COURSE

Learning To Pause

Feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or stuck in overdrive? Let’s journey together toward a steadier way of being. Learning To Pause is an experiential nervous system health journey designed to help you regulate stress, reconnect with your body, and find greater calm, clarity, and resilience. Through The PAUSE Method™ — Presence, Arrival, Understanding, Softening, and Empowerment — you’ll experience mindfulness, breathwork, somatic practices, restorative movement, and reflection. Not to become calm all the time. But to build a more flexible, resilient nervous system—and discover a steadier way to meet your life.

Meet your Teacher

Shauna Laubman | The Pause Studio

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 youth at risk. Her work is grounded in a simple belief: we can learn to meet the stress and uncertainty of life without losing our connection to ourselves. Drawing from decades of teaching and her own lived experience, Shauna offers a gentle, practical approach to nervous system regulation, emotional awareness, and embodied wellbeing. She weaves together mindfulness, breathwork, somatic practices, restorative movement, meditation, and reflection to help people slow down, listen to their bodies, and find greater steadiness within. Her years working alongside young people navigating complex and challenging lives deeply shaped the way she teaches today—with compassion, curiosity, and an understanding that regulation is not about being calm all the time. Shauna’s work invites us to pause, soften the overwhelm, and return to ourselves—so we can meet our lives with greater awareness, resilience, and personal power.

7 Days

35 students

5.0 stars

30 min / day

Grounded

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.

5.0 (4)

Recent Reviews

Nada

September 22, 2026

Thank you Shauna this was great course. Till next time👏👏😘💁🏻‍♀️🪷

Nienke

September 3, 2026

Hi Shauna, Thank you so much for this course. It is without a doubt one of the best once I have found here on inside timer. The part in, I think course 5, where I had to look into my own eyes made me cry because I really saw myself for the first time in years. Saw hoe tired I am of always putting others first and let people walk all over me. I want to comfort myself and accept myself the way I am and stop neglicting my innerself and forgetting about her, like you said she is right here with me and beside me. I want to start using your Pause method because I think it could really help me in my Day to Day live. I will do this course again to taken notes and thanks to this course I am also interested in journaling and seeing if it can bring me some good. I gave you a follow and will listen to more of your tracks an courses. Naaste 💗

Janet

September 2, 2026

Shauna, thank you so much for this beautiful comprehensive course. I actually am going to go through it a second time and take notes throughout so I can revisit the major concepts. There was so much powerful wisdom shared throughout his lesson. It was so comforting and empowering each session felt like a big hug. 🥰 this has been one of my favorite courses on Insight Timer. it really gave me the tools to recognize the signals in my nervous system, and to empower me to bring myself back to being calm and grounded. I loved all the meditations, but the hurricane one was my favorite and the retreat at the end was an extra bonus.💖💜❤️

Stacey

August 28, 2026

This course took me through a journey into my heart, soul and being. I feel tender but open. I will be returning to these wise lessons and using the wisdom throughout my journey moving forward. I will reeber to pause. Thank you Shauna ❤️❤️❤️

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