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From Craving to Regulation: Experiencing the Body's Survival Strategies

Mon Oct 19, 2026 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Online, Zoom
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From Craving to Regulation: Experiencing the Body's Survival Strategies

Mon Oct 19, 2026 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Online, Zoom
Reserve your spot

Somatic Mondays · A Special Fundraiser

From Craving to Regulation:
Experiencing the Body's Survival Strategies

A two-hour workshop with Jan Winhall, MSW, PIFOT

This workshop is a special fundraiser. As a small nonprofit, we rely mostly on contributions from our community to support our work. Your contribution helps us organize gatherings and workshops, edit and share recordings and educational resources, and cover the costs of the essential tools we use to make all of this possible.

We are grateful for the support that helps us continue making our gatherings and resources available to anyone who might find them helpful.

About this workshop

What if craving isn't something we need to fight, but something we can learn to listen to? In this experiential session, Jan explores addiction and recovery through her Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, looking at how early attachment shapes our capacity for regulation.

Jan will guide us through selected practices from her book Twenty Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction, exploring the felt sense and ways of approaching difficult experiences without becoming overwhelmed. She'll also introduce the Four-Circle Practice, an embodied roadmap for managing cravings and guiding recovery.

The recording of this session (without the Q&A) will be shared on our YouTube channel after the event.

Times by region

This two-hour workshop begins at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time (PDT), that's:

Central US (CDT)12:00 p.m.
Eastern US (EDT)1:00 p.m.
UK & Ireland (BST)6:00 p.m.
Berlin (CEST)7:00 p.m.

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About the presenter

Jan Winhall, MSW, PIFOT is a psychotherapist, author, and educator who has worked in the field of trauma and addiction for over four decades. She is the developer of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™, an embodied approach to understanding addiction and dysregulation that brings together Eugene Gendlin's Focusing and Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory. She is the author of Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and co-directs Borden Street Clinic in Toronto. Her work reframes addictive behavior as an understandable attempt to regulate the nervous system, and offers a compassionate, body-based path toward change.
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Recovery Reimagined workshops and community gatherings are educational and recovery-supportive spaces. They are designed to complement, rather than replace, professional mental health care, therapy, treatment or an individual's existing recovery program. Personal reflection and questions are welcome, but participation does not create a therapeutic or clinical relationship with Recovery Reimagined or a guest presenter.