Practices to Regulate Your Nervous System
3 Free Practices from Jillian Pransky
There's never been a more important time to come home to the body. The pace of modern life, the weight of collective uncertainty, and the relentless demands on our attention leave most of us holding more tension than we realize — and far less capacity to meet our days with ease.
Join Jillian for a FREE on-demand practice series designed to help us release that tension and return to ourselves. In three 30-minute classes, you'll work with stress and relaxation through somatic practices that focus on soothing the psoas, releasing the diaphragm, and toning the vagus nerve.
We'll explore a little basic anatomy, then move through slow mindful movement, breathing practices, and awareness tools, closing with extended restorative poses. As you regulate your nervous system, you'll bolster all of the systems that influence your overall health and healing.
Let's pause together — and create space for self-awareness, so we can show up with greater capacity for conscious, compassionate choices in our lives, families, and communities. When we're less driven by stress, fear, or habitual reaction, we move through the world with more ease. And that ease ripples outward to everyone we touch.
May we remember that our practices ripple out through our lives. For all of us.
PRACTICES INCLUDED IN THE SERIES
Soothe Your Psoas (35 minutes)
Expand Your Breath & Flow Into Rest and Digest (28 minutes)
Nurture Your Vagus Nerve (24 minutes)
Soothe Your Psoas
When the psoas is constricted, it's hard to truly relax. This deep core tension can tighten the gut and restrict the breath, keeping us braced against life rather than moving through it. This mindful flow and restorative practice releases tension in the psoas so you feel more grounded and at ease throughout your whole body.
Expand Your Breath: Flow Into Rest & Digest
A freer diaphragm doesn't just help us breathe more fully — it gently massages our abdomen and digestive organs, inviting the body to downshift into calm. This mindful flow and restorative practice releases the tension that restricts breathing while creating spaciousness — mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Nurture Your Vagus Nerve
The more toned our vagus nerve, the greater our ability to shift out of the threat response and into a regulated state of safety and ease. This mindful movement and restorative practice releases tension along the vagus nerve's full pathway — from the head and neck all the way into the gut.
"The nervous system doesn't need to be fixed. It needs to be met."
—Jillian Pransky
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