Three Dantians & Decision Making
An Embodied Journey Through Nervous System Regulation for maing better choices in your life!
Workshop Description
Calm your nervous system, awaken your inner wisdom, make decisions with clarity.
Your nervous system is always speaking.
Your Lower Dan tien roots you, the Middle Dan tien guides your heart, and the Upper Dan tien brings insight.
The three dan tiens are vital energy centers or intelligent portals in the body, as essential to your well-being as other more physical systems like the circulatory or digestive systems. The three dan tiens are considered 'elixir fields', your inner medicine fields.
When these centers are aligned, decision-making becomes felt in your whole body, not just your mind. When they move in harmony, decision-making is no longer just a mental process; it is felt, embodied, and guided by your whole being.
In this immersive workshop, you’ll explore how nervous system regulation shapes the clarity, ease, and integrity of your decisions.
Through Alexander Technique principles, gentle Tai Chi and Qigong movement, and mindful engagement with the three dan tiens, you will:
- Listen to your body’s signals before acting
- Release tension patterns that cloud judgment
- Reconnect with embodied intuition as a decision-making compass
In this workshop, you will:
- Reconnect with the Lower Dantian to anchor choices and activate parasympathetic calm
- Open the Middle Dantian for emotional coherence and relational clarity
- Awaken the Upper Dantian for insight and spacious attention
- Apply Alexander Technique principles to dissolve habitual tension and “fight-or-flight” patterns
- Learn to pause, sense, and choose from a regulated, coherent system
- Experience three-center nervous system integration as a compass for your life.
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Whether decisions feel tangled, overwhelming, or simply unclear, this workshop offers a new, embodied pathway forward — grounded in presence, ease, and the subtle intelligence of the dantians.
Come home to the deeper intelligence within you.
Let your choices arise from your whole nervous system.
Step into your next chapter with clarity, spaciousness, and embodied grace.
Overall Arc
Decisions become clearer when the nervous system and the body’s centers are coherent.
- Lower Dantian anchors safety and regulation
- Middle Dantian harmonizes heart and emotions
- Upper Dantian clarifies insight and perspective
Alexander Technique discoveries align the system’s habitual nature, while dan tien awareness aligns energy and nervous system tone. Together, they create the space where authentic decisions arise.
Who Is This For?
- Anyone seeking calmer, clearer decisions
- Those interested in nervous system regulation and embodied choice
- People ready to step into aligned, felt decision-making
Step into your next chapter with clarity, calm, and embodied wisdom.
Workshop Structure
Calm your nervous system, awaken your inner wisdom, make decisions with clarity.
We will meet online via Zoom Saturdays from 10am to 12 noon (eastern time) to:
- understand and engage with your three dan tiens
- utilize Alexander Technique discoveries for deepened integration
- Guided practices such as dan tien breathing, somatic weight shifting for grounding, smiling insid
- Gradual integration of nervous system practices
- Guided practices such as dan tien breathing, somatic weight shifting for grounding, smiling inside
- bonus materials --> guided meditations, video exercises, decision-making cheat sheet
What to Bring:
- A notebook or journal – for reflections, exercises, and insights
- A short list of decisions you’re currently considering – anything from simple daily choices to larger life questions
- Curiosity & an open mind – this is a space for exploration and gentle discovery
- Any questions you might have about yourself, your decisions, or the practices we’ll explore
Six week class series
Week 1. Arrival & Orientation:
Week 2 – Lower Dantien & Grounded Decisions
Week 2 – Lower Dantien & Grounded Decisions
Theme: Settling into your body, setting intention, nervous system tuning.
- Introduction to the course and intention-setting
- Breath & micro-movements
- Overview of the three dantians as energy centers
- Gentle Alexander Technique awareness exercises (Primary Control, inhibition)
- Breathing and body scans to sense habitual tension patterns
- Decision-Making Focus: Noticing habitual tension patterns and how they influence decisions
- Short journaling: noticing where your nervous system “lives” in decision-making
Week 2 – Lower Dantien & Grounded Decisions
Week 2 – Lower Dantien & Grounded Decisions
Week 2 – Lower Dantien & Grounded Decisions
Theme: Rooting and stability
- Decision-Making Focus: Feeling stability, safety, and bodily support for decisions
- Lower Dantian anatomy, energy, and intelligence
- Practices: lower-dantian breathing, Tai Chi weight shifts, AT-guided standing
- Exercises to notice reactive vs. grounded decision-making patterns
- Journaling / group reflection: “Where do I feel stable? Where do I brace?”
