Arielle Schwartz – Advanced Vagal Toning

Expand your self-care toolkit with vagal toning practices to call back your life force — so you can uplift your body, mind, and spirit as you open space for trust, inner peace, and the embodiment of your full potential.

Her integrative approach to vagal toning is scientifically supported to:

• Discharge old trauma energy stored in the body
• Restore healthy nervous system regulation
• Resolve dissociated parts of yourself
• Reconnect you to inner wholeness

What You’ll Learn In Advanced Vagal Toning

Over 12 weeks of live online sessions, Dr. Arielle Schwartz will guide you through potent practices to call back your life force — opening space for trust, inner peace, and embodiment of your full potential.

In this breakthrough program, you’ll discover how to:

• Recognize your unique survival adaptations and defense strategies
• Pendulate safely between resourced and distressed states
• Unburden stored trauma energy through movement and breath
• Integrate fragmented parts of yourself using internal family systems tools
• Relate in healthy ways while maintaining self-sovereignty
• Awaken your body’s spiritual centers and subtle energy
• Chart your profound journey of trauma recovery and transformation

CURRICULUM DETAILS
There are 4 Units with 3 Modules each, for a total of 12 Modules. Click the arrow to the left for more information.

UNIT 1: Deepening Into the Core Concepts of Vagal Toning to Cultivate Self-Awareness of Your Nervous System

Throughout the first three modules, Arielle Schwartz will guide you to review the fundamental principles of vagal toning, building upon the foundation laid in the introductory course.

You’ll focus on recognizing the subtle nuances in the nervous system that distinguish between safety and threat.

You’ll explore advanced tools that cultivate self-awareness of your nervous system states, setting the stage for profound transformation. Returning to vagal toning practices, you’ll engage in extended sessions to enhance our ability to regulate the mind and body. You’ll be able to refine these practices to best support your individual wellbeing. Lastly, in Module 3, we’ll dive into advanced breathing techniques aimed at expanding our capacity for resilience and joy.

Module 1: Recognizing Psychological Safety & Threat

• Revisit self-awareness practices to enhance nervous system awareness
• Learn advanced tools, such as the neuroception of psychological safety scale (NPSS) and the body perception questionnaire (BPQ) to identify safety/threat cues in your body
• Return to regulating vagal toning practices, including supine breath and body awareness
• Experience communal practice in a safe, co-regulating environment

Module 2: Personalized Vagal Toning Strategies

• Revisit calming techniques, and learn new strategies
• Create your own optimal daily vagal toning routine
• Spend time in longer attunement practices
• Connect to your spiritual heart through self-care

Module 3: Advanced Conscious Breathing

• Revisit basic techniques, and add to your breathwork toolbox
• Practice energizing, balancing, and calming breathwork
• Learn techniques, including breath of joy and alternate nostril pranayama
• Experience former group connect for regulation

UNIT 2: Understanding the Trauma-Stress-Health Connection to Facilitate Embodiment & Healing

Unresolved trauma can lead to inflammation, gut issues, and autoimmune conditions — but new healthy patterns can form through mind-body practices.

Module 4 explores neuroplasticity and shifting from stress-induced patterns. Module 5 covers the science linking trauma and health issues like inflammation. Module 6 provides embodiment tools to discharge stuck stress energy and access innate healing potential.

Module 4: Neuroplasticity & Rewiring Your Nervous System

• Explore neuroplasticity science and how trauma changes the brain
• Understand left/right brain imbalance and up/down disconnection
• Shift out of survival with vagal toning
• Experience neural integration during communal reflex integration

Module 5: The Relationship Between Trauma, Stress & Health

• Learn how trauma links to inflammation and health issues
• Understand fascia health and myofascial release
• Discover the gut-vagus nerve connection
• Move from chronic stress to support immune function

Module 6: Somatic Tools for Embodiment & Healing

• Work with tension patterns somatically
• Revisit yogic breathing and neurologic relaxation
• Discharge stuck sensations and energy
• Discover innate healing abilities through group movement

UNIT 3: Move From Surviving to Thriving by Healing Your Nervous System

In Module 7, you’ll explore trauma-related dissociation and tools like pendulation between nervous system states. Module 8 covers integrating fragmented self-parts through internal family systems work. Module 9 examines relational trauma and resolving inner conflicts. You’ll gain skills to safely navigate from isolation to connection.

Module 7: Understanding & Healing Dissociation

• Recognize adaptive survival defenses
• Use tools such as pendulation and cognitive flexibility
• Practice embodiment to integrate polarized states
• Move from fragmentation toward integration

Module 8: Integrating All Parts of Yourself

• Identify inner conflicts and self-sabotage
• See symptoms as signals of unmet needs
• Develop self-compassion to transform past wounds
• Understand nervous system states as parts needing care

Module 9: From Inner Conflict to Connection

• Explore relational trauma push/pull dynamics
• View symptoms as manifestations of conflicting parts
• Practice body dialogue to understand all parts
• Learn to safely navigate from isolation to relating

UNIT 4: Awaken Your Spiritual Centers So You Can Live as Your True Self

The final modules focus on reconnecting to your spirit through vagal toning. Module 10 explores links between vagal tone, chakras, and endocrine function. Module 11 uses yoga to uncover your true essence and passion. Module 12 concludes with practices seeing your vagus nerve as a map to freedom and embodiment.

Module 10: Awakening Your Body’s Spiritual Centers

• Discover connections between vagal tone, chakras, and hormones
• Learn balancing practices for over/underactive energy centers
• Experience renewed aliveness through breath and movement
• Activate your core through breath of light

Module 11: Connecting to Your Deepest Self

• Learn about koshas as levels of embodiment and consciousness
• See how trauma impacts the subtle bodies and soul layers
• Heal and integrate through mind-body-spirit practices
• Connect to passion and purpose by clarifying values

Module 12: Living as Your Integrated, Authentic Self

• Embody your true self beyond limitations
• Use poetry to chart your journey
• Experience communal rhythmic practices
• Celebrate your growth

About Arielle Schwartz, PhD

Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, and Kripalu yoga teacher with a private practice in Boulder, Colorado.

An internationally sought-out teacher and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma, Arielle is the author of seven books, including The Complex PTSD Workbook… Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma… and The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook.

Arielle has dedicated her life to offering informational mental health and wellness updates through her writing, public speaking, social media presence, and blog. Her integrative, mind-body approach to therapy includes relational therapy, parts-work therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR therapy, and therapeutic yoga for trauma. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is awakening the spiritual heart.

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