Pathway 2:
Nervous System Coaching with the Safe and Sound Protocol

Deep support to help you rebalance your nervous system (vagus nerve) — so you can move out of chronic stress and chronic survival patterns.

Live life fully, your way…

Chronic stress & chronic survival mode are more common than you think…

In our modern everyday life, chronic survival patterns can present in so many different forms that don’t look like ‘crisis’ and may not even feel like being in ‘survival mode’. They could show up as being overly productive, perfectionistic, or endlessly self-critical. Chronic survival can manifest in many different patterns that that quietly hold you back from living your life fully.

Examples of Chronic Survival Mode:

When your system is stuck in ‘on’ mode (mobilised, hyper-alert):

  • Perfectionism, over-achieving, and needing to stay in control

  • Constant inner critic and rumination

  • Inner tension, anxiety, chronic muscle tightness, inability to relax fully, even in quiet moments

  • Overwhelm, task procrastination, or racing thoughts

  • Struggling to set boundaries or feeling hyper-vigilant in relationships

  • Difficulty connecting with yourself and/or with others, even despite effort

  • Recurring waves of old emotions or stress responses

  • Sitting down to create but feeling blocked or frozen

When your system leans toward shut down
(low energy, disconnected, flat):

  • Fatigue, emotional drain, and feelings of hopelessness

  • Sluggishness, brain fog, or trouble concentrating

  • Feeling lonely, numb, or disconnected from your desires

  • Struggling to take action, even when you want to

  • Difficulty asserting boundaries or staying true to yourself

  • Poor sleep, low appetite or digestion, and a sense of disconnection

  • Feeling stuckness or a sense of having lost touch with who you are

  • Sadness

These patterns aren’t flaws

They’re intelligent responses to past experiences from your autonomic nervous system (or ANS). It has been doing its best to protect you, based on what it learned. So it’s important to honour that they are a reflection of your biology at work, trying to keep you as safe as possible - based on old programming, which may have come from your past experiences, your environment and/or even your ancestors. These patterns are anchored in your subconscious and outside of your rational control.

The vagus nerve plays a key role in this, affecting your wellbeing, emotions, how you feel about yourself, authentic connection with others and much more.

This understanding comes from Polyvagal Theory, founded by renowned Dr. Stephen Porges, which describes the ANS, including the vagus nerve, and how it functions.

My SSP-Coaching Packages are founded on three pillars that are intricately interwoven:

  • 1. Embodiment Coaching with me, to help you understand and resource your nervous system

  • 2. Safe and Sound Protocol listening to help re-balance your nervous system directly

  • 3. A wealth of supportive resources to keep forever (meditations, videos and written materials)

Why work with the SSP…?

The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) can help you shift out of chronic survival mode patterns at the root. While the SSP is neither a magic bullet nor a stand-alone intervention, it has the power to truly shift the needle in new inner directions when combined with embodiment and/or therapy work. I have witnessed deep shifts when I did the SSP myself.

The SSP offers a way to repattern the nervous system by retuning the vagus nerve with special music.

The SSP helps your vagus nerve rebalance and reprogramme with specially formulated music. Through this carefully formulated music, the SSP supports your body in moving from protective states of stress, tension, and disconnection into a greater sense of calm, connection, presence, resilience and possibility. It helps your nervous system to shift into greater inner peace, clarity, wellbeing, joy and inner harmony - and much more!

The SSP: “A distilled essence of trust and safety in audio form…”

Dr Stephen Porges, developer of the SSP (and founder of Polyvagal Theory, which explores the role of the vagus nerve and the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in how we respond to life and how our body functions), describes the SSP as “a distilled essence of trust and safety in audio form.”

“You can’t force your way out of a chronic survival pattern. But your body can be gently invited back into safety — through deep listening, embodiment, attuned support, and the impulses of trust and safety delivered through the SSP .”

Before you start listening…

Because the Safe and Sound Protocol works beneath the surface of your awareness, it’s important to take time to understand the journey we’ll embark on together — and to consider whether this is the right fit for your system right now.

