Working with Shame: A Neurosomatic Approach

Meet shame
creatE connection
expanD expression

Learn to recognize, modulate and re-pattern shame in your clients and in your own nervous system using practical, neurosomatic, body-based tools.
2-hour NSI Workshop Recorded in 2026
Replay Available

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Shame is one of the most
powerful and least understood
forces shaping human behavior.

It drives:

  • withdrawal and collapse
  • over-functioning and people-pleasing
  • chronic self-criticism
  • disconnection from self and others

Most approaches try to address shame through insight alone. But shame is not just cognitive. It is physiological. It lives in the nervous system. And without working at that level -- it persists, self-reinforces and represses. This workshop introduces a neurosomatic approach to shame.

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You will not just learn about shame. You will experience tools to work with it directly.
building the capacity to stay present instead of collapsing or withdrawing + work with the body, not just the mind + recognize real-time nervous system responses + Learn how to meet them in the moment
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Expand connection and visibility

“Before NSI, shame kept me small and limited in my visibility, even though I desired growth. Learning to work with shame through my nervous system instead of against it changed everything. I’ve since taken deeper somatic trainings, spoken openly on podcasts about sensitive topics and expanded my capacity to be seen without shutting down. I have tools.”
-- Lovey Bradley, NSI practitoner & community facilitator
Repatterning Shame Responses

Shame is often at the center of shutdown, withdrawal, over-functioning and disconnection, yet many practitioners are looking for more practical ways to work with it in real time, real tools, real practices for repatterning at the nervous system leve.

This workshop offers a nervous system-based framework for understanding shame through small moments, relational dynamics, and daily repatterning practices. You’ll leave with practical tools to help clients build capacity for connection, reduce protective responses, and create change through new sensory experiences, not just insight.

Register today: Choose the workshop or the Full NSI Shame mini course

Workshop Replay ONLY = $59

+ access to the recording of the workshop 

Join us for the educational workshop as an entry point to learn how to idenitify and work with shame in your self and your clients.

Or dive deeper with the Shame mini course that offers you recorded practices to return to, Q&A, tool sheets, slides and more!

NSI Shame mini Course = $125

+ access to the recording of the 2 Hour Workshop 

+ Recording of the Q&A WITH ELISABETH AND PIPER 

+ GET Ongoing Access TO the COURSE THAT INCLUDES

  • WORKSHOP REPLAY
  • Q&A REPLAY
  • 5 REPETABLE RECORDED NEUROSOMATIC PRACTICES FOR WORKING WITH SHAME
  • TOOL SHEETS
  • SLIDES
  • WORKSHEETS
This is a structured, science-BACKED workshop + mini course designed to help you experience nervous system change at the level where patterns are formed and updated.
Why the get the mini-course?
Move beyond insight into practice

Watch the Q&A to deepen the learnings. Replay will be in mini-course with lifetime access.

Revisit and deepen the work at your own pace
Understanding shame is one thing. Changing reflexive shame patterns takes repetition, practice and new experiences over time. The mini-course is designed to help you continue integrating the work beyond the live workshop with guided practices, practical tools, and nervous system-based exercises you can return to again and again for personal healing and practitioner application.
Includes guided practices you can use regularly for nervous system repatterning
What This Workshop Will Give You...
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Understand shame as a protective nervous system response connected to belonging, attachment, and survival

Learn how shame shows up physiologically through collapse, withdrawal, over-functioning, and disconnection
Recognize physical and somatic markers of shame, including shameflammation and backdraft responses
Explore practical ways to meet shame in real time without reinforcing shutdown or overwhelm
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Develop co-regulation skills through relationship, nature, sound, movement and other supportive resources
Learn relational language and inner relationship practices that support accountability, compassion, and repair
Practice nervous system repatterning tools including vocalization, respiration, mobilization, and postural work
Gain a practical framework and daily practices to help clients build greater capacity for connection, expression and rmodualtion
This work is also designed for individuals wanting an embodied approach to understanding and repatterning shame responses through practical nervous system work.
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Who this workshop & mini course is for...

