From Stress to Vitality with Mary Bolingbroke & Sarah Chave

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 During this 4 part course Mary Bolingbroke and Sarah Chave will be exploring how we can replace feelings of stress and overwhelm with feeling of vitality and joy. 

Stress is our response to change in our internal and external environment,  mediated initially through the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The default factory setting of our autonomic nervous system should be set at  Bliss and Joy but for most of us we experience anxiety and fatigue. This course will explore how we can return from worry to vitality and joy 

Part 1: The anatomy of the ANS. Where it is and what it does. We'll look at the Sympathetic, Parasympathetic and Poly Vagal divisions and their relationship to Flight, Fight, Freeze, Rest, Digest, Repair, Communicate and Connect responses. Then how the ANS links to our immune system and emotions. Why stress can make us feel unwell and unhappy.

Part 2: The anatomy of our Lizard brain ( the limbic system) and our Wizard brain ( the Pre Frontal Cortex) How we can learn to link the two so we make better, healthier, happier choices even in the heat of the moment. 

Part 3: Listening to our body tunes us in to what it wants to make it fit, well, healthy and happy. . 
Our body is the vehicle we use to travel through life, listening to it is like reading the manual. Symptoms, posture, our history of ill health are important clues into our deepest fears, doubts insecurities and secretly held beliefs. 

As we learn to read them they guide us towards recovery, insights and our deep healing resources. 

Part 4: Changing our posture helps us change our mind and changing our mind changes our posture. 
Supporting our gut and sleep patterns change our emotions and wellness but  changing our feelings and beliefs automatically encourage us to eat and sleep better. It's a beautiful win win situation. 

The final part of this course helps us celebrate how we can be friends with ourselves and our inner guide, healer, and wizard.

Each class begins with a lecture and exploration of the nervous system and will end with a healing session led by Sarah and Mary.