EMBODY10‑Week 1:1 Nervous System Regulation Programme
From "My Body Takes Over" to "I Know How to Come Back."
If you understand your patterns but can't shift them in the moments that matter, the problem isn't understanding. There's something driving the pattern at a level your conscious mind can't reach. EMBODY finds it and changes it. RTT® for the root belief, nervous system tools for the body. Both - together.
When Insight Isn’t Enough
You can probably explain your patterns better than most therapists can.
You know what triggers you, you know why, and you've done the work to understand it. And your body still does the same thing in the moments that matter.
That's not a failure of effort. It's a sign that the thing driving the pattern is stored somewhere your conscious efforts can't reach, and most approaches don't work at that level.
That’s the focus of EMBODY.
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| What It Addresses | Therapy | Generic Wellness Coaching | EMBODY |
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| Cognitive patterns & emotional insight | ✓ | Sometimes | ✔︎ |
| Nervous system physiology | Sometimes | ✗ | ✔︎ |
| Bidirectional assessment (hyperarousal vs hypoarousal) | ✗ | ✗ | ✔︎ |
| Subconscious pattern transformation | ✗ | ✗ | ✔︎ (RTT) |
| Real-time regulation protocols | ✗ | ✗ | ✔︎ |
| Evidence-based frameworks | ✓ | Varies | ✔︎ |
| Best For | Understanding your patterns | General well-being support | Addressing the physiology + subconscious patterns driving your symptoms |
How EMBODY is Different
Most approaches work in one direction. Therapy works top-down: insight, understanding, cognitive reframing. Somatic work goes bottom-up: breathwork, body awareness, nervous system calming. Both help. Neither is complete on its own.
EMBODY works in both directions at once. Body-up somatic regulation builds your nervous system's capacity to handle stress. Brain-down RTT® addresses the subconscious beliefs that keep your system stuck in protective mode. When you work both simultaneously, change happens faster and lasts longer.
That's the piece most people are missing.
How EMBODY Works
A Practical, Evidence-based Framework
The programme combines nervous system education, real‑time assessment, personalised regulation tools, and RTT® to address both physiological and subconscious patterns.
Matched With Your State
Your nervous system can shift into hyperarousal (increased alertness, tension, difficulty settling) or hypoarousal (low energy, disconnection, reduced capacity). Most people move between both, and each state needs a different approach. EMBODY teaches you to identify which state you're in and use the right tool for it.
Real‑Time State Identification
You’ll learn how to identify your current state using clear, observable indicators. This helps you choose tools that match what your system is doing, rather than relying on generic strategies.
Personalised Regulation Tools
You’ll develop a toolkit tailored to your specific patterns. These tools are practical, repeatable, and designed for everyday use.
RTT® (Rapid Transformational Therapy)
Some nervous system responses are reinforced by long‑held beliefs or associations. RTT® helps identify and rewire the neural pathways that keep us repeating these patterns, so regulation becomes more accessible and sustainable.
The aim is to build a system with more capacity, flexibility, and consistency.
Window Of Tolerance.
Think of your nervous system as having a "sweet spot"- a range where you can handle stress, feel emotions, and think clearly without getting overwhelmed or shutting down.
This is your window of tolerance (a concept from Dan Siegel's work on interpersonal neurobiology).
When stress pushes you outside this window, you go into either:
Hyperarousal (above the window): Wired, anxious, racing thoughts, reactive
Hypoarousal (below the window): Numb, shut down, exhausted, disconnected
When you're outside your window, your thinking brain goes offline. You react automatically. You can't access what you know.
The problem for most burned-out professionals: Your window has gotten smaller and smaller over years of chronic stress. It doesn't take much to push you outside it anymore. A single critical email. One difficult conversation. Normal work stress that you used to handle without thinking.
What EMBODY does: Expands your window of tolerance so you can handle more — bigger emotions, harder conversations, more pressure — without your system taking over.
You're not learning to avoid stress. You're building capacity to handle it.
What Changes When You Build Regulation Capacity?
Feel Safe In Your Body.
Before: Your body feels like a battleground, where signals feel threatening or overwhelming.
After: You can sense hunger, exhaustion, stress - and actually respond to those signals. Your body feels like it's on your team.
Respond Instead of React.
Before: One piece of feedback sends you spiralling for days. Your emotional reactions take over before you've had time to think.
After: You can feel difficult emotions without being overtaken by them. You respond from choice instead of reacting on autopilot.
Before: You people-please and freeze. You can't set boundaries without shutting down.
After: You can be present, set boundaries, and stay connected. You're not constantly scanning for threats.
Show Up As Yourself.
Access Energy Or Calm
Before: You're stuck wired OR stuck numb. You can't shift states easily.
After: You can move between activation and calm as needed. Rest actually restores you.
The 10-Week Structure
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Weeks 1-2: Foundation
- Understanding your nervous system
- Identifying your patterns
- Baseline assessments (BPQ‑SF, DASS‑21)
- Establishing safety and resourcing
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Weeks 3-6: Building Capacity
- Vestibular and proprioceptive practices
- Interoceptive awareness
- Breathwork and bilateral stimulation
- Real‑time state identification
- Matching tools to states
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Weeks 7-8: RTT® Deep Pattern Work
- Detailed intake and preparation — identifying the specific subconscious patterns to address.
- Full 90-minute RTT® session targeting those patterns. You'll receive a personalised transformation recording for ongoing integration.
