Online or boutique in-person experience to learn how to soothe your dysregulated nervous system
This is a gentle immersion experience which is offered as both an online learning experience. A Taste of Calm can also be tailored as a unique four hour immersion into a boutique retreat-like experience, to soothe your frayed self!
It’s perfect for those who experience anxiety, or care for others and feeling drained or depleted.
It is an essential trauma informed and peer reviewed toolkit for those who have experienced trauma, or struggling with the juggle of life.
This experience has been carefully curated to allow you to reconnect into your heart space at your pace, and learn simple stress management techniques to regulate yourself out of stressful moments.
The Calm Experience has something to offer participants seeking to learn simple breathing and stress management techniques in order to restore balance and calm into your life.
Calm Retreat provides the participant with an opportunity to connect inwards within their heart. In other words get out of your head.
Do you, your team, your NDIS client need the following-
- Prioritise Your Well-being,
- Restore Your Calm,
- Revitalise Your Energy Systems,
- Recalibrate Your Nervous System!
Participants ALSO receive:
The online program provides four modules, each includes:
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workbook which includes affirmations, quotes, and journal prompts;
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video presentation;
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hypnotic meditative recording; and
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additional bonus exercises to boost your calm practice.
I don’t know about you, but Life over the last couple of years has thrown us some curve balls that have left many with an arm full of big emotions.
For many this has generated feelings of overwhelm, out of control, worry, frustration and even anger.
These aren’t just thoughts that swirl around inside our mind, they are also feelings that we experience and store within our bodies.
Feeling inexplicably tired or fatigued lately?
Have you been unwell and just don’t seem to be bouncing back like you normally do?
When was the last time you actually felt normal? Relaxed? Calm?
Hands up if you’re feelings centre alarm just sounded!
Ready to take control of your calm?
The reality is that we’ve all experienced-
● An economy rollercoaster that is challenging the hip pocket
● World stage health campaigns with messages missing references to hope
● Societal expectations that parenting is a cakewalk and we should be able to do it all (without a nervous breakdown!)
● Caring for our loved ones and keeping them safe during times of global uncertainty
● Balancing the demands of work and home
● Keeping up with self-care… Wait. What’s that?
(Hot tip: one bubble bath isn’t going to make you feel better, sis).
Let’s be honest, it’s been a lot to contend with.
Even the most robust and resilient of us have felt frayed around the edges.
If we’re not careful, stress, anxiety, and overwhelm can take over.
Many of my current conversations right now highlight a societal level struggle. Everyone has something or some form of stress bothering them right now.
Is this you?
Are you ready to immerse some calm into your reality?
Join me for a calm immersion to support you to:
● Understand the how’s and why’s of stress
● Recognise when big feelings have arrived
● Identify old trigger reactions
● Connect with your breath to feel comfortable again
● Revitalise and reset your nervous system on a daily basis
Sometimes our humanness feels a little hard and heavy
I don’t know about you, but l ife can throw us some curve balls that leave us with an arm full of big emotions and feelings of overwhelm, out of control, worry, frustration and even anger.
These aren’t just thoughts, they are also feelings and we store this stuff in our bodies.
When was the last time you actually felt normal? Relaxed? Calm?
Hands up if you’re feelings centre alarm just sounded!
The reality is that we’ve all experienced:
– An economy rollercoaster that is challenging the hip pocket
– World stage health campaigns with messages missing references to hope
– Societal expectations that parenting is a cakewalk and we should be able to do it all (without a nervous breakdown!)
– Caring for our loved ones and keeping them safe during times of global uncertainty
– Balancing the demands of work and home
– Keeping up with self-care… Wait. What’s that?
If we’re not careful, stress, anxiety, and overwhelm can take over.
You’ve heard this before, that we all have stuff to deal with. I know you have.
But the last few years have been exceptionally intense especially when we’ve also faced a global pandemic, regional fires and floods, an impending drought, and inflation.
It’s been a lot to throw into the mix.
But can I ask you this – when was the last time you paused and asked yourself, just how affected by life are you?
Do you sleep well every night?
Or do you toss and turn? Turning thoughts over and over in your head at 3am?
Are you calm with your kids and colleagues?
Or do you find yourself overreacting in anger for inexplicable reasons?
Do you experience overwhelm, anxiety or panic?
Do you feel out of control?
Was that an eye twitching I just noticed?
Or perhaps is your reaction to challenging questions
to pick up your phone and scrollthrough your news feed
to distract yourself and avoid the discomfort?
It’s uncomfortable, right?
I get it.
Whenever we deal with our stuff there is bound to be discomfort.
Let me assure you that when you explore the feelings centre, you will find where you store your stuff.
So often, in our Western culture we tend to avoid looking after our mental health.
We ignore the signals sent by our nervous system until we’recompletely dysregulated, or we get sick.
Your being well should have the same attention as anything elsein all that you juggle on a daily basis.
Imagine now for a moment, what life might be like if you could do a little each day to keep yourself in tip-top shape?
Meet Your Change Facilitator
Introducing Karen Humphries
Hey there, I’m a reforming control freak stress head. Pleased to meet you!
Yep,I’m the first to admit that I know exactly what it feels like to have lost my calm centre and live the life of a hot mess.
Been there, resolved that and living life in a completely different way that makes me the priority of my world.
I am fascinated by our humanness. I have two decades of technical training and experience in what happens when we let stress dictate how well our nervous system can regulate itself.
Your baseline operating state should be filled with clear thinking, and balance between your logic and emotional responses.
It shouldn’t be founded in a state of neurological survival, and walking around on eggshells.
