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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!
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. What happens when we move beyond simply trying to feel better and start creating more space for connection, joy, curiosity and meaning?
Back to Body Friday is an evening designed to help you explore what it means to feel connected to yourself, to others and to the world around you. An invitation to slow down, become present and discover the experiences that make you feel more alive.
Throughout the evening, you’ll be guided through a series of (body based) practices that support you in releasing built up tension, reconnecting with your body and exploring different ways of experiencing connection and wellbeing. 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).
Throughout the Back to Body series, you’ve explored how your nervous system works, how to recognise your body's signals, how protective patterns develop and how to practise new responses. In this final workshop, we’ll bring these experiences together and explore another side of nervous system wellbeing.
Feeling regulated does not have to mean sitting still, being quiet or feeling relaxed all the time. It is about the flexibility of your nervous system. Sometimes we experience connection through laughter, movement, creativity, being in nature or sharing a meaningful moment with another person.
Inspired by the concept of transcendent experiences, we’ll explore moments in which we feel connected to something beyond our individual sense of self. These can be moments of awe, flow, deep connection, creativity or a sense of belonging to something greater.
Through guided somatic exercises, experiential practices and meditation we’ll explore how different forms of connection can influence the way we feel. We'll work with sensory awareness, movement, music, nature inspired imagery or creative exercises that invite you to step out of your usual way of thinking and experience the present moment differently.
You’ll have space to explore what happens when you allow yourself to be curious, playful or fully immersed in an experience, without needing to achieve anything or get it right.
We’ll also explore the role of connection with others and the world around us. How do relationships, community, nature and meaningful experiences support our sense of belonging? And how can we make more room for these moments 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.
-> Want to create more space for meaningful experiences in your life.
-> Want to feel more connected to yourself, other people and the world around you.
-> Want to explore what wellbeing means beyond simply feeling calm.
-> Want to integrate what you have learned about your nervous system into everyday life.
-> 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
Nederlands, Engels
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