Tending Your Nervous System
Like a Garden
A Yoga Practice for Liberation in an Unwell Society
Your nervous system is not a machine to be fixed. It’s a garden to be tended.
Thurs. November 20th 6pm ET, LIVE
Trauma-Informed Teaching & Practice Space
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
- J. Krishnamurti
You and your friends aren't broken! Our systems are.
And yoga gives us a different path. It always has.
Yoga doesn’t want us controlled or contained. it calls us back into harmony.
Instead of staying separate, fragmented, stressed, or seeking wellness solo, yoga invites us back into relationship, with breath, body, and the living world around us.
Yoga is union. Interconnected and reunited with the Earth, the trees, the elements.
Long before neuroscience mapped the vagus nerve, yoga mapped the pathways of:
- Rajas — fight or flight
- Samskara loops — freeze
- Tamas — shut down or dissociation
- Sattva — clarity and liberation
Yoga gives us tools to harmonize. To breathe through anger, melt freeze, and awaken to clarity of consciousness.
Spots are limited to 300 and this will fill up so register now to avoid disappointment.
These are some of my deepest teachings as a Yoga Psychology scholar.
Current trauma informed approaches focus on "Regulation" and treat your nervous system like a machine to be controlled. But yoga has always known you are a garden to be tended - come tend your garden together.
It will be LIVE ONLY.
There will be no recording, to honor the sacredness of this transmission.
You are not wrong; you make sense.
Wellness culture told us our anxiety is a flaw and our exhaustion a personal failure, that we should calm down, breathe, and keep producing.
But your nervous system shouldn’t be fine when the world is bending to fascism. What does it mean to be trauma informed in a world spinning on trauma?
You’re not meant to stay calm inside a collapsing system. You’re meant to stay awake, embodied, and free.
This free webinar isn’t about nervous system regulation. It’s about nervous system liberation.
You can’t balance your chakras while the system profits from your imbalance.
And you can’t fix your body while the culture is built on disconnection.
Your nervous system is not a machine to be fixed; it’s a garden to be tended.
About Your Host
Susanna Barkataki of Ignite Institute for Yogic Leadership and Social Change, Yoga PhD scholar, M.Ed., E-RYT 500, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Yoga Therapist, offers award winning "thought leadership in yoga and wellness." She has cultivated a community of over 200K followers on social media and is described as "a trailblazing yoga leader and visionary for our times."
Award-winning Embody Yoga's Roots Yoga Teacher Training
200 Foundations and 300 Advanced
Join me for 🍃Tending Your Nervous System Like a Garden 🍃 a live webinar and collective practice space to remember what real healing feels like.
Our nervous systems hold so much: grief, noise, news, the constant push to keep going. Yet beneath it all, something sacred still breathes.
In this session, we’ll slow down and listen. We’ll explore what yoga has long known about the nervous system before “regulation” and “trauma,” when it was simply about life force, breath, and belonging.
You’ll learn:
- How yoga’s ancient nervous system teachings inform modern “regulation”
- Why your trauma responses are sacred intelligence, not pathology
- The 3 yogic nervous system states that lead to liberation, not just calm
- How to transform rage into righteous action without burning out
We’ll move, breathe, and reconnect to the parts of ourselves that remember how to rest, root, and rise.
You’ll leave with simple tools from yoga’s roots to tend your body, breath, and heart — not to escape the world, but to be fully here for it.
Because your nervous system isn’t broken, it’s inviting you the way back home.
We are not broken! Our nervous systems aren’t flawed. The social systems are.
We’re remembering what wholeness feels like.
Together, we tend our bodies, our breath, and our shared humanity, not to keep up with a broken world, but to heal from within.
The world asks us to perform but our bodies remember another way, the way of breath, earth, and belonging.
This is the movement from machine to meadow and from overwhelm to life.
Join me in Tending Your Nervous System Like a Garden.
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