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Nicole Larson Somatics
Canada
Приєднався 20 лис 2023
Nicole is trauma-informed and trained in somatics and aims to provide you with videos and free resources that can support you in making steps towards a flexible and resilient nervous system and a life with more ease.
Somatic Healing for Grief: Soothing Practices to Find Comfort
Join me as for a gentle somatic meditation designed to help you navigate grief. These soothing techniques aim to provide comfort, release or hold big emotional, and restore a sense of peace.
Grief can be a challenging journey, but you don't have to go through it alone. Join me and discover how these somatic practices can support your process and bring comfort during difficult times.
If you found this video helpful, please like, comment, and subscribe for more healing practices and wellness tips. Share your experience in the comments below and let me know what topics you'd like me to cover next.
www.nicolelarson.ca
Grief can be a challenging journey, but you don't have to go through it alone. Join me and discover how these somatic practices can support your process and bring comfort during difficult times.
If you found this video helpful, please like, comment, and subscribe for more healing practices and wellness tips. Share your experience in the comments below and let me know what topics you'd like me to cover next.
www.nicolelarson.ca
Переглядів: 187
Відео
Be Here Now Somatically: Orienting to Feel Safety
Переглядів 2586 місяців тому
Come find and attune to safety as we explore the somatic tool of orienting, guiding you to feel safety both in the moment and within yourself. This powerful nervous system tool is a go-to for grounding, embodying, and sensing safety in the present, enabling you to fully embrace the "here and now." Join me as we attune to our current surroundings and sensations, empowering you to cultivate resil...
Somatic Exercises for Anxiety Relief: 11 Minute Practice
Переглядів 5256 місяців тому
In this 11 minute guided practice, we delve into the world of somatics to meet and find some relief from anxiety. While anxiety can feel overwhelming, this session invites you to gently hold space for your anxiety while offering your body comfort. Through gentle movements and mindful awareness, we aim to soothe the nervous system and cultivate a sense of ease. Join me in this practice and let’s...
Embrace & Release: Somatic Practice for Relaxing Shame
Переглядів 4867 місяців тому
Harness the subtle and gentle power of mindful movement and self compassion to help relax and soften the emotion of shame. Join me for a gentle somatic practice and meditation, relate to your experience, and regulate your nervous system. www.nicolelarson.ca
Effective Somatic Exercises to Transform Anger
Переглядів 3427 місяців тому
This practice will help you be with the sensation of anger or fight or flight in your body. Feel the anger and move the anger. Join me for this practice of connecting to your healthy anger, relating to it, and moving it through the body in a mindful way. www.nicolelarson.ca
Start Your Day Right: Somatic Morning Practice for a Regulated Nervous System
Переглядів 6387 місяців тому
Join me for a somatic morning practice to start your day off a step closer to more regulation and ease. Let me know how this practice lands in your system. www.nicolelarson.ca
Somatic Meditation to Nurture your Capacity and Self-Acceptance
Переглядів 8287 місяців тому
A somatic mediation to help sense and nurture your capacity and nervous system and help cultivate self-acceptance. Join me for a moment to check in with your body and settle your nervous system and learn more about yourself through the felt sense. www.nicolelarson.ca
12 Minute Somatic Office Break Practice
Переглядів 2218 місяців тому
A short somatic practice to arrive back into your body, move stagnant energy, and regulate your nervous system. Enjoy, listen to your body, and practice often! Visit www.nicolelarson.ca for more information.
Somatic Pendulation Practice for your Nervous System
Переглядів 3678 місяців тому
This practice takes you through various somatic practices incorporating pendulation (a somatic experiencing practice). Pendulation is great to practice when you are feeling stuck in difficult thoughts or sensations and helps facilitate the natural flow of expansion and contraction. www.nicolelarson.ca
10 Minutes of Somatic Exercises for your Nervous System
Переглядів 3,4 тис.8 місяців тому
A short video of somatic techniques to help you regulate your nervous system including orienting, meditation, bilateral tapping, sound toning and tapping. www.nicolelarson.ca
Somatic Bedtime Practice for your Nervous System
Переглядів 6 тис.10 місяців тому
This is a somatic practice designed to help you regulate your nervous system and wind down before bed to encourage deeper, more restful sleep. www.nicolelarson.ca
Somatic Exercises for Anxiety
Переглядів 3,7 тис.10 місяців тому
This video will take you through somatic exercises for when you are feeling anxious or in a fight or flight state in your nervous system. The video includes orienting, breathing and various exercises to help discharge activation in the legs, arms, jaw, and face. For more information or support please check out www.nicolelarson.ca
How to use Somatic Tools to Regulate your Nervous System
Переглядів 23311 місяців тому
How to use Somatic Tools to Regulate your Nervous System. We will cover three somatic exercises you can use as tools to help regulate your nervous system. I'll tell you how and when to use them to help stimulate your vagus nerve and bring you one step closer to regulation. Website: www.nicolelarson.ca
Somatic Exercises for Freeze in your Nervous System
Переглядів 3,1 тис.11 місяців тому
This video guides you through five somatic exercises to support your nervous system when it is in a freeze or dorsal state. Website: www.nicolelarson.ca
23 Minute Somatic Practice of Belonging for your Nervous System
Переглядів 22111 місяців тому
This video includes waking up the body through patting, using phrases and noticing sensations that arise, and orienting. www.nicolelarson.ca
14 Minutes of Somatic Exercises for your Nervous System
Переглядів 1,6 тис.11 місяців тому
14 Minutes of Somatic Exercises for your Nervous System
Loved it 😊
Glad you liked it!!
