Exercises for safety and connection: befriending your nervous system

• Rhythm of regulation: A Polyvagal Perspective on How We Are Human / Deb Dana (site)
• Somatic Experiencing Therapy: 10 Best Exercises & Examples
• Ancient anxiety medicine / Irene Lyon (video)

• 2 ways to help you to feel safe / Peter Levine (video)
• Down-Regulating Meditation for Fear / Lael Keen, SEP (video)
• Vagus Nerve Exercises To Rewire Your Brain From Anxiety / Sukie Baxter (video)
• Vagus Nerve Massage For Stress And Anxiety Relief / Sukie Baxter (video)
• 5 Bottom-Up Coping Techniques / Psychology Today (article)
• Crisis Stabilization and Safety Aid / Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute (site with video’s)
• Trauma informed yoga and movement / Dr. Arielle Schwartz (video’s)
• The neuroscience of mindfulness and fear / Tara Brach, PhD (video)

Photo: Anastasia Taioglou