Resetting Your Nervous System: Full body healing for the brain, gut, and body

This workshop combines somatic knowledge and hard science through education, healthy small bites, and breath work practice. You will get to the crux of why breathing well, eating well, and moving regularly make us feel well and introduce skills that you can implement in your daily life to support this goal.

The flow of this workshop will mirror the trajectory of the vagus nerve, the master regulator of our body, from the base of the brain to the belly:

i. head - we will start with light stretching and learning TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) acupressure points that help with headaches, anxiety, and overthinking. 

ii. chest - we will move our focus to the chest through a 15-20 minute breath work practice which helps us deepen our breathing from our shoulders/chest into our bellies and calms our bodies as a result.

iii. belly - we will have a mini lecture on nutrition and inflammation, and share small bites that nourish the body.

iv. integration - we will conclude with a short meditation including a body scan and visualization that allows us to integrate what we learned and cement that mind-heart-belly connection. 

Artist Biography

Dr. Shiv Nadkarni, M.D. is a trained physician, filmmaker, and creative entrepreneur whose work sits at the intersection of mental health, education, and the arts. He understands health as a state of wellness that requires multidisciplinary support.

His work spans the fields of art therapy, filmmaking, dance/movement, and integrative healing. He has 8+ years of experience working with children and adolescents as an arts mentor, music teacher, dance therapy facilitator, and a medical trainee.

He earned his BA in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Dance Anthropology from the University of Roehampton-London, and his MD from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His work has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Hammer Museum, SONY Music, and the City of Los Angeles.