Video Library
The Calm Collection:
Restoring Balance One Practice at a Time
Healing deepens when the body is brought back into the process. Your body holds the imprint of what you’ve lived through—and it also holds the capacity for repair and restoration. The practices below are research-supported somatic tools that help release stored tension, honor emotional experience, and guide the nervous system back toward balance.
Please note: These videos are for informational and educational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health care.
Breathing Exercise
This breathing technique is a research-supported way to settle both the body and mind. Backed by findings from Stanford’s Huberman Lab, it helps reduce stress, slow the heart rate, and cue the nervous system to return to calm. Just a few rounds can make a noticeable difference.
The Butterfly Hug
The Butterfly Hug is a nervous system regulation practice that creates bilateral stimulation—activating both sides of the brain. This alternating rhythm supports the brain in moving out of a stress or survival response and into a more balanced, integrated state.
Self-Havening Hug
A gentle, self-soothing practice that uses touch to calm the nervous system and create a sense of stability in the body. This simple technique supports emotional regulation, grounding, and connection—especially during moments of overwhelm or anxiety.
Stretch-Reach-Release
Sometimes the body holds on to the actions that never got to happen during moments of fear, overwhelm, or threat. This gentle somatic practice invites the body to complete those unfinished actions through slow, mindful arm extensions.
Sweeping the Horizon
This video offers a gentle way to calm an overactive nervous system and reduce hypervigilance- helping the brain shift out of “fight or flight” and into a more grounded, expansive state.
Thymus Thumps
Gently tapping the center of your chest stimulates the thymus gland, supporting immune function, boosting energy, and promoting emotional balance.
Nurturing Touch
Rooted in the work of researcher Dr. Kristin Neff on mindful self-compassion, this exercise uses nurturing touch to signal steadiness and care, and helps shift us from self-criticism to self-kindness.
Pendulation Exercise
If you’ve ever felt stuck in stress, anxiety, or shutdown, pendulation helps your nervous system shift out of those states by following the body’s natural rhythm — not by force, but through gentle regulation.