Delegate: Maria Lagiou
Delegate Short Bio: Maria Lagiou, MSc, is a professional in the field of wellness and the founder of BalanSync Wellness Center in Kalamata, Greece. Through this Center, she aims to help people learn how to manage stress and strengthen their resilience. By using a unique approach that combines HeartMath® techniques, HRV® Biofeedback and the Neo Craniosacral Therapy, she aims to help people on achieving balance between the Body, Mind and Emotions through the intuitive Intelligence of the Heart.
This balance offers multiple long-term benefits, such as:
• Significant reduction of stress and anxiety.
• Regulation of heart rhythm.
• Improvement in emotional regulation and resilience.
• Enhancement of cognitive functions and decision-making ability.
• Better sleep quality and overall physical health.
She is a Certified Heartmath® Coach, CST Practitioner and HRV® Counselor. Her studies include an MSc Degree in the field of “Education Sciences through Innovative Technologies and Biomedical Approaches”.
She has been practicing this approach over the last fifteen years. Having experienced transformations on a deep heart level, inspired her to offer these gifts to just about anyone who needs them. She works with individuals on 1:1 basis, small groups, runs workshops in schools and corporate wellness sessions.
Contact Info:
marialagiou@balansync.gr
www.balansync.gr
FB:BalanSync
Scope of Activity: Individual activity
Activity: Heart Coherence and Sleep: “The Lullaby of the Heart”
“On the occasion of World Sleep Day, I designed and led a unique experiential workshop titled Heart Coherence and Sleep: The Lullaby of the Heart.”
ACTIVITY:
We created a calm and spacious atmosphere that invites the body to slow down and the mind to settle. The delicate – repeating patterns and long resonant breathing, encourage relaxation and help release the tension of the day.
We combined a ten minutes somatic reset and a five minutes activation of the vagus nerve exercise, alongside a fifteen minutes Quick Coherence HeartMath® Technique:
We equipped a small Supportive Group of people with the appropriate Inner Balance® devices (which helps create coherence and tracks the heart rate variability at all time), giving them the mission to create and sustain a coherent setting in the whole group. Everybody lied down, relaxed their bodies, quieted their minds and connected in a calm heart-rate rhythm in order to feel all together the sense of Coherence: a deep relaxation and stillness.
OUTCOME:
This workshop invited participants to explore their relationship with sleep, through their ability to manage stress and relax their bodies. We additionally encouraged them to use the powerful Body Reset Sleeping Habit using Quick Coherence HeartMath® Technique.
We aimed to promote a hygiene -before the bed – sleeping routine which helps the body and nervous system to feel safe and calm.
All participants practiced the whole thirty minutes “Reset Before the Bed” exercise, within a safe environment with the appropriate exercise mattresses.
This workshop showed how releasing stress before the bed, results in calmness. It helps to deal with the stress of time pressures and overload, in order for the body to be better prepared for sleeping at the end of the day.
And the most amazing part? Most of the participants actually slept while practicing!
Location: Kalamata, Greece
Date of Activity: 13.03.2026
Location: Kalamata, Messinia
Date of Activity: 13.03.2026
