I spent 10 years teaching yoga before I realized I wasn’t actually relaxed. I was using yoga to keep myself regulated – to stay within the range of not going off the rails stress-wise. I thought I was a relaxed person. I taught relaxation for a living, after all.
Then I discovered the Primitive Reflexes.
The integration exercises taught me what it felt like to BE relaxed, all the time. Not just in savasana. Not just after practice. But walking through life with this background feeling of “everything is good, everything is always working out for me” even when practically, it wasn’t. When stressful moments arrived, I could take a breath, remember what the pattern of relaxation felt like in my body, and on the outbreath, recreate it.
This is what Primitive Reflex Yoga does. It teaches your body patterns it may never have learned properly – patterns that were meant to integrate in your first year of life but didn’t. When these reflexes don’t integrate, your nervous system stays stuck in survival mode. Your hamstrings won’t release. Your jaw clenches in savasana. Your students look at you blankly when you say “just relax” because their body literally doesn’t know how.
This training changes that. For yourself first. And then, if you choose, for others.
We work with six primitive reflexes that form the foundation of how your nervous system developed – the Fear Paralysis Reflex, the Moro Reflex, the Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex, and three others that shape your stress responses every single day.
Here’s how I teach this: you feel it first. We do the integration exercises together. You notice what happens in your body – maybe your hamstrings suddenly release, maybe you take your first full breath in years, maybe you feel tension you didn’t know you were holding. Only after you’ve had that experience do we talk about what’s happening in your brain stem, your amygdala, your vagus nerve.
I’ve studied over 100 peer-reviewed neuroscience papers to understand this work. But I’m not leading with that. I’m leading with your body’s intelligence. The neuroscience comes after, to help you understand what you’ve already experienced.
How it works:
By April, you’ll understand in your body what all of this actually means.
Maybe you’re a yoga teacher starting to see that some students just can’t relax no matter how many times you cue it. Or you work with bodies in another way and keep hitting the same wall – your techniques are solid but for some people, nothing lands.
Or maybe you’re not thinking about teaching at all. Maybe you’re the person lying in savasana with a clenched jaw while everyone else melts into the floor. You know yoga helps, but you also know you’re using it to keep yourself together rather than actually being relaxed.
You don’t have to want to teach this. Some people will go on to teach Primitive Reflex Yoga. Others will weave it into existing work. Some will use this year purely for their own healing. All of that is welcome here.
What matters is you’re ready to slow down. To feel before you think. To let your body show you what it’s been holding.
I’ve been training yoga teachers for 25 years and here’s what I know: you cannot rush nervous system work.
The primitive reflexes we’re working with have been active since before you were born. They’re woven into how you breathe, how you respond to stress, how you’ve held yourself together. That doesn’t change in a month. It changes gradually, over time, with repetition and patience and community.
You come back week after week, watching your own patterns shift so slowly you almost don’t notice until one day you realize: wait. My hamstrings released. I’m sleeping through the night. That constant background anxiety has gone quiet.
This training is small – just 10 of us. You’ll know everyone. We’ll witness each other’s process. And you’ll learn from someone who’s walked this path, who didn’t discover this work until I’d already been teaching for 10 years.
I don’t put a price on this page because the investment in a year-long journey into your nervous system deserves a conversation first. You need to know if this feels right for you. I need to understand what you’re looking for.
So the next step is simple: we talk.
I offer a free breakthrough session – 45 minutes to an hour where we have a real conversation. You tell me what brought you here. What you’re hoping to find. Whether you want to teach this work or just understand your own body better. I’ll answer your questions and we’ll figure out together if this is right for you.
The training starts in late April 2026. There are 10 spaces total – 8 full-price places and 2 bursary places for people who need financial support.
Looking forward to meeting you.
Veronika
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