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Nervous System Reset

With Shauna Laubman | The Pause Studio

Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted, or like your body just can't seem to relax? Nervous System Reset is a gentle, practical seven-lesson video course designed to help you understand your nervous system, recognize stress responses, and discover simple ways to return to calm. Through the PAUSE Method, guided practices, and heartfelt conversations, you'll learn to: Recognize signs of stress and overwhelm. Use breathing and grounding techniques to support nervous system regulation. Respond to difficult emotions with greater awareness and compassion. Build simple daily habits that support calm, clarity, and resilience. This isn't about eliminating stress or forcing yourself to relax. It's about learning to work with your nervous system rather than against it. Sometimes, finding your way back to calm begins with a pause.

Learn practical tools to regulate stress, calm your nervous system, and feel more grounded in everyday life.

7 Days

45 students

5.0 stars

30 min / day

English

About this course

Meet your Teacher

Shauna Laubman | The Pause Studio

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Calgary, AB, Canada

Shauna Laubman is a mindfulness teacher, yoga instructor, nervous system educator, and retired high school teacher with more than 20 years of experience supporting young people, including vulnerable and at-risk youth navigating trauma, adversity, and complex life circumstances. Her trauma-informed approach is grounded in safety, compassion, connection, choice, and empowerment. Drawing from decades of teaching and lived experience, she integrates mindfulness, breathwork, somatic awareness, restorative movement, and meditation to support nervous system regulation, emotional wellbeing, and resilience. Through The Pause Studio, Shauna creates welcoming spaces where people can better understand their nervous systems, reconnect with themselves, and navigate life's challenges with greater awareness, self-trust, and compassion. Her guiding belief is simple: We don't need to fix ourselves. We can learn to understand ourselves, meet our experiences with compassion, and discover the power of choice.

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7 Days

45 students

5.0 stars

30 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Presence

You deserve to feel grounded and steady in your life. In this opening lesson of Learning How To Pause, you’ll begin exploring how chronic stress and nervous system overwhelm can quietly pull us into automatic pilot. We use the acronym from my course, The PAUSE Method, to flow through Presence, Arrive, Understanding, Soften and Empowerment to begin to heal the nervous system and begin to feel better in the body. This lesson introduces The 3 Breath Pause, grounding practices, gentle nervous system regulation tools, and reflective journaling prompts to help you slow down, notice your patterns, and begin creating more awareness, steadiness, and space inside your daily life.

Lesson 2

Arrival

In this lesson of Learning How To Pause — A Nervous System Reset, we move beyond simply noticing stress and begin returning fully to ourselves. We use the flow of The PAUSE Method - where we move into the first letter together - Arrival. Arriving is the practice of coming back into the body, the breath, and the present moment. Instead of living on automatic pilot or getting pulled into worry, pressure, overwhelm, or emotional reactivity, you’ll learn how to gently ground yourself using breath, sensation, and awareness. Through nervous system regulation practices, somatic awareness, mindfulness, and guided meditation, this lesson will help you reconnect with your inner steadiness — even in the middle of a topsy-turvy world.

Lesson 3

Understanding

Welcome to an understanding of your experience. In this lesson of Learning How To Pause — A Nervous System Reset, we explore what it means to truly understand yourself beneath the reactions, overwhelm, and automatic patterns of stress. In this step of The PAUSE Method, we learn Understanding. Through nervous system awareness, mindfulness, breathwork, and gentle reflection, you’ll begin listening to your body and emotions with greater compassion instead of criticism. This lesson invites you to notice what your inner world may be trying to communicate — so you can respond with greater clarity, steadiness, and personal power.

Lesson 4

Soften

In this lesson of Learning How To Pause — A Nervous System Reset, we explore what it means to soften beneath the pressure, tension, and constant holding patterns carried within the nervous system. In this step of The PAUSE Method, we soften the body, mind, and heart. Through breathwork, mindfulness, gentle awareness, and calming practices, you’ll begin creating space between yourself and the intensity of stress, self-judgment, and emotional overwhelm. This lesson invites you to loosen the grip of survival mode and discover how softness, compassion, and surrender can help bring the body and mind back toward balance, steadiness, and ease.

Lesson 5

Empowerment

Empowerment comes from all of the presence and understanding we’ve discovered so far. In this lesson of Learning How To Pause — A Nervous System Reset, we explore what it means to reconnect to yourself with greater awareness, honesty, and compassion. This step of The PAUSE Method is where we begin to shine with empowerment. Through nervous system awareness, mindfulness, breathwork, guided reflection, and embodied practices, you’ll begin noticing the patterns that pull you away from yourself and the small moments that help you feel grounded, steady, and fully alive. This lesson invites you to slow down, listen inward, and begin creating a more supportive and empowered relationship with yourself.

Lesson 6

Embodiment - Mini Retreat Part 1

In this mini-retreat Part 1, we move beyond understanding and into living the practice. Through guided ritual, breathwork, nervous system awareness, mindfulness, and embodied reflection, you’ll begin creating small intentional moments that help you reconnect to yourself throughout your everyday life. This lesson invites you to slow down, listen inward, and gently weave presence, compassion, and self-support into the rhythms of your daily experience — one breath, one pause, and one conscious choice at a time.

Lesson 7

Embodiment - Retreat Part 2

In this final lesson of Learning How To Pause — A Nervous System Reset, we embody these teaching in our second part of our mini retreat. We move beyond understanding and into living the practice. Through guided breathwork, mindfulness, nervous system awareness, embodied reflection, and gentle ritual creation, you’ll explore what it means to support yourself with greater presence, intention, and self-compassion in everyday life. This lesson invites you to slow down, reconnect to yourself, and begin weaving small moments of awareness, softness, and steadiness into the rhythms of your daily experience.

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Nervous System Reset

About this course

Meet your Teacher

Shauna Laubman | The Pause Studio

Lesson 1

Presence

Lesson 2

Arrival

Lesson 3

Understanding

Lesson 4

Soften

Lesson 5

Empowerment

Lesson 6

Embodiment - Mini Retreat Part 1

Lesson 7

Embodiment - Retreat Part 2

Lesson 1

Presence

Lesson 2

Arrival

Lesson 3

Understanding

Lesson 4

Soften

Lesson 5

Empowerment

Lesson 6

Embodiment - Mini Retreat Part 1

Lesson 7

Embodiment - Retreat Part 2