Overwhelmed? Stuck in a cycle of stress, tension, and racing thoughts?

If stress is running your life — affecting your sleep, your mood, your focus, your body — you're not alone. And if you've tried meditation, yoga, or breathing exercises and still can't turn it off — here's what works when the trying itself has become the problem.

Rest Reset is a weekly guided group hypnosis experience led by Marija Mikolajczak, designed to bring your nervous system out of fight-or-flight and back to a settled baseline. A regulated nervous system is the foundation every other practice gets built on, magical work included.

On Saturday, August 1, we will be joined by Mark Heminway and Lisa Pearl Edwards.

You'll settle in with a cup of herbal tea and be guided into a deep state of trance through hypnosis and gentle energy work (Reiki). You don't have to do anything. You don't have to learn anything. You just arrive, sit down, and let go.

Stop trying to relax. Just let it happen.

Trying to relax is what keeps most of us tight. That's the paradox Rest Reset works with — hypnosis walks you into the state your body already knows how to reach, and holds you there long enough for it to matter. The sound healing works its magic at the same time.

Most people leave saying they feel deeply calm, lighter, and more like themselves than they have in weeks.

How is this different from a guided meditation or a sound bath?

Guided meditation, sound baths, and hypnosis are close cousins. All three aim for the same state — a mind quiet enough to rest, a nervous system out of alert.

The difference shows up when the mind won't cooperate.

Most guided meditations ask you to notice your thoughts and let them pass, or to let the sound carry you into stillness. That works if your mind is willing. If your mind is looping — replaying conversations, cycling through the to-do list, running arguments you're not having — those invitations can slide right off.

Hypnosis is built for exactly that. The paradox at the center: stop trying to relax. Just let it happen.

Over time, regular sessions help you:

•      Sleep more deeply and wake up rested

•      Break the cycle of overthinking, tension, and emotional reactivity

•      Manage physical symptoms of chronic stress — headaches, fatigue, tightness, pain

•      Build real, lasting resilience

What to expect when you arrive

You'll be welcomed into a small, intimate group (8 people max) at Artemisia Integrative Wellness Center in Stamford, CT. There's tea. There's calm. You follow along in your mind. That's all.

You'll be seated comfortably while Marija — clinical hypnotherapist and Reiki Master — guides you into a deeply restorative state using hypnosis and gentle energy healing. Mark and Lisa will weave sound healing through the session. The experience runs about 90 minutes. You leave calmer, quieter, more like yourself.

Can I be hypnotized?

Yes. Hypnosis is the same trance state mystics, healers, and contemplatives have entered for as long as people have had bodies — we just have a clinical name for it now. If you've ever gotten lost in a book, zoned out during a drive, or drifted off during a movie, you've already experienced the natural state hypnosis works with. No special skills needed. Just a willingness to sit down and let someone help you feel better.

Whether you're brand new to hypnosis or have experienced it before, this session is designed to meet you where you are.

About your guides

Marija Mikolajczak

A clinical hypnotherapist and energy worker, Marija runs Rest Reset weekly at Artemisia Integrative Wellness Center in Stamford, and works one-on-one on stress, sleep, chronic pain, and the underlying patterns that keep the nervous system running hot. Green Witch School of Practical Magic — where this event lives — is her home for hypnosis, trance, energy work, and mind-body practice.

Lisa Pearl

Lisa Pearl is a hands-on healer with over fifteen years of practice across alternative modalities. Her work is built around a simple premise: the body is intelligent and orients toward health when given the chance, but modern life keeps most of us stuck in fight-or-flight. Her sessions facilitate the shift back into rest-and-digest — the state where the body can do its own healing work.

Mark Heminway 

Mark Heminway is a spiritual guide whose gifts revealed themselves in childhood, were set aside for years, and returned to as an adult calling. He sees beyond what most notice — in this world and in the realms beyond it — and works with people seeking access to insight, inspiration, and their own highest purpose. He serves as guide, mentor, and encourager for those on paths of spiritual and personal growth.