Soften, Settle, Restore — Vagal Toning Session Next Week!
Wednesday, 6/24 at 11:00 AM- 12:15 PM ET
🌿 Befriending Your Nervous System: Vagal Toning
These practices are an invitation to gently strengthen our capacity to respond to life's difficulties and joy with greater ease, presence, and steadiness.
A softly grounding hour — balancing gentleness and fierceness, depending on what you need. Fierce like a mama bear protecting her cubs — an image that has stayed with me from Kristin Neff's teachings.
A toned vagus nerve nurtures resilience by helping us move more easily between activation and rest, increasing our ability to return, again and again, to a calm, regulated state.
I will be offering a Vagal Toning session where we will learn simple practices that can be woven into daily life.
The fee is $25. If cost is a concern, please reach out. Fee should never be an obstacle, and I would be happy to hear from you.
I look forward to the possibility of practicing together.
Warmly,
Esther
Participants have shared:
💛 “Another beautiful class. I appreciate the tempo of your teaching, the pauses, the beautiful slides, the time for questions, and the practice too!” — Orit
💛 “I'm so glad I got to the second class. I learned so much! I have practiced some of what you taught us.” — Karen
The image above illuminates the vagus nerve pathway. Vagus means "wandering" in Latin — and this nerve really does wander, traveling from your brainstem through your heart, lungs, and digestive system.
80% of vagus nerve fibers carry signals upward — from the body to the brain. Your gut, your heart, your breath are constantly in conversation with your mind.
A toned vagus nerve builds resilience by helping you move more fluidly between activation and rest — increasing your capacity to return, again and again, to a calm, regulated state.
Ready to Soften, Settle and Restore?
When the nervous system is soothed and settled, something tender becomes possible — softly reconnecting to yourself
🍃 Finding Your Way
Post-Traumatic Growth & Resilience Coaching for Women
My practice weaves together mindfulness, Interpersonal Neurobiology , and Polyvagal theory in a gentle, trauma-informed approach to healing and post-traumatic growth.
At your pace, in your time 💛
I know this path from the inside.
My healing journey gradually taught me that safety begins in the nervous system, and that healing is less about fixing ourselves and more about softly reconnecting with who we already are.
“She has a profound ability to make you feel seen and heard, even amidst great struggle.”
— Isabel Mata, Writer and Mindfulness teacher
“Being truly heard by Esther releases the built-up steam in my life.”
Even on the days I feel 'I don't need this,' her humanity and uniquely skilled guidance help me find more compassion for myself — and I'm discovering a more fully integrated sense of self-awareness, understanding, and acceptance."
— Kathy, Finding Your Way client
When the nervous system is soothed, there is more space — to breathe, to feel the ground beneath your feet, to reconnect with a steady sense of self.
From that steadiness, something becomes possible that may have felt out of reach for a long while.
To be in connection with kindness and care. To find your way.
“The gift of healing trauma is that the woundedness becomes a gateway to freedom, healing and love.”
— Tara Brach
Accessibility matters to me.
I hold a small number of sliding-scale openings at any time, and I'm happy to explore options if finances are a concern. If you're not ready to connect, you're welcome to explore the resources here at your own pace.
If you'd like to be in touch, there's space for that here — a simple email, or a free Inquiry Call.
The Resource Library
🍃 Finding Your Way weaves trauma-informed mindful awareness practice and healing science — including Interpersonal Neurobiology and Polyvagal Theory —You’re warmly invited to visit these teachings in the Resource Library.