Shaping Your
Nervous System:
Stretch it don't stress it.

This workshop teaches you  to recognize and embody the different nervous system states. Based on the work of Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Deb Dana and Stephen Porges, and Colleen's Osteopathic perspective, learn practices & tools to build capacity and resilience you can apply immediately.

Embodying the Anatomy of Breath

In this workshop, we combine theory and practice as we look at the anatomy of the breath.  The diaphragm is connected to just about every system in our bodies so the breath has the potential to affect and influence every single system in our bodies.  Learn to use it to your advantage!

Fascia: Aging, Pain and Movement

• It is a myth to expect pain & dysfunction as you age.
• You have the power to influence your fascia every day.
• Hear the latest scientific findings in fascia, aging and pain and enjoy being guided  through movements that counteract normal age-related changes. 

Delicious Spine

Feel the muscles around your spine soften & melt from the simple, delicious movement in this class!  This class sequence is the closest thing to giving yourself your own Osteopathic treatment! In this 1hr somatic class you will nourish and mobilize the spine using a deflated  ball.

The Nervous System Updated: An Embodied Polyvagal Conversation

The Polyvagal debate is sparking a lot of controversy! Humans are extremely complex. It's important to continuously challenge, revisit & reevaluate theories and ideas so we can keep moving forward. Let's get into it!

Awaken to the Art of Breathing

Your breath has the power to exacerbate your pain, soften it or make it go away. Learn to use your breath to your advantage. Guest expert Annie Simard guides us through an embodied exploration of Stephen Elliot’s The 6 Bridges. Energy flows where your mind goes!

Hybrid Hugs

Embody how it feels when your autonomic nervous system chooses one of 5 states. Explore through the lens of physical sensation, thoughts, feelings and stories. This workshop is best paired with Shaping Your Nervous System.

Shaping Your Nervous System

This workshop teaches you  to recognize and embody the different nervous system states. Based on the work of Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Deb Dana and Stephen Porges, and Colleen's Osteopathic perspective, learn practices & tools to build capacity and resilience you can apply immediately.

DARE to Befriend

This ​BUNDLE includes​:

• 2 workshop replays
• ​A ​vagal tone yoga class 
• 14 ​​self-releases 
• ​6 short vagal tone  videos

DARE to Breathe

Through breath & movement, the practices in this program are ALL designed to:  improve lung capacity; free the diaphragm; create space and movement in the ribs and intercostals muscles; create slide & glide between the lobes of the lungs; decrease adherences in the pleura

The Yamas and Niyamas

An introductory workshop on the Yamas & Niyamas with Colleen Jorgensen & Jo Bregnard. Think of the yamas & niyamas as guidelines that open you up to experiencing life more fully. Rather than getting knocked around by the ups and downs of life, the yamas and niyamas teach you to rely on yourself as the resource you can most reliably count on.

Sleep Solutions

This workshop offers several actionable sleep strategies you can incorporate into your nighttime and morning routines immediately.  These will include grounding practices that help promote sleep just before getting into bed & mobilization practices that help to wake you up in the morning.  I will also share an ayurvedic recipe that promotes sleep.

Embodying the Anatomy of Breath

In this workshop, we combine theory and practice as we look at the anatomy of the breath.  The diaphragm is connected to just about every system in our bodies so the breath has the potential to affect and influence every single system in our bodies.  Learn to use it to your advantage!

Chasing Happiness: Should we?

Suffering is a normal part of being human. In this workshop we’ll use Buddhist-inspired practices to turn toward the pain so we can acknowledge it, name it, handle it & transform it.  We'll explore how fighting pain & suffering can make it bigger & more intense.   And how cultivating joy and happiness, rather than grasping for them, can reduce suffering.

For the Love of Feet

When our feet lose strength or mobility, it affects our whole body.  This workshop will help add spring to your step; improve strength & mobility; and embody the whole kinetic chain between the feet, the knees, the hips, the pelvis and right up through the spine, shoulders and arms.

The Eyes:
Windows to Your Soul, Extension of Your Brain

In this workshop I’ll guide you through several practices that help reduce eye strain and build nervous system resilience through Osteopa-thic self-release, acupressure, mindfulness practices, eye exercises and vagal tone.

Its All About Balance

This workshop focuses on  balance through: proprioception, balancing effort vs ease (sthira / sukha); awareness of the right/left/front/back sides of the body; visualizing vs doing; sensing vs thinking; the body-mind connection; activation and calming; in breath vs out breath.

