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Breathing Practices For A Sensitive Nervous System
With Cathy DohertyIn this 3-day course, you can gain both practical skills and scientific insight into how conscious breathing supports a sensitive nervous system. Each session blends gentle guidance with education, helping you not only feel the effects of breathwork but also understand what's happening in your body. You will learn and practice three foundational breathwork practices and develop tools to manage stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. You will experience a physiological shift from stress ( fight or flight) to relaxation ( rest and digest). The course will build confidence in using breath as a tool for grounding and self-regulation. You can expect to finish the course feeling calmer, clearer and more connected to inner resilience.
Offering gentle breathing practices—diaphragmatic, box, and 4-7-8—to calm the nervous system, ease tension, and restore balance.
About this course
In this 3-day course, you can gain both practical skills and scientific insight into how conscious breathing supports a sensitive nervous system. Each session blends gentle guidance with education, helping you not only feel the effects of breathwork but also understand what's happening in your body. You will learn and practice three foundational breathwork practices and develop tools to manage stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. You will experience a physiological shift from stress ( fight or flight) to relaxation ( rest and digest). The course will build confidence in using breath as a tool for grounding and self-regulation. You can expect to finish the course feeling calmer, clearer and more connected to inner resilience.
Meet your Teacher
Cathy is a Mental Health Nurse and Mindfulness teacher in training. Her work is guided by a deep appreciation for a sensitive nervous system and how the breath can be one of its greatest supports. Through both clinical experience and personal practice, she's witnessed how simple, compassionate breathing practices can ease anxiety, reduce overwhelm, and create a sense of grounded safety in the body. She intends to offer gentle, evidence-based practices that help people reconnect with their breath, soothe their nervous system, and find peace within their own natural rhythm.