School of Simplicity

Short-term therapy for long-term wellbeing – stop managing stress, start regulating your biology.

Over the course of twelve sessions, you will learn a science-based method to retrain your nervous system and reclaim your focus. Autogenic Training (AT) is a simple yet powerful technique that allows you to consciously switch off the stress response and trigger your body’s natural healing processes. While it serves as an effective relaxation tool, long-term practice facilitates a profound functional shift at a physiological level, strengthening your internal resilience, and building a lasting foundation for sustained well-being. By integrating this lifetime tool into your daily routine, you move beyond temporary relief to achieve lasting internal balance and high performance.

1. Why choose Autogenic Training
2. How will Autogenic Training benefit me
3. What is Autogenic Training
4. How does Autogenic Training work
5. What does the Autogenic Training course involve
6. Conditions that Autogenic Training can help with
7. Client testimonials
8. Terms and Conditions

Why choose Autogenic Training

Autonomy: Autogenic means ‘self- generated’ process so you won’t be dependent on a voice, environment, or time
Efficiency: AT is a short exercise that takes only about 10-15 minutes to practice
Accessibility: AT is a cost effective method, no special equipment or clothes are required
Flexibility: It can be practiced almost anywhere, according to the time you have available
Sustainability: The training is an inexpensive and effective method to keep yourself both physically and emotionally healthy for the rest of your life

How will Autogenic Training benefit me

Helps you switch from stress to relaxation
Increases confidence and self-esteem
Significantly improves sleep quality
Increases concentration and focus
Reduces or eliminates anxiety
Provides a tool for self-empowerment and feeling more in control
Gives you health and emotional balance
Promotes personal growth

Long term benefits
Regular practice of Autogenic Training (AT) moves beyond temporary symptom relief to facilitate a permanent systemic baseline shift. It provides the following long-term psychological and physiological advantages:

• De-conditioning early vulnerabilities: many of our automatic stress responses are conditioned during childhood. AT provides the space to acknowledge these and move from reactive behaviour to intentional self-regulation. It allows you to ask ‘what kind of person do you want to be’ rather than remaining stuck in inherited values or expectations
• Strengthening resilience: AT improves your internal resources and the capacity to perceive the world as comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful (Sense of Coherence)
• Bridging biology and psychology: as an inward and outward-facing training / therapy, regular AT practice allows the brain to communicate effectively with your nervous system, resulting in a more balanced and integrated personality – one that gives adequate responses to pressure instead of over or under-reacting
• Self-regulation and self-knowledge: The 12-session journey allows you to process new information about your own internal dynamics. This clears the ‘cognitive fog’ associated with chronic stress adn overload, helping you understand your own rhythms and needs to better adapt to complex professional and personal changes
• Unlocking creativity: by shifting from permanent ‘threat mode’ and into ‘deep focus and capacity’, AT can reallocate resources toward creativity and innovation. You gain a skill for life that enables you to stay calm, clear and focused even in high-stakes environments

What is Autogenic Training

Over the course of ten sessions, you will learn a science-based method to retrain your nervous system and reclaim your focus. AT is a simple yet powerful technique that allows you to consciously switch off the stress response and trigger your body’s natural healing processes. While it serves as an effective relaxation tool, long-term practice facilitates a profound functional shift at a physiological level, strengthening your internal resilience, and building a lasting foundation for sustained well-being. By integrating this lifetime tool into your daily routine, you move beyond temporary relief to achieve lasting internal balance and high performance.

How does Autogenic Training work

AT involves learning a set of easy mental exercises using designated phrases that are repeated as silent thoughts while sitting or lying in a specific, supported and neutral posture. It allows the mind and body to switch off the ‘fight/flight/freeze’ stress response, and instead promotes rest, recuperation and recovery. Autogenic means self-generating, – you are, in effect, treating yourself. With the support and guidance of a therapist, you gradually learn to trust your own process of self-healing.

Retrain your nervous system, reclaim your focus.

What does the Autogenic Training course involve

Following an initial assessment you will learn AT over ten weeks, in fifty-minute individual sessions, or longer small group sessions.  The basic AT exercises focus on various physical manifestations of relaxation in the body* (musculoskeletal system, circulatory system, followed by awareness of the heartbeat, breathing, the abdomen and a cool forehead).
Between sessions you will practice shorter (1-2 minutes) and longer (10-15 minutes) exercises two to three times daily, and keep a record of your observations. This process helps you develop ‘passive focus and concentration’ through observing yourself in a completely new way. The course also covers the biological and cultural backgrounds of these exercises. Alongside the deep-relaxation programme, you will learn methods to safely release both current and previously suppressed emotions, promoting further relaxation.

This method requires a commitment to a 10-15-minute daily practice.
It is not a passive therapy; it is a biological conditioning process.

(*)Stress is not merely a mental state; it is a systemic physiological event. When we encounter a stressful situation, our whole body reacts, often storing information and tension within our muscles. By practicing AT – especially the first two standard exericise – we access and process this information. Reducing muscular tension triggers a cascade: relaxed muscles send a ‘safety signal’ through the brain stem to all areas of the brain that the body indicating that the body is at rest. Once the body enters the state of physiological rest, the mind can also relax.

Later, the method belongs to you, to use in whatever way best suits your lifestyle.

Conditions that Autogenic Training can help with

The major influence AT can have on any of the above symptoms is reduction of attendant anxiety. The increased confidence that clients develop from knowing they can help themselves can have a significant impact on their state of health.

When the mind is well, it usually follows that the body is well.

Client testimonials

In the past, major events like the work expo meant weeks of anxiety, reliance on sleeping pills, and inevitably falling ill afterward due to exhaustion. This year, thanks to AT, I was well-rested, my communication with my team was clear and focused, and we even received praise from my boss for having the ‘best booth’ at the event! For the first time, I truly enjoyed the experience and stayed healthy throughout. I even managed to host a large anniversary event right after with total ease. I never imagined this training would have such a profound impact on my confidence—I can finally handle high-pressure ‘performance’ moments without the weight of anxiety. It has been a life-changing investment. MM, 2026

After suffering from insomnia for nearly 4 years (and trying everything), I was amazed that just a fortnight into the course. I could finally sleep again. The practice has been game-changer, allowing me to rest, re-energise my body and finally go through the day without the usual brainfog. RK, 2015

I used to suffer from serious digestion problems, but through Autogenic Training the symptoms have significantly improved. I’m ever so grateful I started this course, it has helped finding balance again. AL, 2018

Since starting AT, I am much more focused in everyday life and feel when I am getting stressed. I have learnt to notice tension in my neck and shoulders as a warning signal, allowing me to use the exercises to prevent a migraine before the pain even starts. It takes time to practice it, but I am so happy to have a practical way to manage my triggers before they turn into pain. FV, 2020

As a uni student I was incredibly anxious about the summer exam period and decided to lear AT beforehand (during the spring). It lowered my stress and improved my sleep throughout the preparation period, making study hours far more effective. I was able to stay calmer and more focused during the exams, which was a huge bonus and showed in my grades. SH, 2023

I learned AT during my pregnancy and it was truly the best start for both my baby and me as a ‘newborn mother’. Despite the uncertainty of motherhood, AT gave me the inner confidence to handle new situations and the resilience to navigate postnatal depression. It provided a sense of calm and stability during one of the most challenging transitions of my life. KB, 2013

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