Nervous System Regulation Summit 2026: Free Event to Help You Regulate, Restore & Thrive

Your nervous system is always listening, always responding, and always trying to protect you. When life has been intense for too long, that protection can begin to feel like anxiety, overwhelm, exhaustion, shutdown, poor sleep, or a body that never fully settles.

The Nervous System Regulation Summit offers a compassionate path into understanding what is happening beneath the surface. It brings together practical education, grounded science, and body-based tools to help you recognize patterns of dysregulation and begin relating to yourself with more clarity and care.

This free online event is for anyone who wants to feel more steady, resilient, and at home in their body. You’ll explore nervous system regulation through trauma healing, somatic practice, functional medicine, relationships, rest, anxiety support, and real-world tools you can begin using right away.

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Why Attend the 2026 “Nervous System Regulation Summit”

When your nervous system is dysregulated, life can feel harder than it should. You may feel tired but wired, emotionally reactive, numb, anxious, shut down, disconnected, or unable to rest deeply even when you have time to do so. These experiences can affect your sleep, mood, relationships, immune system, energy, digestion, and your ability to feel like yourself. The Nervous System Regulation Summit helps you understand these patterns through a practical and compassionate lens, so you can begin to make sense of what your body has been trying to communicate.

This summit takes a wide, interdisciplinary approach to nervous system healing. Rather than focusing on one method or one explanation, it weaves together neuroscience, trauma education, somatic therapy, functional medicine, breathwork, meditation, attachment, sleep science, emotional healing, and practical self-regulation tools. That breadth matters because the nervous system touches every part of life. It shapes how you respond to stress, how you connect with others, how safe you feel inside your own body, and how much capacity you have for change. By learning from many respected experts, you can begin to see your symptoms not as personal failures, but as signals from an intelligent system that has been doing its best to keep you safe.

You’ll also receive guidance that is meant to be used in real life. This is not only about learning concepts; it is about discovering gentle practices, body-based tools, and everyday ways to support regulation when you feel overwhelmed, anxious, activated, or depleted. You’ll explore how trauma can live in the body, why rest is more than sleep, how relationships affect regulation, and how functional medicine can support the body from the inside out. Most importantly, you’ll be invited into a more compassionate relationship with yourself. As your understanding grows, so can your sense of possibility: the possibility of feeling more grounded, responding with more choice, building deeper resilience, and learning how to support your nervous system one practical step at a time.

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Who Should Attend the Nervous System Regulation Summit

This summit is for people who sense that stress, anxiety, trauma, exhaustion, or emotional overwhelm are not just happening “in the mind,” but are also living in the body. You may have tried to think your way into feeling better, only to discover that your body still feels guarded, reactive, restless, or shut down. You may be navigating chronic stress, poor sleep, fatigue, relationship patterns, grief, anxiety, trauma symptoms, or a general sense that your system is carrying more than it can comfortably hold. The Nervous System Regulation Summit offers a grounded place to learn why this happens and how regulation can be supported through practical, compassionate tools.

It is also for practitioners, healers, coaches, therapists, bodyworkers, educators, caregivers, and wellness professionals who want a deeper understanding of the nervous system and its role in healing. The sessions bring together perspectives from trauma healing, somatic work, functional medicine, psychology, meditation, breathwork, attachment, sleep, and emotional resilience. Whether you are beginning this journey or already have years of experience, you’ll find language, tools, and insights that can help you better support yourself and those you serve.

This summit will be especially helpful for:

• People who feel stuck in anxiety, overwhelm, shutdown, or chronic stress patterns
• Anyone exploring how trauma may be affecting the body, emotions, sleep, or relationships
• Those who want practical nervous system regulation tools they can use in daily life
• People experiencing fatigue, poor rest, emotional reactivity, brain fog, or feeling “tired but wired”
• Healers, coaches, therapists, bodyworkers, and practitioners who support others through stress or trauma
• Spiritual seekers who want grounded, body-based ways to feel safer, clearer, and more present
• Anyone longing to rebuild capacity for rest, connection, resilience, and inner steadiness

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What You’ll Learn During the Nervous System Regulation Summit

The Nervous System Regulation Summit explores the science and practice of regulation in a way that is clear, human, and deeply relevant to everyday life. You’ll learn how trauma, stress, sleep, inflammation, relationships, attachment, anxiety, and the body’s protective responses can all influence your capacity to feel safe and settled.

The core themes include trauma healing, somatic awareness, breathwork, mindfulness, meditation, emotional intelligence, functional medicine, sleep, rest, and relationship repair. These sessions are designed to help you understand what dysregulation can look like and why the body often needs safety, presence, and gentle repetition rather than pressure or force.

You’ll also receive practical guidance for working with your own system in real time, from grounding exercises and breath practices to tools for self-awareness, rest, attachment, and resilience. Here’s some of what you’ll learn:

• How unresolved trauma can keep the nervous system in chronic protection mode
• Why anxiety can be understood as a body-based signal rather than a personal flaw
• How somatic practices help you listen to the body with more safety and compassion
• Ways breathwork, meditation, tapping, and movement can support regulation
• How sleep, rest, and recovery affect nervous system healing and emotional resilience
• Why relationships, attachment, and boundaries matter for feeling safe and connected
• How functional medicine can support digestion, hormones, inflammation, and stress resilience
• What self-regulation and co-regulation look like in real life
• How to begin building a practical toolkit for calm, presence, and inner steadiness

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Event Schedule: Nervous System Regulation Summit

Here’s a preview of the daily themes and featured sessions. Each day offers practical teaching, grounded insight, and expert guidance to help you understand your nervous system from multiple angles.

