FREE EVENT: Jan Winhall's 20 Embodied Practices Book and New Community Practice Groups.... Embodied Dialogue Series
‘Somatic Practices:
Doorway to Embodiment and Trauma Healing’
with Kristen Toth
Thursday 12pm-1pm ET on April 24, 2025
Free to join, all welcome.
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Partner with your body
Join us as we explore how somatic practices can help you partner with your body and nervous system for deeper healing and lasting safety.
While simple body-based techniques can sometimes offer a quick fix to help us calm down, Kristen Toth, somatic educator and coach, believes strongly that somatic practices can be a doorway to much deeper healing when they’re used with mindfulness and compassion through a polyvagal lens.
What if instead of “hacking” our body to shift out of survival, we partnered *with* it to create the conditions for feeling safe? Join us for a discussion with Kristen about using somatic practices to connect with our body, our nervous system, and ourselves to support embodiment and recovery from trauma. We’ll explore how somatic tools can help cultivate an attuned relationship with the body and grow the nervous system’s capacity for felt-sense safety, both which are essential to trauma healing.
About Kristen Toth
Kristen is a somatic educator, coach, and SSP provider who helps people regulate their nervous system and cultivate embodied safety to heal from trauma and stress. Her online courses and client work are informed by her years of practice as a bodyworker and anatomy instructor, in-depth study of the body through human dissection, professional training in a wide variety of body-centered modalities for trauma and healing, and her own personal experience recovering from complex trauma. She believes that somatic support is a missing piece for many people struggling to heal, and that connecting with our body and nervous system in a mindful, relational, compassionate way is essential to living well in an unpredictable world.
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Join Jan Winhall's group on the PVI (Polyvagal Institute) Online Community Space for updates and discussion.
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Approach to Trauma & Addiction Group is a place for you to explore with others, through a polyvagal lens, the experiences of trauma and addiction. We are focusing on understanding addiction through the lens of the nervous system, as an adaptive response to maladaptive environments. Our group is growing in leaps and bounds indicating a hunger for change, for the kind of transformative change that polyvagal theory brings us. The group interacts online as part of the PVI (Polyvagal Institute) Online Community Space. Once a month the group meets live on Zoom for an hour of exploration and discussion with a guest presenter, in what we now call the Embodied Dialogue Series.
Free to join the group, all welcome!
PVI Community Member Guidelines
- We are cultivating cues of safety, so please be supportive.
- Encourage and support your colleagues – Remember criticism, cynicism, advice, or judgment may be signs of threat.
- Be courteous and assume the best intentions – respect all opinions, no hate speech.
- Share generously – Your stories and experiences may be what another person needs to hear today to solve a problem or seize an opportunity.
- Be constructive – We’re here to push each other forward and lift each other.
- Find ways to help each other find and create cues of safety and co-regulation, reframe challenges, and stay curious.
- Advertising, solicitation, personal or company promotion is not permitted. Those who don’t comply with the guidelines will be requested to leave the app.
Jan Winhall, M.S.W. P.I.F.O.T. is an author, teacher and seasoned trauma and addiction psychotherapist. She is an Educational Partner and Course Developer with the Polyvagal Institute where she offers a training program based on her book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Routledge 2021. Completion of all three levels leads students to become Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Facilitators. Her new book, 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, published by Norton, is available for preorder and out in March 2025. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto and a Certifying Co-Ordinator with the International Focusing Institute. Jan is Co-Director of the Borden Street Clinic where she supervises graduate students. She enjoys teaching all over the world.