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A growing library of background reading, self-guided practices, and tools to support your healing between sessions — and beyond.

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Pick up where you left off in Janet's library.

Understanding the landscape of healing

Context and education to help you understand the why behind the work — the science, the research, and the wisdom informing each approach.

Daily PracticeA five-minute pause before the day begins.
PodcastA conversation on nervous system regulation.
ReflectionWhere do I feel safety in my body today?
Guided ExerciseOrienting through the senses.
Home Space

Your Environment is Part of Your Healing

The spaces we inhabit every day shape how we feel, think, and regulate. How to create a home environment that supports rest, repair, and inner safety.

Vacations

Rest as a Healing Practice — Not a Reward

Why genuine rest is one of the most therapeutic things you can give yourself — and how to make rest actually restorative rather than another source of pressure.

Nature

Why Nature Heals — The Science of Ecotherapy

Time in nature measurably reduces cortisol, slows the heart rate, and restores attentional capacity. What research tells us and how to use it daily.

Eye Movement

How EMDR Works — and Why Eyes Matter

The neuroscience behind eye movement desensitisation — how bilateral stimulation changes the way traumatic memories are stored and why this creates lasting relief.

Somatic Practice

The Body Keeps the Score — and It Can Let Go

Trauma doesn't live only in the mind. How the body holds emotional experience — and what somatic approaches do to help it release.

Fascia Work

Fascia — the Body's Hidden Emotional Architecture

What fascia is, why it matters for emotional health, and how working with it can unlock areas of chronic tension that nothing else can reach.

TRE

TRE — Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises

TRE activates the body's natural tremoring mechanism — releasing deep muscular patterns of stress and trauma at the nervous system level.

Healing Process

Healing Is Not Linear — What to Actually Expect

Understanding the non-linear nature of psychological healing — why things sometimes feel harder before they feel easier, and why that's often a sign of progress.

Guided self-retreats for deeper practice

More structured than a single practice, less demanding than an in-person retreat — these self-guided journeys are designed for a weekend, a few days off, or a slow week.

Each retreat draws on a combination of modalities and includes guidance, practices, and reflection prompts. They are designed to be taken at your own pace, in the comfort of your own home or a place that feels safe.

Most people find it helpful to move through a retreat over two to three days, rather than attempting it in a single sitting.

Browse All Retreats →
01 A Weekend of Deep Rest & Restoration 2–3 days
02 Returning to the Body — A Somatic Journey 3 days
03 Grief, Loss & Letting Go Weekend
04 Nature as Medicine — An Outdoor Retreat 2 days
05 Clarity & Direction — A Mindfulness Retreat 3–4 days

Tools to carry with you

Practical techniques, guided exercises, and daily practices grounded in the modalities we work with — designed to be integrated into everyday life.

01

Kriyas

Specific sequences of movement, breath, and sound from the Kundalini tradition — each designed to produce a particular effect on the body, mind, and energy system. Powerful, precise, and accessible.

Kundalini Yoga
02

Chakras

An introduction to the chakra system — the energy centres of the body — and how understanding them can help you locate and work with areas of stagnation, depletion, or excess.

Energy Work
03

Mantras

Sound as medicine. Specific mantras from the Kundalini tradition and their effects — how repetition works on the nervous system and why sound can reach places that words cannot.

Sound & Vibration
04

Meditations

A curated library of guided and self-led meditations — from foundational breath awareness and body scans to more advanced practices including Yoga Nidra and open awareness.

Mindfulness
05

Trauma Practices

Gentle, evidence-informed practices for working with trauma — including grounding techniques, nervous system regulation, pendulation, and somatic awareness exercises safe for self-guided use.

Somatic & EMDR
06

Supplements

An overview of supplements with meaningful clinical research behind them — those that support mood, nervous system regulation, sleep, and inflammation. Always in consultation with your physician.

Integrative Health
"Healing is not something that happens to you — it is something you participate in, moment by moment, breath by breath."
— Janet Aspen, Ph.D