Nervous System & Anxiety Relief With Bilateral Butterfly

Awaken your body, calm your mind with Bilateral Butterfly. This powerful practice taps into deep nervous system regulation, melts anxiety, and unlocks sensual flow. Breathe, release, and embody your most grounded, deep self.

Transcript

Hello everyone,

My name is Peggy Koukassian and I am a Somatic Attachment Practitioner as well as a Trauma Informed Coach with a background in Reiki and Yoga Therapeutics.

I absolutely love everything related to somatic integration and nervous system regulation for the body.

I'm so excited to be able to offer some of the most healing modalities that I've experienced,

Not only as a facilitator,

But as well as personally in my own journey and in my own life and how I've been able to regulate my anxiety since I was a smaller child.

A lot of my work is rooted in inner child healing.

A lot of it can be really stemmed from trauma being infused in our bodies since our younger years so we're all learning to reparent and recalibrate our bodies to where we feel more peace,

More calm,

More centered and with all the moving parts around us in this world just being able to come back home into a calm state that we are all able to access.

But what this really takes is commitment and self-love and a resiliency to knowing that life is always going to be unpredictable and what can be predictable is the way that we honor and treat our bodies.

So I'm going to start with doing many,

Many videos and audios of series around my nervous system regulation work and just pocket size content that you can have in your back pocket when you need it.

So today we're going to do a really beautiful grounding practice.

It has a little bit of bilateral stimulation incorporated in this practice and part of our regulating our body is being able to slow down both the right brain and the left brain and so the body and the mind and all of our chakras start to work hand in hand.

So with that said,

I'm going to guide you in.

So go ahead and sit in a comfortable seat,

Preferably somewhere where you can place your back against a couch and bring your feet together in a forward fold or a seated position,

However you feel comfortable staying in for the next few minutes together.

So as you sit down,

Feel your sit bones,

Feel the ground holding you,

Centering you and start to take your breath and gaze inward while closing your eyes and start to focus your energy on your breath,

Going inside your body and exhaling slowly,

Following that breath as you continue to connect to yourself.

As you ground yourself,

Creating presence in your body,

Feeling the energy cultivated within,

We're going to take our hands and place them right on our knees and just start to activate our sensory system.

Just go ahead and start facing your palms on your knees around your upper thighs and just start to press the palms up and down as you bring a little bit of sensory activation while still connecting to your breath.

So both the right hand and the left hand are just rubbing the top of the thighs up and down and you can go ahead and sink the breath to the movement.

You can slow it down if you really feel like your body wants a more calmer state.

This is that beautiful opportunity to set everything aside that has been stressing you out,

That has been creating a heaviness in your body.

Imagine that you can leave it outside of yourself for these few moments together and cultivating and holding this level of presence.

The body starts to recalibrate to a different and new knowing of the self.

So as you're slowing everything down and just incorporating the sensory system to activate,

We're going to place the right hand over that left shoulder.

And as we place that right hand over that left shoulder,

We're crossing over the body and then we're going to take the left hand and cross it over that right arm holding the right shoulder.

So this way we are bilaterally stimulating the right brain and the left brain,

The logic mind and the emotional mind.

And just as you're sitting in this presence,

First start to feel how it feels in your body to hold yourself in this cradle.

Does it feel good?

Does it feel nourishing?

For me,

It just feels so cozy and comforting.

And as you activate that deeper connection with yourself,

Notice what wants to come through.

Maybe your inner child wants to come up and say hello,

Allowing the mind and the vision of the third eye to really open up here and allow what wants to come through in this moment of time.

Holding yourself in this butterfly cradle pose.

And within this holding,

Imagine this is also a deep containment,

A deep protection of allowing yourself to fully surrender and bringing that into our present awareness is so powerful.

Sometimes I really like to hold my frame pretty tightly.

Everyone has a different threshold of how tight or loose they want to hold this position.

I like to hold myself a little tight and allow my heart and my chest to really breathe.

And then when I exhale,

Allowing the body to just let go.

Also inviting in some sounds,

Activating that throat chakra.

And before we go into a little bit of that stimulation of the butterfly hug,

Fully feel into this pose.

I'm going to let you hold it for a few more seconds.

Enjoy this time with yourself.

Love yourself.

Honor yourself.

And as we're going to start keeping that same hand position,

We're just going to rotate the right hand,

Just tapping that top of that shoulder.

Just switching over to the opposite side.

So one at a time,

Tapping and feeling,

Tapping and feeling,

Syncing up the breath.

And as soon as we start to switch,

The right brain and left brain start to jump on board.

Maybe they were offline,

Maybe one was offline,

And maybe our body was operating too much from our logic.

Whenever we feel that we're so in our heads,

We want to come back to balance.

So keep switching the right to the left and holding presence and breath.

And just letting emotion arise in the body.

For me,

I already feel my heart starting to feel a little bit more,

Starting to draw in more awareness of the whole body.

Maybe some sensations open up in the legs.

Let yourself be surprised.

Let yourself experience something new,

Inviting in that curiosity.

So keep tapping,

And the pressure of your tap really depends on your body.

So I'm going to encourage you to try different options and letting the body let you know when it feels right for you.

We're going to do this for a few more seconds,

Holding presence and grace.

And as we slowly slow down the taps,

Go ahead and continue to hold the shoulders.

Notice how the body feels and slowly slide the hands down the arms as you continue kind of feeling your body.

Maybe have the hands touch the fingertips while your eyes are still closed.

Bring them back down to your knees.

And then drawing in one last inhale together,

A collective one,

As we're all in this together.

So beautiful that we get to hold space.

And then exhale through the body,

Sending you all so much love and light.

And I hope this practice was nourishing to your soul.

Blessings.