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From your head back to your body after a workweek and relax into the weekend.
A serie of 5 workshops that help you befriend your nervous system. Joining all is not necessary, you'll gain something from every workshop!
After a full and often demanding week, it’s easy to stay stuck in your head.
Your body might feel tense, restless, or simply far away. Maybe you feel like you need to get going when you know you can actually slow down.
Back to Body Friday is an evening designed to help you gently transition out of that mental space and reconnect with your body.
Throughout the evening, you’ll be guided through a series of practices that support your nervous system in releasing built-up tension and coming back into a state of ease and safety. You will learn the basics of the Polyvagal theory in a simple way so you can understand yourself better in day to day life.
We’ll start by working with excersises from Body Release Trauma Therapy, a powerful yet accessible way to physically shake off stress and activate the body’s natural release mechanisms. From there, we move into breathwork, using soft, regulating techniques that calm the system (no intense or activating breathing styles).
This evening, we’ll explore how your nervous system responds to the world around you and how it picks up signals of safety, connection and potential threat, often before you consciously notice them. We'll use different tools like tantra and somatic exercises to discover our own pathways of connection.
Building on the foundations of Polyvagal Theory, we’ll explore the role of neuroception and the subtle signals your body sends you throughout the day. You’ll learn to recognise your own responses with more curiosity and less judgement, and discover how different environments and experiences can influence the way you feel.
We’ll experiment with the power of sound and sensory awareness. You’ll explore how different sounds affect your body and which sounds you personally experience as calming, connecting or grounding.
We’ll then move into a guided group hypnosis. Through a gentle visualisation, you’ll explore four different sources of connection and support. Your relationship with yourself, your connection with other people, your sense of belonging in the world around you, and your connection with something greater than yourself. You’ll be invited to notice which of these areas feels nourishing and accessible, and where you might want to create more space for connection and support. Rather than trying to force yourself into a particular state, the invitation is to become curious about what your nervous system needs and what helps you feel more connected.
We’ll close the evening with a gentle somatic integration practice, giving you time to settle and notice what you want to take away from the experience. Through sensory awareness, gentle movement and moments of stillness, you’ll be invited to reconnect with the present moment and notice any shifts in your body. You’ll have space to reflect on what you discovered, which sensory experiences supported you and what you might want to bring into your everyday life.
This evening is for you if you:
-> Want to release tension after a work week.
-> Feel mentally overloaded or find it difficult to switch off.
-> Notice tension, restlessness or disconnection in your body.
-> Want to slow down and reconnect with yourself.
-> Are curious about how sound, nature and your environment influence your nervous system.
-> Spend a lot of time in your head and want to understand your nervous system better.
-> Are curious about Polyvagal Theory, somatic practices and body based work. (No experience needed)
Practical details
Doors open at 19:00, we begin at 19:30.
The session ends around 21:30–22:00.
This Back to Body is the first workshop of a series of 5. Each workshop explores a different aspect of befriending your nervous system, from understanding your patterns to developing practical tools for regulation, connection and everyday life.
1. Map Your Nervous System | Friday 20 November 2026
2. Read Your Body | Friday 8th of Januari 2027
3. From Protection to Safety | Friday 19th of Februari 2027
4. Create New Patterns | Friday 9th of April 2027
5. Beyond Regulation | Friday 21th of May 2027
You can join an individual workshop or follow the full series.
-> Bring a friend and get 5 euro discount per ticket
-> Join 3 workshops and receive €5 off per ticket.
-> Join all 5 workshops and receive one workshop for free (€55 value).
Come as you are. Leave with a little more understanding of yourself, your body and what you need.
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About Melanie:
For the past 10 years, I have been working with the body as a foundation for change and healing. About halfway through that journey, I began to deepen into the mind and nervous system as well by studying coaching, breathwork, energy work and hypnotherapy.
This path started from a very personal place. My own nervous system had been deeply overwhelmed for a long time, shaped by earlier experiences. Learning how to reconnect with my body and find safety within it became the turning point and eventually, the basis of my work because I started to notice it around me too.
Today, I combine different modalities to support others in that same process. I continue to study and expand my approach, often integrating nature as a powerful element within my work.
My intention is always the same: to help you find a sense of calm, safety and connection within your own body (and within the patterns you carry).
Gesproken taal
Engels, Nederlands
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