Vagal Toning & Empathy Circle

# Vagal Toning & Empathy Circle

Open to anyone curious about nervous system awareness, relational presence, or practicing empathy in community. No special equipment or prior experience required.

1. 40-minute guided vagal toning practice:
   Through poetry, breath, movement, and touch, we slow down to explore ways to notice and support our nervous systems.
   The invitations are toward warmth, ease, and giving yourself permission to follow what feels right at your own pace.
   You might find yourself:

• Sensing your body’s rhythms
• Connecting with breath and movement
• Vocalizing, self-havening, or noticing small glimmers of resource that deepen into glows

2. 80-minute empathy circle
   Here we may:

• Slow down our sharing
• Listen to understand
• Coregulate in a field of resonance, understanding, and mutual empathy

This is a chance to practice presence, strengthen connection, and explore the impact of co-creating a structure that supports mutual empathy in community.

Recent Empathy Movement news from the CA Democratic State Convention

For more information about the empathy circle practice, or to apply for a free upcoming local or online training through The Empathy Center**, visit:
https://forms.gle/hTKNhrF2H8B6sh6v9.