This workshop offers an intro to how the nervous system works, and explores how to be with its different states, from ease to overwhelm to collapse. You’ll be guided through simple somatic practices that can be used in the moment – tools such as orienting, feeling the support of the feet, and other sensory anchors that help bring the body back into the present. Each practice is taught in a slow, spacious way, with options to adjust or pause where needed. The workshop blends education with embodied experience, giving you both the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of nervous system support. The aim is for you to come away with more understanding, more choice, and a few tools that can support you in everyday life.
For
People who don’t know about the nervous system and want an understanding of how it works in relation to the body and some simple grounding techniques.
With Freya She/Her
Freya is a somatic therapist and founder of Ritual Stillness, working in the realms of community care, nervous system support and activism. She believes that each body contains the wisdom of its own wholeness. Somatic therapy helps us to relearn the language of our bodies, so that we are better able to hear their wants and needs. And when we can hear, we can process, we can choose and we can change. Freya works from an understanding of what it means to be neurodivergent, queer, and working class, and having lived with chronic pain and disability. Her work understands the ways in which political and social structures entwine with our nervous systems – our environment can rupture and it can heal. Our bodies are maps of the world, our nervous systems are mirrors to the structures within which they were formed. Freya’s work is informed by years of activism and a deep interest in politicised somatics, where care, justice, and collective liberation exist necessarily together.
