Creating safety and minimizing the trauma experience. A Polyvagal Perspective.
Optimizing the birth process to minimize the trauma experience and foster connection and co-regulation.
• Introduction to Polyvagal Theory
• 3 Principles: Hierarchy, Neuroception & Co-Regulation.
• Essentials for birth and beyond – Context, Choice & Connection.
• Explore how the bonding relationship between parents and babies informs our sense of safety
• Explore your own adaptive responses to touch.
• Learn to help your clients discover the right amount of touch to regulate their nervous systems
• Understand that ruptures happen from relational misattunement and how to repair.
• How Doulas/ Practitioners/ Yoga Teachers/ Coaches can create safety within the Birthing Preparation and Process.
We will discuss various challenges (and offer client cases) we encounter in (effective) birthing and how adaptive survival states impact our effectiveness.
This session will dive into explaining the importance of client connection. By looking at connection and communication through the lens of Polyvagal Theory you’ll gain new insights into how to successfully relate to your clients and those you work with.
We’ll explore how to bring curiosity to moments of disconnection and offer practices that support connection and the re-establishment of safety. We will explore ways of experiencing safety in our own bodies, and welcome our clients into an experience of safety with us through co-regulation, presence and relationship.
Are you a doula, yoga teacher, nurse, physician, physical therapist, or other healthcare provider?
This is an unmissable opportunity to help you understand your own nervous system fluctuations as well as read the autonomic state of your clients to help guide them to a state of safety and connection.
Chantal Traub is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Doula and Childbirth Educator with 30 years of experience of assisting expecting families in the New York Metro Area. Chantal incorporates Polyvagal Principles in her practice as a doula and coach. She was invited by Dr. Stephen Porges to present at the Polyvagal Institute Conference in 2022.
Chantal is also a Certified Yoga Teacher, Mutu Systems Trainer, Safe and Sound protocol provider. She resides in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
Tove Borgendale has over 25 years of experience working with complex and preverbal trauma and takes a holistic approach to healing body/mind/spirit and heart. She is licensed as a massage therapist with a focus in developmental and strain trauma as it relates directly to befriending, honoring and trusting our bodies. In addition to multiple hands-on modalities, Tove draws upon Barbara Brennan energy healing, Nondual Kabbalistic Healing, Nondual Shamanism, and The Polyvagal Theory in her work with clients.
Tove is a mother, a visual artist, and a teacher of Nondual Shamanism, an Safe and Sound Protocol provider, as well as multiple topics in The Polyvagal Theory, including assisting Deb Dana in her Rhythm of Regulation and Foundations Trainings. She dedicated to creating a world where we know what safe touch is for ourselves and honor each other’s touch boundaries. She loves helping people become more fully themselves.
early bird special: $150 regular price (ends June 8) $218
(A recording of this class will be available if you are unable to make the live event. Please let the host know in advance).
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