Aviva Wellness — three evenings this November
The Nervous System Workshop
Why regulation matters, what stress is really doing in the body, and simple tools to manage it — offered in three separate workshops for mothers, young adults and fathers.
Reserve your spotStress isn’t only in your head. It lives in your nervous system.
The racing mind at 2am, the short fuse by dinnertime, the tiredness that sleep doesn’t fix — these are often signs of a nervous system that has been switched on for too long. Left there, it quietly shapes our sleep, digestion, mood, immunity and relationships.
This workshop explains, in plain language, how the nervous system responds to stress and why learning to regulate it is one of the most important things we can do for our overall health. Then we put it into practice, with simple, evidence-informed tools you can use at home, at work, or in the middle of a hard moment.
At the heart of every workshop is one simple principle: we need to recognise before we can regulate. Before any tool can help, we have to notice what our body is telling us — the clenched jaw, the shallow breath, the urge to snap or shut down — and name the state we’re in. Once we can recognise it, we can begin to change it.
Each evening is held for one group — mothers, young adults, or fathers — so the conversation can speak to the pressures that are genuinely yours.
Lived before taught — every workshop is led from Sandra’s own practice of regulating through burnout and midlife change, not just from training.
What each workshop holds
Recognise
How the nervous system moves between stress and rest, and how to notice the signs of your own state — because we recognise before we regulate.
Regulate
Breath, movement and grounding techniques that help the body shift out of stress — simple enough to use anywhere.
Feel it
A guided, restful practice to close the evening, so you leave having felt regulation in your body, not just heard about it.
The November workshops
Three Wednesday evenings, each one held for a different group. Book the evening that’s yours.
Good to know
- Wear comfortable clothes, and bring your own mat or arrive a few minutes early to borrow one.
- No yoga or wellness experience needed — just come as you are.
- Each workshop is held for one group, so please book the evening that fits you.
- Workshops are held at 2/291 Doncaster Road, North Balwyn.
- All three evenings run from 7:00 – 9:30pm.
This workshop is for you if stress has started to feel like your normal, if you’re running on empty while looking after everyone else, or if you’ve heard about “nervous system regulation” and want to understand what it actually means — and how to do it.
Reserve your place this November
Spaces are limited to keep each workshop small and settled. Choose your evening below.
Your guide
About Sandra
For years, Sandra chased physical perfection through relentless gym workouts, running and restrictive diets. Then came the era of burnout and a fatigue that rest couldn’t touch — and it was there that she found her answers.
“After years of searching for solutions outside myself, I discovered that all the wisdom and remedies were already within my body. My nervous system simply needed to be reset, regulated and revived.”
Today, Sandra brings together three decades of education as a personal trainer, fitness and yoga instructor, meditation and intuition teacher, along with her current studies in neuroscience. Woven with her own lived experience, this now shapes how she teaches and guides others to manage their thoughts, moods and decision-making — for better health and a fuller, steadier life.