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How to Map Your Own Nervous System

How to Map Your Own Nervous System

It’s helpful to be able to identify where you are on the nervous system “map,” so that you know what type of tools and exercises will be the most helpful to get to Ventral vagus state of connection and safety.

Somatic Exercises to Take You From Freeze State to Safety and Connection

Somatic Exercises to Take You From Freeze State to Safety and Connection

When working within the Polyvagal nervous system regulation framework, we know that in order to bring someone out of a freeze and dissociated state, we need to gently mobilize their nervous system within their capacity. Here are some effective somatic exercises for working with the freeze state.