➤ Practitioners wanting practical, nervous system-based tools for working with shame in real time

➤ Coaches, therapists, healers, and facilitators seeking a deeper framework for understanding shame through neuroscience and somatics

➤ Professionals looking to expand their capacity to work with shutdown, withdrawal, over-functioning, and relational protection patterns in clients and self

➤ Practitioners wanting to help themselves and their clients build greater capacity for connection, expression, and relational safety without reinforcing shame or shutdown

➤ Individuals curious about neurosomatic practices, regulation, connection, and repatterning through sensory experience

➤ All who are interested in practical tools for supporting connection, embodiment, and authentic expression through nervous system work

➤ Those who recognize shame has limited their expression, visibility, creativity, or ability to stay connected in meaningful relationships

➤ Anyone wanting to understand how shame impacts connection, voice, vulnerability, and the ability to be fully seen and expressed

Get A practical, nervous system-based approach to understanding and working with shame so you can support greater connection, expression, regulation and capacity both in your clients and for yourself.

What Our graduates are saying

Neurosomatics of shame

“Learning a neurosomatic approach completely changed the way I work with clients and relate to myself. I stopped trying to think my way through patterns and finally had practical, nervous system-based tools that created real and lasting change both personally and professionally.“

— Marie C., NSI practitioner and licensed therapist.

What Our graduates are saying

working with shame at the root
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Your Educators

Elisabeth Kristof

MA, Applied Neurology & Somatic Practitioner, co-host of the Apple Top 100 podcast, Trauma Rewired

Elisabeth Kristof is an expert in applied neurology and somatic practices, specializing in trauma resolution. She has been involved in neuro- and movement-based therapies since 2007, with a focus on the intersection of complex trauma and nervous system regulation for the past five years. Her expertise has positioned her as a leading voice in the field of trauma-informed neurology.

Elisabeth is the founder of the Neurosomatic Intelligence (NSI) coaching certification program, an ICF-accredited course that trains practitioners, therapists, and coaches to harness the power of the nervous system for resilience, behavior change, and performance. With over 200 certified practitioners, NSI is renowned for bridging the gap between the brain and body, offering a practical, neuroscience-based framework for lasting change. The program extends to corporate and community training, equipping teams with the tools to enhance wellbeing and performance.

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Piper Rose

Director of Continuing Education at Neurosomatic Intelligence (NSI), a Certified NSI Coach, Certified Somatic Coach, and FOCUSING Parts Work pROFESSIONAL.

Piper's work focuses on sustainable behavior change through direct nervous system training, supporting resilience, self-trust, and relational capacity. Piper integrates somatics, parts work, and neurosomatic intelligence in their work with individuals and communities, with a particular focus on complex trauma and relational healing. As an NSI educator, Piper teaches workshops, designs certification curriculum, and has supported hundreds of nervous systems through applied, practice-based education.
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When shame begins to shift within you, your capacity for connection, expression, and relationship expands far beyond you.
Register today: Choose the workshop or the Full NSI Shame mini course
Workshop + Replay = $59

+ access to the recording of the workshop

Join us for the educational workshop as an entry point to learn how to idenitify and work with shame in your self and your clients.

NSI Shame mini Course = $125

+ access to the recording of the 2 Hour Workshop 

+ Recording of the Q&A WITH ELISABETH AND PIPER

+ GET Ongoing Access TO NSI WORKING WITH SHAME COURSE THAT INCLUDES

  • WORKSHOP REPLAY
  • Q&A REPLAY
  • 5 REPETABLE RECORDED NEUROSOMATIC PRACTICES FOR WORKING WITH SHAME
  • TOOL SHEETS
  • SLIDES
  • WORKSHEETS
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Listen to Our Podcast

Trauma Rewired

apple top 100 | 100,000+ monthly downloads

The Podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma gets stored in the body, and what you can do to heal.

Take your healing journey further and discover the proven and groundbreaking science of how we can actually rewire how we relate to our bodies, money, ambition, partners, and so much more…

Join our founder, Elisabeth Kristof, and NSI Educator, Jennifer Wallace, for conversations that unravel the profound connection between the nervous system and true healing — and learn how to integrate a nervous system-based approach into your practice to challenge fixed and unchangeable mindsets, and achieve exponentially better client results.

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