Fall class 2026 6 sessions
Polyvagal Co-regulation Skills for Professionals
Build More Safety, Agency, and Presence into Your Practice
For: Teachers, Therapists, Physicians, Somatic Practitioners, Yoga Teachers, Coaches
Bring More Co-Regulation into Your Relationships, Personal and Professional
Thursdays October 8, 15, 22, 29, November 5, and 12
12:30 - 2:30 pm ET
On Zoom
Enrollment limited to 6 people
Price: $150 per person for Intensive Series
Expect to practice with a buddy outside of class, online or in-person.
*Satisfies half the class requirement for Level I BCR Certified Peer Teacher
Online with breakout rooms via Zoom
In this series, we focus on bringing co-regulation skills and practice into our personal and professional lives.
We start by grounding ourselves in our own capacity for embodiment and peer relating.The work is grounded in your body and your relationships. We focus on what it actually feels like to track and cooperate with your own autonomic nervous system, while staying present with another person.
A central thread throughout is practical discernment: how do you know which exercise to choose, for yourself or a client in any given moment? We will orient to the Four Skills for Embodiment in relational space, and practice arrival, up-regulation, down-regulation, and regulation for connection.
Because the group is small, we can make room for supervision: your real professional situations, your specific populations.
“Polyvagal Theory identifies co-regulation as a biological imperative: a need that must be met to sustain life.”
- Deb Dana, author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy
What You Can Expect:
- Track threat and safety in your nervous system.
- Practice first aid for the amygdala.
- Understand the importance of arrival.
- Connect with others while staying connected with yourself.
- Move beyond habits of performative presence.
- Find boundaries that allow you to get closer and still feel safe.
- Shift out of threat responses and stuck places, with a partner.
- Help others re-regulate without depleting yourself.
- Develop your skills for burnout prevention and recovery.
- Access new capacity for ease, vitality, and presence.
- Learn safe, embodied practices for clients, students, and groups.
Co-regulation expands our capacity to respond to the complexity and intensity of modern life, without getting overwhelmed or burnt out. We practitioners need this resource and so do our clients and students.
Class will be limited to 6 people. We will explore your personal and professional interests, including tailoring the practices for your populations.
You will need internet, a computer or tablet with internet and Zoom downloaded, and a private space with good lighting on your face. The bigger the screen the more possibility for co-regulation, no phones.
Beth Dennison
MA in MFT, MEd, LMT, SEP
Beth brings 50 years of teaching, psychotherapy, bodywork and study of neuroscience, including Polyvagal theory, to designing learning experiences that rewire our brains for connection and co-regulation. She models the embodiment she teaches.
Her groundbreaking book on Body Up! Co-Regulation provides a much needed remedy to the disconnection and dysregulation that pervade modern culture. She developed Body Up! Co-Regulation to rewire our nervous systems for peer relationships. We need to trust peer relationships in order to cooperate better and to get off of the hierarchical ladder of oppression.
Beth’s Body Up! Handbook will anchor and organize your learning.
This ground breaking book introduces Body Up! Co-Regulation which offers tools to cultivate embodiment and connection in a safe and engaging way. Life is a regulation game. We need to be able to calm down to sleep, rev up to work and play, and attune to others for successful relationships. Dysregulation wastes a lot of time and energy. It makes us tired, sick, ornery and stupid. It wears us out, body and soul.
Catch dysregulation early while you still have enough oxygen in your brain to do something about it!