Learning How To Pause - A Nervous System Reset - by Shauna Laubman | The Pause Studio

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Learning How To Pause - A Nervous System Reset

With Shauna Laubman | The Pause Studio

What if you didn’t have to hold yourself—and your life—so tightly? So many of us have become accustomed to bracing for what comes next. Carrying the stress, the uncertainty, the needs of others, the racing thoughts… until holding it all begins to feel normal. I know this place deeply. The PAUSE Method grew from years of living, researching, and practicing nervous system regulation through some of the most challenging seasons of my own life. And along the way, I discovered something that changed me: I couldn’t always change what was happening around me. But I could change how I stayed with myself through it. This Learning How To Pause video course is an invitation to experience this for yourself. Through Presence, Arrival, Understanding, Softening, and Empowerment, we’ll breathe, notice, feel, reflect, rest, and gently practice meeting life differently. Lead with your heart, learn to soften your grip, listen more deeply, and find a steadier place within yourself. A stronger heart. A clearer perspective. A deeper trust in your ability to meet what comes. The pause is not where we escape our lives. It is where we learn how to live them more fully.


Meet your Teacher

Shauna Laubman is a teacher, yoga and mindfulness instructor, and life long high school teacher with youth at risk. She takes her lifetime of knowledge helping students and yogis find their calm selves and shares this with you. Shauna has a gentle, practical approach to nervous system regulation, emotional awareness, and returning to yourself in an overwhelmed world. With over 20 years in education and teaching yoga and mindfulness, Shauna blends somatic practices, breathwork, restorative movement, meditation, and real-life experience to help people feel more grounded, aware, and emotionally balanced. Shauna's lifetime work with youth at risk lends a unique and indepth experience into what it takes to regulate a nervous system. Her work focuses on helping people reconnect with themselves, soften overwhelm, and respond to life with greater steadiness, compassion, and personal power.

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7 Days

4 students

5.0 stars

30 min / day

Acceptance

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Recent Reviews

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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