Ground in Presence

Hi there! Welcome.

This is a practice where we can together deepen in our peace, surrender, and connection that grounds the nervous system and calms the mind.

You are already enough. So simply come as you are. The raw, real you.

Breathe. Receive. Be held.

The Guided Practice

Here I guide you through a 20 minute session where we dive into what this practice is, how it helps, and then move into a session of grounding, vagus nerve activation, and gentle movements to soften the nervous system out of a survival state and into a relational state towards greater resilience and flourishing.

The Guidebook

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Cover of a book titled "Restorative Prayer Practice Guidebook" with a medical illustration of a human figure with highlighted nervous system.

I would appreciate to hear about your experience, if you feel moved to do so.

Email me your feedback and I’ll share a link to download the audio file of this practice.

This will really help as I’m designing more offerings that dive deeper into this kind of work.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Restorative Prayer is a trauma-informed, nervous-system-focused, Christ-centered practice designed to help you shift from stress or disconnection into a state of ventral vagal safety—a place where communion with God, others, and yourself becomes possible again after chronic stress, complex trauma, or overwhelming challenges.

  • No it is not yoga, nor a New Age spiritual practice, nor Eastern or non-Christian meditation. Although it includes movement and breath awareness, this practice is intentionally grounded in a Catholic worldview. It is inspired by the Christian tradition of contemplative prayer, the incarnational theology of the body, and the belief that the Holy Spirit speaks through our bodies as well as our hearts and minds.

  • This practice is best for helping you when your prayer life (or life in general) feels chaotic, overwhelming, and dysregulating. Maybe you’re in a chronic survival stress response of fight, flight, fawn, or freeze and you don’t know how to get out of it. Restorative prayer offers a deeply faith-based approach to offering the nervous systems the regulation it needs to support your mind and spirit towards greater flourishing as you move through your day and life. More concretely, Restorative Prayer uses breath, movement, and contemplation to gently guide your nervous system into a ventral vagal state—where you feel grounded and safe enough to connect with God, others, and yourself.

  • The majority of my clinical clients find that incorporating some form of breath work, movement, and prayer into their routine helps rewire their nervous systems and support their goals.

    And Restorative Prayer is grounded in neuroscience and evidenced-based psychotherapies to support the buildingblocks for wholeness and holiness. This practice approaches healing from the understanding that human beings are interconnected - body, mind, and spirit - and that our healing is a bottom-up process to uplift the body towards balance, then the mind, and finally the spirit. Our spiritual wellbeing is deeply intertwined with the health of our minds and bodies. And when we feel anxious, frozen, overwhelmed, or numb, our nervous system is doing its best to protect us and should often be the first focus of healing when we are stuck in unhealthy patterns we wish we could break out of.