Nervous System Regulation
Sessions, Programs & Bodywork
to help calm anxiety,
exhaustion and overwhelm.
"When we know WHY we regulate, the HOW becomes
a joyful, inspired choice.
A non-negotiable action."
Tani du Toit
Restore Programs offer a safe, caring, non-judgmental and understanding space to adapt autonomic nervous system regulations and interventions. Join me privately or in group sessions:
Restore is for those whose bodies are carrying more than they can explain — tension, fatigue, anxiety, or simply the sense that something’s ‘off.’”
When we do and effort in order to feel better, we run on counter-intuitive fuel and we end up exhausted. When we take inspired, heart-led action, sustainable change takes place.
Restore's sessions and programs are created to demystify the inner workings of your Autonomic Nervous System and allows you to release your body from survival mode.
During these sessions, we also delve into the concepts of Resistance, Tension and Unwanted Belief Systems holding you back from creating the life you love.
Join me for a session or a program online from anywhere in the world or in a private session with me on the Sunshine Coast.
Group sessions are available online, too.
There is nothing 'wrong' with you!
Your body is just stuck in protection mode.
POLYVAGAL SESSIONS:
IN PERSON AND ONLINE (ZOOM)
What to expect from a typical Restore Polyvagal Session:
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A safe, welcoming, validating and non-judgmental space for you to befriend your autonomic nervous system and restore a sense of safety to your body.
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Emotional and somatic regulation techniques, gentle breathwork practices.
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Simple, effective and proven tools to harness the power of your Vagus Nerve to support your autonomic well-being and emotional and mental health.
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The opportunity to release suppressed emotion, and build autonomic resilience to rewrite your traumatic history.
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Ongoing support and myriad tools, techniques and guides to refer to in your daily life.
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The space and grace that allows you to better understand your body and self better, to love yourself back to wholeness and to step into your life with clarity, calm and confidence.
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Formats: One-on-one: $160 for 2 hours. One-to-two: $240 for 2 hours.
Psychosomatic + Polyvagal-Informed Bodywork
Where the body is heard, and healing begins.
When the psyche cannot hold a burden, the body does. Tension, numbness, chronic pain, anxiety - these are not just symptoms to be treated. They are messages from your nervous system, asking to be witnessed with compassion. This session offers a safe, grounded space to explore the deep relationship between your body, your story, and your nervous system - and to begin the process of releasing what no longer needs to be held.
What Makes This Work Different?
This isn’t just a massage - and it’s not traditional talk therapy. It’s a psychosomatic and polyvagal-informed session, combining:
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Somatic inquiry rooted in autonomic nervous system sensitivity
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Polyvagal Theory to support nervous system regulation
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Hands-on therapeutic bodywork to help integrate what the body has carried
Together, we explore what your body knows - and what your nervous system needs to feel safe, connected, and whole.
What to Expect
1. Psychosomatic & Polyvagal-Informed Inquiry
We begin with a gentle, collaborative exploration of the body’s felt sense. Through guided inquiry, we listen to where the body holds emotion, memory, or survival energy. Using the lens of Polyvagal Theory, we explore how your system is responding - whether in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn - and meet it with care, not force. This is not about "fixing" but about listening - because the body will carry what the psyche cannot.
2. Therapeutic Massage & Vagal Support
Once the inner landscape has been gently uncovered, we move into bodywork. Using polyvagal-informed touch and techniques that support the vagus nerve, this phase helps release stored tension, support regulation, and anchor a new sense of safety in your body.
Touch becomes a language of repair - an integration of what the body has revealed.
This session is for you if you:
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Are holding chronic stress in the body and don't know how to let it go,
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Feel numb, hypervigilant, disconnected, or overwhelmed,
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Want to reconnect to your body in a safe, supported way,
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Are ready to explore the link between emotion and physical tension,
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Are seeking not just relief, but reconnection and resilience.
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Format: One-on-one at Restore, Palmwoods: $240 - 2.5h session. Book a session.
BODYWORK
Polyvagal Programs
8 WEEKS - RELATIONSHIP RESET
FOR ANYONE IN RELATIONSHIP
Autonomic Nervous System Regulation is the ability to "switch off" inappropriate stress reactions and respond appropriately to what is actually happening to you.
To do that, an understanding of how your own autonomic nervous system has been shaped to respond to the world, and the people in it, is absolutely necessary.
Polyvagal therapy provides an innovative framework for understanding and treating relationship issues. Based on the principles of polyvagal theory, this approach aims to promote healthy and enjoyable interactions by working on the regulation of the autonomic nervous system and developing communication and empathy skills.
Relationship issues can take various forms, such as recurring conflicts, communication difficulties, a lack of intimacy, or dysfunctional relational patterns. These difficulties can be related to early attachment experiences, relational traumas, or deficits in socio-emotional skills.
Polyvagal therapy seeks to understand these relational issues through the lens of autonomic nervous system regulation and to provide targeted interventions to foster healthier and more fulfilling interactions.
When you gain an understanding of how your partner's autonomic nervous system has been shaped to respond to you and their world, you are given an opportunity for transformative change, reconnection and resolution in your relationship.
This program is not couples therapy and should not be construed as such. It is an opportunity to take informed and empowered, heart-based self-responsibility for what you are experiencing in your life within a partnership.
It is my objective to support you in becoming a master of your relationship destiny rather than be a victim of your relationship history.
Siblings, parents and children (18+ only) and friends are welcome to join this program.
Format:
Private 2h-2.5hsessions with both present in person at Palmwoods:
$840pp ($1680 per couple) includes complete Restore Nervous System Bundle and Love your Vagus Simple Practices Guide.
Please contact me if you'd like to do this program online.
6 WEEKS - BEFRIEND YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
GROUPS & INDIVIDUALS. IN PERSON AND ONLINE (ZOOM) - 2H SESSIONS
Why do we do anything in life? Because we want to. We do things because we want to feel better, be better, get better. We also do things because we want approval, a sense of safety and control, to be unique, live our best life, or simply to be at one with the world. We also do things to stand out, we do things to leave behind a legacy.
It's when we start thinking HOW to do that, that we stop in our tracks.
Why? When we get distracted by the HOW's, our body functions from survival mode. We either run ourselves ragged on auto-pilot or we simply procrastinate. Sometimes, we freeze and collapse in a heap.
My 6w Befriend your Nervous System Program is designed to show you the way out of survival mode of HOW and into thrival mode where you are anchored in your WHY.
This program aims to give you a toolkit that lets you feel safe enough in you body to set your sails towards your heart. As we do that, you will learn to recognise your stress states, improve your Vagal Tone and Vagal Brake and get myriad tools to regulate back to a state of calm to create, and the power of anchoring to the power and possibilities of your heart's truth.
Formats: 2h sessions in person at Palmwoods or online via Zoom
In group: $385 per person includes complete Restore Nervous System Bundle.
Private 1:1: $840 per person includes Restore's Nervous System Bundle and Love your Vagus Simple Practices Guide.