7 daagse cursus

Slow Rituals: Nervous System Care For Stress And Burnout

Door Nia O

Wat je zal leren

What would it be like to no longer rush from one thing to the next? What would it be like to have small yet meaningful practices that offer ease, slowness, and repair throughout your day? Welcome to 7 Days of Slow Rituals. In this course, you're welcome to explore slowness in the body through short guided meditations, daily rituals or practices, and guided reflection prompts. Together we explore presence, nourishing our bodies, creating altars or sacred spaces and more. Each day, you are welcome to center and dedicate moments to your well-being. When we move slowly, we can teach our bodies safety, compassion, and presence. With the systems that we live in pushing us towards urgency, the intention for this course is to share different ways of rewiring the brain. You may wish to dedicate time in the morning or evening, or you can divide the practices into micro-practices throughout your day. This is a slow course, so if you take more than seven days to complete it, that is also a part of the practice. You can return at any time. This course is rooted in mindfulness practice, And each meditation is supported by gentle sound compositions. This course is also created as a direct result of Nia's lived experience with chronic health conditions and the healing effects of slow rituals to support her. Through introducing more slow, intentional practices, we can tend to the parasympathetic part of our nervous system, which offers our bodies repair, digest, and rest. Words, sound composition and production by Nia O.

Nia O

Toronto, ON, Canada

Nia O is a 300-hour trauma-sensitive meditation guide, entrepreneur, and sound artist. As a creative, social entrepreneur, she understands how managing multiple priorities and navigating the systems that push towards hyper-productivity and speed can impact the body and mind. This course was written and produced from her direct lived experience...

Les 1

Softening Into The Breath

In our opening practice, you're welcome to soften into the breath with gentle guidance and sounds to support you by learning about the vagus nerve -- the connector between the body, the breath and the brain. Through breath awareness, we are signalling to ourselves on the cellular level that we are present. This slow ritual on breath offers the technique of breath awareness and is supported by science.

Les 2

A Place To Remember

What in your life is calling to be honoured? In this practice, we explore altar, sacred space, or peace corner creation as a way to dedicate time to honour people or parts of your life that you hold sacred to your heart. This slow ritual is central to Healing Justice, a diverse framework that supports remembering and offers 4-7-8 breath guidance and contemplative reflection.

Les 3

Only One Spacesuit

In this realm, we only have one spacesuit - a body - that carries us through this world. In this third slow ritual meditation, you are welcome to tend to this spacesuit through a gentle body scan and compassionate affirmations.

Les 4

A Gentle Focus

With the growing amount of fast, short-form and high volumes of content, our brains are changing along with our attention spans. Mindfulness is an important antidote that allows us to deepen our ability to focus. In this slow ritual of focus, you are welcome to practice keeping a focus through a gentle counting meditation and through breath awareness.

Les 5

What Nourishes You?

To nourish means to strengthen or to provide essential nutrients in the body. What practices, communities, or other parts of your life provide you with essential peace, essential joy, or essential energy? In this fifth slow ritual practice on nourishment, you are invited to conduct internal research, discovering your own unique nutrients through contemplative reflection and breath.

Les 6

Rituals Of Rest

Resting can feel like we're taking time away from the most important things in our lives. Though without rest, being present can become even more difficult. In our sixth slow ritual practice, you are welcome to ease your body into a state of rest, on a nervous system level, through a yawn practice and progressive muscle relaxation.

Les 7

Protecting Our Practices

In our final slow ritual meditation practice, we explore the importance of protecting our rituals as a way to honour our wellbeing. This meditation features a visualization technique, where we solidify our boundaries and see how our practices are worthy of being protected.

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