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From your head back to your body after a workweek to relax into the weekend.
A serie of 5 workshops that help you befriend your nervous system based on the Polyvagal theory. 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 and create the same states where ever you go.
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).
Building on Polyvagal Theory, we’ll explore how our nervous system responds when it detects signals of danger, uncertainty or safety. We all develop ways of protecting ourselves, whether that means becoming more active, trying to keep control, pleasing others, avoiding conflict or disconnecting from what we feel. Through guided reflection and experiential exercises, you’ll explore your own protective responses and how they show up in your thoughts, emotions, body and behaviour.
You’ll be invited to notice what happens when you feel under pressure, what your system might be trying to protect you from and what you need in those moments. Through somatic exercises, you’ll explore the difference between pushing through, withdrawing and allowing yourself to settle at your own pace.
You’ll have the opportunity to discover which practices feel supportive to you, without forcing yourself to relax or move into a particular state. We’ll also explore how safety can be supported through connection, boundaries and the environment around us. Sometimes what we need is a moment of stillness. Sometimes it is movement, space, support or the ability to say no.
The invitation is to discover what safety means for you, in your body and in everyday life.
We close off with a group hypnosis to integrate the experience, so you can leave feeling more settled, present and connected.
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.
-> Notice that you often push through, overthink, people please or withdraw.
-> Want to explore what safety means for you beyond simply feeling relaxed.
-> 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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