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Meditation offers stroke survivors more than stillness- it offers reconnection.

It helps calm the nervous system, ease anxiety, and support the brain’s natural ability to heal and rewire. Even a few minutes a day can improve focus, regulate emotions, and restore a sense of inner safety. It can also be a beneficial practice for many important reasons, such as these:

• May reduce depression
• It can fend off fatigue
• It can improve attention & emotional regulation
• Boosts brain tissue regeneration

After a stroke or heart trauma, the body can feel unfamiliar — even unsafe. Our trauma-sensitiv yoga sessions are designed to restore trust, ease, and connection. We move slowly. We breathe intentionally.  No pressure, no judgement.

Yoga post stroke can be extremely therapeutic in ways such as these:

• Can improve balance and gait 
• Increased strength & endurance
• Can prevent joint contractures, muscle shortening & decrea
• May reduce stress & improve mental health
• Can restore the mind-body connection

Breathwork calms the nervous system, brings us back into the body, and helps release fear and tension stored deep within.

It’s simple, accessible, and profoundly healing — one conscious breath at a time.

Your breath is more than air. It’s your anchor.

Breath work can be very beneficial for:

• Improving cognitive function
• Reducing anxiety & improving overall wellbeing
• reducing breathlessness
• Improving autonomic function

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), or “tapping,” is a gentle self-regulation tool that combines acupuncture point tapping with focused affirmation. It is a gentle form of vibrational healing, that uses the fingertips to release emotional blockages & restore balance to the body. It can be highly highly effective for:

• Reducing anxiety and fear
• Calming the nervous system
• Softening emotional flashbacks or stress responses
• Releasing internalized trauma patterns

At Symbal Somatic, we honor movement as an expression of aliveness — not punishment or performance. It can, however, be reduce the risk of stroke recurrence. Gentle exercise and mindful movement play a vital role in stroke and heart trauma recovery by:

• Supporting circulation and neuroplasticity
• Releasing tension stored in the fascia
• Boosting mood, confidence, and endorphins
• Encouraging connection between brain, heart, and muscles

What if your thoughts could heal your body?

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares how belief, intention, and focused meditation can create measurable changes in the brain and body.

Using real stories and science, he shows how people have overcome illness and trauma by changing their internal state — proving that you can become your own medicine.

In Becoming Supernatural, Dr. Joe Dispenza blends ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science to show how ordinary people are doing the extraordinary: healing their bodies, expanding their consciousness, and creating lives they love.

Through meditation, heart-brain coherence, and elevated emotional states, he teaches us how to move beyond survival and tap into the infinite intelligence of the body and the field.

In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Dr. Joe Dispenza explains how our repeated thoughts, emotions, and habits create patterns in the brain that shape our personality — and how those patterns can be rewired.

Through a blend of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics, he shows us how to break free from the past, recondition the body to a new mind, and begin living from our future — not our past.

In Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life, Bob Proctor teaches that our deepest beliefs — or paradigms — shape everything we do, from how we think and feel to the results we see in our health, relationships, and healing.

This book explains how to recognize limiting patterns and replace them with empowering ones using repetition, visualization, and decision-based action.

In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz shares  wisdom that helps us break free from self-limiting beliefs and emotional suffering. Through four simple but powerful principles — be impeccable with your word, don’t take anything personally, don’t make assumptions, and always do your best — we’re invited to return to our truth.

This book offers a clear path to inner peace, emotional freedom, and self-love — all essential parts of the healing journey.

What if the divine wasn’t distant — but already alive within you?

In this timeless spiritual work, Baird T. Spalding shares accounts of his travels through the Himalayas in the late 1800s, where he and a small group of researchers encounter enlightened masters.

Through stories of healing, telepathy, manifestation, and deep spiritual truth, the book invites readers to consider a higher perspective:

that we, too, are capable of living in divine alignment — with peace, love, and mastery over the self.

Dr. Joe Dispenza is a renowned teacher, researcher, and author whose work explores neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics. His teachings focus on how thoughts, emotions, and energy can be used to change the brain and body — creating measurable healing, transformation, and lasting change.

Through guided meditation, mental rehearsal, and heart-brain coherence practices, Dr. Joe helps people move beyond their past and step into a future created by elevated intention and emotion.