I’m a multi-modality mental health practitioner with qualifications and experience as a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Wellness Coach, Kinesiology, Intuitive Meditation, LEAP & NES Practitioner.
I am also a published author of This Is My Roar.
I am a self-confessed laughaholic and love being of service to the world with my humorous and positive approach to life, encouraging people to‘choose to change and bloom from within.’
When your body is in fight or flight, everything is affected physically, mentally, emotionally and energetically.
Everything from imbalance in your hormonal systems, your wake-sleep cycle, your metabolism, your organ health, your happiness, your capacity to parent … even your humanity.
I have two decades of clinically observing that humans are not at their best when they are stressed out.
I’ve noticed the last three years something happening at a societal level. Community has changed.
People are snappy, short tempered and extraordinarily frustrated. People quickly become triggered.
People tell me they are busy, juggling all that life brings and so much more that was never expected.
They talk fast, and wear their busyness like a badge of honour, until I ask them “how does that feel?”
Usually there’s breath holding (this is a survival instinct), or blowing out a big breath, and then fighting back tears of frustration.
I hear “I’m sorry” a lot.
Right now, more than ever, we need to learn how to manage all the stuff we’ve been hanging onto.
Whether you’re an individual, or part of a team, we need to learn how to reset the nervous system.
Everyone can benefit from learning how to quieten the mind. Because when we do this, we can explore why we have felt uncomfortable.
We can heal.
Come and enjoy the pre-recorded modules of the Calm Retreat and we can do this together. You’re not alone.
Prefer something in person? Stay tuned for upcoming in-person group sessions. Alternatively reach out via email with your team / customer needs.
Restoring calm within your body, doesn’t mean you will never feel negative emotions again – like sadness, anger, or anxiety. Rather you will learn how to be courageous and feel emotions on purpose.
You will actively learn what signals are trying to be sent to your consciousness.
Kaz is a clinical practitioner, retreat facilitator, key note speaker, podcaster and author.
Since I started heart meditation with Kaz, I am connecting more deeply within myself.
Today my heart wants to thank you for being an incredible woman and coach.
Brave, full of courage, real and defiant!
Also a wonderful guide and mentor as I learn to travel my own path to authenticity.
Thank you for giving me so much! “
– Michelle
Your body is the barometer of your soul.
It holds onto mental + emotional stress until
you’re ready to allocate some time to
explore and learn another lesson.
Most people are familiar with the reference that we store the emotional weight of the world on our shoulders.
This stress causes the muscles to tighten within the shoulders and/or lower back.
Here’s the thing, you can’t physically take a deep breath if your shoulders are holding onto tension!
Those with anxiety will raise their hand and tell me their chest gets uncomfortable sometimes.
But here’s the thing, when you hold stress in your body over time, your wellbeing takes a hit. So too does everything else.
When you hold onto the stress, you set the baseline of relaxation at the level of survival, rather than thriving.
When in baseline survival, we become reactive – to everything.
Therefore stress impacts our relationships, sleep, clarity of thinking, and productivity.
Our neural networks re-rout our physical energy into survival and we’re left feeling exhausted and overwhelmed.
“Love my wellbeing sessions with Karen to sort out my issues. At first I thought she knew me better than i know myself – but I have a new set of tools to understand myself and find my centre once again. I highly recommend boutique program to everyone!”
– Ben
How long can you continue to…
● toss and turn, losing sleep because you’re head is full of problems that can’t be solved?
● feel unworthy, not good enough or shame yourself because you didn’t tick everything off the to-do list?
● wake up in the morning, feeling exhausted even though you slept like the dead?
● start each day still feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders from yesterday’s problems?
● live with a mind that constantly races with a never-ending to-do list?
● feel out of control unless you plan and do everything for everyone?
● regularly ignore your body’s signals for rest and push through states of fatigue, exhaustion or resistance?
● punish yourself with negative self-talk or feel like a failure?
● your mood or outlook feels strained a lot of the time and you numb it by having a glass of wine and watching some mind-numbing television?
● your body always seems to feel fatigued and perhaps you are experiencing inexplicable aches or pains?
Karen is fabulous at enabling her knowledge and expertise accessible to all in the group. She is great at gently and respectfully engaging and walking with participants. She reads the room with ease and grace.
The resources and materials are very supporrtive and enhance the content covered during the retreat. Karen responses to questions and concerns gently and openly, and creates a very safe space for individuals to explore deeply.
As a presenter and retreat facilitator, Karen is very relaxed, professional, honest and concise.
– Christine
Karen is so knowledgeable and delivers brilliantly. She is very effective in engaging participants and maintains everyone’s interest throughout the sessions. Her preparation. materials and retreat resources are exceptional.
Karen is extremely responsive and receptive. I took advantage of the retreat voucher to followup what retreat released.
Karen really considers and prepares for everything. I was very well supported.
– Rachael
Karen has a profound understanding of what she is delivering. The entire group was thoroughly engaged for the entire day.
Karen’s materials and resources were very helpful and she created a safe space that permitted conversations that were real, raw and very honest.
Karen’s delivery style is very real, relaxed and down to earth. The entire retreat day flowed beautifully.
This retreat has influenced my outlook to continue working on ME and take each day as it comes.
I loved the community Karen created and everyone was very friendly and caring.
– Helen
“I was unable to make it to calm live, but just listened to the replay. It was so good that I then dived into the online training.
Thank you so much for sharing 🙏 this simply yet effective toolkit.
It was beautiful and empowering at the same time 🙌, and I love that I can return to it again and again.
Thanks again 🥰”
– Rose