There's a famous med-school adage:"When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." In other words, look for common causes. But nervous system dysregulation and connective tissue disorders present as a broad spectrum of rare conditions. They also manifest uniquely in each individual's lived experience. Sometimes symptoms appear in constellations or flare and recede. Symptoms can be invisible and change over time. This makes diagnosis and management unique and elusive, indeed.

Good thing we aren't trying to fix or diagnose anything.

Zebra Care: Somatic Reset is 8-week, 16- session online therapeutic SomaYoga series. This experiential practice is designed to support you in remembering a felt sense of safety and expand your window of tolerance. It is an invitation to get current with curiosity and compassion.

Our Somatic Reset includes:

• an introduction to some of the subtle landscapes, structures, and functions of your amazing body/mind.
• a low-load neuro-fitness process for resolving habituated tension and developing agency and trust from within.

This is neuro-fitness, NOT high-load, fast-paced or complex physical fitness. Practices can be modified for any individual, and are well-suited to people managing chronic pain, as well as nervous system and connective tissue disorders. Please respond to student welcome inquiry after registration :)

Who is a Zebra? All are welcome. This work is specifically styled for people experiencing migraines of any sort, hypermobility spectrum disorder or related dysautonomia- which includes a galaxy of conditions. No diagnosis is required to participate, but please consult your care provider before beginning this, or any, new fitness routine.

With somatic neuro-fitness, it takes about 8-weeks of consistent and curious somatic (voluntary, cortical) practice to shift the underlying default mode in the autonomic nervous system (involuntary, sub-cortical). After that, Zebra Care is like brushing your teeth. If you take a few minutes to wipe away stress on the regular, it's less likely to cause other problems.

*PLEASE only register for this series if:

+ You are willing to commit to twice weekly practices (live online and/or recorded). The work works- but only when we do it.

+ You are willing to tolerate some short-term discomfort to relieve long-standing chronic pain cycles. Healing and learning requires us to move out of the familiar.

+ You are willing to complete a pre-series intake and post-series follow-up questionnaire

What to Expect:

Initially we will spend what seems like a lot of time with positioning and establishing baseline comfort and prop use. Each session begins with a fascinating reveal about some aspect of our amazing body/mind/ANS, followed by 30 minutes of experiential practice and 15 minutes of integration.

You will:

• experience the profound power of restorative breathwork
• learn how to cognitively relate to your inner wisdom
• remember what safe state feels like in your autonomic nervous system
• use somatic NRE (neuro re-education) to reduce acquired stress reflexes and compensations
• safely mind-map functional movement patterns in low- load situations
• develop strategies for reducing the frequency and intensity of occurrence, while increasing the length between flare ups
• build your unique toolbox of neuro fitness self-care practices

Why should you consider this Self-care program?

Because self-care is not optional and your nervous system is begging for re-assurance. Because we are neuro-plastic until the day we die- if we choose to be. And most importantly, because you are worth the effort of reclaiming comfort and function.

Bonus: We heal and learn in community. When you complete this series and share your wisdom, knowledge and experience, you help create a more robust and inclusive practice. You also support our non-profit in getting tools of self-empowerment to people. Your insight is invaluable. Thank you.

Your Instructor

Suzanne Larsen is a Certified Yoga Therapist specializing in SomaYoga and neuro-fitness with 25+ years yoga teaching and practice experience. She spent the past five years in deep study of somatic yoga and neuro-fitness. During that time Suzanne, a life-long migraine suffer (also diagnosed with ADHD and POTS), experienced complete remission from intractable and hemipelagic migraines. She has not had an episode or taken meds in over three years. This led to the original Migraine Relief 8-week series passion project. The amount of interest in Migraine Relief from people within the EDS and related community warranted deeper study. This 8-Week Zebra Care Program is a refinement of the original curriculum with special considerations to make the work more accessible. We can practice transformative neuro-fitness without adding physical demands. The way out of a sensitized body is to go in with compassion and curiosity. There's so much hope. So much brilliance conserved within. You are worth getting to know.

8- week Somatic Reset for Safety

Live presentation online at noon central standard time Tuesdays and Thursdays

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 - Thursday, November 20, 2025

90Min 11:45am - 1:15pm

15 Min welcome (not recorded and optional)

15 Min presentation (recorded and required)

30 Min practice (recorded and required)

15 Min integration (recorded and required)

15 Min check out (not recorded and optional)

Office Hours via zoom Wednesday evenings 5pm CST or by appointment. Meet with Suzanne and possibly other participants to share how the work is landing in your experience and ask questions. Let's be accountability buddies! You do have to do the work for yourself- but you are not alone in it.

All program offerings are on Zoom and listed in Central Standard (Chicago time). Instructor also available by email.

Program registration gets you access to all live classes, and access to all video recordings.

This is a pilot series offered FREE, at no cost. There is a tiered-pricing option within the registration process if you would like to support this offering financially. Our non-profit also always gratefully accepts donations.