Polyvagal Theory
The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
Taught by David Cornwell
The transformative Power of Feeling Safe
Polyvagal Theory helps us understand the relationship between our inner world of thoughts, sensations, emotions, behaviours and our ever changing outer world.
Why does one person behave in one way in a certain situation, while another person behaves completely differently. For example why is public speaking experienced as life threatening by some and relished by others? Why do some of us find it impossible to leave a destructive relationship, or feel overwhelmed or depressed by minor irritations. PT explains these differences through the evolution of the ANS and how our nervous system has been conditioned through stress and trauma.
At the heart of this theory is the human need to feel safe, and understanding that our ANS shifts state to optimise a return to safety.
When we feel safe our body-mind can recover, and we can be happy, loving, kind, present and creative.
Our nervous system state changes how we think, feel and behave.
By understanding this theory we can adapt how practice and teach embodiment practices to support autonomic regulation and safety,
This training will explore PT within mindfulness and embodied movement practices including yoga.
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- 20 Euros per month.
- Meditation drop-in practice class Tuesday & Thursday 19:00 CET (zoom).
- Monthly workshops that teach the elements of the Embodied Presence Workbook, to make you an confident mindfulness, breath work and embodied movement teacher.
- Each workshop is eligible for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Program YACEP accreditation.
- Complete all workshop over 12 months and teach the Embodied Presence student workbook.
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*yoga alliance 200 hour teacher training program charged separately.
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When the world is good and safe, know that you can let go and allow things to be as they are, flow, be present, vulnerable, compassionate, kind and loving.
INTRODUCING...
THE MASTERCLASS
TRANSFORM HOW YOU PRACTICE AND TEACH.
Learn a model of the ANS that will help you understand the why and how of practice:
- Interventions that support regulation.
- How mindfulness attunes the ANS.
- Yoga as trauma therapy.
understand and explain to your students how embodiment practices restore regulation.
EVOLUTION
PT is based upon the evolution of the ANS.
NEURAL PLATFORMS
Each evolutionary step is a neural platform with unique neural circuitry.
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOURS
Each platform has different sensorial, emotional, cognitive & behavioural processes.
TRAUMA
Stress and trauma causes the ANS to responds in mistuned unhelpful ways.
MINDFULNESS
Research demonstrated how mindfulness and yoga transform the ANS.
PRACTICE
Transform your teaching to support autonomic regulation and healing.
THE POLYVAGAL LADDER
When we feel our life is threatened we shut down.
When we feel escapable threat we fight.
When we feel safe we are present and loving.
Why do we sometimes feel our life is under threat even when everything is good. This is because of stress and trauma.
At the bottom of the ladder is our oldest survival response, to freeze. At the top of the ladder is our our social nervous system and our capacity for love, presence, and relationships.
How can we climb the ladder, increasing our window of tolerance so that we can stay in this neural platform even within the midst of difficulty.
We will explore this and more in this masterclass.
David Cornwell
David Cornwell studied the treatment of depression through mindfulness at Oxford University. His Oxford thesis explored the relationship between mindfulness, depression and polyvagal theory.
He is a licensed therapist in the UK having studied at the Karuna Institute, a psychotherapy school specialising in mindfulness based psychotherapy. David trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and in EMDR.
David has practiced mindfulness since 1999, has been teaching since 2003. David founded Cihangir Yoga in 2006 in Istanbul Turkey, and developed a mindfulness centre in Istanbul's American hospital.
David lives in Mallorca with his family, works as a therapist, and teaches mindfulness.
Become a memberYoga & Polyvagal Theory.
Have you considered that your yoga teaching can be understood as trauma therapy?
A yoga practice typically unfolds at a certain rhythm that supports the activation and discharge of stress held in the body.
"The Polyvagal Ladder helps me understand what resources me, and how I can climb and stay at the top of the ladder where I am present, loving and creative."
M Waters
"I understand how mindfulness and yoga are neural exercises that help me shift from one platform to another."
B Stay
IS THE MASTERCLASS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Are you interested in understanding your stress responses?
Are you practicing mindfulness or embodied movement such as yoga.
Are you a therapist, coach, mindfulness or yoga teacher.
This masterclass will help you understand how your life experiences get coded into your body-mind, shaping how you think, feel and behave. It will help you understand yourself, loved ones, clients and students.
You will learn theory and practices that you can directly apply to your work!
BECOME AN EMBODIED PRESENCE TEACHER
Complete all the workshops over one year, teach the Embodied Presence Student workbook including mindfulness, breath work and movement practices.
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