Reset Your Nervous System this February

By Corinna Kitchen

When one answer isn’t quite enough, why not try a multi-layered support programme to reset your Nervous System this February?

There is a quiet knowing that many of us carry – a sense that somehow, we could feel better than we do. Not that anything is dramatically wrong, but rather that something is not quite settled.

Perhaps it is your sleep that feels less restorative than it once did. Or there is a low-level anxiety humming beneath the surface of your days. Maybe your digestion has become uncomfortable or unpredictable, or you feel simultaneously tired and restless, fatigued, and unable to fully land in your own body.

We of course reach for solutions, and they can help – maybe a meditation practice, time in nature, a dietary change, or a conversation that brings insight. Each offers something valuable. And yet, something more fundamental can remain just out of reach – a deeper sense of ease, or a feeling of being truly connected and resourced from within.

Over the past 25 years of working with the body and mind, and energy and the subtle energy channels and systems that connect them, I have learned this simple truth:

We are exquisitely complex beings.

When we want to feel more regulated, more vital, and more ‘ourselves’, we often need support that meets us on more than one level at a time, a multi-layered approach.

For this reason, I have spent and enjoyed many years developing an integrated approach to wellbeing and nervous system restoration – weaving together three strands that I have found to be deeply complementary:

• Biodynamic Medicine — supporting the nervous system through the body’s own intelligence
• Ayurveda — offering practical, embodied wisdom for daily rhythm, digestion, sleep, and seasonal balance
• The AromaPoints Method — my way of working with Pure Essential Oils through the meridian system, bringing plant intelligence directly into the body’s regulatory pathways

Together, these create a 360-degree approach — not because you need “more to do”, but because healing often happens most gently and thoroughly when you are supported from multiple angles.

Why February Can Feel Especially Depleting

By February, many people begin to feel the cumulative effects of winter.

There has been less light, less warmth, and often less movement. The pace and demands of life continue, even when the body is calling for slowness. It is common at this point in the season to notice a quiet depletion: lower energy, greater sensitivity, feeling more overwhelmed, or a familiar feeling of being “wired and tired”.

From an Ayurvedic perspective, the winter season naturally increases qualities of cold, dryness, lightness, and movement — the same qualities that can heighten nervous system sensitivity. This is often described as a seasonal increase in Vata, the principle of movement in the body and mind.

When Vata is balanced, we feel creative, intuitive and alive. When it becomes excessive, we may feel ungrounded, anxious, scattered, depleted, or emotionally stretched.

The good news is that the remedy is rarely complicated.

At this time of year, what the body often needs most is simple, steady ‘medicine’: warmth, rhythm, nourishment, and sensory support.

Three Gentle Ways to Restore Steadiness

If you have been feeling depleted lately, here are three places you can begin to feel more restored:

1) Choose WARMTH early in the day

Warmth is one of the most regulating signals we can offer the nervous system.

Warm breakfast, warm water, warm soup, warming spices, warm bath, or foot soak. 

Even one small shift can help the body to feel safer and more held.

2) Let RHYTHM do the work

When the nervous system is tired, intensity is not what is needed or what brings healing.

Rhythm does. One small stabilising ritual – repeated daily – can gently rebuild resilience:

A candle at supper, a short walk after lunch, a consistent bedtime wind-down.

3) Use the SENSES to settle the mind

So much of healing happens through sensory pathways.

Scent in particular can be profound. Smell is direct—it reaches deep parts of the brain quickly, bypassing the thinking mind and communicating directly with, and to, the emotional body.

This is why pure essential oils, when used skilfully and with precision, can support calm, grounding, emotional settling, and sleep in ways that often feel immediate and surprisingly deep. 

An Invitation: Three Experiences to Support Your Nervous System this February

I love offering seasonal experiences at this time of year — gentle doorways that bring you back to steadiness, nourishment, and inner calm. If any of what I say resonates, you are warmly invited to explore one of my February 2026 live-online offerings:

Vata Cookery Workshop — Live Vata Food & Nutrition (Sat 21 Feb | 3.30–5.30 pm UK)
A grounding cookery session designed to nourish the nervous system through warmth, rhythm, and stabilising food — with Ayurvedic principles that you can immediately apply at home.

Ground with Vetiver — AromaPoints Experience (Thurs 26 Feb | 7.30–9 pm UK)
A sensory evening exploring Vetiver — one of the most grounding pure essential oils for the nervous system — and an introduction to my AromaPoints Method using meridian points. Vetiver Pure Essential oil diluted and ready to use + illustrated cards – sent to you on sign up.

Vata Reset Love & Self Care At-Home Retreat (Dates TBC)
Guided by Corinna – an “at home” retreat journey focused on nervous system regulation, deep nourishment, and restoring inner steadiness — from the comfort of your own home.

Full details and booking:  ayurvedawellbeing.corinnakitchen.com

About Corinna

Corinna Kitchen is a Senior Licensed Biodynamic Psychotherapist with 25 years’ experience, an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant and an AromaPoints with Essential Oils Practitioner. Corinna also offers in-person Biodynamic Medicine sessions in Lewes, East Sussex.

For questions, and to book one-to-one Biodynamic sessions with Corinna, please contact: [email protected]