The schedule moves from trauma and regulation basics into mind-body healing, relationships, anxiety, rest, and functional medicine. Each topic is designed to help you connect the dots between what you feel, how your body responds, and what can support greater steadiness over time.

You’ll also find bonus sessions, guided practices, and therapy demonstrations throughout the summit to help turn learning into embodied support.

Day 1: Trauma

Day 1 explores how trauma can contribute to a chronically dysregulated nervous system. These sessions help you understand why the body may stay guarded, reactive, or shut down long after stressful experiences have passed.

You’ll learn how safety, mindfulness, connection, parts work, and self-regulation can support a more compassionate healing process.

Day 1 Introduction – Meagen Gibson

This opening session creates a grounded foundation for understanding trauma through the lens of the nervous system.

• Explore the wisdom of the nervous system and how it works to protect you.
• Understand how trauma can shape nervous system responses over time.
• Learn gentle ways to regulate when stress or overstimulation begins to rise.

5 Steps to RESET Your Nervous System – Dr Alex Howard

This session offers a practical framework for beginning to shift long-standing nervous system patterns with awareness and care.

• Discover why self-awareness is a meaningful starting point for lasting change.
• Learn how meditation can support nervous system healing in daily life.
• Understand the role emotional healing plays in long-term nervous system rebalancing.

Healing From Childhood PTSD – Anna Runkle

This session explores how childhood trauma can continue to affect the body and how healing can begin through simple, honest practices.

• Learn how writing can help you process and relate to trauma with more clarity.
• Understand why childhood trauma may surface suddenly or unexpectedly.
• Discover why connection is a skill that can be rebuilt over time.

Committing to the Journey of Trauma Healing – Dr Pedram Shojai

This conversation offers a steady reminder that trauma healing is a path of practice, presence, and compassionate commitment.

• Explore how mindfulness can become a supportive ally in healing.
• Understand why continuing to show up matters on the healing path.
• Learn how intention and attention can help guide meaningful inner change.

Collective Trauma Needs Collective Healing – Thomas Hübl

This session widens the lens to include the shared and collective dimensions of trauma healing.

• Understand why being fully present can feel difficult when trauma is active.
• Explore the importance of healing in connection with others.
• Learn how trauma-informed activism can support more conscious collective repair.

Understanding Psychedelics for Trauma Healing – Paul F. Austin

This session offers an educational look at psychedelic therapy considerations through a trauma-informed lens.

• Learn the five key elements that support effective psychedelic therapy.
• Explore practices that may help sustain benefits in everyday life.
• Understand ethical considerations that should be approached with care.

Healing “Mother Hunger” – Kelly McDaniel

This conversation explores the deep emotional need for nurturance and how unmet attachment needs can shape anxiety.

• Understand what “mother hunger” means and how it may relate to anxiety.
• Learn why nurturance plays a vital role in secure attachment.
• Explore how pathological hope can keep anxiety patterns alive.

How to Get Unstuck – Britt Frank

This session reframes stuckness as a body-based signal that can be met with practical understanding.

• Learn why anxiety is not simply an emotion, but a physical signal from the body.
• Understand why coping skills may fall short when the nervous system is dysregulated.
• Explore what grief has to do with becoming a more emotionally mature adult.

Healing Population-Wide Trauma – Dr James Gordon

This session looks at trauma on a broad scale while keeping the focus on practical care and human resilience.

• Understand the impact of trauma across communities and populations.
• Learn why self-care is essential when working with widespread suffering.
• Receive reflections on trauma healing drawn from work in Ukraine.

Trust in Your Self With Internal Family Systems – Dr Richard Schwartz

This conversation introduces Internal Family Systems as a compassionate way to relate to inner parts and deeper Self energy.

• Learn why Internal Family Systems can be a powerful support for trauma healing.
• Understand the difference between your parts and your deeper Self.
• Explore how parts can return toward their true nature with trust and care.

Building Inner Safety for Deep Healing – Dr Peter Levine

This session explores why safety is foundational for trauma healing and nervous system repair.

• Understand why learning self-regulation is so important for healing.
• Discover how inner safety can be gently created and strengthened.
• Learn what most supports deep emotional healing in the body.

Holistic Healing in a Divided World – Dr g (Claudelle R Glasgow)

This session invites a whole-person approach to healing that honors symptoms as meaningful signals.

• Explore what a holistic approach to trauma healing can look like.
• Learn why creating safe space for all humans matters in healing work.
• Understand how symptoms may reflect misalignment rather than problems to be fixed.

Bonus Sessions:

A Simple Grounding Exercise – Dr Alex Howard

This short guided practice offers a simple way to return attention to the present moment.

• Receive a brief 4-minute practice for grounding and settling.
• Learn why a quiet environment can help the body receive the practice more deeply.
• Experience a guided format that includes images, music, and voice.

