YO-T Yoga and Occupational Therapy

13/06/2026

Most approaches to mental health start with the mind.

But your nervous system was never built that way.

80% of the fibres in your vagus nerve travel upward — body to brain. Your body has always been the one leading the conversation. We’ve just been taught to ignore it.

This is why bottom-up regulation works when everything else hasn’t. Not because it’s alternative. Because it’s how you’re actually wired.

Curious what that looks like in practice? 🔗 Link in bio.

10/06/2026

Most people arrive having already tried the thinking approach. The journalling, the mindset work, the breathing apps.
And still something isn’t shifting.
Here’s what occupational therapists know that often gets missed — your sensory profile shapes how your nervous system responds to everything. It’s not a childhood diagnosis. It’s the way your brain has always processed the world.

Swipe to see what we mean, and why bottom-up regulation works when nothing else has. 🧠

Save this if your nervous system has been running the show. If you’re keen to learn more link in BIO 📌

07/06/2026

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After a period of burnout, I realised that nature knows what you need, and is always ready to offer it – you just have to be quiet enough to receive it

02/06/2026

Safety lives in the body, too.
We spend so much time trying to think our way out of stress — but what if the answer is actually in your body?

This 90-minute workshop is a science-backed, body-based introduction to your nervous system — why it gets stuck in stress responses, and how to gently work with it rather than against it.

Grounded in Polyvagal Theory (Dr Stephen Porges), you’ll learn and experience:

→ How your autonomic nervous system works — and why it responds the way it does
→ Breathwork + body scan to bring your system into awareness
→ Orienting responses and practical regulation tools you can use in everyday life

This is an educational evening with somatic practices woven through to support you. You’ll leave having felt the difference — not just understood it.

📅 Thursday 25 June
🕕 6pm · 90 minutes
📍 4/130 High Street, Belmont
🎟 $50 per person — link in bio to book

Led by Steph, Occupational Therapist and Safe and Sound Protocol facilitator at YO-T Yoga and Occupational Therapy, Belmont.
Spots are limited.

30/05/2026

If you’ve ever felt better after yoga and couldn’t explain why — this is why.
Yoga has been working with the nervous system for thousands of years. Long before the research, before the terminology, before neuroscience had the language — practitioners were observing what the body does when you breathe a certain way, hold a certain shape, fix your gaze on a single point.
They weren’t guessing. They were paying close attention, over generations, and passing down what they found.
Science is now mapping the mechanisms. And what it keeps finding is that the ancient descriptions weren’t metaphor. They were precise.
The body has always # known. We just need to practise.
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28/05/2026

Regulation isn’t something that happens in a session and then stops.
It’s something you build. Between appointments, between hard days, in the ordinary moments when you have to find your own way back.
That’s part of what this is.
Something that lands on your doorstep and says — this is for you. Your nervous system matters. Your recovery is worth something tangible.

People who’ve received it have called it a gift to themselves. That’s exactly what it was designed to be.
The Recovery & Regulation kit comes bundled with our online program — seven modules of nervous system support and occupational therapy interventions, built around the understanding that you’re not broken. You’re learning and responding.

And now you have something to hold onto while you do the work.
Link in bio.

27/11/2025

EMDR is powerful work — and you don’t have to navigate it alone.
As endorsed Mental Health OTs, we can help you build the regulation, routines and grounding skills that make EMDR safer, smoother and more effective.

Your nervous system deserves support at every layer because it isn’t just about processing the past — it’s about giving your nervous system the bandwidth it needs to support your functioning now.. 💛

Head to the link in BIO for a more descriptive video outlining what’s involved in EMDR.