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Some nights the hardest part isn’t your body. It’s the heaviness or anxiousness that shows up the moment you lie down. This gentle practice is built entirely around your own hands: soft, soothing touch that tells your nervous system you are safe.
If you keep coming back to practices like this because rest doesn’t stick on its own, that’s the work I do one-on-one. Book a free 15-minute call → thecalmlab.org/book-online
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We’ll move through hand-on-heart breathing, a self-hug and gentle sway, slow strokes down the arms, warm hands cupping the eyes and face, and gentle jaw and leg massage. This is co-regulation you give yourself, the same calming signal a hug from someone you trust would send, offered by your own hands. There’s no stretching to get right and nothing to perform. Just follow along and let yourself be held.
You can do this one seated or lying down, which makes it lovely right before bed, before a nap, or as a midday reset. Headphones bring out the binaural beats, and it’s just as calming without them.
Gentle enough for beginners, anxious minds, restless sleepers, and anyone whose nervous system needs help feeling safe enough to rest.
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WORK WITH ME ONE-ON-ONE
A 6-minute practice can take the edge off one night. Private sessions are for when the same patterns keep showing up: the racing mind at bedtime, the tight chest, the body that won’t let go even when you’re exhausted.
Together we build a practice around your nervous system, not a generic routine. Sessions blend trauma-informed yoga, breathwork, somatic work, and yoga nidra, with support between sessions so you’re not doing this alone.
In person in Dunwoody / Atlanta, at your home, or online from anywhere.
Free 15-minute call → thecalmlab.org/book-online
Learn more → thecalmlab.org/work-with-me
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MORE FROM THE CALM LAB
Free 7-Day Nervous System Reset Protocol → thecalmlab.org/lead-collection
The Calm Lab Podcast, new episodes every Monday
Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/6aDkTER8NLlkFfiOKAS5Z2
Apple → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-calm-lab-podcast/id1825913005
The 14-Day Nervous System Reset, my signature program for retraining a dysregulated system back into calm → https://www.thecalmlab.org/challenges
Full Bedtime Yoga playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjuqLGdhtCm_sp51ELeC6_POaBvRkB2xl
Pinterest → pinterest.com/thecalmlabwithkassandra
Website → thecalmlab.org
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome & settling in
0:35 Hand on heart, hand on belly
1:35 Self-hug and gentle sway
2:35 Slow strokes down the arms
3:35 Warm palms over the eyes and face
4:20 Jaw massage
4:50 Hands down the legs
5:35 Return to heart and belly, rest
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A prompt for the morning, once you’ve rested: if your own hands could speak to your nervous system right now, what would they be saying? Share it in the comments. I read every one.
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