Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Unlock your body’s innate healing power with leading-edge embodied psychology and daily therapeutic yoga practices.
Regulate your nervous system, release stored trauma, and cultivate resilience through breath, movement, and awareness.
The key to emotional balance and physical resilience lies within the untold stories of your body...
Many of us silently endure anxiety, chronic pain, autoimmune issues, and fatigue, often feeling disconnected from ourselves and struggling to find lasting relief.
And in stressful times like these, those issues are intensified.
These symptoms aren’t signs of brokenness. They’re signals from your nervous system, calling for restoration, says clinical psychologist, somatic psychotherapist, and trauma expert Dr. Arielle Schwartz — and with the right tools and awareness, your body can become your greatest ally for healing.
With Arielle’s unique expertise in trauma therapy, blending neuroscience, polyvagal theory, yoga therapy, and spiritual principles, you’ll gain practical tools that can help you shift from dysregulation and overwhelm to inner peace and empowered self-awareness.
Your nervous system holds the key to restoring balance, inner safety, and embodied vitality.
Most physical and emotional distress stems from the nervous system. As life’s stresses build up, your body responds with unconscious patterns — like muscle tension (somatic armoring) and shallow breathing — that can throw your autonomic nervous system off balance, affecting your overall wellbeing.
Join Dr. Schwartz for a groundbreaking 7-module journey into the transformative science and practice of embodied psychology — where polyvagal theory, therapeutic yoga, breathwork, and energy alignment converge to help you reclaim a deep sense of inner calm, clarity, and connection.
Each week, you’ll be guided through practical tools and body-based techniques — including vagus nerve stimulation through sound and touch, intuitive movement, therapeutic yoga, postural resets, and yoga nidra — that can help you regulate your nervous system, release stored stress and trauma, and reactivate your body’s self-healing systems.
Join Arielle for a 7-week journey to:
- Regulate your nervous system and enhance vagal tone — the keys to reducing stress, improving digestion, and boosting immunity
- Release stored trauma and reset subconscious stress patterns through breath, movement, and somatic awareness
- Discover the profound connection between your spine, posture, and spiritual resilience
- Develop your own resilience recipe to align with your core values, purpose, and intuitive wisdom
- Reconnect with your body’s innate intelligence to cultivate greater energy, clarity, and emotional freedom
Throughout this immersive program, you’ll be guided through experiential practices each week, including breathwork, alignment techniques, and postural resets — helping you feel more grounded, clear, and in tune with your highest self.
Now is the time to free yourself from old patterns, reclaim your vitality, and awaken your body’s wisdom.
Whether you’re navigating trauma, stress, chronic dysregulation, or simply seeking more grounded clarity in your everyday life — this experiential program will help you come home to yourself.
This is more than a course — it’s a reconnection to the healing intelligence that lives within your body.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Arielle will guide you to strengthen your nervous system, awaken your true nature, and cultivate clarity, vitality, and emotional balance.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Arielle and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Arielle’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions 2025-06-17 1:00:00 pm
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Arielle. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to rewire your brain and nervous system through mindful movement, breath, and the wisdom of your wounds.
Module 1: Body-Centered Psychotherapies to Awaken to Your True Nature & Embodied Wisdom (2025-06-17 1:00:00 pm)
Embodied psychology provides the tools to address your emotional and physical health with breath, movement, and awareness practices.
While stress and traumatic life events disrupt the communications between your body and brain, you can learn body-based tools to help you find a greater sense of balance and resilience in a changing world.
Arielle will explain how body-centered psychotherapies have mapped a path that not only releases the impact of these challenging events, but ultimately returns you to your own embodied wisdom.
Learn how to navigate challenges with resilience and utilize the awareness of your nervous system to realize where you’re holding tension, and how to care for and attune to your nervous system.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- An overview of brain-body connections in healing
- An introduction to the core principles of embodied psychology
- How stress and trauma disrupt brain-body communications
- Guided sensory integration practices to enhance your resilience and tap into your somatic intelligence
Module 2: Vagal Toning to Regulate Your Nervous System for a Balanced Body & Mind (2025-06-24 1:00:00 pm)
Emotional or physical symptoms aren’t a sign that your body and mind are failing you — they’re signs that your nervous system is working hard to find your way to resolution and balance.