Shifting Your Relationship With Anxiety and Trauma – Jean Hall

This movement-based bonus session helps you work with the body in a gentle, intentional way.

• Learn how intentional movement can support the effects of trauma held in the body.
• Explore movement as a way to help regulate the nervous system.
• Receive a 30-minute practice that requires no props.

In Therapy: Tools to Manage Your Anxiety – Dr Alex Howard

This therapy demonstration offers a practical look at recognizing and working with anxiety patterns.

• Learn how to recognize what anxiety feels like in the body.
• Explore how the inner critic can shape anxious responses.
• Build a foundation for healing through awareness and support.

Day 2: Nervous System

Day 2 focuses on tools and techniques for understanding and regulating your nervous system. You’ll explore how the body responds to stress, trauma, and overstimulation, and what helps restore a sense of safety.

This day brings practical insight into meditation, breathwork, attachment, tapping, dissociation, Mindsight, and the difference between self-regulation and co-regulation.

Day 2 Introduction – Meagen Gibson

This opening session introduces the nervous system as a living guide to how we respond, protect, and recover.

• Learn how the nervous system informs responses to stress, trauma, and overstimulation.
• Understand how chronic dysregulation can affect overall health and wellbeing.
• Explore tools that can help support nervous system regulation.

Understanding Our Nervous System – Naomi Dake

This session clarifies how the nervous system influences rest, repair, and sleep.

• Understand how the sympathetic nervous system can disrupt sleep.
• Learn how trauma, anxiety, and stress can interfere with deep rest.
• Explore ways to engage the parasympathetic nervous system for repair.

The Power of Meditation for Nervous System Regulation – Dr Dawson Church

This conversation explores meditation as a practical way to influence nervous system state.

• Learn why meditation can have a meaningful impact on the nervous system.
• Explore the value of blissful practice for inner regulation.
• Understand how long meditation may need to be practiced to create change.

Introduction to Breathwork for Anxiety – Anthony Abbagnano

This session helps you understand anxiety as a body experience and introduces breath as a calming tool.

• Learn what anxiety can feel like and represent in the body.
• Discover the regulating power of working consciously with the breath.
• Receive a simple exercise for calming anxiety responses.

Discover Your Attachment Style to Calm Your Nervous System – Dr Diane Poole Heller

This session connects attachment patterns with nervous system safety and relational healing.

• Learn about the four attachment styles and how they may show up in life.
• Explore what helps create a more secure attachment pattern.
• Discover practical steps for building deeper connection in relationships.

Becoming Free From Dissociation – Dr Arielle Schwartz

This session brings compassionate clarity to dissociation and how presence can be rebuilt gently.

• Understand what dissociation is and why it can happen.
• Learn how to recognize dissociation in yourself and others.
• Explore practical strategies for healing and learning to be more present.

EFT Tapping for Anxiety Relief – Nick Ortner

This session introduces tapping as a simple approach for working with emotional and nervous system stress.

• Learn how tapping can support healing and emotional release.
• Explore how working with the body’s energy can affect mental and emotional health.
• Receive simple tapping routines for shifting anxiety in the moment.

Developing Mindsight – Dr Daniel Siegel

This session explores Mindsight as a way to increase integration, compassion, and nervous system flexibility.

• Understand how Mindsight differs from mindfulness.
• Learn how the brain can be rewired to support nervous system regulation.
• Explore why integration increases the capacity for compassion.

How to Cultivate a State of Safety – Dr Stephen Porges

This conversation explores why safety is central to regulation and how it can be invited into daily life.

• Learn why safety matters so deeply to the nervous system.
• Understand the conditions that help invite a felt sense of safety.
• Explore practical steps for bringing more safety into your life.

Self-Regulating for Trauma Healing – Dr Peter Levine

This session offers practical insight into the balance between self-regulation and co-regulation.

• Understand why both co-regulation and self-regulation are important.
• Learn practical exercises that support self-regulation.
• Explore why trusting the wisdom of the body matters in healing.

Bonus Sessions:

Meditation to Calm Your Nervous System – Dr Alex Howard

This guided meditation offers a calm space to help the nervous system settle.

• Use the practice in a quiet environment for deeper support.
• Experience a guided meditation with images, music, and voice.
• Receive a 13-minute practice for calming your system.

Balancing the Nervous System – Jean Hall

This guided yoga session supports balance through gentle movement and body awareness.

• Practice a guided yoga session designed to support regulation.
• Prepare with a cushion or chair if your body needs support.
• Practice in a quiet environment where you can listen inward.

In Therapy: Admitting You Have Anxiety – Dr Alex Howard

This therapy session explores the first steps of naming anxiety and understanding what fuels it.

• Learn why admitting anxiety can be the first step toward change.
• Explore the biological process behind anxiety.
• Understand how the anxiety cycle can begin to be interrupted.

Day 3: Mind/Body

Day 3 explores a somatic approach to the nervous system and the undeniable connection between brain and body. These sessions help you understand how emotions, trauma, pain, inflammation, and the immune system can all be part of the same healing conversation.

You’ll learn how listening to the body with respect can support resilience, clarity, and a deeper sense of inner safety.

Day 3 Introduction – Meagen Gibson

This opening session introduces the mind-body connection as a foundation for nervous system resilience.

