Sometimes stress is not just a thought. It lives in the chest, the stomach, the throat. A tightness, a heaviness, or feelings of anxiety that you can’t think your way out of. Butterfly tapping helps you find calm through direct signalling to the body.

Derived from EMDR therapy, butterfly tapping uses bilateral stimulation, alternating left and right tapping across the chest, to calm an activated nervous system and bring you back to a felt sense of safety and ground. The crossed arms, hands resting gently on the chest, create a self-holding gesture that is quietly profound in its ability to comfort and regulate.

Anna guides you through this practice with warmth and simplicity. Whether you are sitting with a knot of anxiety you cannot name, carrying tension from a difficult moment, or simply feeling unsettled in your body without knowing why, this technique offers a way back. Slow, rhythmic and deeply accessible, it requires nothing more than your own two hands and a willingness to pause.

Return to this practice whenever stress moves out of the mind and into the body. It is one of the gentlest tools in your nervous system kit, and one of the most effective.

Benefits:

• Calms bodily anxiety and physical stress responses

• Uses bilateral stimulation to regulate the nervous system

• Cultivates a felt sense of safety and inner ground

• Accessible anywhere with no equipment required

• Drawn from evidence-based EMDR therapeutic practice