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Yoga and Nervous System Regulation

$129 USD free today for members!

Features

  • Decode your stress response
  • Balance with breath & movement
  • Restore your inner calm
1.8hr

Course Overview

Science-Based Practices for Stress Recovery and Inner Calm

Stress is a universal experience. Some stress, known as eustress, can challenge you in healthy ways. But when demands outweigh your resources, stress can interfere with your ability to feel grounded, diminish mental clarity, and contribute to anxiety, fatigue, or even burnout.

This course offers a practical, science-informed approach to yoga for nervous system regulation. You’ll learn how to identify and interrupt stress patterns using movement, breath, and mindfulness-based practices designed to restore balance and emotional resilience.

By blending yogic tools for mind-body connection with a clear understanding of stress physiology, this course will support you in managing overwhelming emotions, cultivating nervous system health, and fostering a deep sense of inner calm—even in the midst of daily life

What You'll Learn:

  • Discover the science behind stress and yoga, including the four phases of the stress response, the effects of chronic stress on physical and emotional health, and how the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems, vagus nerve, and HPA axis function in the regulation process.

  • Identify how your individual physiology, emotional processing, and coping style shape your response to stress—and gain insight into how these unique stress patterns impact your mood, focus, and overall well-being.

  • Understand how yoga movement, breathwork, and meditation can help restore balance in your nervous system.

What You'll Experience:

  • Engage in a calming yoga practice that reduces stress and tension through grounding postures.

  • Surrender into stillness with a restorative yoga practice that helps balance your nervous system and calm your mind and body.

  • Cultivate inner peace and manage anxiety through a guided meditation that focuses on observing your breath and self-kindness.

How You’ll Feel:

  • More grounded, stable, and supported, with tools to navigate emotional overwhelm and stressful moments with clarity and ease.

  • A noticeable reduction in tension and anxiety with an increased capacity to rest, reset, and renew.

  • A profound feeling of inner peace and self-support, stemming from a deep well of inner resourcefulnes

What You'll Gain:

  • A complete toolkit of yoga practices for stress relief and nervous system regulation, including movement, breathwork, and meditation you can return to anytime you feel overwhelmed, anxious, or depleted.

  • Techniques to reset your nervous system, stimulate the vagus nerve, and shift from stress to rest, recovery, and connection.

  • Greater self-awareness and inner stability, with tools to recognize your own stress patterns and apply yoga-based regulation strategies in real time—both on and off the mat.

Who This Course is For:

  • Anyone experiencing chronic stress, burnout, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm, and looking for accessible yoga and mindfulness techniques to support recovery and nervous system health.

  • Practitioners, yoga teachers, and therapists who want to deepen their understanding of stress physiology and how yoga, breathwork, and mindfulness can support regulation.

  • People seeking a calm, grounded, and evidence-based approach to yoga, combining movement, stillness, and self-awareness to restore balance from the inside out.

Take the first step toward cultivating a more balanced and resilient nervous system with expert guidance and therapeutic yoga techniques designed to restore your inner calm.

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1.81 CEUs
1.8hr
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Meet Your Teacher

Valerie Knopik

Valerie Knopik (PhD, E-RYT 500, YACEP) is the Ben and Maxine Miller Professor of Human Development and...

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What You’ll Earn

  • 1.81 Yoga Alliance Credits
  • Yoga International Certificate

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Frequently Asked Questions

Absolutely, you can include this course in your Yoga Alliance training hours, with each hour equivalent to one continuing education credit.
This course is entirely self- paced, allowing you to learn at your convenience.There are no imposed deadlines or time constraints for Course completion.
No prerequisites are required; this course is open to anyone interested in deepening their knowledge and practice.
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Yoga and Nervous System Regulation

$129 USD free today for members!