Practices - Autonomics & Craft of Being

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Autonomic Compass

Welcome to the Autonomic Compass.

SELF PRACTICE

Archetypal Motor Gestures

Explorations of the intrinsic languages of gesture, and how to harness them to support transformation and wellbeing.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about 15 minutes

Tracking

Understanding tracking as metaphor, activity, and meditation.

FRAMEWORK

≈ about 30 minutes

Archetypal Motor Gestures of Stoke

Fist pump as neural exercise.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about 15 minutes

Balance Rocks

The art of stone piling.

NATURE PRACTICE

Bicycle

The simple virtues of self-propelled two wheel transport.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Celebrate Success

On the importance of feeling victorious.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about 15 minutes

Dance

We should dance.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about 30 minutes

Embodied Movement

Exploring the wheel of awareness through body movement.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about 30 minutes

Feeding Your Confidence

Exercises to nourish the root of your confidence.

SELF PRACTICE

≈ about 15 minutes

Kayak

Sitting in water.

NATURE PRACTICE

≈ about a day

Lift Weights

Sometimes you need to push something heavy around–so it doesn't stay inside you.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Making Faces

How making faces turns on our connection systems.

SELF PRACTICE

≈ about 30 minutes

Mountaineering

Go climb a mountain.

NATURE PRACTICE

Night Hiking

Moving through the Living World after dark.

NATURE PRACTICE

Night Swimming

Water and starlight.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Partner Dancing

To lead or to follow, to follow or to lead?

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about a season

Play

Practicing play.

SELF PRACTICE

Qi Gong

Life energy cultivation.

Racquet Sports

Tennis, squash, padel, pickleball, ping-pong, etc.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Ride the Waves

On surfing as metativity.

NATURE PRACTICE

Secrets of Natural Movement

An extraordinary workout led by John Stokes.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about 60 minutes

Skateboarding

On landsurfing.

SELF PRACTICE

Smile when you Exercise

Turning on the connection system while you work out.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Soccer

To play soccer is to learn a language of the feet.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Stretch

Since the body is the mind, a relaxed body yields a relaxed mind.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Swim

Restoration through water.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

DIGITAL BOOK: GROUND

Free

The Autonomics Trilogy Interviews

DIGITAL BOOK: Restorative Practices of Wellbeing

DIGITAL BOOK: Initial Conditions

DIGITAL BOOK: The Role of Autonomics in the Origin and Healing of Chronic Illness

DIGITAL BOOK: Awakening Human Connection

Autumn 2025 Foundation Model Seminar

Practitioner Monthly Training

Interoceptive & Autonomic Tracking Cohort - Autumn 2025

Autonomics Innovation Lab

INTERVIEWS: Interviews with Gabriel

Free

Interoceptive Tracking

Free

WORKSHOP RECORDING: The Neurobiology of Connection (2025)

2-year Clinical Cohort beginning January 2025

Spring 2025 Foundation Model Seminar

DIGITAL BOOK: Finding Home in Your Nervous System

DIGITAL BOOK: Keywords

DIGITAL BOOK: Hearth Science

DIGITAL BOOK: The Neurobiology of Connection (2nd edition)

LECTURES: on the new FOUNDATION MODEL in General Autonomics (Autumn 2024)

KEYNOTE: Foundation Model of Autonomics

The Original Context - A Film by Nic Askew

The Autonomic Spectrum Seminar - Spring 2024

KEYNOTE: The Lost Keynote: Toward Ancestral Futures in Medicine and Mental Health (2022)

LECTURES: The Autonomic Spectrum Lectures - Autumn 2023

SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSE: Beyond Polyvagal Theory (2023)

MINI-COURSE: How Your Nervous System Works

MINI-COURSE: A Short Course for Healing Anxiety

The Deep Learning Platform in Simple Steps

Curation Training- Online Components

Bringing the Polyvagal Perspective to Your Clinical Practice

INDIGENOUS ELDERS SERIES: Deprogramming the Colonial Mind: Re-Languaging Regeneration (2022)

Technical Onboarding

SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSE: Indigenous Worldviews of Relatedness

FILM SERIES: The Complete Restorative Practices Film Series (2018-2021)

INDIGENOUS ELDERS SERIES: Becoming a Real Human Being with Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff (2020)

INTERVIEW SERIES: The Connection Masterclass (2021-2022)

Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory Masterclass (2020)

Applied Mindfulness Foundations

Polyvagally-Informed Self-Care for Wellness Providers

Polyvagal Mindfulness

In this course, specifically created for health professionals and interested lay people, you will learn the foundations of the Polyvagal Theory, and a variety of Restorative Practices that you can engage personally, and/or utilize with patients/clients to support their well-being.

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