Co-regulation

Yoga and breath work is a transformative process where teachers guide students through processes of co-regulatory patterns. Much of the external world shapes the central nervous system in preparation for fight/flight/freeze responses through high alert, whether it be from prior experiences or a high alert based on perception of future adverse experiences. Your body has learned to navigate the world in ways that increase survival, and with the world being so unpredictable, many bodies only operate in survival. Patterns of survival, specifically for long periods of time, disconnect the person from their body. Shifting patterns of survival to living in the now has scientifically proven benefits to one’s mental, physical, and emotional health.

Here at Eagle Yoga House, we are aiming to create connection, attunement, affect, and energetic expressions where students’ bodies can become attuned by another regulated body. That body is any present body in the room and could be that of yoga teachers, other yoga students, therapists, a partner/spouse, loved ones & friends. Co-regulation is a form of sending safety signals from one body to another that they no longer need to operate in survival. Co-regulation through yoga is a form of finding ease through challenge and learning to quiet the spirit. It’s formulating patterns that decrease cortisol, that rewire the brain, that re-uptake’s natural forms of dopamine and serotonin, that declutters mental spaces and reconnects the mind/body/breath to the present. We invite you to step into more regulated spaces this 2026 with us!

Rachelle Chevalier, Eagle Yoga House Teacher

Marriage and Family Therapist