Somatic
Journey
Toolkit
A self-paced course and somatic practice toolkit
Attune to your
Nervous System,
Empower Yourself,
Rest into Safety.
Who this Toolkit is for
You find yourself more often than you like feeling stretched, burned out, wound too tight, overwhelmed…
your efforts to set goals (even those that seem really good for you) seem to backfire and take your nervous system into fight/flight/freeze (example: you start exercising regularly and your physical and emotional tension get worse, you feel let down, wired and tired)
you know there is a deeper layer of healing in your body because you can feel the physical tension, the energy inside that wants to move, but when you try to be with it, it feels too big, hard, or confusing to be with or know what to do with
you benefit from understanding yourself through self-paced learning, recognizing patterns in yourself from teachings with real-life examples and tangible tools
You want more flow, confidence, safety, trust in yourself
to turn down the volume on mental spinning, so often rooted in body-level nervous system activation. More safety to settle into peace and contentment.
to move fluidly between social connection, work, play, & rest, being clear in your “no” if you don’t have the energy or don’t want to (without guilt). Having more flexibility to say “yes” to what feels good, even when it stretches you outside your comfort zone. Whether that’s becoming more comfortable with slowing down, resting, and enjoying quiet moments. Or feeling more ease to expand into fun, creativity, or purpose.
to get back the energy that’s been caught up in managing survival responses in your body. More focus to accomplish tasks, more mental space to enjoy your kids, more heart to make art.
Testimonial
I purchased the Somatic Journey Toolkit about a year ago and it's a resource I go back to regularly for anchoring and support. Nicole and I decided the Somatic Journey Toolkit was a good fit for me as I was furthering my work to become connected to my body and build inner safety. Nicole’s guidance in the Toolkit has helped me continue to cultivate inner compassion, patience, and wisdom.
I really appreciate that the Toolkit is paced and graduated. Exercises and prompts build upon one another and encourage you to practice skills from previous exercises/modules. Nicole shows up in the videos and audio recordings the same way they show up in their somatic/body work; with presence and intention. Their care and wisdom fosters a virtual environment of warmth and is a soft container for practicing somatic skills on your own. I’d recommend the Toolkit to anyone who is looking to further their somatic practice.
-Sarah
How the Somatic Journey Toolkit Works
The Somatic Journey Toolkit gets right to the heart of offering guidance in the places I see people get stuck when approaching somatic healing.
Many people know on a gut level that they need to work with their bodies for change, but there are many misconceptions about how to do this. One is that nervous system healing is just about making our nervous systems more calm. Or, that it’s just about big releases of energy/emotion from the body.
However, the core of somatic healing is really self-attunement.
What is self-attunement? It’s noticing your energy is waning and leaving a party before getting fried or exhausted. It’s asking a friend if they have time to listen when you need someone to talk to.
Self-attunement is the ability to meet yourself in the moment.
My chest is jittery. I can’t focus. Hmm.. ok let me slow down and feel what’s here.
Something felt off last night when we said goodbye. My throat feels tight thinking about it. What’s the emotion that’s here? Hm… sadness. Yeah, that makes sense. It’s ok for that to be here.
Self-attunement is many small moments of listening. When you add these up over time, life and relationships take shape around your true self and actual needs. You move on from the draining job and find a better fit with less hours. You find a great rhythm for exercise, and cut back when you’re feeling under the weather. You’re living more in your purpose, whether that’s gardening, making art, being of service, expressing yourself. Your friends and community have become a reflection of what you actually value, you support each other and help each other grow. What is not a fit has fallen away.
The Somatic Journey Toolkit is not a biohack. Biohacks tend to be about controlling the nervous system, taming the body even. Rather than the resilience and strength we want the nervous system to develop, relying just on biohacks or always on tools to calm the nervous system can actually create more problems. Like a build up of unexpressed energy. Or a rigid, brittle nervous system that is only adapted to calm.
