The Truth About Anxiety Workshop
Nervous System Education and Somatic Practices
Course Summary
“ I thought I was having a heart attack.”
I’ve heard about and had in my studio more and more women describing their physical systems of racing heart, difficulty catching their breath, tight chest , tingling in face …. And actually using the words, “ I felt like I was going to die.”
Yet after a work up at the ER, they were told there is nothing physically wrong with them, and that they were likely experiencing a panic attack.
I nod my head in compassion, and talk about the biological effects of stress and anxiety on the body ( the nervous system).
So many people have been taught to believe that anxiety is just a mental issue and try to address it with “ top down therapy “ like counseling or psychotherapy. And yet these same people are ending up in the ER with symptoms of a heart attack.
My friends, Anxiety needs a “Bottom up “ or Somatic Therapy approach to address how stress and anxiety effect the nervous system and cause a biological ( not just psychological) response in our bodies. Yes, symptoms that can feel like a heart attack.
In this workshop you will learn how to track the state of your nervous and be led through four easy yet powerful somatic practices to shift your nervous system out of a stress response and into a relaxation response.
Course Curriculum
Karen Penfold
Karen has personal experience with post-trauma stress, loss, and grief. Karen also has personal experiences with Healing and Hope. Through this journey, she discovered her passion to help others heal from trauma. She is a 10-year, two-time breast cancer and trauma survivor. Karen was introduced to yoga while recovering from breast cancer surgeries and treatments as well as a broken pelvis from a car accident. She credits much of her healing – in body, mind, and spirit – to the somatic, mindful, and spiritual practice of Christ-centered yoga.