That’s why I’ll take you through a no-strings-attached process with several Connection Calls and interwoven mini-embodiment practices to make sure we are a good fit. You’ll receive access to my SSP Information Portal, where you can explore all the details, with videos and written guidance in your own time. There are no obligations, you can decide whether or not to continue every step of the way.


Schedule a Connection Call with me below to get to know me and explore the journey together.

Who am I to be offering this?

I’m a certified SSP Provider with a background in medicine, somatic & mindfulness based psychotherapy, somatic trauma therapy, sound healing, spiritual life coaching, constellations and more.

The Safe and Sound Protocol changed my life deeply - it helped me make personal shifts that I hadn’t even dreamed were possible.
I was so convinced about it that I did the certification (despite the long list of trainings I had already had). That’s why I now offer a separate Nervous System coaching track to complement my Soulful Embodiment and Sacred Soul Work coaching package.
It’s a powerful and beautiful combination - and each can also be done alone.

Pricing:
All sessions take place via Zoom.

This nervous system coaching can be done in my usual subscription format. The coaching unfolds across four natural phases, which I’ll explain in our Connection Call. The time you need to complete the listening will depend on your nervous system and can vary substantially from nervous system to nervous system.

There is a minimum commitment of six months after which you can cancel anytime.
350 Euro per month

Read my blog articles for more information about the nervous system and the SSP:


❁ Coming Home to Your Nervous System - Why it makes sense to work with the vagus nerve

❁ What is the Safe and Sound Protocol — and how can it support your inner journey?

Download a brochure about the SSP via the button below

FAQs

  • The Safe and Sound protocol is a well-researched, evidence-based and safe method and has helped thousands of people worldwide. Click here to download a brochure or here to get to the official SSP website.

    The SSP was developed by renowned Dr. Steven Porges, based on his Polyvagal Theory.

    It involves several hours of music split into short listening sessions (anything from a few minutes to half an hour) to support your vagus nerve. You get an individually-tailored listening plan that is fine-tuned to your needs as we go along.

    I will share all the details and answer any questions in your complementary calls.

    We'll also do an assessment before you commit to the programme to make sure that the SSP is right for you and that you do not have any contraindications.

  • The SSP works by gently stimulating your vagus nerve (which is a part of the autonomic nervous system) to re-attune to more inner safety and trust.

    This inner safety helps your autonomic nervous system re-calibrate and shift into more harmony, which can help facilitate deep self-connection, authentic connection with others and deep inner transformation. It also helps ease many other conditions like chronic stress and anxiety.

    Your vagus nerve affects many areas of your wellbeing and physical functioning.

    I will explain this, and how the SSP works, to you in more detail in your complementary Connection Calls. After our first call, you will get access to an SSP Info Page with videos and brochures that you can then refer back to at any time, as you decide whether or not you would like to do this coaching package with me.

  • The packages take you through four phases that intricately build on each other.
    I will explain this, and how the SSP works, to you in more detail in your complementary calls. You will get access to an SSP Info Page with videos and brochures that you can then refer back to anytime you need in your decision making process.

  • Yes, the SSP can be wonderful addition to your therapy work.

    It can help you access and shift deeper layers of your themes and facilitate deep transformation as you shift into more connection with your true self.

    As your nervous systems works to become more regulated with the music from from the SSP and the embodiment coaching, it also starts to release what was keeping it in dysregulation. This is what you can work on in more depth with your therapist.

    If you have trauma, it is very important that you do the SSP with the support of a therapist in addition to my guidance, to help you integrate the emerging feelings and themes.

    That said, many changes actually happen on their own as you go along. Some, or even many, of these take place out of your awareness (because your nervous system works beneath your consciousness).

    The SSP can be a very powerful tool and this is one of the reasons why it is so important to have a tailored listening plan and to do the programme with a certified provider, so that your system does not get overwhelmed.

    The SSP is not a stand alone programme. It should always be seen as the beginning or middle part of an inner journey, because your nervous system still works for up to seven weeks after the end.

    We can discuss this more in your complementary call. I will also be happy to talk to your therapist or refer you to a trauma therapist who is also an SSP provider, if need be.

