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Embodied Nervous System Coaching, with Dan Covert
Targeted posture, breathing, and lifestyle practices that regulate the nervous system in real time — helping you release chronic stress patterns, integrate SSP more fully, and build a lifestyle that supports lasting regulation.
Embodied Nervous System Coaching
Targeted posture, breathing, and lifestyle practices that regulate the nervous system in real time.
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What is Embodied Nervous System Coaching?
Embodied nervous system coaching works with the body and the breath, creating direct pathways to regulation.
Using posture-specific breathing, gentle movement, and supportive positioning, this approach helps release chronic tension and bracing patterns that keep the nervous system stuck in stress or hypervigilance.
Many of us have lived through periods of high stress, injury, long-term illness, or ongoing overwhelm. In response, the body adapts by developing unconscious holding patterns designed to keep us safe in the moment.
Over time, these protective patterns can become our new “normal.” Breathing becomes restricted. Posture becomes guarded. Muscles stay tense. And even with therapy, somatic work, or other tools, the nervous system can struggle to access parasympathetic states.
By supporting the body with precise breathing, functional movement, and postural realignment, embodied nervous system coaching gives the nervous system a direct, physical way to move out of stress and into calm, allowing regulation to happen in real time.
This creates an embodied “in” to a parasympathetic state - one your system can start to recognise, return to, and build on over time.
Why Most Approaches Don't create lasting regulation...
Nervous system regulation is a hot topic. But for a lot of people, recommended regulation "practices" feel ineffective. Here’s why:
- They rely on insight or understanding alone, without giving the body a felt sense of safety.
- They focus on surface-level techniques, while missing the deeper bracing, guarding, and postural patterns that keep the nervous system on high alert.
- They encourage relaxation, but don’t change how the body actually holds itself - so tension returns as soon as the session ends.
- They may bring temporary relief, but the effects don’t last, and meaningful shifts aren’t always felt in real time.
For people who are highly sensitive, have lived through trauma, or carry long-standing stress, the body often stays in a state of protection. Breathing becomes shallow, muscles remain braced, and posture adapts for survival.
Until these patterns are gently released, the nervous system continues to default to stress and vigilance - no matter how much you understand what’s happening, or how hard you try to "think calm".
Why Embodied Nervous System Coaching Does Work...
Embodied Nervous System Coaching uses posture and breath as direct pathways to nervous system regulation. Through gentle positions and guided breathing, we can access the parasympathetic nervous system in real time.
Embodied Nervous System Coaching May Help You:
How Embodied Nervous System Coaching Supports SSP
The Safe and Sound Protocol helps the nervous system feel safer and more resilient through specially filtered sounds.
But sound alone doesn’t tell the whole story. Your nervous system is also shaped by how you hold your body, breathe, and carry tension - all of which influence how effectively your vagus nerve can regulate your system.
This is where embodied nervous system coaching and SSP come together.
Dan helps the sense of safety SSP creates actually land in the body, while also working with postural patterns that can limit how fully SSP takes effect.
Working together, you’ll learn to:
- Understand how posture, breathing, and physical tension influence nervous system regulation
- Support regulation during and between SSP listening sessions
- Reduce overwhelm by gently releasing long-held bracing and stress patterns
- Build daily practices and rhythms that support regulation in real time
For some people, SSP creates the foundation of safety that allows embodied work to feel easier and go deeper.
For others, freeing up the body first makes SSP feel smoother, less overwhelming, and more effective.
Is Embodied Nervous System Coaching Right For You?
Dan’s coaching is especially supportive and effective if you:
Meet Our Embodied Nervous System Coach
Dan Covert
Meet Dan (or Detective Dan, as we affectionately call him)
Dan is a trauma-informed Embodied Nervous System Coach, Certified Functional Strength Coach, and Unyte Certified SSP Practitioner with over a decade of experience helping people release chronic pain, break long-standing stress patterns, and build nervous system resilience.
What sets Dan apart is not just his training, it’s his lived experience. Having navigated his own journey through nervous system dysregulation, mental health challenges, and medication withdrawal, he understands firsthand the challenges his clients face. This depth of insight, combined with years of training across movement, nervous system science, and holistic wellness, gives him a rare ability to quickly identify root patterns and create real, felt change.
Clients describe Dan as grounding, attuned, and deeply supportive. Someone who meets you where you are and guides you toward greater regulation in body and mind.
Dan's Approach
Many modalities focus on a “top-down” approach to regulation - thinking your way into calm. Very few give your nervous system a physical way in.
Dan’s work is different. By using posture, breath, and carefully guided positions, he helps your nervous system shift states naturally, through felt, embodied experience. Dan's unique approach is always:
Nervous system first
Dan's work is paced around safety, capacity, and regulation.
The Body As a Guide
Dan uses guided postures and positions to create a doorway into regulation.
Breath As a State Changer
Breath is combined with guided postures to help you access the parasympathetic nervous system.