Through the lens of the nervous system, better understand these symptoms and learn vagal toning tools to enhance a felt sense of balance in body and mind.
Rooted in neuroscience and applied polyvagal theory, learn how to access the healing power of your vagus nerve, known as the body-mind superhighway of communication.
In this module, you’ll:
- Navigate the inevitable stressors of life with greater equanimity
- Learn the power of positive neuroplasticity
- Experience practical exercises to optimize vagal toning for balance and connection to yourself — including self-applied touch to stimulate the vagus nerve and enhance the mind-body connection
- Gain techniques for regulating your stress responses
Module 3: Postural Resets & Therapeutic Yoga for More Restorative Sleep and Reduced Pain & Inflammation (2025-07-01 1:00:00 pm)
Alignment and flexibility of your spine is a cornerstone of physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
Yogis have long espoused that a “flexible spine creates a flexible mind.” Dr. Schwartz’s unique approach applies polyvagal theory into therapeutic yoga for trauma recovery.
Her approach offers simple practices to enhance your wellbeing. She’ll guide you through postural awareness practices that allow you to refine your alignment from the inside out.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How posture affects emotional wellbeing
- The relationship between spinal health and nervous system resilience
- How to enhance your vagal efficiency with a postural reset
- How therapeutic yoga aligns and balances the nervous system
- Chair-based and mat yoga practices to release cervical spine and pelvis for better posture
- How to come out of postural inefficiencies so you’re not stuck in hyperarousal states — like a racing mind, irritability, poor sleep, and more
Module 4: Access Your Internal Compass to Guide Your Decision-Making Through Somatic Awareness (2025-07-08 1:00:00 pm)
Working metaphorically, focus on the digestive system as a beautiful boundary system that helps navigate stimuli you’re taking in from the world all day.
Learn to eliminate experiences that aren’t good for you by using your digestion system as a discernment mechanism.
As Arielle will explain, the deepest source of intuition lives within your body. Taking time to sense and feel your body helps you ground yourself in an inner knowing.
This bodily felt sense allows you to listen to your own internal compass, which guides your decisions in personal, relational, and professional spaces. Through the development and self-ownership of your boundaries, feel equipped to own your power and claim your worth.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- Somatic movement practices for personal empowerment
- An exercise to find an embodied sense of “yes” and “no” in the body
- Embodying your self-worth
- An exercise to cultivate a felt sense of boundaries and your inner voice
- How to reclaim your being so you’re not engaging in performative behavior
Module 5: Energy Alignment & Spiritual Practices to Create a Felt Sense of Freedom in Your Body, Mind & Spirit (2025-07-15 1:00:00 pm)
When you feel out of balance energetically, you might notice that you feel spacey and ungrounded — or heavy and lethargic.
Arielle will explain the connection between the vagus nerve, nervous system plexus, endocrine system glands, and how they correspond to the chakra system.
Working with the vagus nerve helps you reclaim an energetic alignment, bringing you into greater clarity and equanimity. As you align your energy body, notice the places that are stuck in expansion and retraction to find balance.
Focus on the highly concentrated areas of nerve endings in the vagus nerve that align with the chakra system.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How the vagus nerve relates to energy centers
- The energetics of the chakra system with an understanding of yogic philosophy
- Subtle body practices for spiritual grounding
- Powerful breath and vocalization techniques to balance and align your energy centers
Module 6: Release Unwanted Tension & Defensive Postures With Polyvagal Theory - "The Science of Safety" (2025-07-22 1:00:00 pm)
Work with the lower vagus nerve to move out of defensive states and find deep relaxation without going into collapse — what Arielle calls the “sweet spot.”
When you don’t feel safe, it’s difficult to create meaningful change in your life. Defensive physiology often maintains limiting beliefs and unwanted behaviors. So, how do you release unwanted tension?
Polyvagal theory — the science of safety — offers a path to soften out of unnecessary protective states. Arielle will safely guide you toward your relaxation response, helping you access your deepest source of restorative, embodied healing.
