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Survival Skills
Would you like Jaguar to guide you, or would you like to explore on your own? Jaguar is an II (Indigenous Intelligence). She will guide you.
Jaguar, please guide me.
I’d like to explore on my own.
Ok, great. As you are exploring, you can use the filters to search for relevant practices. Use the duration filter to set Time limits for practices. Use the Self-care, Connect to Others, and Connect to Nature menu to find self-care, relationships, and nature practices. Use the Symptoms menu to find practices to respond to dis-ease. Use the keywords filter if you have a word or feeling in mind (there are 100 keywords to choose from). Use the training filter to search for educational films. Use the presenter filter to find films and practices that feature a particular presenter. You can also use our assessment tools to map out your connection assets or distress response patterns. Enjoy!
Are you here today to heal or grow? It’s probably both in the long run, but at this moment, is your priority to decrease distress or grow your capacities?
Heal
Grow
Do you want to down-shift stress or heal a particular symptom? In other words, do you feel stressed out generally? Or are you dealing with a particular symptom, such as difficulty sleeping, or gastro-intestinal distress?
Down-shift stress
Heal a symptom
If you take a moment to check in with yourself, right now, in this moment, and to notice your body, emotions, and mind in this moment, how would you characterize your dominant mood/ body/ mind state?
I feel irritated, angry, annoyed, aggressive, or pissed off (something on the anger continuum)
I feel anxious, nervous, fearful, afraid, worried (something on the fear continuum)
I feel spacey, sleepy, foggy, depressed, overwhelmed, or shutdown (something on the shutdown continuum)
I can’t tell or none of the above
Jaguar is going to show you specific practices now that address stress when it shows up through the fight response, which is characteristically associated with feeling pissed off/ angry/ aggressive/ irritated/ or agitated. We call these practices ‘cooling anger’ because the anger continuum is the emotional response associated with these body-based patterns. As these practices take effect, you may find yourself ready to focus on enhancing connection.
Jaguar is going to show you specific practices now that address stress when it shows up through the flight response, which is characteristically associated with feeling anxious/ fearful/ or worried. We call these practices ‘calming anxiety’ because the fear/ anxiety continuum is the emotional response associated with these body-based patterns. As these practices take effect, you may find yourself ready to focus on enhancing connection.
Jaguar is going to show you specific practices now that address stress when it shows up through the shutdown response, which is characteristically associated with feeling numb/ withdrawn/ or shut down. We call these practices ‘recovering from shutdown’ because the dissociation/ numbness continuum is the emotional response associated with these body-based patterns. Please note that often, as people come out of shut-down, they move back into fight or flight (anger/ fear) patterns. So don’t be surprised if that happens. It means your body is coming back into balance. You may next find yourself needing to work with anger (fight) or anxiety (flight) stress patterns.
Jaguar recommends that you take the distress assessment.
Our work is not medicine, or psycho-therapy, but is focused on the re-balancing the Autonomic Nervous System, which is implicated in stress-related disorders. Which, if any, of the following symptoms are you experiencing?
Addictions
Anger
Anxiety (recurrent/ persistent)
Chronic Pain
COVID-19 stress
Depression
Gastro-intestinal symptoms
Heart issues
Sleep Difficulties
At this time, we don’t have a specific set of practices formulated for your primary symptom, so we are going to show you a general list of practices for addressing stress-related symptoms.
Would you like to work on?
Self-care
Relationships
Connecting with nature
I’m not sure
Fantastic. Jaguar is going to show you specific practices now that will help you in self-care. These are focused on ’Training Your Attention.' You can use the filter sub-menus to focus on other categories, such as movement, sensory practices, or ways of knowing. Have fun!
Good for you. Januar is going to show you specific practices now that will help you build healthier relationships. These are focused on ‘Relating Across Difference’. You can use the filter sub-menus to focus on other categories of Connecting to Others, such as improving communication, setting clear boundaries. Our social justice and anti-racism work lives here, in Connecting with Others.
Cool. Jaguar is going to show you specific practices now that will help you deepen your connection with nature. These are focused on building connection to Land. You can use the filter sub-menus to focus on other categories, such as animals, honing survival skills, or learning the arts of life.
Jaguar notes that often people don’t have clear sense of exactly how to move forward. One way to proceed is to take the Connection Assessment. Another way is to use the Keywords filter, and see if anything resonates with you. If you are working with a guide or a learning partner, you could also ask them for feedback, or engage in an inquiry question with them.
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Dr. Vincent Felitti MD
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Eric Pankonin
Fleet Maull PhD
Gabriel Kram
Gloria Yamato
Ilarion 'Kuuyux' Merculieff
John Stokes
Katrin Welch
Lee Mun Wah
Letha Marchetti OTR/L, C/NDT, SEP
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Şerife Wong
Tiara Maldonaldo
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Where do I start?
