3 OCT

Experience Stage

Boniface Verney-Carron

My name is Boniface Verney-Carron. I am an osteopath, acupuncturist, and body psychologist, specialising in the physical manifestations of emotional trauma and stress.

My interest in this field began more than 23 years ago through an in-depth study of the vagus nerve. That research led me to a deeper understanding of the profound connection between emotional wellbeing, neurological regulation, and overall health. Since then, my work has focused on helping people understand how emotional experiences can affect the body, and how restoring balance to the nervous system can support both physical and psychological healing.

Boniface Verney-Carron

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Primal moves and body movement

3 OCT · Experience Stage · 10:00

A Primal Play session is an invitation to stop exercising and start playing with your body again. We begin slowly—breathing, sensing, shaking and reconnecting with the ground beneath us. Movement gradually becomes more instinctive: crawling, rolling, reaching, pushing, pulling, balancing and exploring. There is no choreography to perfect and no performance to achieve. We introduce coordination, rhythm, unpredictability and playful challenges that ask the brain and body to adapt together. At times we move alone; at others we interact, mirror, respond and play with one another. Intensity rises naturally, bringing strength, mobility, cardiovascular challenge and a little controlled chaos. Laughter, mistakes and awkwardness are welcomed—they are part of disrupting our habitual patterns. Eventually the energy settles, allowing us to notice the contrast between activation and regulation. You leave feeling worked, grounded and energised—but above all, reminded that when your body moves, your mind grooves.

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The nervous system: whats really running our health

4 OCT · Vision Stage · 10:10

We talk a lot about optimizing our health – sleep, nutrition, hormones, movement, supplements and recovery. But underneath many of these sits a system we are only beginning to understand more deeply: the nervous system.

Our nervous system constantly reads and responds to the world around us. It influences how we handle stress and recover from it, but also how we sleep, digest, connect, perform and make decisions.

In this conversation, we’ll explore the nervous system as a foundational piece of understanding our biology. What actually happens when we become stuck in states of chronic activation or dysregulation? How does our physiological state shape the way we think, feel and respond? And why can two people exposed to the same pressure – or even the same health intervention – respond completely differently?

Rather than looking at stress as something we simply need to eliminate, we’ll explore how we can build greater capacity, flexibility and resilience within the nervous system – and why learning to understand and work with our own state may be one of the most overlooked foundations of long-term health and performance.

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Bioharmony

4 OCT · Experience Stage · 11:20

A BioHarmony session is an exploration of what happens when modern medicine meets the intelligence of the body. Together with Dr Tamsin Lewis, we begin by understanding where you are physiologically, emotionally and energetically—not simply where you think you should be. We explore the nervous system, stress, recovery, metabolic health and the signals the body is constantly communicating. Through breath, movement and sensory awareness, we shift from understanding the body intellectually to experiencing it from within. We work with interoception and proprioception—relearning how to recognise the subtle signals that often disappear beneath the noise of modern life. Simple challenges introduce variability and controlled stress, helping the nervous system rediscover its capacity to adapt. Science gives us the map; embodiment allows us to experience the territory. The session moves between learning, experimenting, activation and moments of deep regulation. There is nothing to achieve or perform—the intention is to create the conditions in which your own biology can recalibrate. BioHarmony is ultimately about coming back into relationship with yourself: not optimising the body from the outside, but learning to work with its intelligence from within.

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