Rest in stillness and embrace vulnerability. With mindful rest, have more time to care for yourself.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- Yoga Nidra and non-sleep deep rest for healing
- Mind-body practices for rewiring limiting patterns
- Releasing defensiveness and embracing vulnerability
- Humility as spiritual ground
- A 20-minute resting practice that includes a full-body scan to anchor your body and mind
Module 7: Create Your Action Plan to Bring Resilience & Alignment Into Your Daily Life (2025-07-29 1:00:00 pm)
What does resilience look like on a daily basis? Build resilience by cultivating beliefs and behaviors that support your physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual wellbeing — so you can flexibly adapt to life’s curveballs.
Arielle will share her resilience recipe, helping you discern how you want to spend your time and what gives you purpose, so you can recognize your own rhythms and maximize your core connection to living a life of purpose.
Day by day, each small positive action accumulates to strengthen your spirit.
As Arielle will explain, to actualize change, it’s important to bring your insights into action. Living in alignment with your values is a profound source of meaning and purpose.
In this module, you’ll:
- Enhance awareness with values-based living practices
- Reflect upon your golden nuggets of insight
- Develop your personalized resilience action plan
- Set intentions for continued growth and transformation
- Create a values-identification practice to develop an action plan to bring your values into daily living
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2025-06-07 12:00:00 am , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Dr. Arielle’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Move Your Body: Heal Legacy Trauma & Enhance Your Resilience
Video Teaching With Dr. Arielle Schwartz
In this 2-hour master video practicum, created exclusively for The Shift Network, Arielle teaches that when the wounds of one generation remain unresolved, they can be passed on as a legacy. Be ready to move and be moved in this engaging, experiential presentation of mind-body practices you can do at home. Follow along as Arielle guides you to release intergenerational trauma on many levels.
Becoming an Embodied Authentic Self: An Interview With Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Video Teaching With Dr. Arielle Schwartz
In this 40-minute video teaching, Arielle shares her own journey of becoming a somatic therapist and yoga teacher, and how embodiment was central to her own healing. She shares the significant influences on her approach to working with others. She offers the three most important factors in healing trauma that are held in the body and guides you through an experiential movement process aimed at helping you come home to your embodied, authentic self.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Book Chapter: Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Digital Guide From Dr. Arielle Schwartz
This 45-page guide is based on Arielle’s vagus nerve yoga. Facilitate your own courageous journey of self-discovery and release the adverse effects of trauma from your body and mind. Be invited to become a compassionate witness to your mind, explore conscious breathing, and discover mindful movement practices that enhance your mental, emotional, and physical health.
Webinar: Fascia & the Vagus Nerve
Video Teaching With Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Arielle’s 40-minute webinar focuses on the interconnection between the vagus nerve and the fascia of the body. After a short lecture with slides, hone in on the role of self-applied touch in areas of the face and neck where the vagus nerve is close to the surface of your skin. The vagal toning strategies in this session are focused on providing you with relief if you tend to clench your jaw, grind your teeth, or are prone to tension headaches. Explore gentle movements focused on letting go of tension around the upper chest and heart before closing with grounding strategies of joint rotations and full-body rocking movements.
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Vagal Toning for Resilience offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Dr. Arielle Schwartz will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from psychologist, author, yoga teacher, and therapist trainer Dr. Arielle Schwartz, founder of Resilience-Informed Therapy — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to integrate leading-edge embodied psychology practices and therapeutic yoga into your daily life — to create a strong foundation of resilience, personal empowerment, and alignment with your higher self. Course sessions are on 2025-06-17 1:00:00 pm
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Vagal Toning for Resilience
We feel honored that Dr. Arielle Schwartz, founder of Resilience-Informed Therapy, has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a psychologist, author, yoga teacher, and therapist trainer whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about restoring your nervous system, awakening your true nature, and cultivating clarity, vitality, and emotional balance, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE Vagal Toning for Resilience — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before July 1, 2025 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
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About Dr. Arielle Schwartz
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Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, EMDR consultant, and Kripalu yoga teacher. She’s an internationally sought-out speaker, a leading voice in the field of trauma recovery, and the author of seven books, including The Complex PTSD Workbook... EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology... The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook... and her latest, Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.
As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, she offers an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR Therapy, parts-work therapy, and therapeutic yoga for trauma. She specializes in applied polyvagal theory, which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions.
Arielle provides informational mental health and wellness updates through her writing, public speaking, social media presence, and blog. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
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