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Weeks 9-10: Integration and Future Planning
- Applying tools in daily life
- Re‑assessment
- Building a sustainable long‑term plan
When you invest in EMBODY, here's what you receive:
✓ 11 hours of 1:1 specialised coaching withGenevieve Gray BHSc, C.Hyp, RTTP -Physiotherapist, Certified Hypnotherapist & RTT® Practitioner
✓ Comprehensive assessment + personalised regulation protocol
✓ 90-minute RTT® transformation session
✓ All programme materials, worksheets, and practice guides
✓ RTT transformation recording (yours to keep)
✓ Between-session email support
Who it’s for: People wanting a full, systematic approach to understanding their nervous system and building long‑term regulation capacity.
What You’re Actually Investing In
Investment Details
Payment Options:
Pay in full: $2,800
Fortnightly: 6 × $467
Monthly: 4 × $700
Delivery: All sessions online via Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Evening sessions - to work around your work schedule.
Why This Investment Makes Sense
This isn't a course you complete and forget. It's regulation capacity you'll have for life - the ability to assess your state and shift it, no matter what life throws at you.
The ability to end the cycle of swinging between wired and shut down, know what your body needs, handle stress without your body taking over, and change the subconscious beliefs that have been keeping you stuck.
Is EMBODY Right For You?
EMBODY is for you if:
✓ You understand your patterns intellectually but can’t shift them
✓ You swing between wired/anxious and shut down/numb
✓ You feel disconnected from your body or like it’s working against you
✓ You’re ready to do ‘the work’ between sessions
✓ You want root causes addressed, not just symptoms
✓ You value evidence‑based approaches and professional credibility
EMBODY Is Not For You If:
✗ You’re looking for quick fixes (EMBODY is a 10‑week commitment)
✗ You’re not ready for subconscious work (RTT requires openness)
✗ You want passive treatment (this requires active practice between sessions)
✗ You’re currently experiencing significant mental health distress
✗ You’re unwilling to work with appropriate healthcare providers alongside EMBODY
Not sure if EMBODY is right for you?
Get in touch. I'm happy to have an honest conversation about whether this is the right fit for where you are now.
Email info@genevievegray.co.nz
Common Questions About EMBODY
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Therapy helps you understand your patterns. EMBODY helps your body change them. Most people in therapy know exactly why they react the way they do - and their body still hijacks them in meetings, still won't let them sleep, still swings between wired and shut down. That's a nervous system problem, not an insight problem. EMBODY teaches you to assess your state and shift it in real time.
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Yes. EMBODY complements therapy - many clients work with therapists for cognitive and emotional processing while doing EMBODY for nervous system regulation. They address different systems. Please inform your therapist about your participation.
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No. That's actually a sign your nervous system needs activation, not calming. Most regulation tools assume everyone needs to "calm down." But if you're in shutdown -exhausted, disconnected, foggy - calming techniques make it worse. EMBODY teaches bidirectional regulation: when to upregulate (build energy and capacity) and when to downregulate (release tension and arousal). You'll learn to read your system and use the right tool.
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Rapid Transformational Therapy uses hypnotherapy to access subconscious patterns that keep your nervous system stuck. Many people understand their triggers intellectually, but their body still reacts - that's because the pattern is stored below conscious awareness. RTT helps rewire those patterns at the source. It's not mystical - it's accessing brain states (theta waves) where pattern change happens faster. I'm a Certified Hypnotherapist (C.Hyp) and Registered RTT® Practitioner (RTTP), and I use RTT® specifically for nervous system dysregulation patterns.
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Weeks 1-2: Foundation - you'll learn to read your nervous system states and understand your window of tolerance. Weeks 3-6: Building Capacity - we work through the regulation hierarchy (external → proprioceptive → interoceptive) so you can shift states when it matters. Weeks 7-8: RTT sessions uncover and rewire subconscious patterns driving your dysregulation. Weeks 9-10: Integration - building your sustainable practice plan. You'll have tools you can use immediately and capacity that lasts.
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If you're functioning in your career but your body feels like it's working against you - you're swinging between wired and wiped out, you can't access what you know in moments that matter, you know what to do but can't make yourself do it - EMBODY is for you. This programme is for chronic nervous system dysregulation, not acute crisis.
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No. EMBODY is a coaching and education programme, not ACC-claimable treatment. ACC covers registered treatment providers for injury-related claims only. This is nervous system education and regulation training, not medical treatment.
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Nervous system regulation is gradual. Some people notice shifts within weeks - better sleep, clearer thinking, less reactivity. Others take longer. The RTT work in Weeks 7-9 often creates bigger shifts as we address the subconscious patterns keeping you stuck. This isn't a quick fix. It's sustainable change.
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Weekly 60-minute sessions (Weeks 1–6, 9, and 10), a 90-minute RTT preparation session (Week 7), a 90-minute RTT session (Week 8), plus 10–15 minutes daily for regulation practices. Most clients find they save time because they're no longer losing hours to shutdown, decision paralysis, or trying to force themselves to do things their nervous system won't allow.
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Yes. EMBODY is delivered entirely online via Zoom or Microsoft Teams, so you can be anywhere in New Zealand or internationally. All you need is a private space and reliable internet connection.
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We'll talk about where you are right now, what you've already tried, and whether EMBODY is the right fit. I'll explain how the nervous system hierarchy works, we'll identify your current patterns, and I'll tell you honestly whether this programme will help you. If it's not right, I'll tell you that too. Sometimes the answer is "yes, let's start." Sometimes it's "let's reconnect in 3 months." Both are fine.
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EMBODY is not designed for acute mental health crises. If you're experiencing suicidal thoughts, active self-harm urges, or psychiatric emergency, please contact your GP, Mental Health Crisis Line (0800 611 116), or Emergency Services (111). This work requires enough stability to engage with the material.
Ready to Stop Managing Symptoms & Address What's Driving Them?
Questions? info@genevievegray.co.nz