Experience how practicing conscious breathing, movement, and touch can positively shift your physiology, brain, emotions, and mindset. Connect the science of happy living with simple, everyday Happiness practices to benevolently hotwire your nervous system in order to short-circuit stress and live from your presence. These presencing practices allow you to become more aware of the here and now, and give you the capacity to consciously increase vagal tone and build momentum to living happily ever present.
In fact, science tells us that: how we consciously use our body is the most efficient and actually a more practical gateway to increasing our happiness. That’s right! You can use your body to change how you feel. Discover how to use your body to soothe and calm your heart and create a nervous system that can withstand greater and greater amounts of happiness, joy, and love for sustained periods of time.
We will be relying on the research from the Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons From the World’s Happiest People, Dan Buettner
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, by Annie Murphy Paul
Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive by Dr. Kristin Neff
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation by Deb A. Dana, forward by Stephen W. Porges
Tools to create your own happiness include:
- Pleasure, Passion, Purpose based healing moves
- Therapeutic Yoga to balance endocrine system and hormones
- Medical QiGong for a Happy Heart and Calm Heart
- Breath Work -The Breath of Joy, Wim Hoff variations, and more
- Tapping techniques to sooth organ meridians and acupressure points to relieve pain and suffering
- Clearing practices