• Learn how nervous system regulation can support resilience to disease and dysfunction.
• Understand the role stress and trauma can play in inflammation.
• Explore how to notice thoughts, feelings, and sensations safely.

Using the Change Triangle to Understand Emotions – Hilary Jacobs Hendel

This session offers a practical model for understanding emotions and their connection to trauma symptoms.

• Learn how buried emotions can contribute to trauma symptoms.
• Understand why shame and disgust are important emotions in trauma healing.
• Explore how expansive emotions can support trauma treatment and repair.

Rebalancing the Brain for Physical and Emotional Healing – Jason Prall

This session explores how trauma can shape coping patterns and how trust can be rebuilt from within.

• Understand how trauma can lead coping strategies to develop.
• Explore the impact of missing experiences on healing and regulation.
• Learn how inner trust and curiosity can support deeper healing.

The Gifts of Being an Empath – Dr Judith Orloff

This conversation offers a grounded look at empathy, sensitivity, trauma, and the strengths that can emerge through healing.

• Learn how to recognize whether you may be an empath.
• Understand how trauma can relate to empathic sensitivity.
• Explore how to cultivate the gifts of being an empath with care.

Why a Somatic Approach Is So Critical – Irene Lyon

This session explains why working through the body can be essential for lasting nervous system change.

• Understand what a somatic approach means in practice.
• Learn how trauma can be held in the body.
• Explore why respecting your defenses is an important part of healing.

The Relationship Between Anxiety and Pain – Dr David Hanscom

This session explores the connection between physical pain, anxiety, survival responses, and recovery.

• Learn how physiology can shape psychology.
• Understand why anxiety is connected to survival responses.
• Explore approaches for treating and recovering from anxiety symptoms.

Trauma and Immune Responses in the Brain – Donna Jackson Nakazawa

This conversation connects chronic stress, immune activity, and mental health through a science-based lens.

• Understand how chronic stress can affect the immune system.
• Learn about the link between the brain’s immune responses and mental health.
• Explore science-based practices that can help reprogram the brain.

How Trauma Impacts Brain Health – Dr Austin Perlmutter

This session explores how the brain changes over time and what supports healthier patterns.

• Learn how the brain can change across time and experience.
• Understand the role of diet and sleep in brain health.
• Explore how neuroplasticity can be harnessed for healing.

Embracing Our Traumatized Parts – Jason Prall

This session invites a compassionate relationship with the parts of us that adapted to survive.

• Understand how trauma can create protective coping strategies.
• Explore how missing experiences can shape inner parts.
• Learn how curiosity and trust can support healing of traumatized parts.

The Biology of Trauma and Neurodevelopment – Dr Aimie Apigian

This session looks at trauma through the lens of biology, development, and the body’s healing needs.

• Understand the relationship between biology and trauma.
• Learn why completing stages of neurodevelopment can matter for healing.
• Explore the three key ingredients of trauma healing.

How Meditation Can Support Trauma Healing – Dr Rick Hanson

This session explores meditation as a steady daily practice for trauma healing and self-compassion.

• Learn how meditation can influence trauma patterns.
• Understand why self-compassion is central to healing.
• Explore the importance of daily practice for meaningful change.

Bonus Sessions:

Breath Practice and Yoga Nidra for Deep Sleep – Julia Alderman

This guided practice combines breath and supported rest to help the body prepare for sleep.

• Learn an alternate nostril breathing practice to calm the mind.
• Receive supported yoga nidra positions for deeper ease.
• Experience yoga nidra as a gentle support for drifting into sleep.

Meditation for Deep Relaxation – Dr Alex Howard

This guided meditation supports deep relaxation and gives the body space to soften.

• Use the practice in a quiet environment for best support.
• Experience a guided meditation with images, music, and voice.
• Receive a 15-minute practice for deep relaxation.

In Therapy: Your Anxiety Toolkit – Dr Alex Howard

This therapy demonstration explores practical tools for calming anxiety responses.

• Learn how to begin building your personal anxiety toolkit.
• Explore key principles for calming the nervous system.
• Understand how to reset anxiety responses with practical support.

Day 4: Relationships

Day 4 explores how the nervous system shapes connection, boundaries, self-love, and relational healing. Relationships can activate old patterns, but they can also become places where safety, honesty, and maturity grow.

These sessions offer grounded insight into relational trauma, attachment, boundaries, emotional immaturity, and the possibility of showing up with more presence and care.

Day 4 Introduction – Meagen Gibson

This opening session invites you to look at relationships through the lens of safety, trauma, and nervous system wisdom.

• Learn how to assess relationships for trauma and unhealthy patterns.
• Explore what to look for when cultivating safe, healthy relationships.
• Understand how to set and communicate boundaries more clearly.

Inner Bonding Self Healing – Dr Margaret Paul

This session explores self-love as a foundation for healing trauma and reducing self-abandonment.

• Understand why learning to love yourself is key to trauma healing.
• Learn how the six steps of Inner Bonding can help you stop abandoning yourself.
• Explore how to turn the wounded ego into an ally.

Understanding and Healing Relational Trauma – Dr Meg-John Barker

This conversation explores how personal, developmental, and cultural trauma can shape the way we relate.

