Practical Peace
A 5-Day Nervous System Reset
Are you feeling chronically stressed, burnt out, or overwhelmed?
Experience a gentle, beginner-friendly mini course to help you release stress and regulate your nervous system — in just 10 minutes a day.
What Practical Peace Is
Are you living with chronic tension and anxiety, and feel like your body never fully relaxes?
Practical Peace was created to gently support your nervous system with shifting out of chronic stress and back into a state of regulation, safety, and ease.
In just 10 minutes a day, you’ll learn simple, science-backed somatic exercise sequences designed to calm racing thoughts, release stored stress from the body, and activate your body’s natural relaxation response.
This 5-day nervous system reset is a gentle, beginner-friendly introduction to nervous system regulation and somatic healing for stress and anxiety relief.
Each day includes:
A short, grounding teaching
A guided somatic practice
A simple reflection question to help integrate the work
What You’ll Experience
On this 5-day journey, you will:
Learn four somatic exercise sequences to help release stored stress from your body
Build a daily nervous system regulation practice in under 10 minutes a day
Awaken your body’s innate capacity for healing
Experience relief from chronic pain, tension, and habitual bracing patterns
Create a daily practice that feels doable
Feel more present, grounded, and emotionally supported
Learn how to reconnect with your body as a place of safety
The Curriculum
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Learn how setting an intention can help your mind feel focused and your body feel safe enough to soften and release. Then, practice a gorgeous guided meditation and visualization to support you with bringing your intention to life.
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Learn what the psoas muscle is and the role it plays in your biological stress response. Then, practice one simple somatic exercise that can help you release stored stress and tension from your psoas muscle.
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Learn why the upper back can be a holder of long-term stress—especially for people who have developed relational patterns of people-pleasing and over-responsibility. Then, practice three gentle somatic exercises that can help you release upper back tension.
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Learn how bracing, overwhelm, and suppressed self-expression can contribute to chronic neck tension. Then, practice a somatic exercise sequence to help you soften this area, ease stress, and create more space and breath through your neck and throat.
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Learn why the jaw is one of the most common places the body stores stress and tension. Then, practice a gentle jaw release sequence. We will close with a gentle pause to reflect on your intention for this 5-day nervous system reset.
Meet Your Guide
Heather Waxman is a licensed therapist and certified somatic exercises instructor specializing in soul-centered healing, somatic practice, shadow work, and relational healing. She holds a master’s degree in Marriage & Family Therapy, where she earned the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, and has mentored individuals for 12 years, bringing depth, mastery, and a steady container of emotional safety to everything she offers.
Her offerings come from embodied, lived experience—devoting her life to breaking free from her own pain, suffering, and traumatic experiences and fully living her soul’s curriculum with grit and grace.
Heather supports ambitious, deeply-feeling souls to break free from stuck patterns, chronic stress, and unresolved trauma so they, too, can experience the inner safety and peace they’ve been longing for.
PURCHASE PRACTICAL PEACE
$47 USD
Lifetime Access
A 5-Day Nervous System Reset
Frequently Asked Questions
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A nervous system reset refers to gentle, beginner-friendly practices that help shift the body out of chronic stress responses and into a state of greater regulation and safety through nervous system education, somatic awareness, and gentle micro-movements that are designed to release stored stress from the body.
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Practical Peace is a 5-day course, with each day designed to take about 10 minutes.
You can move through the course at your own pace and revisit the practices anytime, as you receive lifetime access. -
Yes. This course is intentionally designed to be accessible, gentle, and beginner-friendly. No prior experience with somatic work or nervous system practices is required.
If you’d like a sample of what the course might be like from a nervous system education perspective, you can read this blog post from Heather. -
You may experience:
Relief from chronic pain, chronic tension, and/or chronic bracing
Increased mental and emotional clarity
Increased capacity to pause and respond rather than react
A deeper sense of connection to your body
A felt sense of peace and calm
Results vary depending on the individual’s history and current circumstances. The intention of Practical Peace is to create small, steady, and sustainable shifts over time.
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No. Practical Peace is not a replacement for therapy, nor is it designed for deep trauma processing.
This course offers nervous system education and regulation practices that can complement therapy or stand alone as a supportive daily practice.
If you are currently in therapy, many people find this course integrates beautifully alongside their work.
If you live in Connecticut or New York and are seeking therapy, you can explore my therapeutic approach here.If you’d like to learn more about a holistic, trauma-informed approach to therapy that includes somatic healing, you can read this blog post from Heather.
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Practical Peace is designed to support people who feel chronically stressed, anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their body.
While it is not a medical or mental health treatment, the practices are rooted in nervous system regulation principles that many people find helpful for managing anxiety and stress more gently.You can also refer to this blog post that Heather wrote on somatic healing and common myths.
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This course was created specifically for people with limited time, energy, or capacity. Each practice is short, simple, and adaptable.
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Once you purchase Practical Peace, you will receive immediate and lifetime access to the course content. You can access it online from any device and return to it whenever you’d like.
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While the course is structured as a 5-day experience, you are welcome to move through it at your own pace.
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Yes, there is a refund policy. All sales are final and no refunds are available for this course. If you have questions before purchasing, you’re encouraged to reach out here and ensure it feels like the right fit for you.
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Practical Peace is not the right fit if you are:
Seeking a course focused on intensive trauma processing
Long, cathartic emotional work
An intensive program
In a crisis situation
If you are in a crisis situation, please call or text the crisis hotline at 988.
Testimonials
“Working with Heather was the easiest, most relaxing and non judgmental experience. She truly changed my life. I started to incorporate the practice daily into my routine and I could feel a sense of calm in times where I would normally be more triggered. This practice is life changing and I am so grateful I got to work with Heather. “
— Alena“Feeling so much more centered and gathered within myself. Thank you. Feel anew!"
— Raquelle“I feel so much more relaxed and present.”
— Lisa“My hips, which would always be tight and cause me restriction and pain, were completely free and loose. I’m feeling overwhelmed with gratitude.”
— Sarah“That was lovely. I am grateful for these simple practices I can use throughout my day.”
— Michelle