Restore supports you to develop a better awareness of your internal nervous system states, strengthen your emotional regulation abilities, and cultivate secure and satisfying relationships.

It's time for you to thrive

Feeling safe in your body, first

Yes! You are here to Thrive, not just survive ...

Co-regulation is not only what we as human beings are wired for, but a biological imperative. Feeling 'safe' is key to combatting stress and feelings of hopelessness. However, as I have found in my personal life and as a therapeutic bodyworker, in order to successfully tend to the safety of another, especially a child's, we must tend to our own sense of safety, first.

If we don't learn to self-regulate and control our emotions, there will always be a gap between our perception and the way things really are.

Our nervous systems are designed to be flexible and move in and out of survival states. However, when our lives are out of balance, we function mostly from survival states where the generous, present moment is unavailable to us. Our minds believe everything equal to fear and/or hostility - even when it's not present. These hyper or hypo-arousal states tap our body's resources of vital health, energy and regeneration.

When we embrace the predictable nature of our Autonomic Nervous System, we are able to regulate our bodies properly. Learning how to self-regulate allowed me not only an intellectual journey of my biology, but it led me into a zone where I finally felt safe enough to live, not survive.

With self-regulation, I could successfully negotiate the subconscious thoughts, feelings and belief systems that kept me oscillating in detrimental habits, behaviours and relationships. Accepting my humanness allowed me to dissolve the suppressed shame about how, and why, my body decided it had to keep me safe. Today, I play mostly in the present moment and should life take me into stress, I know how to limit the time I spend there. I found some keys to emotional and physical resilience.

Restore's sessions and programs aim to hand you those keys. Once you establish your tools, you will become less responsive to your external environment and more responsive to the cues your body gives you. Knowing these messages are entirely automatic, you will learn to love yourself properly. You will respect your body's valiant attempts to keep you from danger. You will know what to listen for in your body and your awareness and patience of another's dysregulation will improve exponentially.

Why Polyvagal?

BODY (VAGUS NERVE)

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Restore sessions and programs are informed by The Polyvagal Theory. This modality offers myriad practices, tools and embodiment practices as a way to improve your Vagal Tone and Efficiency, and to understand and integrate the automatic survival response all human beings share. Tani has trained under Jessica Maquire and is a certified Polyvagal Therapy Practitioner (Excellence Program in Polyvagal Theory).

ENERGY POLARITY

Restore acknowledges the importance of the body's natural energy polarity flow. External factors like technology, and internal factors, like stress, can impact our polarity. During programs and sessions, we often use simple ways to correct our reversed polarity. This supports optimal energy flow through the body and helps us to ground effectively.

Tani has studied under Donna Eden Medicine (Radiant Circuits certification).

BREATHWORK

Being breath aware is a crucial tool for successful nervous system relaxation for anyone in that it teaches you to take control of your emotions. During Restore sessions, she supports you with simple breathing techniques, in understanding the difference between diaphragmatic and reverse breathing, and how to identify it in yourself and others and how to correct it.

Tani is a certified Breathwork Teacher incl for groups and couples, under Jon Paul Crimi.

EMBODIMENT AND GUIDED AWARENESS

Restore sessions and programs often include simple embodiment meditations and guided awareness practices. These gentle tools let us learn the language of the body and how it informs our Presence and sense of Self. It deepens our capacity for presence, receptivity and compassion.

Tani is a certified advanced Ho'oponopono Practitioner and a student of non-duality (Rupert Spira and David Bingham).

ALCHEMY

Alchemy teaches us we cannot create without Tension.

To accept Tension, we must have a conscious and functional relationship with our sub-conscious patterns, habits and behaviours. If this concept excites you, certain Restore Programs and Sessions explore Alchemy, as well as the Universal Laws of Opposites, Tension and Resistance and how it impacts us physically and energetically.

Tani is a student of Alchemy under William Whitecloud.

Creativity is one of the easiest ways we can communicate with our Hearts and Souls. Creative expression plays a crucial part at Restore. Regulate to Create programs and sessions for children and adults include gentle nervous system regulation practices and then, getting crafty with creative projects. Tani is a writer and enjoys myriad creative activities for fun. Restore programs and sessions often collaborates with art therapists to bring you exceptional and memorable experiences in this regard.

CREATIVITY

One of the major strengths of The Polyvagal Theory is its compatibility with numerous existing therapeutic models. By focusing on the physiological mechanisms underlying emotional and social experiences, this approach enriches and supplements various conceptual frameworks within Restore:

"The Polyvagal Therapy is not a specific technique but a way of thinking about therapy through the prism of the autonomic nervous system. It's an invitation to be creative, to constantly adapt, and to trust the deep wisdom of the body and heart in healing life's wounds."

Dr Stephen Porges, Founder of The Polyvagal Theory