Flip the Stress Switch — Reset Your Vagus Nerve

You breathe better than you used to. You try to relax and build resilience. And yet something keeps pulling you back. The shoulders won’t fully drop. Sleep doesn’t restore you the way it should. Small things hit harder than they used to. And the off switch barely works.

Your nervous system is stuck in survival mode — and it has never learned how to turn off.

The problem is that no one has shown you where the master reset switch actually is.

Price:

$ 31

Note: Breath holds are always guided and optional. For the best experience watch out 18 min free Breath Basics video first.

The workshop recording will be available after the workshop.

Meet your vagus nerve — and learn how to use it

The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in your body — running from your brainstem through your throat, heart, lungs, and gut. It is the primary highway of your parasympathetic nervous system — the calming nervous system. The brake pedal that is supposed to bring you back to calm and safety.

Most people have never been taught how to press it.

In this 90–120 minute online workshop, Siv Jøssang Shields — chiropractor of 30 years and breathwork facilitator — guides you through the science and the practice of vagal reset. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of why you feel stuck in stress, and a set of immediately usable tools to flip the switch.

The workshop is recorded. If you cannot attend live, the full recording will be available for you to watch in your own time.

What you'll learn

The science, made human: The vagus nerve, vagal tone, and Heart Rate Variability — why your resilience is measurable, and why it’s trainable.

Five reset tools you can use anywhere:

Humming and chanting — your voice as direct vagal medicine
The extended exhale — the always-available brake pedal
Gargling — a 30-second morning reset
Cold water exposure — the emergency switch
Soft gaze and eye movement — change your eyes, change your state

The Integrated Breath Session: A guided 25-minute breathwork journey that brings together the mechanics of correct breathing (WS1), the CO₂ physiology (WS2), and the vagal reset tools of this workshop (WS3) — into one embodied experience. Inside the session you’ll feel the coherence rhythm (5–6 breaths per minute) — the breath pattern that produces the highest known vagal stimulation available through breath alone. In Workshop 4 we explain what is happening between your heart and your brain. Here, you feel it first.

Two paths from here

If nothing changes: Your nervous system stays stuck in chronic stress. Strategies keep hitting the same ceiling — because the switch was never flipped.

With consistent practice: Vagal tone strengthens. The brake pedal gets more powerful. Stress still arrives — but stops hijacking. Recovery shortens, sleep deepens, emotional range widens. You stop spending your life calming down, and start building a nervous system that rarely needs to.

This is for you if...

You’ve tried stress management and hit a ceiling
You feel anxious even when life is ‘fine’
You’re wired but tired — exhausted but unable to switch off
You’re ready to stop coping and start building

“Small acts of vagal activation, repeated daily, compound into a fundamentally different nervous system. The body changes through repetition, not insight.”

— Siv Jøssang Shields, Integrated Human

Meet Your Guide

Siv is an experienced chiropractor for 30 years with thousands of patient consultations with pain, tension and stress often originating in old trauma. Since 2010, Siv has guided countless individuals and groups worldwide through neurogenic tremoring, both in person and online.

Siv brings expertise in Breath Work, Hypnotherapy, Brainwave Entrainment, HeartMath, and trauma-informed facilitation. Her teaching style is warm, clear, and grounded in deep respect for the body’s wisdom. She also has a B.A in Biology and a MS in Physiology.

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Price:

$ 31

The workshop recording will be available after the workshop.