Jorina Elbers, MD
You can teach your body to feel safe again.
Discover how your heart may be one of the fastest and most powerful tools for helping your nervous system recover from chronic stress and trauma, and learn evidence-based HeartMath® practices that help you think more clearly, respond to life more calmly, and support your body’s innate healing capacity.
Imagine moving through your day with a calmer mind, a steadier heart, and a greater sense of ease.
Imagine sleeping more deeply, recovering more quickly after stressful moments, and feeling fully present with the people you love — instead of overwhelmed by everything life asks of you.
In today’s world, that kind of steadiness can feel out of reach. You may understand why stress affects you the way it does, yet still find yourself living with anxiety, emotional overwhelm, exhaustion, or physical symptoms — even chronic dis-ease — that never seem to fully resolve.
Neurologist Jorina Elbers, MD, the Medical Director at HeartMath® Institute, teaches that these challenges often reflect the way your nervous system adapted to prolonged stress or trauma — not because something’s wrong with you, but because your body learned to survive.
The encouraging news is that your nervous system can learn a healthier way of responding, and your heart is one of your body's most powerful resources for helping it do exactly that.
In this transformative 7-week live video course, you'll learn specific practices that restore a greater sense of safety in your body, strengthen your capacity to regulate difficult emotions, and help you navigate life's challenges with greater confidence and ease.
Combining leading neuroscience with HeartMath's evidence-based techniques, Dr. Jorina will guide you through a practical, step-by-step process that can help your heart and nervous system work together to restore balance and cultivate lasting resilience.
A board-certified neurologist, former Assistant Professor of Neurology at Stanford University, and Medical Director at the HeartMath Institute, Dr. Jorina has helped thousands of healthcare professionals, parents, and individuals cultivate the remarkable connection between the heart, brain, and nervous system.
Her gift is translating complex science into practical tools you can begin using from the very first session.
Each week, you'll experience HeartMath® techniques firsthand, building a practical toolkit while discovering how your emotions shape your physiology.
As these skills become part of everyday life, you may find yourself sleeping more soundly, thinking more clearly under pressure, communicating with greater patience, and feeling more like yourself again — even during life's most demanding seasons.
You'll also discover that your heart is far more than an organ that pumps blood. HeartMath research shows it can become a powerful source of emotional regulation, clearer decision-making, and deeper inner stability.
As you cultivate coherence — a state in which your heart, brain, and nervous system work together in harmony — you'll begin approaching life's challenges with greater compassion, confidence, and trust.
Over time, these practices can become more than techniques. They become a way of living, helping you feel more at home in your own body while bringing greater balance, hope, and vitality to your health, your relationships, and the choices you make each day.
During this experiential and deeply transformative 7-week journey, you'll:
- Experience Heart-Focused Breathing®, Quick Coherence®, Inner Ease®, Heart Soak®, Freeze-Frame®, and Heart Lock-In® — six HeartMath® techniques you can use to cultivate greater emotional balance throughout the day
- Discover how chronic stress and trauma influence your nervous system, physical health, and emotional wellbeing, bringing new clarity and healing to symptoms that you haven’t been able to resolve
- Expand your Window of Tolerance — your nervous system's capacity to remain present and grounded during life's challenges
- Recognize the early signs of nervous system dysregulation so you can respond before stress and overwhelm take over
- Explore how nervous system regulation supports your cardiovascular health, immune system, and overall wellbeing
- Strengthen heart-based communication skills that foster greater trust, compassion, and connection in your relationships
- Learn how to make more effective choices by integrating clear thinking with your heart's intuitive wisdom
- Apply each week's practices between sessions, allowing real-life experience to become your greatest teacher
- Create a sustainable HeartMath® practice that supports lifelong emotional balance and wellbeing
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Dr. Jorina will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to strengthen the connection between your heart and nervous system — so you can feel safer in your body, respond to life's challenges with greater ease, and create a more resilient foundation for your health and relationships.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Dr. Jorina and experience her teachings through livestreaming on any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Dr. Jorina’ 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 are on 2026-09-23 5:00:00 pm.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Dr. Jorina. 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 help restore your body's natural sense of safety — allowing your heart to become a trusted source of calm, resilience, and healing.
Understanding Stress, Trauma & the Healing Power of the Heart: Build a Foundation for Healing (2026-09-23 5:00:00 pm)
Chronic stress and trauma have traditionally been viewed as psychological experiences that primarily affect mental health. Research now shows they also produce measurable changes throughout the brain and body.
In this opening session, Dr. Jorina will share how stress and trauma affect your whole system, uncovering why so many emotional challenges also show up physically. You'll also discover why the heart plays such a powerful role in healing as you learn Heart-Focused Breathing®, a simple practice that helps restore calm, stability, and resilience.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience Heart-Focused Breathing®, a simple technique that helps regulate your nervous system and build a foundation for healing
- Discover how chronic stress and trauma affect both your mind and body, helping you better understand the symptoms you may be experiencing
- Explore the science of heart coherence and why the heart is such a powerful resource for healing and resilience
- Identify everyday moments when you can use Heart-Focused Breathing® to interrupt stress before it escalates
- Begin building a simple daily regulation practice to support greater emotional and physical wellbeing
Managing Your Emotions & Energy: Cultivate Greater Emotional Resilience (2026-09-30 5:00:00 pm)
Every thought, emotion, and experience either depletes or renews your energy.
