Come back to your senses.
Ancient practice. Modern neuroscience. One nervous system.
I'm Rob Grigsby: yoga teacher, certified NSI practitioner, psychology teacher, dad of four, and lifelong lover of the woods. I teach practices that join the wisdom of the yogis, the Buddha and Jung with what brain science now knows about how we feel safe, strong and fully alive.
In as the chest opens, out as the spine rounds. Slow breathing, under ten breaths a minute, is linked with higher heart rate variability (Zaccaro et al., 2018).
Four threads, woven into one practice
Old wisdom and new science aren't rivals. Each one explains what the other can only point to. Every class I teach pulls on all four.
Yoga
Breath, posture and stillness: a living lab for meeting your body exactly where it is today.
The nervous system
NSI's brain-based drills for the eyes, inner ear and breath, so your system learns it's safe to soften.
Nature
Forest therapy and slow time outside. The oldest regulation tool we have, and still one of the best studied.
Philosophy
The Buddha, the Stoics, Jung and Ram Dass: old maps of the mind, tested on the mat and carried into everyday life.
Come as you are. Leave a little more regulated.
Group classes
Anchored Flow
Wednesdays at 6:30 PM at Yoga Face & Body Spa in New Lenox. When I sub for other teachers, I lead fusion vinyasa with weights, slow hatha flow, restorative and somatic moving meditation.
Sign upOne-on-one
Private sessions
Yoga and NSI drills built around your nervous system: stress, sleep, recovery or performance. In person or online.
Book a sessionOutside
Forest therapy walks
Slow, guided, sensory time among the trees. No hiking pace and no experience needed. Just an invitation to notice.
Plan a walkFor groups
Workshops & wellness
Nervous-system training for schools, teams and workplaces, from a career classroom teacher. I've also coached athletes for over a decade, so teams get sessions built around how their sport actually moves.
Bring me in
A psychology teacher who wanted the lesson to land in the body.
I'm Rob Grigsby. For 18 years I've taught psychology to thousands of young adults, explaining in vivid detail how the mind works. And I'm really good at it. But knowing all of that information didn't protect me. Living in my head kept me out of my body. I had to learn the hard way that knowing about stress and actually feeling regulated are two very different things.
Trained, certified & still learning
RYT-200Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance
NSI CertifiedNeuroSomatic Intelligence Practitioner
Forest Therapy GuideAssociation of Nature & Forest Therapy in progressNervous system
Anxiety is a smoke alarm with an incredible work ethic. We don't rip it off the wall. We teach it the difference between toast and fire.
Free practices, backed by research
Every series has samples you can open right now. Unlock the rest by email, or by commenting the keyword on any @neurosomatic_yogi post.
Not sure where to start? Take the Nervous System Check-In and it will point you to a drill.
Come practice with me, on the mat, in the forest, or in your inbox.
Questions about classes, private sessions or bringing a workshop to your school or team? Reach out. I answer every message myself.
rob@neurosomaticyogi.com