Body Language Lab
Improve your relationship with your body, learn to calm your nervous system, and increase your stress tolerance
What is Body Language Lab?
A self-paced three-month virtual program where you learn and practice science-backed skills that teach you how to process stress and move beyond emotional discomfort. You’ll learn, practice, and experiment with what works for you. Together, we’ll change your experience in life from surviving to thriving!
Develop somatic awareness so you know what it means to be present in your body
Learn the science behind our nervous systems through data-driven frameworks such as Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Stress Release™, and the neuroscience of emotion, trauma and neuroplasticity
Receive a toolkit of practices you can use to help regulate your nervous system
This course is for you if:
You’re ready to look at your patterns and feel momentary discomfort while untangling yourself from those patterns
You’ve either tried traditional talk therapy but it hasn’t helped much or you don’t feel talk therapy is right for you
You live in your head much of the time, reliving the past or predicting the future
You’re ready to FEEL your feelings so you can spend more time living your life
Your current coping strategies could use an upgrade
You want to deepen your connection with your body
You want to easily move through stress
You have trauma to process
Our bodies evolved to experience stress and move through it. However, in today’s dumpster fire of a world, most of us are stuck in survival mode. We aren’t moving through our body’s stress cycle and that stress manifests in our physical bodies as health conditions, sleep troubles, and challenges in our relationships.
Body Language Lab will teach you how to move through stress, increase resilience, and love the life you live.
Who joins Body Language Lab?
Lots of different people can benefit from this program. Past participants have come with the following concerns:
Feeling disconnected from their emotions, relationships, goals, or sense of self
Having a hard time letting go of stress or suffering from panic attacks
Struggling with chronic pain, autoimmune diseases, anxiety, depression, PTSD, cPTSD, mood disorders, dissociative disorders, or several of these combined
Everyone can benefit from learning to regulate their nervous system.
“I’m walking away with a bag of tools to help me move through stress and the understanding of when to use them and why. I’ve learned how my emotions cause Hashimoto’s triggers and now have the awareness and skillset to support myself. I’m more emotionally stable, I’m sleeping better, and have more energy. My default setting is no longer stressed. Do Body Language Lab if you’re at all interested!” - Hillary
7 Video Lessons
Watch a short (20min) pre-recorded lesson, provided before each live session, that outlines the concepts and science behind that week’s theme
7 Video Lab Sessions
One-hour Lab Sessions where I’ll guide you in somatically exploring concepts to deepen your somatic capacity and build out your somatic nervous system toolkit
Brief Q & A following each lab, recorded separately
2 Video Coaching Group Sessions
Dig deeper into the concepts and learn from others’ questions and Jaclyn’s group coaching. Topics include: the window of tolerance, sensitivity to stimuli, staying grounded during global conflict and more.
PDF Lab Guides
Each guide outlines relevant somatic practices and journal prompts so you can experiment with practices and learn what works for yo
Body Language Lab
The self-paced Body Language Lab includes:
All that plus…
A video library of recorded practices ranging from 5 - 45 minutes to help support you in building somatic practices into your daily routine, including:
Yoga nidra
Breath work
EFT tapping
Meditations
Vagus nerve stimulation
Somatic movement exercises
100%
of pilot participants reported improvements in their:
Confidence in the tools they have to support themselves
Understanding of how they experience stress
Ability to tolerate and decrease stress
Relationship with their body
Body Language Lab Sessions
First you’ll review the following concepts by watching pre-recorded lessons. Then, watch the Lab sessions where you’ll learn tools to turn concepts into somatic practices. Our exploration will involve experimenting with what works for each individual. This is a science-based community focused on helping you understand what works for you and your body, as well as what doesn’t.
Session 1: Build Your Somatic Awareness
Get ready to explore your bodily awareness deeply and discover how you really feel. Learn how to describe specific sensations and emotions. Discover why the power of sensation is critical to emotional transformation. Use your somatic awareness to unlock the power of joy and awe.
Session 2: Understand Your Nervous System & Vagus Nerve
Learn how your body translates information from our environment into predictions that catapult you into action. Identify the components of the nervous system and the difference between sympathetic vs parasympethic states. Discover how the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory can help us understand our go-to stress responses and how to work with those responses, instead of resisting them. Walk away with tools to shift out of stress quickly.
Session 3: Cultivate Restoration & Resilience
You have to restore your body’s battery to overcome burn out and build resilience. Understand the importance of restoration, learn what practices restore your energy, and engage in a deep, restorative practice. Understand how to increase resilience over time. Explore your existing sources of resilience and how to tap into them more regularly.
Session 4: Move Through Activated Energy
Recognize the different ways your body tells you it’s activated by stress. Get comfortable sitting in your activated energy, mobilizing and releasing energy so that you can “unstuck” yourself. Participate in guided practices that explore different forms mobilization and find ones that work for you.
Session 5: Explore Your Coping Patterns
Examine how your body reacts automatically under pressure, also known as your conditioned tendencies (CTs). Explore how your conditioned tendencies are trying to take care of you emotionally and physically. Learn how to soften these reactions and respond in new ways. Discover somatic practices to come out of freeze and shut down.
Session 6: Shift Your Thinking
Learn why typical mindset practices like affirmations often don’t work and what to do instead. Understand why working with your body to change your thoughts is a more effective approach. Together we’ll explore embodied thought work practices to leverage emotions and sensations in order to shift out of negative thought loops.