• Understand how developmental and cultural trauma can affect relationships.
• Learn ways to interrupt trauma cycles and build healthier connection.
• Explore why honesty and kindness are essential for relational healing.

Stages of Self-Love – Dr Keith Witt

This session offers a developmental look at self-love and its connection to every relationship in life.

• Explore why everything in life is connected to relationship.
• Understand how moral development can affect self-love.
• Learn simple practices that help cultivate self-love.

Breaking Free From Relational Trauma – Terry Real

This session helps you understand relational trauma and what it means to relate with more maturity.

• Learn how trauma can affect relationships.
• Understand the danger of excessive individualism in relational healing.
• Explore what it means to learn to relate as an adult.

Redefining Love as the Act of Showing Up – Dr Stan Tatkin

This conversation reframes love as a practice of presence, commitment, and clear agreements.

• Learn about the biology of connection.
• Understand the power of explicit guidelines for relating.
• Explore why showing up, even when feelings fluctuate, matters deeply.

Healing the Impact of Emotionally Immature Parents – Dr Lindsay Gibson

This session offers insight into emotional immaturity and how boundaries can support healing.

• Learn how to identify emotional immaturity.
• Understand how emotionally immature parenting can affect children.
• Explore how to set and hold boundaries with emotionally immature people.

Creating a Spiritually Mature Relationship – Marianne Williamson

This conversation brings spiritual maturity into the heart of relational healing.

• Understand the danger of weaponizing triggers in relationship.
• Explore what true maturity really asks of us.
• Learn how grace can become a powerful force in relationship.

From Judgment to Genius – Gay and Katie Hendricks

This session explores how safety, appreciation, and awareness can shift relationship patterns.

• Learn how safety can become a guiding principle rather than a limitation.
• Explore how appreciation can help unlock genius.
• Understand Upper Limit Problems and how they can affect growth.

Bonus Sessions:

Connecting to Self and the World – Aki Omori

This mindful movement session supports connection through the body and present-moment awareness.

• Receive a guided mindful movement session.
• Make sure you have enough space around you to move safely.
• Practice in a quiet environment where you can stay connected to your body.

Gratitude Meditation – Dr Alex Howard

This guided meditation helps you reconnect with gratitude as a gentle nervous system practice.

• Use the meditation in a quiet environment for deeper presence.
• Experience a guided format with images, music, and voice.
• Receive a 10-minute practice for gratitude and settling.

In Therapy: People Pleasing Behaviour – Dr Alex Howard

This therapy demonstration explores the helper pattern and the emotional cost of people pleasing.

• Explore the helper pattern with more compassion and clarity.
• Understand the effect this pattern can have on your wellbeing.
• Look at guilt connected to past behavior and relational choices.

Day 5: Anxiety

Day 5 explores anxiety as a signal you can learn to work with, rather than something to fear or fight. These sessions look at anxiety through the body, breath, attachment, sensory experience, grief, worry, and nervous system resilience.

You’ll learn practical ways to listen to anxiety more wisely and support the body toward greater calm and capacity.

Day 5 Introduction – Meagen Gibson

This opening session reframes anxiety through the lens of nervous system activation and regulation.

• Understand why anxiety symptoms often match an overactive nervous system.
• Learn how the wisdom of anxiety can guide re-regulation.
• Explore which tools may support both anxiety and nervous system balance.

Coming Home to Our Body for Anxiety Healing – Mark Walsh

This session explores embodiment as a practical doorway into calming anxiety.

• Learn why the body is so important for calming anxiety.
• Explore simple practices that support embodiment.
• Discover how to begin an embodiment practice in everyday life.

How Cell Danger Response Inhibits Healing – Dr Eric Gordon

This session looks at healing through the lens of the body’s protective cellular responses.

• Understand why acute and chronic illness are different.
• Learn about the mechanisms of cell danger response.
• Explore what supports regulation when addressing cell danger response.

Harness Anxiety Energy and the Power of Breath – Michael Stone

This session offers breath as a way to work with anxiety energy more consciously.

• Explore how anxiety energy can be redirected toward something constructive.
• Understand why working with breath is central to healing.
• Receive a guided exercise for connecting with your breath.

Developing a Secure Self – Deirdre Fay

This conversation explores inner security, attachment, and learning to listen to your own needs.

• Understand why attachment theory helps explain rising anxiety.
• Learn how to find safety and security within yourself.
• Explore how to identify and listen for your own needs.

Sensory-Based Approach to Anxiety – Dr Cathy Malchiodi

This session introduces sensory-based methods as accessible tools for anxiety support.

• Learn why sensory-based practices can be effective self-help approaches.
• Explore three basic practices anyone can begin using to reduce anxiety.
• Understand how to cultivate co-regulation experiences.

Seeking Peace – Dr Darryl Tonemah

This session invites a practical orientation toward peace rather than avoidance.

• Learn how to seek peace rather than simply avoid symptoms.
• Understand why coping skills need practice before crisis arrives.
• Explore how to create and collect sovereign moments.

Anxiety as a Stage of Grief – Claire Bidwell Smith

This conversation explores anxiety through the tender and often misunderstood terrain of grief.