Dr. Jorina will introduce you to Intelligent Energy Management and discover how your emotional state influences your nervous system, hormones, and overall wellbeing.
As you learn to recognize energy-draining patterns and consciously shift toward more renewing emotional states, you'll discover that you have more power than you may realize to support your own resilience, health, and wellbeing.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience the Quick Coherence® Technique, helping you shift depleting emotions into more renewing emotional states
- Discover how your thoughts and emotions influence your energy, health, and overall wellbeing
- Explore the principles of Intelligent Energy Management and learn how to apply them in everyday life
- Recognize the emotional patterns that either drain or renew your energy throughout the day
- Build greater emotional self-regulation, giving you practical tools to restore balance whenever you need it
Expanding Your Window of Tolerance: Recover From Stress More Easily (2026-10-07 5:00:00 pm)
Chronic stress and trauma can leave your nervous system stuck in patterns of overwhelm, anxiety, numbness, or exhaustion.
You'll learn to recognize these survival states, understand your personal Window of Tolerance, and identify the early signs of nervous system dysregulation.
Dr. Jorina will guide you through the Inner Ease® Technique to restore balance in real time, helping you recover more quickly from stress and gradually build greater resilience.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience the Inner Ease® Technique, giving you a practical way to restore balance when you feel overwhelmed or dysregulated
- Recognize the signs of hyperarousal, hypoarousal, and nervous system dysregulation so you can respond before stress takes over
- Understand your personal Window of Tolerance and how expanding it can help you navigate life's challenges with greater ease
- Identify your own early warning signs and common triggers, helping you recognize when your nervous system is moving out of balance
- Learn how to bring yourself back into regulation, building greater capacity and resilience over time
Understanding the Link Between Stress & Health: Support Your Body's Natural Healing (2026-10-14 5:00:00 pm)
Chronic stress and unresolved trauma affect far more than emotional wellbeing. They influence nearly every system of the body.
Dr. Jorina will show how nervous system dysregulation contributes to inflammation, immune function, cardiovascular health, and many persistent physical symptoms.
You'll also discover why fear and uncertainty can unintentionally reinforce illness, while learning the Heart Soak® Technique to restore calm, ease emotional distress, and support both physical and emotional healing.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience the Heart Soak® Technique, helping you calm emotional distress and reconnect with your heart as a source of compassion and inner strength
- Discover how chronic stress and trauma influence physical health, validating the connection between your emotional and physiological experiences
- Explore how nervous system regulation supports your immune system, cardiovascular health, and overall wellbeing
- Learn to recognize emotional patterns that can amplify fear, worry, and physical symptoms, while learning how to respond with greater awareness
- Strengthen your capacity to navigate illness and uncertainty, supporting greater resilience, hope, and healing
Rebuilding Trust & Relationships: Create More Connected Communication (2026-10-21 5:00:00 pm)
Healing doesn't happen in isolation. Our attachment patterns shape the way we communicate, regulate our emotions, and experience trust with others.
You'll explore how these patterns influence your relationships and discover how heart-based communication can reduce conflict while strengthening understanding and connection.
Dr. Jorina will guide you through HeartMath communication skills that help you stay emotionally grounded during difficult conversations, creating greater compassion, authenticity, and resilience in your relationships.
In this session, you'll:
- Strengthen heart-based communication skills that foster greater trust, compassion, and understanding with family, friends, colleagues, and yourself
- Explore how your attachment patterns influence the way you communicate, connect, and respond in relationships
- Learn to recognize your emotional responses in moments of conflict, allowing you to respond with greater awareness and intention
- Discover practical ways to bring more connection and resilience into your everyday relationships
Listening to Your Heart's Intelligence: Make Decisions With Greater Confidence (2026-10-28 5:00:00 pm)
Beyond helping regulate stress, coherence also strengthens access to your inner wisdom.
You'll explore the difference between emotional reactions, analytical thinking, and intuitive knowing.
Through the Freeze-Frame® Technique, Dr. Jorina will help you connect with your heart as a trusted inner resource and learn a practical process for approaching life's challenges with greater clarity, confidence, and discernment.
Whether you're navigating personal, relationship, or career decisions, you'll discover how coherence can help you make choices that align with your deepest values.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience the Freeze-Frame® Technique to access your heart's wisdom when facing important decisions or challenges
- Discover how to distinguish intuitive knowing from emotional reactions and analytical thinking
- Explore ways to apply heart-centered decision-making to personal, relationship, and professional situations
- Strengthen your confidence in your inner guidance, allowing you to move forward with greater trust and authenticity
- Learn how coherence helps you make choices that reflect your deepest values and what matters most
Living From the Heart: Become a Positive Force for Healing (2026-11-04 5:00:00 pm)
In this final session, you'll bring together everything you've learned and discover how coherence extends beyond your own wellbeing to positively influence the people around you.
