sarah peyton presents
Resonance Basics
5 courses, each offered once a year, exploring the foundational principles of Resonant Language and Resonant Healing
Do you long to feel better within yourself, gain access to the voice of your body, and have better relationships with others?
Based on relational neuroscience research, Sarah Peyton has differentiated nine types of Resonant Language, all of which light up the relational brain on fMRI’s, and support us in our quests for connection, mutual understanding, care, and emotional nourishment.
Resonant Language is very different from our regular, instrumental modes of speaking, so it takes some practice to begin to use it easily, but the effort is well worth it, since it creates profound changes over time both in the way we talk to ourselves and in the way we relate to others. This practice supports Resonant Healing – the convergence of our relational neuroscience-based understanding of trauma, and the Resonant Language practices that create deep brain change.
Each 8-week Resonance Basics Course is a deep dive into one or more core of the core concepts of either relational neuroscience or Resonant Healing, which includes resonant language as well as time travel, unconscious contract work, and other nervous system-based approaches to transform trauma, turn towards ourselves with warmth and compassion, and build intimacy and connection with others.
Each course is offered once a year, and you may begin anywhere in the sequence. Whether you move through the full sequence continuously or one course at a time, this program offers a flexible structure designed to meet you where you are. Together, these courses offer a layered, accessible pathway into relational neuroscience, resonant language, and resonant healing process work. You’ll build skills over time, deepening your capacity for presence, self-warmth, and connection with others — all within a supportive community of fellow learners.
Each class is taught primarily by Sarah Peyton, with Jaya Manske leading some sessions and supporting the course. In each 85-minute class, Sarah and Jaya will present and make connections across the most cutting edge relational neuroscience research into how language and the brain interact. Classes include breakout sessions to practice resonance skills and build familiarity and confidence.
Next in this Series
Resonance Basics – Untying the Knots of Trauma
Join Sarah Peyton and Jaya Manske for an 8-week introduction to time travel resonance and the release of unconscious contracts. Learn to break down the walls of long-standing patterns of behavior and thought and pave the way for newfound self-kindness, self-compassion and self-warmth.
Who These Courses Are For
These classes are open to students of all experience levels, with a special welcome to brand-new beginners!
Beginner
- You’re new to Sarah’s work, and want to learn about resonant language, attunement, time travel, unconscious contracts, and other foundational practices for self-warmth and trauma healing
- You want to expand your capacity to be with yourself and others
- You’ve explored talk therapy, meditation, embodied trauma healing, and other modalities, and are seeking integration or a deeper understanding of yourself to discern what kind of trauma healing works best for you.
- You’ve been in cognitive behavioral therapy for years, or struggled to shift behavior patterns or turn towards yourself with kindness and compassion, even after reading countless self-help books!
Intermediate
- You’ve taken one or more of Sarah’s constellations, creativity workshops, or special topics classes and want to learn more about resonance process work, and practice in a safe, supportive community
- You want to build and strengthen the neural pathways to make your brain a kinder place to live
- You want to increase connection and mutuality with your family, friends, co-workers, and communities
Advanced
- You’ve spent years studying the neuroscience of connection, and want to understand the research, theory and practice behind concepts like attachment, time travel empathy, the Default Mode Network, the left and right hemispheres of the brain, attunement, and Jaak Panksepp’s circuits of emotion and motivation
- You are an experienced practitioner who has taken multiple courses with Sarah, and want to learn how to integrate resonant healing techniques into your own work
- You’re working on prerequisite hours to apply for the Resonant Healing Practitioner certification program
What You'll Learn in Each Course
Untying the Knots of Trauma
June 24 – August 12, 2026
Join Sarah Peyton and Jaya Manske for an 8-week introduction to time travel resonance and the release of unconscious contracts. Learn to break down the walls of long-standing patterns of behavior and thought and pave the way for newfound self-kindness, self-compassion and self-warmth.
The Playground of Intimacy
September 2 – October 21, 2026
Would you love to be able to easily connect with others? Join Sarah Peyton and Jaya Manske for a brand new course teaching real-world skills for being able to access intimacy and attunement with others.
Disrupting the Inner Critic
November 11, 2026 – January 13, 2027
Would you love to feel ease in your relationship with yourself? Join Sarah Peyton and Jaya Manske for a foundational 8-week course on how to get into right relation with your inner critic, and experience more joy in your life.
Healing Our Emotional Circuits
January 27, 2027 – March 17, 2027
It’s finally here, by popular request: an experiential introduction to the eight circuits of emotion and motivation! Join Sarah for an in-depth exploration and healing of the systems of emotion.
Language That Connects
Next: April 14 – June 2, 2027
Join Sarah Peyton and Jaya Manske for our foundational 8-session course to learn profound self-connection through Resonant Language! Gain deeper access to the voice of your body and join others in learning to speak to yourself with infinite kindness.
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.