Interoception, Trauma and the Nervous System
Live Workshop (no replay):
USA: Thursday 29th May, 2025. Time: 6 - 6:45pm (PDT/LA)
AUS: Friday 30th May, 2025. Time: 11 - 11:45am (AEST/Sydney)
Interoception, Trauma & the Nervous System
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Evidence Base
Recent neuroscience research demonstrates that interoceptive capacity serves as a foundation for emotional regulation and trauma recovery.
This workshop synthesises current findings from interoception, sensory processing research, and trauma neuroscience. You'll learn:
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The link between interoception and mental health
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The role of interoception in persistent pain, gut disorders like IBS, eating disorders and dissociation.
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How trauma can lead to a disconnection from internal bodily sensations as a protective mechanism.
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The link between anxiety and low interoceptive accuracy
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Evidence-based approaches to trauma-sensitive sequencing that prioritise foundational sensory systems first like interoception
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Understand why when interoception is impaired, people miss early stress signals and struggle to identify emotions or basic needs. This creates cycles where tension builds unnoticed until overwhelming, since they can't feel the bodily sensations that normally inform emotional awareness.
You can’t build stable emotional regulation on top of dysregulated sensory systems.
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This workshop will help you remove the guesswork about what intervention to use next with your clients (or yourself)
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You'll develop clear explanations that clients actually understand
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You'll understand objective neurobiological markers to track progress beyond subjective reports
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Your interventions will have clear rationale, your explanations will build trust, and your outcomes improve because you're working with your client's neurobiology, not against it.
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Transform your practice from overwhelming guesswork into informed, effective nervous system integration.
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You'll learn why some nervous system interventions work so well while others struggle to create lasting change, offering practitioners a neurobiological foundation for decision-making.
Meet Jessica
Jessica Maguire is a former physiotherapist, educator, author, TEDx speaker and mother on a mission to free people from nervous system dysregulation and all its painful side effects.
As the creator of the Vagus Nerve Program and Practitioner Certification Course, she has taught over 20,000 students from all over the world how to transform their nervous system, empowering them to step into the driver’s seat of their own health and wellbeing.
Alongside a Bachelor of Health Science and a Master of Physiotherapy, her postgraduate study has included work in neuroscience, neuroplasticity, neurology, bio-feedback, pain science, and transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation.
