Vagus Nerve - Regulation & Integration Workshop

A 1–3 Day Immersive Experience

Your nervous system has been protecting you. During the workshop we will help it rest.

The vagus nerve- the longest nerve in the body, is the primary pathway of your parasympathetic nervous system. It governs your heart rate, breathing, digestion, emotional expression, and your deepest felt sense of safety. When it is toned and flexible, life feels navigable. When it is dysregulated, everything is harder than it should be. During this immersive workshop, we combine somatic bodywork, Polyvagal Theory education, Soma Breathwork, fascial and movement therapies, and hands-on individual sessions to support your nervous system in returning to its natural state of regulation, resilience, and presence.

This is not a lecture. This is a lived experience, in your body, through your breath, with your nervous system as the guide.

During the workshop You will:

• Discover the science behind why you feel what you feel, and why it is not a personal failing
• Learn to recognize your nervous system states and understand what your body is responding to
• Experience the power of Soma Breathwork as a tool for deep autonomic reset and stored stress release
• Receive an individual hands-on session combining ART, cranial-fascial therapy, Spinal Flow™, and direct vagus nerve activation- all personalized to your body
• Practice coherent breathing- the most evidence-based tool available for building vagal tone and heart rate variability
• Reconnect with your body through movement drawn from Dance Movement Therapy, Continuum Movement, and somatic yoga
• Learn how voice, touch, breath, and movement directly regulate your nervous system and how to use them daily
• Leave with a personalized regulation toolkit designed around what worked in your body this weekend

Two Ways to Participate

• 3-Day Immersive- Friday through Sunday

A deeper container for those called to go further

Friday evening opens with an Ayahuasca medicine ceremony, held in a private, safe, and intentional setting. This space allows the body to soften, open, and access deeper layers of awareness. 

Saturday and Sunday are then devoted entirely to integration- supporting the nervous system in processing, grounding, and embodying the experience through guided bodywork, breathwork, and somatic practice.

• 1 or 2-Day Workshop- Saturday & Sunday

The complete somatic and educational experience. For those who wish to receive the full nervous system workshop: individual bodywork, group somatic practices, Soma Breathwork, Polyvagal Theory education, and daily regulation tools. Arrive Saturday, leave Sunday transformed—or join as you prefer, for one or both days.

Schedule Overview

Friday Evening 

• Ayahuasca medicine ceremony in a carefully held group container

Saturday – Individual Somatic Sessions w/Paulina

• Welcome breakfast and conscious arrival ritual for all participants
• Opening somatic check-in circle
• Individual sessions with Paulina (30–45 minutes per person)
  • Cranial-sacral and fascial assessment
  • Active Release Techniques
  • Spinal Flow™ and vagus nerve direct activation
• Concurrent offerings during rotation: Somatic journaling, Breathwork session, Movement

Sunday- Education, Exercises and Closing

• Morning integration circle and reflection sharing
• Introduction to Polyvagal Theory- embodied, not just intellectual
  • The vagus nerve and how it shapes your life
  • The three nervous system states: safety, activation, shutdown
  • Neuroception: why your body decides before your mind does
• Coherent Breathing and HRV Training
• Somatic Practice Immersion:
  • Orienting practice – completing the stress cycle
  • Voice and toning sequence – laryngeal vagal activation
  • Dance Movement Therapy – embodying and transitioning between states
  • Fascial meridian release – posterior chain
• Building Your Personal Regulation Toolkit
  • Regular & Emergency Protocols
  • Personalized Regulation Map Based on Your Experience

This Experience Is For You If:

• Stress, anxiety, or tension feel like your baseline- even when life looks fine
• You feel disconnected from your body or emotionally numb
• You are exhausted but cannot truly rest
• You know your patterns intellectually, but they still run you
• You have had a plant medicine or expanded-state experience you are still processing
• You carry chronic physical tension- jaw, neck, shoulders, lower back
• You are a therapist, coach, bodyworker, or practitioner who wants to feel this work from the inside

Introduction to Polyvagal Theory

Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, offers a compassionate, science-based understanding of how our nervous system shapes our emotions, behaviors, and relationships. It teaches us that our reactions are not personal failings- they are adaptive survival responses wired into the body.

The three primary states:

Ventral Vagal – Safety & Connection-  the social engagement system is active. We can connect, think clearly, regulate our emotions, and feel present.

Sympathetic- Fight or Flight- the system mobilizes for perceived threat. We may feel anxious, restless, reactive, or unable to settle.

Dorsal Vagal- Shutdown & Freeze– when overwhelm becomes too great, the system collapses inward. This can feel like numbness, fatigue, dissociation, or disconnection.

Understanding these states transforms the question from “What is wrong with me?” to “What is my nervous system responding to?”

These practices, chosen for the weekend,  support your nervous system in moving more fluidly between states and returning to a felt sense of safety and ease.

Vagus Regulation Practices

Practices across the weekend are drawn from:

• Breathwork and Coherent breathing -or deep autonomic reset and heart-centered resonance.
• Dance Movement Therapy– movement as nervous system language and emotional completion
• Continuum Movement– the body as fluid, living tissue
• Fascial maneuvers and trigger point therapy– releasing where stress is structurally stored
• Active Release Techniques (ART) -targeted tissue release from chronic holding
• Spinal Flow™ –  spinal contact points that reset the nervous system through the dural tube
• Cranial and fascial therapy– listening to the body’s deepest rhythms
• Voice and prosody work– as direct vagal activation
• Orienting and somatic awareness practices– completing what stress left unfinished

The goal is not to eliminate survival responses. It is to build a nervous system that moves fluidly, returns quickly, and meets life from a place of genuine resilience.

Offering and Schedule 

Friday, July 31st – Medicine Work with Divine Tea
$285 | 8:00 PM

Saturday, Aug 1st – Vagus Nerve Bodywork Sessions & Workshop
$225 | 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Sunday, Aug 2nd – Vagus Nerve Workshop

$225 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Community Offering 

Enjoy 20% off when you join the full 3-Day Experience

and 15% off when you share in a 2-Day Experience

(Space is limited to 12 participants to ensure individual hands-on time with Paulina.) 

What a Past Client Said

“As a nurse, I understand the importance of taking a holistic approach to healing. Paulina has exceeded my expectations. She has made me feel so comfortable and really worked to help correct the problems that were causing me so much pain. So thankful.” — Tina L., Registered Nurse