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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. Joining all is not necessary, you'll gain something from every workshop!
Have you ever noticed yourself reacting in a familiar way, even when you know there might be another option? Maybe you shut down during a difficult conversation, become restless when things get quiet, or find yourself saying yes when you actually want to say no. Understanding these patterns is an important first step. But how do you begin to respond differently?
Back to Body Friday is an evening designed to help you explore new ways of responding to stress, reconnect with your body and discover how small, repeated experiences can create more room for choice.
Throughout the evening, you’ll be guided through a series of body based practices that support you in releasing built up tension, exploring new responses and building a more personal relationship with your nervous system.
We’ll start by working with exercises 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 learns through experience and how familiar responses can become automatic over time. When we repeatedly encounter similar situations, our body and mind can begin to anticipate what comes next. Sometimes these responses are helpful. Other times, they can limit our ability to connect, communicate or respond in a way that feels right for us. Through guided reflection and experiential exercises, you’ll explore where you tend to get stuck in familiar patterns and what other responses might be available to you.
From there we'll move to practising new responses. How can you create more space between a trigger and your response?
Through gentle somatic exercises, you’ll experiment with movement, grounding, boundaries and awareness. You might explore what it feels like to pause instead of immediately reacting, to take up more space instead of withdrawing, or to communicate a boundary instead of automatically pleasing someone else. You’ll be invited to notice what happens in your body as you try different options. What feels familiar? What feels uncomfortable but possible? And what helps you stay connected to yourself while exploring something new? We’ll also look at how small, repeated experiences can support learning over time.
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.
-> Notice that you often react before you have time to think.
-> Want to change recurring patterns in the way you respond to stress.
-> Want to create more space between a trigger and your response.
-> Want to explore new ways of responding without forcing yourself out of your comfort zone.
-> Want to translate body awareness into practical changes in everyday life.
-> 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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