The Polyvagal Ladder

What you can do if you notice you've lost connection with yourself or with your student?

Maybe you're singing under stressful circumstances, or maybe you're teaching and your student isn't feeling at their best today.

There is a good chance that you have been shifting in your autonomic nervous system, moving down the ladder, causing you to feel 'out of sorts'.

Fortunately, we can do small things to make a tiny shift in our nervous system and bring ourselves back to a more regulated place on the ladder.

And polyvagal theory explains how this works. 


Polyvagal ladder showing three main states - safety and connection, fight or flight, freeze or dissociate

"Creating A Safe Space" will help you


Discover how to harness your nervous system as a tool for co-regulation

Learn how to experience more calm and flow in your voice lessons and rehearsals

Understand more about your client’s nervous system

Use polyvagal understanding to enhance the techniques and vocal exercises you already use

Identify new tools for creating a safe space in lessons, including co-regulation, inviting language and the use of personal glimmers

Categorise your own and your students’ emotional states using the autonomic ladder

Differentiate between co-regulation, self-regulation and dysregulation in yourself and your clients

Reducing anxiety
Identifying stress


Growing potential

Case histories, techniques, exercises and more


"Creating a Safe Space" is packed with examples, stories and helpful suggestions to help you and your students feel safer and more creative.

Check out the Curriculum below, then enrol - you'll have instant access to all the videos and resources in this course



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