This week’s practice is a 7-minute vagus nerve reset using gentle self-massage, designed to help your nervous system shift into a calmer state. The vagus nerve is the long “wandering” nerve that runs through the whole body, and stimulating it signals to your nervous system that it’s safe to relax. You do this one seated, starting with light tapping and sliding across the forehead and temples. From there you massage the jaw, stretch and rub the ears, and move down the neck, sh

This week’s practice is a simple 5 minute breathwork session designed to regulate the nervous system and calm anxiety. The technique is straightforward — inhale through the nose and exhale very slowly through pursed lips, as if blowing through a straw. The extended exhale is what does the work, signalling to the nervous system that it’s safe to slow down. You move through two rounds of breathing, each followed by a 30 second breath hold. Led by Sandy of Breathe With Sandy, th