About the Course
Grow your personal sense of calm, connection, and confidence — from the inside out.
🌱 CARE: For Individuals is a practice designed for anyone seeking to better understand their emotional patterns, reduce stress, and build a foundation of inner safety and regulation. Whether you're navigating relationships, burnout, life transitions, or just craving more ease, this program offers grounded, science-informed tools that you can use every day.
Each 60-minute session blends breath work and mindfulness with simple insights from polyvagal theory and neuroplasticity — all explained in relatable, practical language.
This series is inclusive of all identities and lived experiences. You don’t need to be in a relationship or family system to benefit — this is about healing and connecting with yourself, and bringing that clarity to your daily life and relationships.
💛 What You’ll Experience:
Breath-based grounding and meditation tailored to solo regulation
Understanding your own stress patterns and nervous system responses
Practical strategies to rewire stuck behaviors and triggers
Creating a personalized nervous system care map
Journaling, visualization, and somatic check-ins
This is a safe, empowering space to explore personal growth through body-based awareness and practice.
🧭 Session Themes:
Felt Safety & Solo Co-Regulation
Relational Triggers and Response Tools
Neuroplasticity for Daily Behavior Shifts
Polyvagal Tools for Nervous System Resilience
Book individual sessions or the full series. Available virtually or in-person for residents in Maplewood/South Orange, NJ and nearby areas.
Your Instructor
Ricky Cortez
Ricky Cortez is a meditation educator, breath work guide, and founder of Connected And Rooted Everywhere (CARE)—a nervous system-based practice series for individuals, couples, families, and organizations. Drawing from his background in performance, tech, and human rights (including work with WITNESS), Ricky blends neuroplasticity, polyvagal theory, and Buddhist wisdom into practical, powerful tools for everyday regulation and relationship repair. A same-sex parent raising neurodiverse children, Ricky brings grounded lived experience into each offering, helping others build trust, emotional safety, and resilience. Whether in homes, schools, or boardrooms, his programs help people reconnect with themselves and each other through the simple power of the breath.