Essence Breathwork and Art-Therapy: Understanding Your Nervous System

🌀 Essence Breathwork and Art-Therapy: Understanding Your Nervous System

Do you often feel stressed, disconnected, overwhelmed or stuck — even when “nothing is wrong”?

In this experiential workshop, you will learn to recognise how your nervous system shows up in your daily life, understand your personal patterns, and explore practical tools to move towards regulation, calm and safety.

This is not just theory.
It is a body-based, creative and deeply personal experience.

Our nervous system shapes how we think, feel, relate and respond to life.

Through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, this workshop will help you:

• understand the main nervous system states
• recognise when you move into each one in your own life
• and experience how breath can support regulation and balance

We will work with a personal nervous system profile map, using colours and creative expression (art-therapy style), to gently explore your patterns — without judgement and without forcing change.

From there, we will move into a guided conscious breathing journey designed to help your body integrate awareness, release stored tension and reconnect with a sense of safety and presence.

This workshop is practical, embodied and suitable even if this is your first time exploring nervous system work or breathwork.

This is not just another breathwork workshop.

It’s an intimate, carefully held and deeply human space where conscious breathing and art-therapy come together to help you release old emotional wounds and build a new relationship with yourself, one based on safety, self-love and presence.

If you feel there’s something inside you still carrying the past
If you’ve done therapy, but something remains stuck
If you’re looking for a different, inspiring and profound experience…
This workshop is for you.

🔥 What you’ll experience

Over the course of 3 hours, you’ll be guided through a process that gently helps you move from emotional tension, mental noise, or disconnection…into deep calm, emotional clarity and a loving reconnection with your inner child, the part of you that was never broken.

This experience weaves together:

• Learn the three main nervous system states in a simple and accessible way.
• Identify how these states appear in your personal life and relationships.
• Create your own Nervous System Profile Map using colours and symbols.
• Experience Conscious Connected Breathwork
• Leave with a deeper understanding of yourself and practical awareness you can apply in daily life

You won’t just feel better.

You’ll understand yourself in a new way, from the inside out.

🎯 This workshop is for you if you…

• feel stressed, anxious, disconnected or overwhelmed
• want to understand your emotional and physiological responses better
• are curious about Polyvagal Theory and nervous system regulation
• want a safe, embodied and non-judgemental space
• prefer learning through experience rather than theory alone

No previous experience with breathwork or nervous system work is required.

📍 Event information

📅 Date: Sunday 17 January
🕔 Time: 10:00 – 13:00
📍 Venue: Art and Spirituality
👥 Capacity: Maximum 10 participants (small, intimate group)

What’s included:
✔ 3-hour in-person workshop
✔ All materials (A3 paper, colours, creative tools)
✔ Guided breathing session
✔ Safe, supportive and confidential group space

Please bring: comfortable clothes

About the Facilitator

The workshop is facilitated by David Palacios, founder of Essence Scotland.

David is a breathwork facilitator and coach who creates spaces for people to reconnect with their body, regulate their nervous system and return to their inner balance.

His work combines:

• conscious connected breathing
• Polyvagal Theory
• emotional awareness
• practical tools for everyday life

Essence Scotland is about one simple invitation:
Breathe. Release. Reconnect.

🌟 What you’ll experience:

✔️ A deeper connection with yourself and your emotions

✔️ Increased self-love, self-worth, and inner vitality

✔️ Clarity of heart and mind through breath and presence

✔️ Relief from stress and restoration of inner calm

✔️ Greater joy, fulfilment, and appreciation for life

✔️ A stronger connection with your intuition and higher self

✔️ Support for your immune system and overall well-being

🛠️ Why you can trust this

This isn’t just a feel-good workshop. It’s based on science-backed methods (like nervous system regulation and trauma-informed breathwork)and the lived experience of dozens of participants who’ve walked out feeling lighter, clearer and more at peace.

Important Information & Contraindications

Safety is our top priority. This event involves deep breathwork techniques that may not be suitable for everyone. Please review the following contraindications before purchasing a ticket:

🚫 Pregnancy

🚫 High blood pressure

🚫 Severe PTSD or recent psychiatric hospitalisation

🚫 Severe mental health conditions (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis)

🚫 Heavy medication affecting brain chemistry (antidepressants, antipsychotics, etc.)

🚫 Epilepsy, aneurysms, cardiovascular issues, severe asthma, or recent surgeries🚫 Any medical condition that could be affected by intense breathwork

By purchasing a ticket, you confirm that you do not have any of the conditions listed above.

🌬️ Breathe. Release. Reconnect with your Essence.
This could be the beginning of a completely new relationship with yourself.

*Important Note

This workshop is not therapy and does not replace medical or psychological treatment.
You are always invited to listen to your body and participate at your own pace.