• Learn why anxiety is not always a negative emotion.
• Understand what may be misunderstood about the stages of grief.
• Explore ways to calm the nervous system and begin working with anxiety.

Navigating Relational Trauma – Heather Monroe

This session looks at attachment patterns and how secure connection can be cultivated after trauma.

• Understand different attachment patterns that can develop from trauma.
• Learn how secure attachment can be cultivated regardless of your history.
• Explore how to navigate stress inside secure relationships.

Mindfulness and the Evolution of Anxiety – Dr Ronald Siegel

This session explores anxiety through evolution, mindfulness, and self-esteem.

• Understand why evolution does not always favor happiness.
• Learn how mindfulness helps you work with anxiety rather than against it.
• Explore the relationship between self-esteem and anxiety.

Naming and Taming Worry and Anxiety – Rebekah Ballagh

This session offers practical ways to work with worry parts and anxiety patterns.

• Understand why the brain may use anxiety to seek comfort, certainty, or control.
• Learn how naming your worry part can help manage stress and anxiety.
• Explore why avoiding anxiety-inducing situations does not create lasting freedom.

Bonus Sessions:

Meditation for Deep Sleep – Dr Alex Howard

This guided meditation supports the transition into deeper rest and sleep.

• Use the practice in a quiet environment for best support.
• Experience a guided meditation with images, music, and voice.
• Receive a 13-minute practice for deep sleep.

Meditation to Find Presence – Dr Alex Howard

This guided practice helps you return to presence through calm attention.

• Receive an 11-minute meditation for reconnecting with the present moment.
• Use the practice in a quiet environment where you can settle.
• Experience a guided format with images, music, and voice.

Restoring a Sense of Calm – David Ramcharran

This movement-based practice supports a gentle return to calm through intentional pausing.

• Explore how to find a greater sense of calm.
• Learn the value of taking time to pause.
• Receive a 30-minute practice that requires no props.

In Therapy: What Recovery Looks Like – Dr Alex Howard

This therapy demonstration explores what recovery can look like when supportive methods are in place.

• Understand what can happen when healing methods are practiced consistently.
• Explore the process of working on recovery.
• Learn how to make recovery work for your real life.

Day 6: Rest

Day 6 explores rest as a critical part of nervous system integration and regulation. Rest is not simply the absence of activity; it is a deep biological need that supports sleep, emotional balance, repair, and resilience.

These sessions look at sleep, meditation, sound therapy, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, and the different kinds of rest your system may be asking for.

Day 6 Introduction – Meagen Gibson

This opening session helps you understand why sleep and rest are central to nervous system health.

• Learn how sleep and rest affect mental health.
• Explore tools that can help improve sleep and deepen rest.
• Understand common factors behind sleep disturbance and nervous system dysregulation.

Integration Using The Energy Codes – Dr Sue Morter

This session explores mind, body, spirit, and energy integration as a pathway toward wellbeing.

• Learn how to reintegrate mind, body, spirit, and energy.
• Understand why the body may offer solutions the mind cannot access alone.
• Explore how The Energy Codes can be applied for wellbeing.

Sound Therapy Assisted Meditation for Healing – Marc Gilson

This session introduces sound therapy as a support for meditation and healing.

• Learn about the power of binaural beats.
• Understand what supports an effective meditation practice.
• Explore how to begin using sound therapy meditation.

Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness for Healing Anxiety – Dr Fleet Maull

This session explores anxiety as a body experience and mindfulness as a gentle path of healing.

• Understand how anxiety is experienced in the body, not only in the mind.
• Learn why a gentle approach to healing is so important.
• Explore how anxiety can become a doorway into inner transformation.

How to Transform Your Sleep – Charlie Morley

This session looks beyond sleep hygiene to the nervous system foundations of deeper rest.

• Understand why sleep hygiene techniques may not be enough.
• Learn why nervous system regulation matters for sleep.
• Explore simple practices that can support better sleep.

Anxiety and Sleep Anatomy – Dr Ellen Vora

This conversation explores the connections between anxiety, the gut, hormones, and sleep.

• Learn the difference between “false” anxiety and “true” anxiety.
• Understand why the gut, brain, and hormones matter for sleep.
• Explore why sleep can be such a powerful support for anxiety.

How to Fix Broken Sleep – Dr Christopher Winter

This session brings clarity to insomnia, tiredness, and when deeper investigation may be needed.

• Understand why insomnia may be a symptom rather than a condition.
• Learn why you may still feel tired after waking.
• Explore when it may be useful to consider a sleep study.

The 7 Types of Rest – Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith

This session expands the meaning of rest and helps you recognize what kind of restoration you may need.

• Understand the difference between sleep and rest.
• Learn the distinction between mental rest and emotional rest.
• Explore the two components of physical rest.

Biohacking for Better Sleep – Dave Asprey

This session explores environmental and lifestyle factors that can support deeper sleep.

• Learn how light can affect sleep quality.
• Explore how nutrition may support more optimal sleep.
• Understand how room temperature can influence depth of sleep.

Trauma and the Gift of Sleep – Dr Bruce Lipton

This session looks at sleep as a healing ally in the context of trauma and unconscious programming.

• Understand how trauma can affect sleep.
• Learn three strategies for changing unconscious programs.
• Explore how sleep can support trauma healing.

