Strong Mind, Resilient Nervous System - by Lynn Fraser

COURSE

Strong Mind, Resilient Nervous System

With Lynn Fraser

Thank you for saying yes to this exploration of strength and resilience. We’ll work together to expand your understanding and build many types of strength. As we cope with anxiety and fear and as we face life's challenges, we need a strong inner foundation that includes rest, joy, connection, emotional honesty, and deep self-trust. Each lesson explores a different dimension of resilience: honoring our changing capacity, reconnecting to rest, finding joy, and remembering that strength comes in many forms - the strength to slow down, the strength to heal, and the strength to stay connected. We release outdated ideas about what it means to be "strong enough" and root ourselves in truth, tenderness, and hope. Our format each week blends information and somatic inquiry. Please take your time as you move through the lessons, repeat inquiries that invite you to explore more deeply, and pause the recording when you would like to spend more time with something. Resilience isn't something we achieve. It is a relationship with our bodies, our hearts, our communities, and with life itself.


Meet your Teacher

Lynn Fraser is an anchor to support your journey in living from your innate wisdom and goodness. She is a senior teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Meditation tradition and founder of the Stillpoint Method of Healing Trauma. She has a 32-year personal meditation practice and has been teaching for 27 years. Lynn began facilitating Stillpoint as an anchor to support people in their journey of knowing it is possible to heal from experiences of feeling disconnected and unworthy. She is passionate about helping others to heal from trauma and feel love and compassion for themselves. She has been interviewed on major podcasts and summits in her field. Lynn is the founder of the Radical Recovery Summit, an innovation in healing trauma and addiction through a social justice lens.

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8 Days

405 students

5.0 stars

16 min / day

Grounded

English


Lesson 1

Many Kinds Of Strength

We have many types of strength - physical, emotional, endurance, courage, and compassionate presence. You are invited to reflect and notice any internal responses to the phrase "I am strong and resilient". We explore personal memories of strength, and recognize that resilience takes many forms and evolves over time. This class offers gentle encouragement to recognize and honor your unique strength today, exactly as it is, without judging or striving for perfection.

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Lesson 2

Managing A Change In Our Capacity

Strength and resilience shift over time. Through grounding and inquiry, we explore the personal experience of our changing capacity of physical, emotional, and mental strength. We reflect on moments of loss, frustration, and wisdom. A compassion practice offers space to meet these changes with kindness rather than judgment. We close by affirming that honoring our present capacity is a vital form of strength. This short but powerful class invites us to befriend our evolving selves with understanding and grace.

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Lesson 3

Connecting With Each Other For Strength

This week we highlight the healing power of connection during challenging times. After getting grounded in our body, participants reflect on memories of being supported by others and how this strengthens resilience. Gentle movement helps release freeze patterns, inviting the body to embody safety and connection. We explore how leaning into supportive relationships, even in small ways, helps us cultivate inner and outer strength. People are not meant to be alone. Collective strength can carry us through uncertainty with greater courage and hope.

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Lesson 4

Rest Is Resistance

Rest is not a luxury. It is a revolutionary act. Our culture pushes constant productivity and we need to reclaim rest to build our resilience. Through breath awareness and inquiry, we explore how overwork depletes our bodies, minds, and spirits. We visualize a world centered in justice, where rest and restoration are honored. We feel the spaciousness of rest in our bodies and hearts. Rest is an act of self-love, resistance, and strength.

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Lesson 5

Rest Is Generative – What Have I Missed Because Of Exhaustion?

Exhaustion depletes our creativity, joy, and inner wisdom. Through grounding and reflection, we consider what dreams, stories, or parts of ourselves may have been suppressed by chronic busyness. A guided daydreaming practice invites imagination to flow freely, reconnecting with our dynamic life force within. We inquire into current obstacles to resting fully, and we honor the courage it takes to release our limiting beliefs. We reclaim spaciousness, creativity, and vitality through the sacred practice of rest.

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Lesson 6

Strength Of Mind Through Meditation

Here we explore how meditation strengthens the mind and helps us access deeper layers of resilience. We reflect on how conditioning, trauma, and core deficiency beliefs impact mental patterns. Through guided meditation and inquiry, we connect with the stillness beneath surface thoughts and nervous system reactivity. A breathing mantra practice ("So Ham") supports focus, calm, and inner strength. By cultivating steadiness and awareness, we build the capacity to respond rather than react. This session offers a pathway to deepen clarity, emotional stability, and trust in our true nature beyond circumstances.

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Lesson 7

Grounded In Awareness In Unsettling Times

How do we stay grounded even in the midst of fear and uncertainty? We connect to the support of our body and breath, then explore somatic inquiries around surrendering control and trusting life as it unfolds. Through simple breathing practices and visualization, we experience the vastness of Presence and the safety found in grounded Awareness. We soften the grip of fear while honoring our vulnerability. Through direct experience, we access our inner knowing of deep wisdom, resilience, and stability available to us even in unsettling times.

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Lesson 8

Resourcing Ourselves Through Joy

Joy is a powerful resource for resilience. We reconnect with moments of happiness, beauty, and playfulness. Through sensory awareness, memory exploration, and gentle movement, we cultivate joy as a stabilizing force. We remember childhood delights, nourishing friendships, and we celebrate small daily pleasures. By accessing joy even when life is difficult, we strengthen our nervous systems and build emotional resilience. This uplifting practice reminds us that joy is essential nourishment for a strong and resilient life.

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5.0 (21)

Recent Reviews

Deb

June 7, 2025

Building resilience may involve many things: resting when you need/want to, joyful activities, memories of positive people/experiences, people you love. Being aware of how I move through the world with conscious effort. Thank you for this course!🙏

Nisi

June 5, 2025

Amazing. Excellent process to work through at a slow pace. These lessons cumulatively strengthen the core source of our self-reliance and resilience. I will revisit these eight lessons as needed in the future, while knowing they are a resource in my toolkit when needed brings much relief, clarity, and peaceful calm.

✨Sharon✨

May 30, 2025

Thank you.

Helen

May 27, 2025

Thank you so much Lynn, you provide so many helpful strategies in this course. I do recognise times when I have a “disregulated nervous system”, but it sounds so accusatory even though it’s understandable that I learned this way of being because of life experiences. I have also found that it is a negative label used by abusers to shift blame onto those they abuse rather than take responsibility for the impact of their toxic behaviour. When you describe improving nervous system regulation as a process of making conscious adjustments to our relationship with life - this sounds so much more positive and doable. I am not defective just learning ..🙂 X

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