Immersive Polyvagal Practices for Trauma Recovery
Let Your Body Heal You offers a strengths-based, embodied approach designed to meet the unique needs of anyone recovering from childhood trauma, PTSD, complex PTSD, or dissociation. This course is based upon my new book: The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma.
You’ll start by learning about polyvagal theory, how trauma can cause the nervous system to get stuck in survival modes like fight, flight, or freeze and become out of balance, and how you can regain your balance, feel calm, and heal.
You’ll also learn how connection plays a vital role in healing trauma and how to build healthier relationships with others and with yourself.
Over seven weekly modules, you’ll learn a wealth of healing practices including vagus nerve stimulation, conscious breathing, bilateral movement, mindful movement, and more to help you rewire your nervous system and reclaim your well-being.
I demonstrate and gently guide you through every practice step-by-step, allowing you to feel deeply held and supported on your journey to recovery.
Journaling, self-reflection, audio meditations, and other experiential activities included throughout the course ensure that you fully absorb and embody the material.
You’ll come away with a comprehensive collection of powerful tools to help you create a meaningful, enjoyable, and satisfying life.
A Safe Path to Healing
Many trauma therapies require you to write about, talk about, or otherwise recall your adverse experiences.
While there is value to that approach, it is often quite painful, exposes you to triggers, and reactivates painful symptoms.
This is because the effects of trauma remain in your body (and not just your mind), causing it to react as though you are still facing a threat.
By instead beginning with a soothing, body-centered approach that works to restore connection and balance in your body and mind, you can tap into your natural ability to return to a place of calmness and control.
If you’re carrying the weight of trauma and struggling with post-traumatic stress, but you’re not ready to revisit painful memories, this course can show you the way forward.
Let your Body Heal You draws on several evidence-based and well-researched complementary modalities including:
- Polyvagal theory
- Somatic psychology
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Emotional freedom technique (EFT)
- Mindfulness-based therapies
- Relational psychotherapy
The Science of Safety
Polyvagal theory, often referred to as the “science of safety,” explains how your autonomic nervous system and vagus nerve regulate your emotions, social engagement, and response to stress.
As you go through the day, your nervous system monitors your body and the environment for signs of safety or danger and responds with three general states: relaxed, mobilized, or immobilized.
When this system is functioning well, you move freely between states and combine them to best meet your needs.
For example, when you’re in a mobilized and safe state, it allows you to feel motivated, energetic, and ready to face a challenge, then smoothly return to a state of relaxation and safety once the challenge has passed.
Alternatively, if you’re in a mobilized and threatened state, you may feel fearful and anxious, but you’re still able to return to a state of relaxation and safety once the danger subsides.
This state of fear is a vital part of how your nervous system keeps you safe.
But when you’ve experienced trauma, you can get stuck in the anxious, fearful state or the shut down, disconnected state, and find it difficult to return to a feeling of safety.
By practicing the techniques taught in Let Your Body Heal You, you can restore and improve the flexibility of your nervous system, allowing it to function in a balanced manner.
With your newfound resilience, you’ll be empowered to heal from the past, fully engage in the present, and grow beyond trauma.
Let Your Body Hold You
Sign up before June 24th, 2025 and join me for a live, Q & A to support your integration of this course.
This course offers:
- Over 7 Hours of Content
- 52 Engaging Video Lessons
- 4 Guided Audio meditations
- 8 worksheets
- Lifetime Access
- A Bonus Video focused on Cultivating Healthy Relationships
The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma
“In The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma, Arielle Schwartz gives you practical, embodied tools along with compassionate guidance to support your healing journey. She makes the complexity of trauma recovery understandable and accessible while creating a wellspring of hope. Her warmth and kindness shine through her words.”
—Peter A. Levine, PhD, developer of Somatic Experiencing; and author of several books, including Waking the Tiger and In an Unspoken Voice
The body-based practices you will learn in The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma will focus on increasing your vagal tone. Simply put, optimal vagal tone allows the two primary branches of your autonomic nervous system to work in a balanced manner. This harmonious equilibrium reduces your experience of anxiety, stress, or depression—and perhaps most importantly, increases or enhances your physical health, improves your mental clarity, and supports a general sense of well-being. You will learn to rest into the nourishing benefits of the parasympathetic system, which helps you rest, relax, sleep well, and connect meaningfully with yourself and others. In addition, these practices help you to feel more energized during the day, so that you can engage in your life in a more fulfilling manner.