Hi Nicole- thanks for this! Is it possible to do a bedtime somatics practice for overthinking? Thank you for your content!
Yes! I can put one together for overthinking/rumination in general :) I’ll add that one to the list!
@@NicoleLarsonSomatics thank you!!
Your voice is very calming and I can feel my nervous system start to calm as soon as I hear your voice. Thank you for these videos
That’s so kind of you to say! Thank you Chantal!
Thank you!
You’re welcome!! ❤️
Really enjoyed your instruction and the combination of exercises! Thank you!!!❤
You’re so welcome Lisa! Thanks for tuning in ❤️
Just want to say, how much i appreciate you uploading all these videos, has been very helpful
Awww thank you! I’m so glad they are helpful for you. ❤️
I loved this practice. It was very relaxing after a stressful day. 🙏
Thank you 😊 I’m so glad you could use it to relax and take care of yourself! ❤️
This is amazing! Thank you so much. It is incredible just how powerful the body is on the mind.
Thanks Alyssa! I agree, the body can be a great resource when you want to shift the way you feel and think! ❤️
This is a nice calming video. I need these!! Thank you Nicole. It's helpful to do these with a person who feels very embodied and grounded! 😊
Thanks Nancy! I am glad you’re finding the videos calming ❤️
Thanks Nicole! This was helpful. I'll try it every day. ❤
You’re so welcome 😊 I think working it a little bit into your days will prove very helpful, eventually it may become second nature!
Thank you so much for all of your somatic exercise videos Nicole. ❤ They are so helpful and clear and brilliant. Just one thing I'm having a hard time with is hearing your voice. Thank you! 😊
Thank you for the kind words Nancy! I went through the video and the sound seems to be clear and working on my end. I try to avoid overlaying my videos with music so it’s easy to hear or turn up if necessary. Prehaps try turning it up or trying a different speaker. I’ll make an effort to keep sound clear on future videos! ❤️
Hi. Your ankles are cut off so I couldn't see what you were doing with them.
Sorry about that Nancy! They were crossed. So you cross your ankles and then use that as resistance as you try to pull your legs apart from each other and then slowly relax afterwards. I hope that helps!
Ok, thanks, got it! I absolutely love your videos. Very helpful and easy to understand. They make sense!
That’s wonderful to hear :) thank you!
I’m doing EMDR therapy and I’m finding your videos to be very helpful especially after my session. Very grateful. Thank you 💕
That’s wonderful to hear! And it’s great that you’re giving yourself some extra care after EMDR ❤️
The ad in the middle was distracting and my system heightened back up.
I know! They are brutal, unfortunately I can’t get rid of the mid-video ads until I am a monetized channel… which basically means more subscribers and views and I’m not there yet :( one day!
20:33 p.m. Love this practice. Thank you. Pillow and blanket the best part.
So glad you like it! I love the pillow and blanket part too 🥰
Is yawning normal?
Yes! People may yawn as they move into more of a parasympathetic/calm regulated state.
This was so relaxing, thank you!
That is so great to hear! You’re welcome ❤️
I was ruminating all morning. Thanks for posting yet another applicable video. They help tremendously.
So glad it was helpful Patricia! I appreciate your words and time ❤️
I discovered your channel a few days ago and tried some practices, they are helpful! Thank you 🤍
Thanks Anastasia! That means a lot and I’m so happy the practices are helpful for you ❤️
I appreciate this video, especially the concept of: "casting another vote into the bucket of feeling better" 😊. Thank you!
You’re welcome ☺️ I also really love that concept!
Thank you 💕
You’re very welcome ☺️
This was so soothing ❤ thank you
You’re welcome! I am glad you found it soothing :)
This is exactly what I needed right now. I have been so hard on myself that I had pushed myself to the state of Dorsal shutdown & freeze. Been so accustomed to doing things the hard way that it becomes difficult to do the things the easy way. But this was really helpful. Thank you so much 💜
Awwww. I feel ya, you are not alone in being hard on yourself! I am glad this was supportive for you❤️
I’d love to see one of these for flight! Thank you ❤❤❤
Great idea! I’ll add it to the list. In the meantime I have two videos specifically for anxiety that will for sure be helpful if you’re feeling some flight energy. I’ll link the one that engages the legs :) thanks for the feedback! ua-cam.com/video/i-RnAccnzaA/v-deo.htmlsi=vKD7wdBRsXEpcBXq
This was really helpful, thank you for sharing 🫶
So glad it was helpful for you!