Bonus Sessions:

Transition Ritual for a Restful Sleep – Adelene Cheong

This guided yoga session helps the body transition toward rest and sleep.

• Receive a guided yoga session for transitioning into sleep.
• Prepare blankets or cushions to support comfort.
• Practice in a quiet environment where the body can unwind.

In Therapy: Our Inner Critic – Dr Alex Howard

This therapy demonstration explores the inner critic and the possibility of reclaiming joy.

• Explore how the inner critic operates.
• Learn how allowing fun can support healing.
• Reconnect with the possibility of reclaiming your sense of joy.

Day 7: Functional Medicine

Day 7 explores functional medicine approaches to nervous system regulation and support. These sessions look at the body systems that may influence anxiety, inflammation, hormones, digestion, skin health, and healing capacity.

You’ll learn how whole-body support can complement nervous system work and help create better conditions for repair.

Day 7 Introduction – Meagen Gibson

This opening session introduces the role functional medicine can play in nervous system healing.

• Understand how dysregulation can affect digestion, hormones, skin health, and inflammation.
• Learn how functional medicine may support re-regulation.
• Explore how functional medicine experts can assist your healing process.

Homeopathy, Gut Health and Liver Detox – Dr Ameet Aggarwal

This session looks at anxiety through the lens of body systems, digestion, and inflammation.

• Learn which main body systems may sit at the root of anxiety.
• Explore how digestive health, inflammation, and family trauma can factor in.
• Understand why homeopathic treatments may support anxiety healing.

Nutritional Support for Intrusive Thoughts – Trudy Scott

This conversation explores how nutrition and biochemical patterns can relate to intrusive thoughts.

• Learn how to identify intrusive thoughts more clearly.
• Understand why low GABA and low serotonin may need support.
• Explore how pyroluria and hormone imbalances can be identified and addressed.

Hormones, Skin Health and Anxiety – Dr Trevor Cates

This session connects hormones, skin health, sleep, and anxiety through a whole-body lens.

• Understand how hormonal imbalances can be tied to anxiety.
• Explore how the skin may be connected to anxiety patterns.
• Learn ways to address anxiety for better sleep, skin, and hormone balance.

Acupuncture and Hypnotherapy for Mind-Body Healing – Mona Chopra

This session explores complementary approaches for trauma healing and inner resource building.

• Learn how acupuncture and hypnotherapy can support trauma healing.
• Explore how to connect with and anchor inner resources.
• Understand how to find the right combination of modalities for your needs.

Trauma and the Gut Brain Axis – Rebecca Edwards

This session explains the connection between trauma, the microbiome, and emotional wellbeing.

• Understand how trauma can affect the microbiome.
• Learn why gut health is central to emotional wellbeing.
• Explore which strains of bacteria may support mental health.

How Trauma Causes Inflammation – Dr David Perlmutter

This session connects trauma, inflammation, and practical steps for supporting the body.

• Learn about the impact inflammation can have on health.
• Understand how inflammation levels can be measured.
• Explore simple strategies that may help reduce inflammation levels.

Balancing Hormones for Trauma Healing – Dr Anu Arasu

This conversation looks at the relationship between trauma, chronic stress, and hormone balance.

• Understand how trauma can affect hormones.
• Learn why chronic stress can be harmful for hormone balance.
• Explore the potential role of bioidentical hormones in healing.

The 5 Pillars of Inflammation – Dr Tom O’Bryan

This session explores inflammation through the lens of the microbiome, food intolerance, and healing foundations.

• Understand why the microbiome is so important to health.
• Learn how food intolerances can affect overall wellbeing.
• Explore how to cultivate healing within the microbiome.

Bonus Sessions:

Live Q&A With Conference Hosts – Dr Alex Howard & Meagen Gibson

This closing conversation brings together practical reflections on healing, regulation, and honoring your own pace.

• Understand why traumatic events affect each person differently.
• Learn how to notice dysregulation signals without avoiding discomfort.
• Explore why your healing journey cannot be compared to anyone else’s.

Accepting the Present Moment – Dr Alex Howard

This guided meditation supports acceptance and presence as part of nervous system healing.

• Receive a 10-minute practice for accepting the present moment.
• Use the practice in a quiet environment where you can settle.
• Experience a guided format with images, music, and voice.

Bringing Awareness Back Into Your Body – Julia Alderman

This practice gently supports body awareness through breath, positioning, and sensation.

• Come back to the body through diaphragmatic breathing.
• Experience how different positions can help settle the mind.
• Draw the senses inward to perceive the body-mind as sensation.

In Therapy: Sanaya’s Last Session – Dr Alex Howard

This therapy demonstration reflects on change, showing up, and the healing process over time.

• Reflect on the power of the therapeutic process.
• Explore what it means to create change for yourself.
• Understand the power of continuing to show up.

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About Your Host – Dr Alex Howard

Dr Alex Howard is the host of the Nervous System Regulation Summit and the founder of the Optimum Health Clinic.

For more than two decades, he has helped people heal from chronic fatigue, unresolved trauma, anxiety, and other complex health conditions.

His work brings together a depth of experience, practical tools, and a caring understanding of what it means to feel stuck in patterns that affect the body, mind, and emotions.

