welcome to the nervous system reboot
A weekly online community for anyone navigating a life-altering health diagnosis. Together we explore breathwork, Yoga Nidra, mindfulness, creativity, gentle movement, and compassionate connection to cultivate resilience and support the nervous system. Join us live each Wednesday or revisit practices anytime in The Reboot Archive.
The Nervous System Reboot is offered on a donation basis so anyone navigating any stage of life-altering diagnosis, including post-treatment can participate, regardless of financial circumstances.
If these recordings or our weekly gatherings have supported your healing, your donation helps sustain this community by supporting the time, care, and resources needed to create each session and keep this circle accessible for everyone. Every gift is deeply appreciated, but never expected.
register for the live sessions here:
You’ll only need to register once to attend any meeting. To ensure you receive reminders, it’s highly recommended you add the meeting to your calendar (Google, Outlook…) since zoom does not generate reminders for each session individually.
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The Reboot Archive
On demand yoga nidra and Breathwork tracks recorded live in weekly sessions:
resources
A living library of Facilitators & Guides to draw inspiration from
Explore these offerings whenever you’re seeking rest, inspiration, creative practice, or nervous-system support. Each guide brings a distinct voice and approach. Follow your curiosity, notice how your body responds, and return to what feels supportive and nourishing.
Rest & yoga nidra
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Ally Boothroyd | Sarovara Yoga
Description
Ally Boothroyd is a Yoga Nidra educator & YTT facilitator, yoga educator & meditation teacher. She directs Online Nidra & Restorative Teacher Trainings and also curates yoga & nidra retreats in the heart of cottage country in the Kawarthas of Canada.
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Kristyn Rose | Yoga Nidra & Deep Rest
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Yoga Nidra for deep rest, connection, nervous system healing, and better sleep. Welcome dear one, I'm Kristyn Rose. This channel offers guided Yoga Nidra, nervous system regulation practices, and mindfulness tools to help you find deep rest, emotional balance, nervous system regulation, healing, mindfulness, and connection to yourself. Yoga Nidra is an ancient meditation practice that helps your body rest deeply while your awareness stays gently awake, supporting healing, restoration, and inner connection. If you often feel overwhelmed, anxious, or mentally exhausted, you’re in the right place. These practices are designed to help your body soften out of stress and return to a sense of safety, calm, and clarity. New practices every week. I'm so grateful you are here, sharing with you that which I truly love. May this space support your journey back to yourself.
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Befriending Your Nervous System Through Polyvagal Theory | Deb Dana: Take a Moment Guided Meditation
“In this illuminating video, clinician, consultant, and author Deb Dana introduces the life-transforming power of healing by honoring the role of our nervous system. Drawing from Polyvagal Theory, Dana explains the three states of the autonomic nervous system: Ventral, Sympathetic, and Dorsal.
She shares how understanding this hierarchy can help us navigate intense experiences with more self-compassion. Dana also offers the "React, Return, Respect, Reflect" practice to explore our nervous system responses and build resilience.
Find Safety in Your Nervous System: https://bit.ly/3xxWp5T
Through her work as a clinician and Polyvagal Theory expert, Dana has developed the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series and lectures internationally on ways Polyvagal Theory informs trauma healing. She is a founding member of the Polyvagal Institute. If you want to build a healthier relationship with your nervous system and move from states of anxiety, overwhelm, or shutdown into connection, groundedness, and safety, this video offers a powerful roadmap.
Find out more about Deb Dana: https://bit.ly/4aMGGhn “
Creativity
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Description
Hi, I'm Yasmine, a Jungian art therapist and facilitator. I help you explore the psyche through creative expression and hands-on techniques so that you can understand the symbolic language of the soul and gain deeper connection to your authentic self. I have worked in my private practice since 2019. I have a MA in Art, Psyche and the Creative Imagination (TUS, Ireland), an interdisciplinary arts-based program with an emphasis in depth psychology, partnered by ISAP Zurich. In addition, I have a certificate in expressive arts therapy and a MA in Applied Art and Design. Although my work is rooted in the principles of depth-psychology, I strive to bring these theories to life, enabling us to move beyond intellectual understanding to truly living and experiencing our own creative power and the profound wisdom of our unconscious.
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Create and Meditate with Jayme
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Hi, I'm Jayme! I'm an artist & meditation teacher. Through meditation and creative expression, I have found relief, connection, and more of my Self. Life is a strange and wonderful adventure! I try not to take it too seriously :)
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Let's make art and feel better!
Links
Free Slow Drawing Workshops: mindfulartstudio.com/slow-drawing-workshops
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I help creatives, teachers, therapists, and entrepreneurs learn how to make and share mindful art and meditation activities for increased self-expression, self-compassion, and self-care. 💜 Mindful Art Meditations have helped so many people stress less and create more with simple and fun doodles and therapeutic art journaling ideas anyone can do! Learn with Cynthia Hauk. On this channel, we explore how to start a journal, mindful art, art meditation, mixed media art, slow drawing, expressive art, watercolour and abstract painting, doodles art, mandala art, SoulCollage ®, how to teach mindful art meditations and more.
Disclaimer: Mindful Art Meditation activities and journaling ideas are not the same as an Art Therapy session.
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Neurobiology has taught us that we need to “come to our senses” in developing effective components for addressing trauma. Expressive arts therapy releases the potential of the senses to “tell the story” of traumatic experiences via nonverbal, implicit forms of communication. It helps people discover just what forms of expression will be self-regulating, communicate their experiences in reparative ways, imagine restorative narratives, and ultimately support recovery. The expressive arts have a unique role in restoring a sense of vitality and joy in traumatized individuals because aliveness is not something we can be “talked into.” Instead, it is experienced in both mind and body and particularly on a somatosensory level. Cathy A. Malchiodi, PhD, holds a doctorate in Psychology with a specialization in research and health psychology, and is a clinical mental health counselor, and expressive arts therapist who has spent over 30 years working with individuals with traumatic stress.
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A wonderful foundational resource for intention-led artmaking, following the image, and witnessing what arises. It shares a great deal with the way you hold creative practice.