DARE to Move

This bundle includes movement for every body through:

• 14 movement classes
• 52 'movement snacks'
• There are options for short movement breaks throughout your day, or a full class when time permits.  

The Neuro Playground

This is a movement lab for curious bodies!  Here your nervous system gets to play, explore, and rewire. Strength exercises are not always the best way to get stronger and stretches are rarely the best way to get more flexible.   This workshop uses sensory input to get better outputs. Give it a try!

Unkink your Think

The vessels that supply the brain with oxygenated blood and nutrients and rid the brain of waste pass through the neck.  So neck and head posture are linked to cognitive function and cardiovascular health.  Don't wait until you have an issue.  Be proactive and start correcting your head / neck and upper back posture NOW!

Unbound

Ever feel like your body’s holding onto something it forgot to let go of?  Unbound is a somatic movement experience to melt, soften and release by  addressing areas of tension, numbness and / or disconnection. Unbound isn’t about pushing through pain or performing perfect poses. It’s about listening in, loosening up, and letting your body lead the way.

Cross the Midline

When we do movements that cross the midline we unlock: better balance, coordination, agility, cognition, focus and pain relief.  In this workshop, we’ll explore playful cross-body movements to tap into the brain’s ability to rewire, heal, and grow. Crossing the midline creates new neural pathways that promote clarity & harmony between your mind and body. 

Soma Flow: Boundaries & Support

Soma flow is about tuning inward and allowing your body to guide your movement. Rather than focusing on the outer shape of a pose, this class focuses on internal sensation.  It's  about clarifying your boundaries through exploration of movement and space.  As you accept physical support, explore you'll explore your physiological responses to accepting that support.

Yoga Flow:
Pelvic floor and Fall prevention

This workshop focuses on moving through different positions and planes of motion while keeping your diaphragm free and noticing how your pelvic floor responds.  It also guides you through the strength and reaction time of the upper extremities because that is where injury happens in 50% of falls for those 65 yrs and older.  

Delicious Spine

Feel the muscles around your spine soften & melt from the simple, delicious movement in this class!  This class sequence is the closest thing to giving yourself your own Osteopathic treatment! In this 1hr somatic class you will nourish and mobilize the spine using a deflated  ball.

CORE BASICS

Sometimes the timing and / or the recruitment of certain muscles, especially the core, can get interrupted, even disrupted. For example after surgery, injury, chemo or radiation.  Sometimes the system needs a little help to reestablish the ability to work as a cohesive unit. In this workshop learn to directly cue, connect and engage the muscles in a specific way.  Let's get back to basics!

Restorative Yoga with Osteopathic Self-Release

This workshop blends the power of restorative yoga with the ancient wisdom of Osteopathy.  Learn hands-on techniques to enhance the release of the restorative poses.

Floss n'  FLow

• 'Floss' the peripheral nerves as you move through a yoga flow class and use neurodynamic movements to restore balance in the neuroimmune system.
• Embody the difference between 'sliders' and 'tensioners' to reestablish slide and glide.

The Jaw: An Osteopathic Approach

The jaw does not live in isolation, nothing in the body does. In this workshop, experience how changing your dura, plantar fascia, breath, shoulder blades, and throat chakra also changes your jaw.  Experience the interconnections firsthand. And, if your jaw pops, clicks or locks, learn what you can do to help it.

Gua Sha: An Osteopathic Approach

More commonly known as a Chinese facial massage technique, this workshop uses Osteopathy principles to also address the  cranial & facial sutures.  Use Gua Sha for vagal tone,     lymphatic drainage, and dural release. A morning Gua Sha session has become my favourite morning ritual!

The Gut Brain Heart Connection 

Embody the connections between the face, heart and gut through the vagus nerve. By tuning into your own neuroception and interoception you'll learn to ground into a regulated nervous system state...even when surrounded by stressful people and situations. No need to feel bloated, heavy and fatigued after every celebration you attend.

TLC for your Gut

This workshop is a guided movement class that includes hands-on Osteopathy techniques to soothe and mobilize the gut.  If you're feeling bloated, inflamed, fatigued, out of balance, sore...this workshop will help you to soothe your gut, which helps to soothe you as a whole.

The Lungs:
Wring 'em Out!

