Jana Roy

Over the past year, I have guided a variety of meditations and created and hosted workshops on mindfulness, nervous system regulation, the pillars of wellbeing, and emotional fitness through the student meditation space I host at university. This practice has helped me come home to the present moment more regularly, turn towards physical and emotional pain with greater compassion, and regulate my nervous system with much more steadiness. It has also allowed me to share these tools with many other students. You can see more on my YouTube.

This is completely transforming my understanding of the body. I am learning how fascia-induced pain forms, how emotional and physical patterns are connected, and how fascia — the intelligent connective tissue surrounding every muscle, bone, nerve, and organ — shapes our wellbeing. Through the Human Garage course, I am continuing to learn how to guide myself and others through self-healing fascial maneuvers, biomechanics, and nervous system regulation.

We all have access to more forms of data than our five cognitive senses alone. Over time, we have become cut off from them. Over the past year and a half, I have gradually opened my awareness to these other senses and deepened my attunement to the energetic and intuitive dimensions of life.

The first time I moved my body in a way that was not dance and was instead rooted in self-exploration, it felt foreign and deeply liberating. We tend to move through reality predominantly through the brain, filtering everything through cognition. When we drop into the body, our nervous systems can relax and we gain access to other forms of knowing. Exploring non-linear movement and somatic work has helped me access parts of myself I had not connected with before.

From 0 push-ups in January 2025 to 30 push-ups in January 2026, bodyweight training has significantly transformed my strength and fitness over the past year and a half.