The Origin Story
Turning on the Connection System
The Evolved Nest
Healing Trauma
Deviations from the Nest: ACES
The Science of Safety (Polyvagal Theory)
Interoception
Taking Charge of Your Own Wellness
Coming out of ShutDown
Escaping the Prison of the Mind
Heartfulness
The Original Language (or How to Talk to Everything)
Healthy Relationships
How Whiteness Operates
An Unfinished Conversation about Race
3 Steps: Assess, Down-Shift, Connect
Coming out of Fight
Allow Yourself to Grieve
Behavior Change
Gratitude Practices
Calming Anxiety
Accompaniment
Altars
Ancestral Connection
Animal Rituals
A Polyvagal Perspective on Resilience
Art & Science of Connection
Balance Rocks
Barefoot Shoes
Bake
Befriend a Tree
Be Yourself
Befriend the Stone People
Becoming a Real Human Being
Bicycle
Bird Language
Boxing
An Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory
A Brief Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory
Build Friendships with People Who are Different Than You
Build a Circle
Build Multi-Cultural Communities
Building Ropes
Build a Shelter
Campfires
Chaordic Imagery
Common Ways of Disconnecting
Coming out of Flight
Cooling Anger
Core Neurobiological Self (Polyvagal Theory as Water)
Connection Mapping
Cook for Yourself
The Cure for Loneliness
Create a Restorative Ambiance
Cultural Fire
The Daisy Model of Self-Regulation
Dance
Dive
Don't Drink that Stuff
Dream Tracking
Drop Fossil Fuel
Eat Seasonally
Emotional Yoga
Embodied Movement
Every Head is a World
Examine How You Use Language
Explore Transition Zones
Feel Your Feelings
Find Your True North
Figure out Who Lived Here Before You Arrived
Fly Fishing
Follow Your Heart
Form a Band
Forage
Forest Bathing
The Future of Medicine and Mental Health
Gardening
Get to Know your Local Flora and Fauna
Get to Know Your Neighbors
Glassblowing
Grounding
Hawa'iian Indigenous Natural Farming
Hacking Your Connection System
Healing Neglect
Hear Where You Are
Host a Dinner Party
Hold Tight to Littles
Hydrate
Implicit Bias & Owning Whiteness
Inhale
Interbeing
Indigenous Voices
Keywords
Kotodama
Knit
Laugh
Learn to Make Fire
Learn to Breathe
Learn to Set Clear Boundaries
Learn Feng Shui
Learn the Clarinet
Lift Weights
Light Therapy
Living Water
Look up
Make Eye Contact
Make Reparations
Making Faces
Mandalas
Meditation
Mentor Someone
Meditate in Nature
Moon Phases
Mysterious Fungi
Nature Faces
Nature Photography
Nourish the Roots
Observe Closely
Open the Window
Orienting
Orienting to the Four Directions
Overwork | Overwhelm
Owl Ears
Paint
Partner Drawing Exercise
Pets
Play an instrument
Play
Polyvagal Mapping
Proper Nutrition
Prune Your Trees
Put on a Play
Qi Gong
Quiet Your Mind
Restorative Justice
Release Fear
Responsibilities versus Rights
Refuge Views
Resilience in the Black Community
Reflective Listening
Relational Mindfulness
The Relationship between Immunity and Stress
Ride the Waves
Spotlight of Attention
Sculpt
Savor Delicious Aromas
Self-Compassion
Screen Fatigue
Read
Self, Others, & Nature
Setting Down Thinking
Secrets of Natural Movement
Sit spot
Sit in a Treehouse
Sleep Outside
Smile when you Exercise
Smile Inside
Sleep
Smile
Sound Healing
Soften the Gaze
Spoken Word
Stare Vacantly into the Distance
Study the Pattern Language of Nature
Storytelling
Stargazing
Stretch
Stand Outside During a Storm
Strengthen Empathy
Swim
Talk with Folks You Ordinarily Don't
Take a Nap
Take a Bath
Take the Unpaved Road
Throw a Pot
Tea
Tell Your Story
The Unangan Way
Tidy Up the Nest
Tracking and the Arts of Life
Tracking as Metativity
Tracking Physiology (Polvyagally)
Transforming Vicarious Trauma
The Thanksgiving Address
Triune Ethics Theory
Turn Toward the Pain
Uncertainty
Understand the Realness of Others
Use Your Voice
Use Your Hands
Turning Your Nervous System into Your Ally
Visit A Country Where You Don't Speak the Language
Visit a Farm
Vista Views
Water is Life
Ways of Knowing (Refining Intuition)
Ways of Knowing (Think with Your Feet)
Wash Their Hair
What is Technology?
Weave
Working with Betrayal and Other Emotions that You Don't Want to Feel
Woodworking
Watch the Sunrise
Yoga
May 7, 2021
Tracking and the Arts of Life
May 6, 2021
Dream Tracking
May 4, 2021
Orienting to the Four Directions
December 26, 2020
Water is Life
October 29, 2020
Build a Shelter
October 5, 2020
Secrets of Natural Movement
April 30, 2020
Tracking as Metativity
April 7, 2020
Sleep Outside
April 7, 2020
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