Today’s guest is Nahid de Belgeonne, known as “the nervous system whisperer”, a Somatic Movement coach and breath and yoga teacher with a passion for sharing the healing benefits of movement.

Nahid’s new book, Soothe: The Book Your Nervous System Has Been Longing For, is "a freeing and revolutionary approach to bodily tranquility," that can help us breathe, move and care for our overworked nervous systems better.

And in this conversation Nahid shares a ton of practices to help us incorporate soothing movement into our day.

In this episode we discuss:

1. The Importance of rest and recovery (and what happens in our body/brain when we find time to do it).

   
   



2. Nahid’s go-to morning rituals for mind-body alignment and daily routines for focus and well-being.

   
   



3. The power of primal soothing movements like rocking and rhythmic rolling to calm our nervous system.

   
   



4. Changing habits without willpower.

   
   



5. Noticing how you hold tension and stress as a form of self-healing: “The noticing in and of itself is already medicine to the system... now you've alerted your nervous system."

   
   



6. Why we often don’t trust our feelings - and how we can retrain our brains and nervous systems to feel safe, relaxed and happy.

   
   

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