Resonance Basics:
Disrupting the inner critic
Would you love to feel ease in your relationship with yourself? Join Sarah Peyton and Jaya Manske for a new foundational course on how to get into right relation with your inner critic, and experience more joy in your life.
Class meets 8 times, from October 22nd 2025
Are you incredibly tough on yourself? Is it sometimes hard to keep breathing, let alone to try new things or express yourself freely, because of how much you punish yourself for every expression? Is it hard to find even one thing to love about yourself?
Course Information
Schedule
Ends: June 3, 2026
8 weeks, no skips
Day of Week: Wednesday
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:55 AM Pacific Time
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Tuition
Cost: Sliding Scale, $220 – $400
Format
- Course meets online via Zoom
- 8 live sessions, weekly, no skips
- We welcome participants from all time zones
- Asynchronous learning is available
- Recordings and visuals provided to registered participants
Course Description
Many of us have a voice inside our brains that never believes that what we’ve done is good enough. Whether it mocks us, dismisses us, is afraid for us, or is neutral towards us–the authoritative power that this voice tends to hold within our internal monologue often goes unchallenged. We believe this voice and think it is telling us the unvarnished truth. We compromise our wildest authenticity due to the cruel demands that this voice makes of us.
There are many healing modalities out there that encourage us to suppress or overpower this voice–but as we learn in Resonance, anything that we try to squash or reject only ends up popping up somewhere else with the same message. And it makes sense that repression wouldn’t change anything, given that this inner critic is a natural expression of a human brain that’s been left alone too often and that has had to struggle in a world without warmth. Suprisingly, this inner critic is our brain’s best attempt to try to take care of us, to try to find and create rules and procedures that will compensate for our missing relationships.
When we understand the inner critic through this lens–that it is a part of our brain that is trying to tie everything together and make sense of our lives–we can begin to unlock self-compassion and kind accompaniment for the parts of ourselves that have been unsupported. And we can begin to grow a distance from the authority of the inner critic’s voice, and understand that it is simply one strand in the larger tapestry of our internal world, and even transform the voice into one that is much more gentle and warm. When we can become bigger than our inner critic, we can shift the perspective and scope of the part of ourselves that is talking and the part of ourselves that is answering. We are able to transcend the inner critic’s sense of absolute authority, while also hearing its pleas with warmth and resonance. As though we are a warm abundant mother holding a cranky child in our arms, saying “of course!” with matching energy, and then soothing it while it cries. We do not seek to reject this child, but instead meet it with warmth and listen beneath its criticisms for its deep longings. We allow it to be one voice in a chorus of voices and allow it to inform us in radically new ways.
In this course, we will work with the tools of Resonance in order to build our brain’s capacity to become bigger and more securely attached to a sense of delightful self. We will learn the neuroscience of the Default Mode Network and the landscape of the brain’s hemispheres, in order to more fully understand how the inner critic gets created and how it is able to maintain so much authority within us. We will work with unconscious contracts, time travel, and Resonant Language to disrupt the critic’s power over us, restore a healthy sense of balance within our internal monologue, and create a foundation of inner warmth that will grow over time.
The more our inner critics transform into kind, warm voices, the more our immune system functioning increases. Working in this way with our inner critics allows our internal systems to move from paralysis to mobilization, and supports making our brains good, easy, and comfortable places to live.
What to Expect:
In this course, we will work with the tools of resonant healing in order to build our brain’s capacity to become bigger and more securely attached to a sense of delightful self. We will learn the neuroscience of the Default Mode Network and the landscape of the brain’s hemispheres, in order to more fully understand how the inner critic gets created and how it is able to maintain so much authority within us. We will work with unconscious contracts, time travel, and Resonant Language to disrupt the critic’s power over us, restore a healthy sense of balance within our internal monologue, and create a foundation of inner warmth that will grow over time.
This class will be taught primarily by Sarah Peyton with Jaya Manske leading two of the sessions and supporting the course. The classes will be recorded for participants in many time zones. Classes will include lecture and breakout sessions to practice resonance skills and build familiarity and confidence. There will be support for students to create and develop Resonant Practice Partnerships outside of class.
What You'll Learn:
Week 1: Disrupting the Inner Critic: Meeting the Default Mode Network
Week 2: Resonance for the Inner Critic
Week 3: Relational vs. Rational: The Hemispheres of the Brain and Imagery
Week 4: What Does The Inner Critic Feel and Need?
Week 5: How Trauma Flavors the Inner Critic
Week 6: Unconscious Contracts To Believe The Inner Critic
Week 7: Letting Go of Believing Others
Week 8: Bringing It All Together: Integration
Who Is This Course For?
Students, from beginners to advanced, who are interested in building their skills for resonant language and expanding their capacity to be with themselves and others. Come and build and strengthen the pathways to make your brain a kinder place to live and to increase connection and mutuality with your family, friends, co-workers and community. All welcome.
This Course Includes Resonant Assistant Support
- In groups of three with one assistant and two participants, so that participants can practice the breakout exercises with support.
- In small groups, with 1 assistant and 3+ participants, with work with one participant occurring by lottery, and the remaining participants observing.
- Depending on assistant availability, the third option is 1-1 support to receive resonant processes like time travel and unconscious contracts for material that comes up during class.
Cost
$400 – Support those with fewer resources to attend (choose this option if you have the desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic and global inequity)
$360 – Requested standard contribution (choose this option if you have sufficient financial resources and can pay fair value for this learning experience)
$300 – Discounted rate (choose this option if you sometimes struggle with limited financial resources and would benefit from supported access to this learning experience)
$220 – Scholarship rate (choose this option if you struggle with limited resources and have difficulty saving due to less reliable income or pay, or if you live in a country where earning power is less)
Recordings included.
Register
Resonance Basics – Disrupting the Inner Critic – Fall 2025
Price range: $220.00 through $400.00
*PLEASE NOTE:
- Your tuition payment is non-refundable (but it is transferable).
- This course will be recorded for those who want to learn asynchronously for some or all sessions.
- This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.
About the Instructors
Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal personal and collective trauma with exquisite gentleness.
Sarah is a sought-after expert who brings neuroscience expertise together with depth work, self-compassion, and the transformative potential of language. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches people how words change and heal us.
Sarah teaches and lectures internationally and is the author of four books on relational neuroscience and self-compassion: Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, the companion Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind, and The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, co-authored alongside Roxy Manning, PhD.
Jaya Manske is a transformative healing-centered coach and resonant healing practitioner with a passion for supporting people to cultivate kindness, compassion and gentleness for themselves and reconnect to their wholeness and mattering. She has been an empathetic practitioner since 2001 and is a member of Sarah’s team.
A former educator with a degree focused on developmental theory, Jaya has an in-depth background in attachment theory and how resonance transforms our ability to be in a kinder relationship with ourselves and others.
Informed by developmental theory, relational neuroscience, and the ways trauma impacts the brain and nervous system, Jaya offers resonant empathy, unconscious contracts/sacred vow work, time travel empathy, and is a certified mindfulness and wellness coach.