Breathing Your Way Out of Fight-or-Flight: The Power of Nervous System Regulation

Breathwork isn’t just wellness - it’s physiology in action. The way you breathe directly shapes your nervous system, influencing stress, focus, and emotional range in real time.

In this interactive lecture, Char Lacsina explores the science behind breath and regulation, from the vagus nerve to CO? tolerance, and why stress can narrow attention and limit how we think and feel. Through a short guided exercise, you’ll experience how shifting your breath can move the body out of threat mode and into a more open, flexible state.

Beyond the science, this talk asks a quieter question: what becomes possible when the body feels safe enough to soften? Blending insight with lived experience, Char invites you to reconnect with the intelligence of your nervous system - and discover how breath can be a simple, powerful way back into the body.