Healing bodies, brains, and nervous systems—so people can return to community with capacity, purpose, and resilience.

Heal Out is a Feral State initiative designed to bring evidence-based nervous system education and embodied practices into carceral settings. By working with the body, breath, and brain during incarceration, Heal Out supports individuals in building the internal regulation, self-awareness, and skills needed to re-enter community with greater stability and agency.

Rather than focusing solely on behavior change, Heal Out addresses the underlying physiological patterns shaped by trauma, chronic stress, and disconnection. Through training in nervous system health, respiration science, somatics, rhythm, and sound, participants learn how to regulate their internal state, process lived experience safely, and reconnect to a sense of agency in their own bodies.

Heal Out also provides pathways toward certification and peer leadership, allowing participants to develop practical, transferable skills while still inside the system. Learning how to support regulation—in themselves and others—creates purpose, restores dignity, and lays the groundwork for meaningful contribution after release.

By investing in embodied education and trauma-informed nervous system care, Heal Out strengthens not only individuals, but the communities they return to. When people leave incarceration with tools for regulation, connection, and self-trust, the ripple effects extend far beyond the individual—supporting safer reintegration, reduced recidivism, and more resilient communities.

Heal Out reflects The Feral State’s core belief:
Regulated nervous systems build healthier humans—and healthier humans build thriving societies.

Building birth education as well as somatic, meditative, and breathing skills for an empowered birth; no matter what!