  • In this particular package, embodiment coaching focuses on helping you get a felt-understanding your autonomic nervous system and how it translates into your unique experiences of life - and what you can do to help yourself regulate to feelings safety & connectedness.

    Understanding more about the autonomic nervous system and how it translates into your life will help you navigate challenges from different, new perspectives that help you feel empowered and immerse more in the wisdom & energy of your whole self. You can continue to adapt what you learn and explore the the practices long after the coaching process is over.

    —> Knowledge truly lends power to your practices here.

    The body plays a huge role in helping your nervous system be well-regulated (this is one of the reasons why practices such as yoga, qi-gong, breathwork, mindfulness & bodyfulness and bringing awareness to the body and somatic therapies can be so helpful).

    We will zoom in on how your body speaks to you and how you can ‘speak’ to your body - and how you can harness its wisdom to support you. You’ll also learn how you can notice early on when your nervous system starts to become activated and help it find back into more regulation.

  • Only you can decide if the programme feels right for you. That's why you have a set of complementary Connection Calls - so that you can get to know me and to ensure you get enough spaciousness for your inner knowing to unfold.

    It's important that you feel 100% yes!

    One thing I do truly believe, though, is:
    Supporting your autonomic nervous system can support you on any part of your journey of transformation. There are many other ways, besides this package, which you can use to help you regulate and support your nervous system. For example, doing regular body-mind awareness & mindful breathing practices.

  • The SSP it is not intended to be a stand-alone programme. Whatever you do, be sure to find appropriate guidance to help you work through it - it doesn't have to be with me.

    Why?

    While the SSP is very gentle and safe, it is important to tailor the listening process as you go along so that your nervous system does not get overwhelmed. Every nervous system is unique, like a fingerprint, so it is important to have step by step support and guidance and tweak the listening as you go along.

    It's also important that you learn to navigate your unique nervous system as you go along, so that you can stay regulated, integrate what is showing up and adapt the listening pace to your needs.


    As your system shifts into more safety, it will start to release the themes that it was stuck with in different ways - some you'll notice and others may happen entirely out of your awareness.
    Themes that emerge may need guided support so that they can be processed, integrated and released as you continue to ground in your body and support your nervous system. You need somebody at your side who knows what to look out for.

    I highly recommend you do the SSP only with certified practitioners who are willing to guide you through the process as they know what to look out for as you go along.

  • It’s really important that you feel 100% comfortable doing this programme (or any work with me). It is equally important that this programme is a good fit for you. That’s why I offer a set of complementary connection calls to walk you through the package and discuss all the considerations - so that we can get to know each other and see if we resonate.

  • Don't worry, often times its the idea of 'body wisdom' that can seem inaccessible. We will be working step by step with where you are at in easy ways. This programme is for YOU and will be tailored to you.

    You will get a better idea and feel after your complementary calls.

  • Sessions can be scheduled Tues - Thurs between 12.00 and 6.00 pm Central European Time.

    You can click here to find out if this works with your time zone

    If you have a specific time need that does not work with my schedule, simply email me (smile@juliakyambi.com) to find out if your preferred option is possible - sometimes I have openings at other times.

  • No, the sessions themselves will not be recorded. You will get ample resources and tailored-to-you guidance in video, audio or written form based on what emerges as we go along

  • For this programme, it is highly advisable for you have some time flexibility around the sessions to be present with what comes up, do small tasks and practices, do your self-care consistently (for example go for nourishing walks in nature).

    That said, if you are always busy, this might also be due to chronic nervous system activation (survival mode), in which case you would benefit from doing the programme, even though you have little time.

    We can discuss your specific situation in your complementary call, so that you and I can feel into if it is a good for you at the moment.

Connect with me & learn more

Schedule a call with me to get to know me and learn more. After the call you’ll receive access to my SSP Information Portal, where you can explore all the details, with videos and written guidance in your own time. If it feels right to continue, we’ll simply book a second (no-strings) call to dive a little deeper together.

Your nervous system holds the roots of your aliveness, joy, and connection.
It’s the inner foundation for your soul to blossom fully into life.
I’d be honoured to walk part of this journey with you.

“Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh