Michael Thomas is the creator of The Vagal Method, a system for training the nervous system through breath, heat, and cold. He is the founder of Plunsana, a nervous system performance studio in St. Petersburg, Florida, and a former Wim Hof Method instructor with four years of certified practice. He has guided over 5,000 people through live nervous system resets, from corporate teams and executives to first responders and healthcare professionals. His work translates the science of the vagus nerve and heart rate variability into simple tools people can use in high-pressure moments. Michael's approach is grounded in physiology, not hype. He shows audiences how one nerve controls their stress, sleep, mood, and focus, and how to reset it in under a minute.
All sessions by Michael →Most stress advice targets the mind. Reframe it. Push through. Just relax. But a body stuck in overdrive isn't a mindset problem, it's a physical one. This session goes underneath your thoughts to the one nerve that actually runs your stress response: the vagus nerve.
Michael shows how a single nerve controls your sleep, mood, focus, and stress, and why roughly 80% of its signals travel up to the brain, shaping how you feel moment to moment. Attendees don't just learn the science, they feel it.
Michael guides the room through a live nervous system reset, then hands them a 60-second tool they can use before a meeting, in traffic, or at 2 a.m. when they can't sleep. Grounded in physiology and measurable through heart rate variability, this is nervous system regulation made practical for high-pressure work and life.
During the expert session, Micahel Thomas engages the audience through a live Q&A session.
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: Most stress advice targets the mind. Reframe it.
It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Michael, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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