Session 7: Celebrate Your Body
You can rewire your brain by learning how to celebrate the good. Reflect on your journey in this program. Appreciate your body more deeply through somatic exploration. Fully celebrate your body, in all its beauty, exactly as it is. Identify different ways that you can add more joy into your daily life.
“This program was everything I needed and didn’t even realize it! I’ve learned so many tools that have helped me reduce anxiety and avoid melting down. I use these practices weekly and often think to myself “What would Jaclyn suggest?” I love the trauma informed approach. Jaclyn’s passion and knowledge is palpable. I wasn’t expecting how FUN it would be.” - Rachel
A safe community to experiment, learn & grow
Discover the power of experimentation within the supportive environment of Body Language Lab.
We’ll delve deep into the evidence-backed science of the human nervous system, stress response, vagus nerve, trauma, and somatics. We’ll use this information to experiment with various practices so you can learn what works best for your body.
Sharing our experiences in a safe environment gives us the added benefit of collaborating while we test different theories that help us customize practices to an individual’s needs. By the end of the course, you’ll speak your body's language, and walk away knowing how to support yourself and master your emotions like never before.
“I feel unlocked. I’ve experienced incredible transformation during Body Language Lab. Now when I get overwhelmed or emotional I get curious and connect with my body instead of getting stuck. Jaclyn creates a safe space to come together and heal and feel in connection and community. I no longer feel broken or like it’s my fault when I struggle and that’s game changing. The somatic toolkit I’ve developed has been so supportive, especially doing yoga nidras regularly. Jaclyn is the light for you in the darkness and I love how playful Body Language Lab was.” - Abbey
Partial scholarships are available to individuals affected by financial hardship and systemic oppression. Contact Jaclyn at: askjaclynshea@gmail.com
Sign up for Body Language Lab today!
$375 or 4 payments of $100
Meet Your Facilitator
Hi! I’m Jaclyn Shea, MPH, creator of Body Language Lab
For the last decade plus, I’ve been working in health research, public health, and health tech, including developing curriculum, investigating motivations behind behavior changes, and facilitating educational workshops. For many years, my life looked perfect on the outside but as the traumas accumulated, I became more and more overwhelmed with depression and anxiety. I knew I needed to find a way off my rollercoaster of emotional intensity and lonely numbness.
I luckily found somatics and embodiment, which transformed my life. I was no longer at the whims of my trauma brain. I could finally calm the fuck down without leaning on destructive distractions such as marijuana, social isolation, or suicidal ideation. Now I live a life that focuses on joy. I feel more liberated than I ever imagined was possible. I understand the importance of being gentle with myself and moving through my emotions instead of side-stepping them.
I became certified in Somatic Stress Release™, Mind Body Coaching, and Somatic Parts Work. Helping people to heal from trauma, learn how to work with their stress and anxiety, and live joyfully is my life’s mission.
I designed Body Language Lab to be a supportive environment to explore different embodiment techniques while being in a group of others with similar struggles. There’s magic in working with a group of individuals who are each determined to transform their lives and get to cheer each other on. Past participants have learned that they are far from alone in their struggles and finding community while healing is a warm embrace. Everyone is encouraged to bring their curiosity, vulnerability and full selves to Body Language Lab.
I’ll simplify the complex science of somatics, the nervous system, and emotions AND guide you in embodiment practices so you build out your toolkit. You’ll experiment with what works for you! While our bodies are the same, we’re all different and, in Body Language Lab, we celebrate the beauty in our differences. I hope you’ll consider joining me and the next, unique group of lovely humans as we create lives full of joy, awe, laughter, and love.
“I’ve done a lot of work on myself and been in therapy but still felt disconnected from my body and struggling with my mental health. In Body Language Lab I’ve learned how emotions show up in my body as sensation or pain.
I now reach for practices I’ve learned like deep breathing, yoga nidra, being with the sensations or visualizations. I’m nurturing myself and have more momentum thanks to the juicy sessions and accountability. I notice less rumination and I’m more regulated.”
— Olivia
FAQs
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You get lifetime access to all the materials!
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I do not offer refunds. While no program is perfect, this information and practices are shown to be effective at reducing stress and improving trauma and nervous system dysregulation related symptoms. Ultimately you get out of this course what you put in it. Even if you’re unable to fully participate and get much out of it initially, you have lifetime access and can return to it at a later date to more deeply work with the materials.
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Time commitment varies. The live sessions which occur weekly are one hour long. Pre-recorded lessons are between 10-30 minutes and can be listened to while you do other things. I encourage participants to do the somatic practices in the video library several days a week. They range from 5 min to 45 min. You can participate as much or as little as you want.
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Yes, I provide partial and full scholarships. Email me at askjaclynshea@gmail.com
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Yes! I’ve been a researcher for over ten years and have rooted this course in the peer reviewed data. I draw on research from psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, and the many subfields that research the mind body connection. There’s research demonstrating efficacy for somatic awareness, breathing practices, self-touch, EFT tapping, grounding and orienting, movement therapy, savoring, and so much more.
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Please cite and give credit to all sources when referencing Body Language Lab materials, spoken or written words, conversations, images, or my likeness.
All intellectual property and related material (the "Intellectual Property") that is developed or produced in this course is the sole property of me, the faciliator. Copyright, intellectual property rights and distribution rights of the Intellectual Property remain exclusively with the course facilitator.