Coming To Our Senses

with Cranial Nerve Sequencing

 

- Calm overthinking

- Befriend your body

- Deepen sensory awareness

- Build somatic foundations for relationship with others

What is Cranial Nerve Sequencing and who is it for?

Therapists, counselor, and teachers - those who serve others - often lose a felt sense of their own bodies while being present to clients.

When we do check in with ourselves, we can become a bit overwhelmed with sensations and feelings. This is totally understandable. I'm learning from my students, however, that if states of overwhelm become constant over time, there is a price to pay.

Losing interest in your work, increasingly dissociative thoughts and behaviors, anxiety, lack of movement and exercise, and physical pain are just a few of the costs.

Isolation is another.

And its not your fault. The larger systems within which we work can isolate us and push us past what is healthy. They ask too much of us. Our slowly evolved, biologically complex bodies need time to reset, recover, and then reconnect with others - often more time than we can give them.

This six week course offers ample time for experiential practice, mini-breaks to digest learning, and dialogue among participants as an antidote to these issues.

You will not be required to learn massive amounts of information faster than your body can process. Every week, you will learn to practices for two cranial nerves, slowly building your practical repertoire to sequence through all twelve.

Your body will have time to catch up with your brain. Through investigating and caring for your own feelings, body sensations and cues, you will build trust in your relational instincts as well.

And, there's a bonus practice session at the end of the course! We will cycle through all twelve nerves in sequence. By this time, it will be second nature and you'll be able to remember and use the practices in daily life.

Quiet learning and somatic exploration, while not a direct treatment for trauma, can sooth a traumatized or stressed nervous system.

Attending to yourself and including another person in your awareness is actually a natural thing, but it can get trained out of us or overcomplicated. The course aims to restore this natural ability.

Benefits of the process, according to my students, are:

  • Feeling good in, and about, your body
  • Grounded presence
  • Emotional, physical, and cognitive resilience
  • A resonant, calming voice
  • A more expansive awareness of environment and others
  • A flowing connection between sensation, emotion, and thoughts

What is cranial nerve sequencing?

It provides somatic adjuncts for therapists and educators who are highly skilled at verbal communication - but have difficulty accessing sensate, embodied support for their own nervous systems while working.

l guide you step by step through an embodied experience of all twelve cranial nerves. Smell, vision, taste, balance, sound (both hearing it and making it!) and internal regulation via the vagus are some of the territory we cover. We learn concrete practices for each nerve, exploring its sensory or motor function in stillness, and then linking it to mobility within your environment.

You learn the basic anatomy and function of each nerve. Recordings with visual support materials will be provided afterwards to help you remember what you've learned so you can share it with clients if appropriate.

You can return to your senses, one sense organ at a time. Discover neglected areas of perception and re-integrate them into your sense of wholeness and peace.

It's actually very difficult for our bodies to think and feel at the same time. Thinking "hard" sometimes results in unconscious motor activity that can be felt as tension.

When your motor system is always active, it drowns out the nuance of sensory experience. When your sensory system feels unsupported by your structure, you can feel easily overwhelmed.

Through exploring each cranial nerve, how it connects to and animates your physical structure, you experience a more springy and resilient relationship between inner and outer worlds.

HOW CAN I FIND OUT MORE?

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I'm happy to answer any questions you have about Cranial Nerve Sequencing, or any of the other ways I practice and teach embodiment. I want to make sure it's right for you.

Six Thursdays, 9 – 10:30 PT/12 – 1:30 EST/18 – 19:30 CET, March 13 – April 17; bonus practice session May 1, 11am – 12pm EST. All dates: March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, May 1.

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“Stress is not the problem.

Stress is not bad for you; being stuck is bad for you.”

 

― Emily Nagoski