Patience Over Pushing
The body does the work, and Dan provides the guidance. Helping you release tension and bracing gently, without ever pushing or forcing.
Trauma-sensitive care
With a trauma-informed approach, Dan adapts all his work to meet where you are, what your body needs, and your personal history.
Bespoke support
This isn’t just about learning to breathe. Dan offers tailored support for your body, nervous system, and everyday life, so you feel regulated, resilient, and in control.
Dan’s coaching is available on its own or in combination with the Safe and Sound Protocol — so you can work with him whether SSP is part of your journey or not.
If you’re interested in combining services, simply reach out. We can offer bundled options designed to support you more fully, at a reduced cost.
Why You'll Love Dan!
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I came to Dan weak, and in a lot of pain.
Within just a couple of weeks with him, my back pain was completely gone, and I was so much stronger and filled with vitality.
The way he tailored the program to fit my individual needs was where the value really came in.
I would recommend Dan to everyone in a heartbeat.
Ryan P
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I learned about my breath and how important that is and how all the body's systems are connected.
We discussed a whole food diet and avoiding processed foods.
This is not a workout routine. This is an educational program for wellness.
If you are ready to change your life, give Dan a call!
Matt M
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I've always stayed in decent shape....until menopause brought new challenges. Shoulder and knee pain, low energy and intense cravings disrupted my routine.
When I started working with Dan, everything changed. He analyzed my labs, optimised my hormones, and ensured I was getting enough protein.
His assessment was thorough, and he immediately provided tailored solutions.
He even modified movements to accommodate my restrictions.
The results were transformative...allowing me to return to activities I love, like hiking, without pain.
Dan has not only restored my confidence, but inspired me to continue my journey to be a fitter, happier, version of myself. I'm endlessly grateful for his knowledge and care.
Denise B
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Even though I trained with Dan before having children, I am now reaching out to him again for my postpartum fitness and hormonal health.
I am getting back into tracking macros and focusing on bettering my lifestyle habits which in turn will improve my mental health.
Dans knowledge in the fitness field is endless, and he is contimously educating himself.
If you are looking for someone who is passionate in this field and will always be there to answer your questions and help you along the way, then Dan is your guy.
Jonelle L
This is also about how you live...
Regulation doesn’t happen in isolation.
Our Embodied Nervous System Coach, Dan, also helps you optimise the crucial lifestyle factors and habits that can shape or shift your nervous system, including:
Integrative Nutrition Coaching
As an integrative nutrition health coach, Dan provides guided education and practical strategies that focus on diet, supplements, and the lifestyle factors that influence your body and nervous system.
Perfect if you want to:
- Support inflammation, sensitivities, and overall wellness
- Optimize nutrition for energy, fitness, and recovery, and learn what supplements are safe and effective for you as an individual
- Build real-world habits and routines that strengthen regulation and resilience
Important: Integrative nutrition coaching provides educational guidance only and does not replace medical or nutrition advice from a licensed professional.
Functional Strength Training
Strength training that works with your nervous system, not against it.
Dan’s functional strength coaching is designed for people who want to move better, feel stronger, and reduce pain while getting in their best shape - without reinforcing tension, bracing, or dysregulation. This isn’t generic fitness training. It’s a nervous-system-aware approach to building strength, mobility, and confidence in your body.
Perfect if you want to:
- Address chronic pain, injury patterns, or long-standing postural issues through intelligent movement
- Prepare your body for the physical demands of life, whether that's work, parenting or sport
- Look your best, while training and building strength in a way that supports regulation, breathing, and long-term nervous system health
Men’s Wellness & Performance Coaching
Tailored guidance for men navigating hormone health, TRT, and overall vitality. This program helps you make sense of lab results, hormone protocols, and lifestyle factors that influence energy, mood, and resilience - all in partnership with your licensed medical provider.
- Understand testosterone, estradiol, DHEA, and related hormones
- Get practical guidance on men's wellness, lifestyle, recovery, and nervous system support that complements your medical care
- Build strategies to maximize vitality, performance, and everyday resilience
Important: Performance coaching is educational and supportive. All hormone or medical decisions must be made with your licensed provider.
Hormones & Medication Guidance
Helping you make sense of lab results, hormone-related factors, and medications that influence your nervous system and overall health. This service focuses on education and interpretation, giving you clarity and practical strategies to work confidently alongside your licensed medical provider.
Perfect if you want to:
- Understand key lab markers, including essential vitamins and minerals, thyroid panels, hormones, and other important indicators of overall wellness
- Gain insight into optimizing hormones and how they affect energy, recovery, and nervous system function
- Receive guidance for navigating psych medication management and safe withdrawal strategies
Important: This is educational guidance only. Dan cannot prescribe, adjust, or administer medications or hormones.
Ready to Begin Your Journey?
Dan offers remote embodied coaching sessions through SSP Wellness Center, so you can connect from anywhere.