Dr. Jorina will walk you through the science of the heart's electromagnetic field, emerging research on interconnectedness, and the role of heart-centered intention.
Through the Heart Lock-In® Technique, you'll create a sustainable daily practice that strengthens resilience, supports healing during times of grief or uncertainty, and helps you bring more care, compassion, and coherence into the world around you.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience the Heart Lock-In® Technique, helping you cultivate a lasting daily practice while extending care and compassion to others
- Explore the science of the heart's electromagnetic field and how your heart communicates with the people and world around you
- Discover how heart-centered intention can positively influence your relationships, community, and the collective field
- Create a personalized plan for maintaining coherence as a lifelong practice
- Leave with practical tools and renewed confidence to continue living from the heart with greater resilience, purpose, and compassion
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-09-12 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Dr. Jorina’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
6 HeartMath® Techniques for Easing Stress, Staying Balanced and Achieving Mental Clarity
Ebook From HeartMath Institute
Discover six proven HeartMath® techniques that can help you reduce stress, restore emotional balance, and bring greater mental clarity to everyday life. Through simple, practical tools, you'll learn how to access the wisdom and resilience of your heart, helping you respond to challenges with greater calm, compassion, and ease. These research-based practices are designed to help you tap into an inner source of strength that's always available, supporting more harmonious relationships with yourself and those around you.
Building Inner Balance: A HeartMath® Guide for Everyday Life eBook
Ebook From HeartMath Institute
Discover science-based HeartMath® techniques to build inner balance, reduce stress, and restore emotional equilibrium. When stress becomes chronic, your nervous system never truly gets a break, quietly draining your energy, clouding your thinking, disrupting your sleep, and making it harder to be patient, present, and compassionate with yourself and others. Through practical tools for shifting into heart coherence, you'll learn how to recover more quickly from stress, respond more effectively to life's challenges, and build a steadier internal foundation. The goal isn't to eliminate stress or difficult emotions, but to help you navigate whatever life brings with greater resilience and ease.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Excerpt From "Heart Intelligence"
PDF Book Chapters by Doc Childre, Howard Martin, Deborah Rozman, and Rollin McCraty, PhD
These chapters explore how living from the heart helps you discover your authentic self and live with greater purpose, instead of being driven by fear or external expectations. You'll learn why genuine care empowers others, while overcare can lead to burnout, dependency, and neglect of your own wellbeing. The authors also show how balancing compassion with healthy boundaries can strengthen relationships, reduce conflict, and foster greater understanding in a divided world.
From Dysregulation to Coherence: Exploring the HeartMath® Approach to Emotional and Physiological Regulation
PDF Article by Jorina Elbers, MD, MS, and Rollin McCraty, PhD
Deepen your understanding of the science behind Jorina's course with her peer-reviewed article, co-written with Dr. Rollin McCraty, Director of Research of the HeartMath Institute. You'll discover how chronic stress and trauma reshape the nervous system, why heart rate variability is a powerful marker of resilience, and how HeartMath® techniques help restore emotional and physiological balance. As the research foundation for the tools you'll practice throughout the course, this article reveals why these techniques are so effective and how they support lasting resilience.
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Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Jorina Elbers, MD 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 Jorina Elbers, MD
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Jorina Elbers, MD, the Medical Director at HeartMath — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to practice HeartMath® techniques that help shift your body out of survival mode, so you can think more clearly, regulate difficult emotions, and experience greater peace, connection, and vitality. Course sessions are on 2026-09-23 5:00:00 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 transcript after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the insights and practices you found most impactful.
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 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, The Healing Power of the Heart
We feel honored that Jorina Elbers, MD 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 neurologist whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about integrating simple, science-backed HeartMath® practices to help your body rediscover a sense of safety, transforming your heart into a powerful ally for emotional balance, wiser decisions, and lasting resilience, 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.
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Dr. Jorina Elbers, MD, is a board-certified neurologist and Medical Director at HeartMath® Institute, where she helps translate the science of heart–brain connection and nervous system regulation into practical tools for everyday life. She has specialty training in pediatric stroke, and previously served as an assistant professor and practicing neurologist at Stanford University, where she combined clinical care with academic research.
Her clinical research has focused on the impact of chronic stress and trauma on the nervous system, exploring how dysregulation can contribute to a wide range of physical and emotional symptoms. This work led her to expand beyond conventional neurology and develop a more integrative, physiology-based approach to healing.
Dr. Jorina now runs a private practice in Santa Cruz, California, where she works with both adults and children experiencing stress-related and “medically unexplained” symptoms. Her work centers on helping individuals understand and regulate their nervous system, using evidence-based approaches that integrate heart rate variability, emotional awareness, and brain–body techniques.
Through her teaching, Dr. Jorina is known for making complex science accessible and practical. She brings a grounded, compassionate perspective to trauma — helping people understand that their symptoms are not random, but reflect an intelligent nervous system that can be retrained toward greater balance, resilience, and wellbeing.
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