Namaste 🙏
That was amazing. Thank you so much. X
You’re so welcome ❤️
Thank you. I feel so safe listening to you. ☺
Aww, thanks for saying that and I’m so glad!
Very nice exercise. Thanks for creating an excellent relaxing video. Somatic exercises are tdhe best thing ever.
Thanks David! I’m so glad you felt relaxed, I think somatics are the best thing ever too :)
thank you Nicole, this was helpful :). I noticed your bolster- pretty! if you don't mind, could you share the brand? Thank you!
Thanks Marcella! Glad you found it helpful :) I got it a few years ago on Amazon and it looks like it’s out of stock now, the brand is Reehut and I’ll share the link, maybe you can find it somewhere else :) a.co/d/7ZEjUMA
@@NicoleLarsonSomatics Thank you! appreciate it. And thanks again for this video :)
I found this practice very calming 😊 Thank you 🙏💜
Wonderful :) I’m so glad it was calming for you ❤️
I've also read Kristin Neff she does awesome work, thank you for this ❤
She really does, I use mindful self compassion work regularly and love it! And you are so welcome, thanks for joining in :)
@@NicoleLarsonSomatics 🙏💕
Very good work, these videos really help, thank you 😊
Thank you! I am so happy to hear that ☺️
I'm a therapist in the research phases of starting my own channel and appreciate seeing someone starting out and taking risks. Also, appreciate the exercises for my somatic work with clients. Good luck with the channel!
Thank you :) Good luck to you as well!
Wow I feel so much anxiety looking around and slowing down my body sense danger with slowing down
This can be common! Sometimes when we slow down and are in a bit of a freeze, we can start to feel what is under that freeze (in terms of polyvagal theory). I would suggest a few things: you could look around or orient until you feel the edge of anxiety coming on and then do something that helps you settle, like maybe wrapping yourself up in a blanket and rocking or doing anything that you enjoy and feels good, and know that that is enough for the day. Take a break and know your system will develop more capacity to settle and feel safe as you practice. You want to take the approach of slowing dipping in and out. When you slow down and look around, make sure you’re in a place you feel some comfort in as well. The key here is baby steps :) Edit: you could also try doing this with a friend, a pet, or professional to support your nervous system in feeling safe. Or instead of using your eyes using other senses such as smell, touch or sound.
thank you these have been very helpful!
Yay! That's great to hear :) I use these ones often!
This was great, thank you ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ads are still on 😢 it came on 6 min in hopefully you can get it sorted YT is a pain with this
Darn, unfortunately I won’t be able to change this until I am able to monetize my channel. Thanks for letting me know!
@@NicoleLarsonSomatics I think when you get to a thousand subscribers, ads automatically fall off. Ad came on at two different for me, but it can be turned into a practice, of noticing body changes😅
Yes, 1000 plus 4000 views within 365 days ;) I’m glad you were able to still drop in and get a good practice in! Thanks for watching.
More ads in the middle of this 😢
Thank you, I am hoping this is fixed now. Thank you for tuning in :) Edit: Unfortunately I cannot change this until I have a monetized YT channel.
@@NicoleLarsonSomatics I'm not sure if you can do anything about it but they are popping up at regular intervals when we are trying to relax and tune in.
Hi Denise, I am so sorry about that, I know it's annoying and disruptive. Unfortunately, UA-cam doesn't give me and option to change it until my channel becomes monetized (aka. more views and subscribers), when it does, I'll be eliminating mid-video ads <3
Content was good but got jolted out of relaxation with 3 loud ads interrupting the session. It certainly wasn’t relaxing because of this. Is it possibly to change your ad settings?
Hi! It's a little less straight forward for me to fix this because I am not monetized, but I think I found the correct setting! It's a little unclear. Thanks for alerting me to this, mid-video ads would definitely jolt anyone out of relaxation :) Thanks for watching! Update: I cannot clear mid video ads until my channel is monetized. When I hit that point, I'll make sure mid-video ads are turned off.
Thank you ❤😊
You're welcome 😊
Wonderful thank you!! Loved the pillow and blanket exercises❤
You’re welcome! I love them too, especially the blanket wrap ❤️
Wow this is very interesting
Thank you! Glad you think so 😊
This was great, thank you!
I’m glad you enjoyed it Alec 🙂
Thank you so much!☺️
You’re welcome my friend :)
thanks rough week- this was helpful
I’m sorry you had a rough week and also glad this helped a bit. One thing I like to remind myself when I’m not feeling great and have a shift with a practice, is that I’m learning to operate my nervous system and if one shift happened, more can come. I hope your weekend has some ease in it ❤️
This was great, so gentle. I touched my jaw and suddenly had a small release of tears. Thank you ❤️
You’re so welcome 😊 I’m so glad you took some time to be gentle with yourself ❤️
Keep them coming Nicole, great work 🎉
Thank you, I’m so glad you’re enjoying the practices.
Love this, so soothing to do tonight.
So glad you took some time to take care of yourself:)