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Restore supports you to develop a better awareness of your internal nervous system states, strengthen your emotional regulation abilities, and cultivate secure and satisfying relationships. 

It's time for you to thrive

Feeling safe in your body, first

Yes! You are here to Thrive, not just survive ... 
Co-regulation is not only what we as human beings are wired for, but a biological imperative. Feeling 'safe' is key to combatting stress and feelings of hopelessness. However, as I have found in my personal life and as a therapeutic bodyworker, in order to successfully tend to the safety of another, especially a child's, we must tend to our own sense of safety, first.
 
If we don't learn to self-regulate and control our emotions, there will always be a gap between our perception and the way things really are.
 
Our nervous systems are designed to be flexible and move in and out of survival states. However, when our lives are out of balance, we function mostly from survival states where the generous, present moment is unavailable to us. Our minds believe everything equal to fear and/or hostility - even when it's not present. These hyper or hypo-arousal states tap our body's resources of vital health, energy and regeneration.
 
When we embrace the predictable nature of our Autonomic Nervous System, we are able to regulate our bodies properly. Learning how to self-regulate allowed me not only an intellectual journey of my biology, but it led me into a zone where I finally felt safe enough to live, not survive.
 
With self-regulation, I could successfully negotiate the subconscious thoughts, feelings and belief systems that kept me oscillating in detrimental habits, behaviours and relationships. Accepting my humanness allowed me to dissolve the suppressed shame about how, and why, my body decided it had to keep me safe. Today, I play mostly in the present moment and should life take me into stress, I know how to limit the time I spend there. I found some keys to emotional and physical resilience.
 
Restore's sessions and programs aim to hand you those keys. Once you establish your tools, you will become less responsive to your external environment and more responsive to the cues your body gives you. Knowing these messages are entirely automatic, you will learn to love yourself properly. You will respect your body's valiant attempts to keep you from danger. You will know what to listen for in your body and your awareness and patience of another's dysregulation will improve exponentially.
 
Why Polyvagal? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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In Restore's Bodywork sessions, we combine psychosomatic insight, and polyvagal-informed insight to help your body feel seen, safe, and supported. Psychosomatics is woven into all sessions - gently exploring how the body holds what the psyche cannot. Through somatic inquiry, we listen to physical sensations as messengers of deeper emotional or energetic patterns, allowing the body to speak and soften at its own pace.

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One of the major strengths of The Polyvagal Theory is its compatibility with numerous existing therapeutic models. By focusing on the physiological mechanisms underlying emotional and social experiences, this approach enriches and supplements various conceptual frameworks within Restore:

"The Polyvagal Therapy is not a specific technique but a way of thinking about therapy through the prism of the autonomic nervous system. It's an invitation to be creative, to constantly adapt, and to trust the deep wisdom of the body and heart in healing life's wounds."

Dr Stephen Porges, Founder of The Polyvagal Theory

Why Psychosomatics?

Your body isn’t the problem - it’s the storyteller.

 

When the mind can’t process something, the body holds it. Tension, fatigue, shutdown, anxiety - all of it has intelligence. In my sessions, we combine psychosomatic insight, vagus nerve support, and polyvagal-informed bodywork to help your body feel seen, safe, and supported.

Psychosomatics is the understanding that your body and psyche are not separate. When something feels too overwhelming, painful, or unprocessed for the mind to carry - the body holds it.

Through psychosomatic inquiry, we gently explore the physical sensations, tensions, and patterns that may hold emotional or energetic roots.

Your body speaks its own language. This work is about learning how to listen.

Psychosomatics comes from the Greek words psyche (mind/soul) and soma (body). It refers to how emotional, mental, and energetic experiences can be expressed through the body — often without our conscious awareness.

This doesn’t mean your pain is “all in your head.” Quite the opposite. It means your body is incredibly wise  and it sometimes carries what the psyche hasn’t been able to process, express, or understand.

In psychosomatic work, we pay attention to:
– Chronic or unexplained tension
– Physical symptoms that don’t respond to standard treatment
– Posture, breath, and tone of voice
– Internal sensations or images that arise without words

This is a compassionate, body-based way of exploring what’s beneath the surface - without analysis or pressure. It’s about letting the body tell the truth it’s been holding, and inviting it to soften in its own time.

"That's what psychosomatics is about. Not just healing the body - but giving a voice to everything you've had to silence."

Vadym Sanzharov, Founder of Simple Psychosomatics 

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TANI DU TOIT

Certified Polyvagal Therapy Practitioner

and Psychosomatic Bodyworker 

Palmwoods, Sunshine Coast

in Beautiful Australia 

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