A monthly 90-minute group lab that teaches you how your nervous system responds to daily life stress, widens your window of tolerance, and increases vagal tone and efficiency, so you develop the self-regulation capacities to meet stressful experiences and return to grounded calm and presence, supported by the co-regulation of a small community practicing alongside you.
Your window of tolerance sets how much of what comes up in daily life can be felt, held, worked through, and integrated, without tipping into hyperarousal above it or going flat into hypoarousal below it, and repatterning the nervous system takes repetition inside a socially engaged state, which each monthly lab provides alongside your own regular practice of the tools you learn.
The state-to-practice model taught in accessible language each month, mapping the three polyvagal states described by Dr. Stephen Porges, the brilliant founder of Polyvagal Theory: connected, activated, and shut down.
Four core practices at each lab, each matched to a different nervous system state, building a flexible and practical toolkit you use between labs.
A peer group learning to co-regulate with each other, lending and borrowing capacities based on the state each person is in, leading to the internalization of self-regulation capacities.
Activation responds to movement and completion of the stress loop before stillness is cultivated, and overwhelm responds to narrowed sensory input first, so each practice is matched to the state present in your body at that moment.
A curious and vulnerable look at what is happening in your body right now.
Name the state and choose the practice that matches it.
Apply it for ten seconds to a few minutes.
Name what changed and what wants to be expressed now.
A direct check-in with your current state, then learning to name it out loud.
One specific nervous system concept taught and practiced.
Four practices, explored and fleshed out for deeper integration.
What helped, what changed, and how to integrate it into daily life.
Shared regulation practiced with peers as the window of tolerance expands.
You can join at any month, and each lab stands on its own while building on the part of the year in progress.
Arrival and a personal baseline, built over the first three months.
Breath, vocal and vagal toning, and matching the intervention to the state present before and after a stressful experience.
Assessing your own window of tolerance, pendulation and titration, and naming what surfaces with open curiosity and vulnerability.
Rest, glimmers, savoring, group co-regulation, and a practice integrated into daily life beyond the monthly labs.
Founding prices apply to the January, February, and March 2027 labs, and standard prices begin in April 2027.
One Sunday each month | 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
An intimate group of 10 in a private home setting in Hideaway, North Scottsdale, with room to move, vocalize, and rest on the floor with blankets and bolsters provided. The address is shared in your confirmation email.
2027 dates: January 10, February 7, March 14
Fourth Sunday of each month | 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Arizona time
A live group lab from your own home with small-group breakouts for co-regulation, and a replay of the guided teaching and practice available for 7 days.
2027 dates: January 24, February 28, March 28
Alessandrina is a somatic nervous system practitioner, wellness educator, and founder of Beautiful Human, with advanced training under Dr. Stephen Porges, the visionary founder of Polyvagal Theory, Dr. Peter Levine, the pioneering developer of Somatic Experiencing, and Dr. Frank Anderson, the renowned psychiatrist and trauma expert, along with training at the Polyvagal Institute.
She has authored 9 books and more than 800 guided meditations, and guides each lab at the pace of safety and trust so you can move from co-regulation in the group to self-regulation you rely on in daily life.
No experience is needed. Each practice is explained before we begin, and you are free to pause, opt out, or adapt any practice to what your body wants.
Wear comfortable clothing you can move and lie down in. For the in-person lab, bring a water bottle and a yoga mat if you have one. For the online lab, choose a quiet space with room to stand, move, and lie on the floor.
The guided teaching and practice are recorded and available for 7 days. Small-group breakouts are never recorded, to protect what participants share with each other. The in-person lab is not recorded.
In January and February, 11:30 am Arizona time is 10:30 am Pacific, 12:30 pm Central, and 1:30 pm Eastern. From March 14, 2027, after daylight saving time begins, it is 11:30 am Pacific, 1:30 pm Central, and 2:30 pm Eastern.
The lab offers non-clinical somatic education and applied Polyvagal Theory in a group format, and it complements any therapy or clinical care you already receive.
In person on Sunday, January 10 with 10 seats, or online on Sunday, January 24 with 30 seats, both from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Arizona time at the founding price.