Your behaviour is strongly influenced by your physicality. If you want to change your behaviour, your feelings, your thinking, your overall experience of life, you need to get to know your body and your autonomic nervous system.

I have designed an experiential 4-session course that helps you with exactly that.​

If you want to learn how to better deal with the emotional challenges and frictions of work, relationships, family, neighbours, bureaucracy, traffic, and handle yourself with a bit more grace and ease, this course is for you. In this immersive 4-week online experience, you will understand how your autonomic nervous system works, why it matters for how you feel about life and yourself, and how you can turn your nervous system into an ally.

The course is for people of all ages who want to reduce stress, feel more in control, and strengthen the connection with themselves (and potentially others). If you are curious to get to know your system better, willing to explore your own experience, open to engaging with others around this topic and to preparing/practicing before and after sessions, this course is for you!

It takes place on four dates in September, in a small group, online on Zoom, as a live event, with (partial) recordings made available afterwards.

"I would highly recommend this class.

I am using the tools learned in the class daily. It was fun to meet and interact with people from all over the world. Sina was great teacher!"

Brenda, USA

"The Nervous System Course was a wonderful and holistic experience with an ocean of tools as take-away. I can totally recommend the investment of time, money and commitment. You will be enriched by the end of the course with the opportunity to work on the topic afterwards as well."

Janine, 28, Germany

"Sina has a way of creating space, even online, that makes you feel seen and at ease. I feel so greatful I was able to participate in her Befriending Your Autonomic Nervous System class. The atmosphere Sina created with our group felt intimate and made me comfortable to share. The way Sina is able to present this information in a way that was easily understood and provide us real tools to immediately start using was so helpful. I am in a much better relationship with my ANS since this class. Thank you Sina!"

Katie, USA

"Dr. Sina Birkholz provided an enriching and well-founded course on how to better understand and address 'stress' caused by the autonomous nervous system. She shared effective tools and materials so that each of us could become more aware of our altered states and choose how best to return to a more manageable state. Thank you!"

Janet Swartz, Mexico

What you will learn:

• How your autonomic nervous system (ANS) shapes your everyday experience

• Why you get angry when you do not want to

• Why you sometimes feel desperate and all alone in this world

• Why you adore your partner or job one moment and the next day you just want to run away

• How trauma and the ANS are related

• What a shamanic perspective on the ANS can look like

• What all the hype about polyvagal theory is about

• How you can become more balanced and experience more equanimity

• How to love yourself a little bit more with every breath

• How to more effectively calm yourself in challenging moments

• How to connect more with other humans in a way that supports your balance

• How to navigate life’s ups and downs with more ease and gentleness towards yourself (and towards others, if you want to;))

What is required from you:

• A commitment to being present during the workshop sessions (If you miss a session, you can watch the recordings within 7 days to catch up)

• A willingness to prepare and practice inbetween sessions according to your abilities and availability

• Curiosity and a willingness to explore and experiment

• Taking good care of yourself. This includes the willingness to get extra support outside of sessions when needed. This support can come from friends, family, your therapist, yoga teacher, breathworker, massage therapist, coach or whomever you find helpful.

• An openness to honour your own experience and that of others; a willingness to engage in a kind and compassionate manner.

• Agreement to keep confidential what other course participants share.

What you'll get:

• 4 online live sessions of 2 hours 15 minutes, that is 9 hours of condensed knowledge and real experience with your ANS

• Theoretical input as well as guided exploration of your personal ANS patterns and challenges in each session

• Experience in Tracing, Mapping and Managing your nervous system states

• Sharing this journey with a small, compassionate group of fellow explorers

• Material for preparation such as journaling prompts, reading suggestions, videos to already “marinate” in the topics

• Take-home exercises to experiment with and deepen your understanding of your ANS and the course content

• Practical tools to use after the course in your own life

• Recordings of the sessions, so you can catch up if you missed it

• A special price on a 5-session package of 2-hour 1:1 sessions, booked within 2 weeks before, during or 2 weeks after the course. (10 % reduction; cannot be combined with other discounts)

• WhatsApp and Email support between sessions.

What you can take away from this course:

• Understand how your ANS works and how it influences your experiences in life

• Learn how polyvagal theory is practically relevant to your wellbeing

• Get to know your individual ANS and your personal patterns

• Identify survival mechanisms that play out in your everyday life

• Understand how you can navigate with more ease between states

• An increased ability to calm and regulate your system and your emotions

• Take away practical tools to improve your wellbeing in the short- and long-term

• Concrete ideas how to experience more safety in your own body and your relationships

• Take away practical tools for allowing more connection in your relationships

• Befriend your ANS so you can successfully work as a team, feel better, work better, live better

• A connection with like-minded and -hearted others

• And most importantly: feel better with yourself!

Times, dates, investment:

The course consists of 4 sessions of 2 hours 15 minutes, taking place once a week. You will get the most out of it if you make time to prepare for the sessions and practice afterwards, using this opportunity for immersing yourself in a month-long encounter with your nervous system.

Dates: we will start on Sunday September 8 and then meet once a week.

Meeting dates: September 8 / 15 / 22 / 29

Time: 11 am CST (Mexico City Time) / 10 am PDT (L.A. time) / 1 pm EST (New York time)

(Click here to calculate your time if you're not in the CET time zone.)

Your financial contribution: 249 €

(this includes access to the sessions, (partial) recordings of the session, preparation material and take-home practice, between-sessions-support, access to a WhatsApp Group), to be paid after registration in order to confirm your spot.

The number of participants is limited; registrations will be processed in the order in which they are received.

Solidarity Spots: 2 discounted spots are available in the course for €125 each (instead of €250). Applications for these solidarity spots are open until July 15, 2024.

Language: This course will be held in English. If you’d like to take the course in German or recommend it to someone, you’ll find all the information on the German website.