Week 3 – Middle Dantien & Emotional Clarity
Week 4 – Upper Dantien & Insight and Spacious Awareness
Week 4 – Upper Dantien & Insight and Spacious Awareness
Theme: Heart-centered awareness
- Middle Dantian: emotional intelligence and relational clarity
- AT integration: softening shoulders, freeing sternum, de-armouring breath
- Gentle heart-opening movements (Tai Chi spirals, arm expansions)
- Spiraling & mindful walking
- Decision-Making Focus: Distinguishing emotional truth from performative or reactive impulses
- Journaling: “What feels aligned? What feels performative?”
Week 4 – Upper Dantien & Insight and Spacious Awareness
Week 4 – Upper Dantien & Insight and Spacious Awareness
Week 4 – Upper Dantien & Insight and Spacious Awareness
Theme: Spacious clarity and intuitive decision-making
- Upper Dantian: head/neck alignment, Third Eye, insight
- Alexander Technique practices: A/O joint, “Crystal Palace” awareness, micro-meditations
- Breathing and seated/standing practices to sense insight and spacious attention
- Exercises: “Three-Breath Vision Drop” on current decisions.
- Journaling: “What insight arises when I pause?”
Weeks 5 and 6
Week 5 – Integration: Three Center Coherence in Decision Making
Week 5 – Integration: Three Center Coherence in Decision Making
Week 5 – Integration: Three Center Coherence in Decision Making
Theme: Coherence across body, heart, and mind
- Integrating Lower, Middle, Upper Dantian awareness
- Movement practices combining all three centers (Tai Chi / walking meditations)
- Three-Center Decision Compass exercise: lower → safety, middle → alignment, upper → wisdom
- Partner exercises: mirroring, sensing energy flow
- Decision-Making Focus: Using the Three-Center Decision Compass for aligned choices
- Journaling: “How do my three centers guide choices together?”
Week 6 – Embodied Autonomy & Applied Decision Making
Week 5 – Integration: Three Center Coherence in Decision Making
Week 5 – Integration: Three Center Coherence in Decision Making
Theme: Applying integrated awareness to life
- Review of key practices for grounding, heart clarity, and insight
- Longer full body embodiment sequence: moving through all three dantians
- Real-life decision exercises: participants bring personal or professional decisions
- Reflection: identifying patterns of alignment, tension, or insight
- Decision-Making Focus: Applying integrated awareness to real choices; claiming your inner compass
- Closing ritual: guided lying-down meditation, claiming inner compass
- Discussion / Q&A on sustaining practice post-course
A Natural Progression
What to Bring to Class
What to Bring to Class
Classes include additional guidance
This class structure progresses naturally: first calming and tuning the nervous system, then working from lower (grounding) → middle (heart) → upper (insight), then integrating and applying, finishing with autonomy and real-life embodiment. You will also receive:
- Feedback from instructors as to locating your dan tiens
- Short guided audio or video meditations for home practice
- Weekly journaling prompts
What to Bring to Class
What to Bring to Class
What to Bring to Class
Please Bring:
- A notebook or journal – for reflections, exercises, and insights
- A short list of decisions you’re currently considering – anything from simple daily choices to larger life questions
- Curiosity & an open mind – this is a space for exploration and gentle discovery
- Any questions you might have about yourself, your decisions, or the practices we’ll explore
Come ready to notice, feel, and engage your body, heart, and mind. Your nervous system will thank you, and your inner wisdom is ready to guide you.
What's the Fee?
Two Options to pay
6-Weekly Series (2 hours per session)
Total hours: 12 hours total
- Price range:
- $600 paid in full upon registration
- Two payment option: Pay $375 when registering and $375 by week two of the course.
Course engagement:
- Provides deeper embodiment and nervous-system integration
- Amplified Practice with a committed community
- Includes instructor feedback plus bonus materials: guided meditations, video exercises, and decision-making 'cheat sheets' for your life!
Register by clicking below. Please let us know which payment option you will choose. Once you register we will send you our agreement for class attendance.
With Love, Jamee and Marie