🔸 Shifting Your Relationship with Stress
🔸 Shifting Your Relationship with Stress
Saturday, September 28Â
2-4PM
$50/$45 Early-bird before 9/20
2-4PM
$50/$45 Early-bird before 9/20
In person & Livestream or Replay
Join Emily Benaron and Michael Allison in a somatic exploration of how you relate to stress with breath, yoga, mindfulness, and embodiment practices. Empower yourself with knowledge about your nervous system, recognize the reflexive bodily reactions we label stress, and build a holistic toolbox for stress resilience from the inside out.
“We can’t control what’s happening around us; we can’t control our body’s reflexive reactions to what’s happening; but we can control what we do to manage what’s happening in our body in challenging circumstances. When we do this, we regain control of how we interact with our own bodily feelings, others we engage with, situations we encounter, and the world we live in.” - Michael Allison
Stress is an inevitable factor of being human. Every interconnected system in the body adaptively responds to stressful events, as well as to features of safety, ease and connection. This experiential workshop will give you a unique opportunity to recognize your physiological state, explore your relationship with stress activation within your body, learn how to recover from stressful events more effectively, and create a “habit of safety” for your nervous system.Â
Michael Allison is the developer of The Play Zone, a unique application of Polyvagal Theory to optimize health, resilience, and performance. He is a contributing author for Psychology Today with his platform, The Pressure Paradox, where he explores the physiological, psychological, and social paradoxes that underlie the challenges of performing in a culture of competition, evaluation, and rapid, unpredictable change. Allison is an educational partner with Polyvagal Institute, a Polyvagal Performance Consultant for high-profile organizations, executives, coaches, teams, athletes & creatives, and provides a variety of courses and Polyvagal-informed Certificate Programs accredited by the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaches and endorsed by Stephen W. Porges Ph.D., developer of Polyvagal Theory. He has certified hundreds of professionals around the globe as Play Zone Pros©, applying his methodology to a wide variety of disciplines, including sports, business, leadership, healthcare, and the performing arts. Michael is a leading expert for the Polyvagal Institute’s flagship course. Learn more about Michael at https://theplayzone.com/
Emily is a certified yoga therapist and associate marriage and family therapist with extensive training in somatic interventions including Polyvagal Yoga. She has 20 years of experience teaching yoga and building trusting relationships that foster, empowerment, growth, and change. Emily helps students learn to adapt yoga practices to their individual needs in a safe, accepting, and kind way. Emily offers trauma-informed yoga classes that weave together traditional yoga and holistic embodiment practices, focusing on mindfulness and self-compassion. Emily also practices integrative therapy at the Anxiety and Panic Disorder clinic in Santa Barbara. Learn more about Emily at www.emilybenaron.com