after a break
No experience is needed
You are welcome to go at your own paceAll of you is welcome here
There is nothing you need to fix before you arrive
Just come as you are
Facilitator:
With over a decade of experience in trauma-trained practice, and teaching for over 20 years, Lucinda integrates the wisdom of Kundalini Yoga, yoga therapy, somatic psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry, and currently completing Somatic Experiencing. Her approach bridges science and soul - offering embodied nervous system healing that is grounded, sacred, and deeply supportive.
Online via Zoom:
All sessions are held live and not recorded, to honour presence and confidentiality.
Want to Chat First?
If you have questions or are unsure if this course is right for you, please reach out. I’m always happy to connect.