Through this summit, he brings together leading voices in trauma, neuroscience, somatic therapy, functional medicine, and psychology to explore nervous system regulation in a grounded and comprehensive way.

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Free Gifts for Attendees

When you register, you’ll receive instant access to six full expert interviews before the summit begins. These free registration gifts are designed to help you begin learning right away and support your nervous system with practical, compassionate insight.

Self-Regulating for Trauma Healing – Dr Peter Levine

• Understand why co-regulation and self-regulation both matter for healing.
• Receive practical self-regulation exercises you can begin exploring gently.
• Learn why trusting the wisdom of the body is essential for trauma healing.

Redefining Love as the Act of Showing Up – Dr Stan Tatkin

• Explore the biology of connection and why safety matters in relationship.
• Understand the power of explicit guidelines for healthier relating.
• Learn why showing up, even when emotions are imperfect, can deepen love.

Healing the Impact of Emotionally Immature Parents – Dr Lindsay Gibson

• Learn how to identify emotional immaturity with more clarity.
• Understand how emotionally immature parenting can affect children.
• Explore how to set and hold boundaries with emotionally immature people.

The 7 Types of Rest – Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith

• Understand the difference between sleep and true rest.
• Learn how mental rest and emotional rest meet different needs.
• Explore the two components of physical rest and why they matter.

Trauma and the Gift of Sleep – Dr Bruce Lipton

• Learn how trauma can affect sleep and restoration.
• Explore three strategies for changing unconscious programs.
• Understand how sleep can support trauma healing.

5 Steps to RESET Your Nervous System – Dr Alex Howard

• Discover why self-awareness is so important for meaningful change.
• Learn how meditation can support nervous system healing.
• Understand the role emotional healing plays in long-term rebalancing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who should attend this event?

This event is ideal for those seeking greater nervous system regulation or exploring trauma-informed, body-based healing. Whether you’re new or experienced, it offers insight and inspiration. Coaches, healers, and spiritual seekers are especially welcome.

When and where does this event take place?

The Nervous System Regulation Summit takes place July 20–26, 2026. It is a free online event, so you can attend from anywhere with internet access.

Is the event free?

Yes. The Nervous System Regulation Summit is free to attend online when you register.

How do I register?

You can register by clicking any “Register Here For Free” button on this page. Your registration gives you access to the free online summit and the available registration gifts.

What is nervous system regulation?

Nervous system regulation is the process of helping your body move out of chronic stress, overwhelm, shutdown, or survival responses and toward greater steadiness, safety, and resilience.

What topics are covered?

The summit covers trauma, anxiety, somatic healing, breathwork, meditation, attachment, relationships, sleep, rest, functional medicine, inflammation, gut health, hormones, and practical tools for regulation.

Do I need prior experience with nervous system work?

No. The summit is designed to be accessible whether you are new to nervous system regulation or already familiar with trauma-informed healing, somatic work, meditation, or functional medicine.

Will this summit help me understand anxiety?

Yes. Several sessions explore anxiety as a nervous system and body-based signal, with practical tools for breath, mindfulness, embodiment, sensory support, attachment, and self-regulation.

Is this summit about trauma healing?

Yes. Trauma is a major theme throughout the summit, including how trauma affects the nervous system, relationships, sleep, the body, the brain, inflammation, and emotional resilience.

Are there practical exercises included?

Yes. The summit includes expert-led exercises, guided practices, yoga sessions, meditation, breathwork, grounding, tapping, movement, and therapy demonstrations to help turn learning into practice.

Can practitioners attend?

Yes. Coaches, therapists, healers, bodyworkers, health professionals, and practitioners can attend to deepen their understanding of nervous system regulation and trauma-informed support.

Can I watch on my phone or tablet?

Yes. Because the summit is online, you can watch from a computer, tablet, or mobile device with internet access.

Will replays be available?

The free summit is online, and sessions are typically released according to the event schedule. Lifetime access options may be offered for those who want ongoing access to the recordings and resources.

What are the free gifts for attendees?

When you register, you receive instant access to six full expert interviews, including sessions with Dr Peter Levine, Dr Stan Tatkin, Dr Lindsay Gibson, Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith, Dr Bruce Lipton, and Dr Alex Howard.

Who is hosting the event?

The Nervous System Regulation Summit is hosted by Dr Alex Howard, founder of the Optimum Health Clinic, who has spent more than two decades helping people heal from chronic fatigue, unresolved trauma, anxiety, and other complex health conditions.

How many experts are featured?

The summit features 60+ expert interviews with respected voices in neuroscience, trauma, somatic therapy, functional medicine, psychology, relationships, meditation, sleep, and nervous system health.

Does this summit include functional medicine?

Yes. Functional medicine is included as a full summit theme, with sessions on digestion, hormones, skin health, inflammation, the gut-brain axis, nutrition, and whole-body support for regulation.

Does this summit include rest and sleep support?

Yes. The summit includes sessions on sleep, rest, insomnia, meditation, sound therapy, trauma and sleep, sleep hygiene, and the seven types of rest.

Can I share this with friends?

Absolutely! Feel free to share this page with others.

Is this therapy or medical advice?

No. This summit is educational and informational. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, therapy, or mental health care.

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