Every breath you take, that fascia that surrounds the lungs, the pleura, needs to expand so the lungs can inflate fully. When adherences develop the lungs & pleura can lose the capacity to glide and expand.  This workshop teaches you how to get the  slide & glide back so your lungs can expand more easily.

DARE to Treat Yourself

In this program I share some of my favourite Osteopathic and self-release techniques for the following areas:

head / face / jaw (10)
arms / hands / fingers (6)
legs / feet (5)

viscera (5)

Enjoy becoming your own hands-on therapist!  

Restorative Yoga with  Osteopathic
Self-Release

This workshop blends the power of restorative yoga with the ancient wisdom of Osteopathy.  Learn hands-on techniques to enhance the release of the restorative poses.

Fascial Flossing for Lymphatic Flow 1

In this workshop we will use a specific contract / relax of the muscles, 'fascial flossing' to pump the lymphatic system. When your lymph system is stagnant it is not able to rid the body of waste. That contributes to fatigue, tension, and pain.  This workshop uses fascial flossing and breath to promote lymphatic flow and optimal well being.

Fascial Flossing for Lymphatic Flow 2

Back by popular demand, this workshop introduces more 'fascial flossing' sequences to expand on Fascial Flossing for Lymphatic Flow I.  
(see previous description)

Fascia - Aging, Pain and Movement

• It is a myth to expect pain & dysfunction as you age.
• You have the power to influence your fascia every day.
• Hear the latest scientific findings in fascia, aging and pain and enjoy being guided  through movements that counteract normal age-related changes. 

Floss n' Flow

• 'Floss' the peripheral nerves as you move through a yoga flow class and use neurodynamic movements to restore balance in the neuroimmune system.
• Embody the difference between 'sliders' and 'tensioners' to reestablish slide and glide.

FREE Bundle of
Pain Care Tools

This bundle is to offer you a variety of tools to help yourself with any existing pain and / or to help prevent pain from turning chronic in the future.  These short practices rewire your nervous system to unlearn pain.  

DARE to Care

This bundle includes self-care in the form of:

4 breath practices

6 guided mindfulness meditations

10 self-releases to offer yourself some TLC

2 Gentle Somatic Yoga classes

DARE to be Curious

This bundle is a tasting menu that allows you to sample the practices that are in the 12 week DARE to Heal program.  Breath, movement, mindfulness, awareness...these are all skills to be practiced, repeated and cultivated.  Welcome each practice as a new experience to explore and be curious about.  Make your way through these practices for the simple pleasure of enjoying exploring YOU.

Sleep Solutions

This workshop offers several actionable sleep strategies you can incorporate into your nighttime and morning routines immediately.  These will include grounding practices that help promote sleep just before getting into bed & mobilization practices that help to wake you up in the morning.  I will also share an ayurvedic recipe that promotes sleep.

Nourish to Flourish with Paola DeCicco

Special guest Paola DeCicco, naturopathic doctor,  shares her expertise on how pain, stress, inflammation, and fatigue connect, and what you can do right now to start shifting that cycle.

DARE to Move

This bundle includes movement for every body through:

• 14 movement classes
• 52 'movement snacks'
• There are options for short movement breaks throughout your day, or a full class when time permits.  

DARE to Befriend

This ​BUNDLE includes​:

• 2 workshop replays
• ​A ​vagal tone yoga class 
• 14 ​​self-releases 
• ​6 short vagal Tone theory videos 

DARE to Breathe

Through breath & movement, the practices in this program are ALL designed to:  improve lung capacity; free the diaphragm; create space and movement in the ribs and intercostals muscles; create slide & glide between the lobes of the lungs; decrease adherences in the pleura

DARE to be Curious

This bundle is a tasting menu that allows you to sample the practices that are in the 12 week DARE to Heal program.  Breath, movement, mindfulness, awareness...these are all skills to be practiced, repeated and cultivated.  Welcome each practice as a new experience to explore and be curious about.  Make your way through these practices for the simple pleasure of enjoying exploring YOU.

DARE to Treat Yourself

In this bundle I share some of my favourite Osteopathic and self-release techniques for the following areas:

head / face / jaw (10)
arms / hands / fingers (6)
legs / feet (5)

viscera (5)

Enjoy becoming your own hands-on therapist!  

DARE to Care

This bundle includes self-care in the form of:

4 breath practices
6 guided mindfulness meditations
10 self-releases to offer yourself some TLC
2 Gentle Somatic Yoga classes