Instead, this course is rooted in developing key pathways in the nervous system for self-attunement, safety, flow, and resiliency. Here are a few of those key pathways:
Resourcing the Nervous System - the ability to access pleasant and supportive states such as steady, safe, centered, relaxed, capable
Pacing & Titration - the ability to feel our own limits and choose the healing power of pacing ourselves over the tug of urgency and extremes
Growing Capacity for Discomfort - the ability to be with uncomfortable sensations and emotions so we can let energy move through & hear the intelligence of our bodies
Flexible Boundaries - able to say a firm “no,” while feeling safe enough inside to say “yes” when we want to, and to negotiate a “maybe” without losing ourselves
About your Teacher
Nicole Robinson
they/them
I am a Somatic Coach and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, a Teacher, and a Tender of nervous systems, bodies, grief, and community.
The process of creating this course was deeply informed by the work I have done with over 700 clients in 1:1 and group settings, as well as my own experience with healing. The key pathways to a healthy nervous system I teach in this course is what I yearned for in my own healing journey (and still informs me everyday). My healing journey started in 2016 with a near death experience and health crisis that put me into a severe, chronic state of nervous system activation and illness.
My nervous system was so sensitive. If I tried the “wrong” thing, it seemed to set my whole nervous system back. This is incredibly common, especially when people have accumulated complex layers of challenging experiences. In somatics, we might call someone whose nervous system has reached a place like mine did “syndromal” or “global high intensity activation.” It took me what felt like a long time to gather enough tools and knowledge to find a healthy approach to healing my nervous system.
It’s been an honor to teach others how to get into the drivers seat with their nervous systems. Drivers seat meaning connected to themselves & confident they can do this. This is different than taming, controlling, or dominating the nervous system. Instead we are building a relationship of trust and gentle but strong leadership.
Alongside my devotion to somatic healing, I love walking in the woods, being near water, putting my hands in soil, reading, making music and art, and connecting with community. It is my hope that this course will bring you closer to yourself and be a huge support in helping you create and show up for the life you deserve.
Testimonial
“Oh Nicole, this toolkit is sooooo lovely... your pacing, your tone (so tender and kind), your compassion, the wisdom you are imparting - it's just wonderful. It is so helpful for me to share with clients who are new to Somatic Experiencing® and need in-between session support. THANK YOU for doing this.”
-Alicia Barmon, Somatic Practitioner with decades in the field
What the Somatic Journey Toolkit includes
15 Chapters guiding you through your Somatic Journey, on topics such as Resourcing, Survival Responses, Regulation, Emotions, Boundaries, Somatics of Relationship, Collective Healing, and more.
5+ Hours of short, digestible video teachings
5+ Hours of audio meditations and practices
98+ Unique somatic practices in video, audio, and written formats
Eco-somatic practices for integrating nervous system healing with nature
Mark complete and track your progress as you go
Unlimited lifetime access
The Somatic Journey Toolkit is an open offer and is designed for you to enter when you’re ready to engage with the support and work.
Testimonial
“Several sessions into my experience with Nicole, I decided to purchase their Somatic Journey Toolkit. I'm not usually a client who will spend time on my own practicing what I am learning. But Nicole's Toolkit is very unique. They provide short videos, audio practices, written portions and eco somatic experiences that are easily digestible. They can be marked as "complete" but can be returned to at anytime. I can access the Toolkit forever. Sometimes I just scroll through the offerings and choose one at random. Other times I want to try something specific and search for it in the easy manner the experiences are presented. I highly recommend investing in Nicole's Toolkit. They entitle it "Somatic Journey" for a good reason...the path along nervous system resilience is indeed a journey. I have found it to be one that has allowed me to gain confidence in understanding my nervous system yet be open to unique discoveries as I learn more about myself.”
-Sharon
Watch the Somatic Journey Toolkit
Welcome Video, Take a Tour, & try Sample Practices!
Nourishing Bubble Practice: Use this guided practice to create a boundary and deeply nourish yourself within it, trusting your inner wisdom to show you places, people, objects, colors, animals, etc that allow your nervous system to let down.
Pendulation Practice: Use this guided practice to develop your ability to move between resource and charge in your nervous system. Resources center and ground us and are essential for building capacity to work with the charge, activation, or survival energy in your system. This practice creates space for the nervous system to reorganize, discharge excess survival energy, and cultivate neurological pathways for flexibility and resilience.
Your Resilience & Self-Trust Awaits!
I offer payment plans and a sliding scale to increase access to healing spaces for those who do not have the privileges of socioeconomic stability. If you have financial peace of mind, please consider a higher payment as this work is how I make a living.
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