Your Body’s Missing User Manual
Ever wish your body came with a user manual?
Welcome to Nervous System Foundations—a self-paced online course where we decode the signals, sensations, and subtle cues your nervous system has been whispering (or shouting) all along.
This course is your introduction to nervous system literacy—a practical and accessible way to understand how your body communicates stress, safety, and everything in between. You’ll learn to work with your body’s natural responses instead of fighting against them, creating more resilience, regulation, and trust from the inside out.
The 5 Nervous System Presentations—Armored, Overstimulated, Inflamed, Disconnected, and Exhausted—and how they show up in real life.
Simple ways to recognize these states in real time—in yourself and in others.
How to create a relationship with your nervous system that goes beyond just “regulation.”
Somatic tools to cultivate safety, clarity, and deeper embodiment
Curious humans who want to understand why they react, or freeze, the way they do.
Bodyworkers and practitioners looking to integrate nervous system-informed approaches.
Anyone seeking more self-awareness and self-trust in their body and life.
Science meets somatics—with a side of self-trust—and that’s the magic.
Get ready for those “Ohhh… that’s what that was!” moments that change everything.
The Somatics of Multi-Dimensional Bodywork:
A Nervous System-Based Approach
Earn 12 CE Credits
Discover a New Way of Touching and Transforming the Body
This immersive 2-day course introduces you to Multi-Dimensional Bodywork—a unique approach that integrates nervous system awareness, somatic principles, and fascia-focused techniques.
You’ll learn how to recognize and work with the 5 Nervous System Presentations—Armored, Overstimulated, Inflamed, Exhausted, and Disconnected—so you can meet your clients exactly where they are.
With practical, hands-on techniques and somatic frameworks, you’ll gain the skills to create safe, effective, and truly transformational sessions.
Expand your touch skills with movement-based, fascia-informed techniques.
Understand how the nervous system shapes a client’s ability to receive bodywork—and how to support regulation and release.
Learn to identify and answer to Nervous System responses for more effective sessions.
Cultivate your own self-regulation and embodied presence, becoming a more grounded and attuned practitioner.
The 7 Hinges of the Body
Ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, wrists, and occipital ridge as gateways to movement.
The 5 Client Positions
Supine, prone, side-lying, fetal, and seated for versatile bodywork applications.
Core Techniques
Deep listening, spinal twists, side openings, working underneath the body, flow, transitions, and speed limit.
5 Touch Languages & Healing Archetypes
Discover how to adapt your touch to meet each nervous
system state.
Nervous System-Informed Awareness
Recognize nervous system patterns and work in ways that create safety and trust.
This training is ideal for:
Massage therapists, bodyworkers, and somatic practitioners who want to add nervous system-informed approaches to their work.
Practitioners looking to create deeper, more sustainable shifts for their clients.
Practitioners ready to explore the intersection of touch, movement, fascia, and nervous system regulation.
Length: 2 Days (12 CE Credits)
Format: In-person, hands-on training
Includes: Practical instruction, guided movement labs, and
somatic exploration
Reconnect. Relearn. Re-pattern.
This course will change how you see bodywork—giving you the tools to create sessions that are not just relaxing,
but transformational.
Unravel the Body: A Somatic Approach to Massage and Bodywork
4 Day In Person Course, Earn 24 CE Credits
Step into a transformative Retreats and Immersives that include 4-days of learning experience designed to shift the way you see, feel, and work with the body.
Unravel the Body is a multi-dimensional, somatic approach to bodywork that blends nervous system education, therapeutic touch, and intuitive body-based healing.
Created for massage therapists, somatic practitioners, and healers, this immersive invites you to move beyond routine techniques into a felt, embodied experience where the body itself becomes the teacher—yours and your client’s.
Gain deep insight into how the nervous system expresses itself through both physical and emotional patterns:
The Armored Body – Protective, guarded patterning
The Inflamed Body – Hyper-responsive, reactive patterning
The Overstimulated Body – Scattered, restless patterning
The Disconnected Body – Dissociative, “checked out” patterning
The Exhausted Body – Collapsed, low-tone patterning
You’ll learn to read these states not only with your eyes but with your hands, your breath, and your presence—adapting your approach through the 5 Touch Languages (Air, Water, Earth, Fire, Wood) to meet clients exactly where they are.
This hands-on training immerses you in the foundational elements of Unravel the Body:
Entrance & Exit – Opening and closing a session with energetic and physical intention
Heart-Centered Bodywork – Leading from curiosity and compassion, not control
Therapeutic Intimacy – Creating connection with clear emotional and ethical boundaries
Tempo & Speed Limit – How slowing down invites regulation
and safety
Breath & Pauses – Tracking co-regulation and stillness for deeper release
Working Underneath the Body – Building support from
the ground up
Flow, Fluidity & Transitions – Creating seamless continuity
in sessions
Side Stretches & Spinal Twists – Encouraging space, rotation, and release
5 Client Positions – Supine, prone, side-lying, fetal, and seated for versatility
Gravity as Your Ally – Using natural forces instead of
forceful pressure
Zero Effort Approach – Letting presence, not power, do the work
Unraveling Naturally – Allowing the body to release at
its own pace
You’ll explore how fight, flight, freeze, and fawn show up in the body and learn specific ways to meet them with safety and skill:
Fight: Muscular tension, clenched jaws, and push—met with grounding and containment.
Flight: Restlessness and anxiety—met with anchoring, slow touch.
Freeze: Numbness and stillness—met with warmth and non-invasive presence.
Fawn: Compliance and hyper-attunement—met with trust-building and pacing.
Ready to Unravel?
Unravel the Body isn’t just a technique—it’s a remembering. It’s where your hands meet nervous system wisdom, and where healing becomes a shared language.
Leave the script. Return to sensation. Discover what’s truly possible when bodywork meets somatic intelligence.
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