Free Resources
Healing is not a single moment — it’s a continuum.
Your body, nervous system, sensuality, and spirit each have their own pace, rhythm, and way of unfolding.
This page offers free tools, grounding practices, and educational resources to support you no matter where you are on your healing path — whether you’re exploring embodiment work, seeking nervous system stability, or integrating sacred medicine.
Everything here is trauma-informed and paced gently for sustainable change.
Start Here — Trauma Screening Questionnaire (TSQ)
Before beginning, it’s important to determine whether your system needs trauma therapy first.
The TSQ helps you understand your current level of activation.
If you score 6 or higher out of 10, we recommend starting with counselling through Vivananda’s sister company:
This allows you to receive the right level of support and ensures emotional safety when entering embodiment work.
Restoring the Nervous System – A guide to feeling more settled, connected, and like yourself again
A free guide to understanding your nervous system with easy to follow practices to find regulation and feel what’s true.
This resource explores:
- Understanding Nervous System Overload
- Nervous System Patterns that make it difficult to relax, settle, or feel fully present
- The Science Behind Feeling Centred
- Why Insight is Not Usually Enough
- Simple practices to help you reconnect with your body and build greater internal steadiness
- Become Aware of the Moment You Lose Yourself
This guide aims to help you understand how subtle shifts away from your body’s internal signals can contribute to patterns such as overthinking, people-pleasing, overwhelm, emotional eating, or difficulty trusting yourself.
Kintsugi – Making Beauty out of the Traumatic Experience
A free guide to Making Beauty out of the Traumatic Experience.
This resource covers the Japanese Art of repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks with gold. An analogy for your post-traumatic growth. It includes a how-to-guide and reflection prompts.
Healing is not about fixing what is broken – it is about remembering your wholeness.
Like Kintsugi, this work honours the places where life has cracked you open and invites light, compassion, and new possibility to flow through.
Sexual Trauma Healing Resources
Compassionate education for understanding the body’s responses to trauma.
Topics covered:
- What happens to the nervous system after sexual trauma
- Why pleasure may feel impossible, overwhelming, or confusing
- How protector parts develop
- The difference between erotic innocence vs sexual performance
- Understanding shutdown, freeze, and dissociation
- Rebuilding trust in your body
- How pleasure can return safely and slowly
Embodiment Practices
Slow, subtle, non-triggering practices for returning home to your body.
Embodied Awareness Exercises
- Checking in: “What sensations are here now?”
- Softening into the hips, belly, and heart
- Movements and intuitive shape-shifting
- Restoring aliveness and joy
Developing Inner Safety
- Noticing boundaries
- Naming what feels too much
- Learning your window of tolerance
- Learn to slow down connection to match the body’s timing
Restoring Erotic Timing
- The body’s timing becomes meaningful again
- Intrinsic rather than negotiated boundaries
- Know what can stay and what needs to go
- Learn not to override body’s signals
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Begin Your Journey Home
Healing begins the moment you choose yourself.
If you’re ready to deepen embodiment, heal from ways trauma has pulled you out of yourself, or integrate sacred medicine work, Vivananda offers a grounded and sacred space for your evolution.
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Restoring the Nervous System – A guide to feeling more settled, connected, and like yourself again
A guide to understanding your nervous system and what it may already be trying to do to find regulation.