Settle Your Nervous System Using Somatic Experiencing® - by Anahita Navab Holden

COURSE

Settle Your Nervous System Using Somatic Experiencing®

With Anahita Navab Holden

This course is designed to offer you quickly accessible basic Somatic Experiencing ® tools so that you may experience the benefits of learning how to settle your nervous system throughout your day. I will walk you through the Somatic Experiencing ® techniques with the use of brief guided experiential exercises, and will be available in the Classroom to answer any questions that you may have. These exercises will help you experience a sense of grounding and centering, learn to visually register cues of safety in your physical environment, find and increase your sense of pleasure within your body, learn to create both physical boundaries and connection, and expand your bandwidth to stay present with and find your way through difficult thoughts and sensations to experience greater peace and clarity.

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Meet your Teacher

Anahita Navab Holden
Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Anahita finds herself at home in the rich integration of mindfulness-based and somatic practices, yoga, and sound meditation. She is a clinical psychologist and has a private psychotherapy practice in downtown Santa Barbara. Anahita is in training to become a Somatic Experiencing ® Practitioner (SEP), is a certified yoga instructor trained by Tracy and Gangha White of the White Lotus Foundation ®, and is a trained Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) ® teacher. Her passion is to incorporate Buddhist psychology, somatic approaches, and self-compassion practices to assist individuals in their psycho-spiritual journeys.

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5 Days

20.7k students

4.8 stars

10 min / day

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English

Lesson 1

Welcome

Day 1 of the course will orient you to the modality of Somatic Experiencing ® (SE) developed by Dr. Peter Levine, as a technique designed to heal trauma and release nervous system responses such as the fight, flight, and freeze responses, that were previously stuck in the body. This module describes how this course is not designed to work with trauma specifically since the teachings are brief and introductory in nature, but its purpose is to teach you the fundamental skills for regulating your nervous system, which can also be helpful as a foundation if you pursue more in-depth SE ® work in the future.

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Lesson 2

Grounding and Resourcing

Day 2 of the course guides you through the SE ® skills of grounding and resourcing. In this module, you will learn to feel centered and at peace in your body, making connection with the support provided by your physical environment. You will also learn how to draw from both external resources - positive people, places, things, in your environment, and internal resources - positive sensations, memories, images, thoughts, and emotions that arise in your consciousness, and truly experience savoring these resources so that they register in your nervous system in a deeper way.

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Lesson 3

Orienting and Tracking

In Day 3, you will build off of the skills learned in the previous module by learning to visually orient and draw upon resources that you can see visually in your environment, to then feel the benefits of the pleasant sensations that emerge in your nervous system. From there, you will learn how to track such pleasant sensations in your body, using the rich vocabulary of sensation-based language to become more in tune with the positive physical sensations that your body is capable of feeling.

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Lesson 4

Pendulation and Titration

Day 4 provides an overview of some of the main tools used in Somatic Experiencing ®, pendulation and titration. I will walk you how to “pendulate,” or alternate, between pleasant and unpleasant sensations, so that you can start to modulate your own nervous system states with control. At the same time, we will learn how to “titrate,” or keep the unpleasant sensations, thoughts, or memories, at a manageable level so that we can reasonably work with them instead of become overwhelmed or flooded by them. With these skills, you may start to experience influence and mastery over your own nervous system states.

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Lesson 5

Creating Boundaries and Connection

Our final day of the course will focus on learning what it feels like to physically establish boundaries in our physical space with the use of our bodies in a simple movement exercise. We will also explore using vocal tones to engage the fight response and the ventral vagal nervous system response in a healthy, playful way to deepen our connection with both ourselves and others in our lives.

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4.8 (870)

Recent Reviews

Patricia

January 12, 2026

Throughly enjoyed

Maria

January 11, 2026

Thank you

angus

January 3, 2026

Really helpful - thank you!

Christy

December 24, 2025

I highly recommend. I have been practising somatic experiencing for some time. I am amazed by how much is distilled into such short and simple practises and explanations.

Avin

November 17, 2025

Amazing Course.

Amit

November 10, 2025

Amazing Course.

Avinash

October 29, 2025

Loved the course! Thank you 🙏😊

Jenny

October 8, 2025

Love this experience!

Leigh

October 4, 2025

🙏 Thanks Anahita. Just completed the course for a second time. I dind the reinforcement helpful for change long standing, over activating habits. Would recommend this course to all.

Jennifer

September 28, 2025

What a wonderful introduction to Somatic Experiencing! The courses were beautifully written. I learned some tools that I know will be transformative in my journey of learning to regulate my nervous system after years of chronic stress. I am grateful for this offering!

Rachel

August 29, 2025

Much gratitude 🙏❤️

Debra

August 27, 2025

This was a nice, brief introduction into Sensory Experiencing that had easy-to-digest parts. Thank you!

K

August 18, 2025

Great course, thank you. I feel I might come back to it next month, as I felt I was just at the surface of understanding some of the concepts. I found some of the techniques particularly interesting, like the titration exercise, and that “vuu “ might be something special.

Kay

August 14, 2025

I find this series very, very helpful.

Amber

August 2, 2025

As someone with CPTSD, discovering somatic experiencing through this course has already been so helpful. It hits a part of me that talk therapy just cannot reach. It’s now becoming a great ally in my system of tools to calm my nervous system and heal the hurt.

Toby

July 9, 2025

Very helpful tools to have when you want to clam your head and settle your nervous system.

Rikki

July 4, 2025

Super nice ! Thank you 🙏

Lisa

July 4, 2025

Great course! I enjoyed exploring these new SE skills, and look forward to testing them out. Thank you!

Denyse

June 12, 2025

Thank you! I have new tools to settle myself.

Amy

May 24, 2025

Very much needed🙏

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