Practices

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EDUCATIONAL FILM

The Evolved Nest

Dr. Darcia Narvaez introduces us to the crucial concept of the Evolved Nest.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Getting Our Nervous Systems Back to Normal

How do you get your nervous system settled again?

FRAMEWORK

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Healing Trauma

Key concepts to understand about healing trauma.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Turning on the Connection System

Natureza Gabriel explains the importance of connection for wellbeing.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Triune Ethics Theory

Dr. Darcia Narvaez explores how morality is constructed through experience rather than cognition. This moves us towards an Indigenous view of morality.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

The Science of Safety

A deep-dive into the Polyvagal Theory.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Deviations from the Nest: ACES

Dr. Vincent Felitti, Co-Principal Investigator of the ACES study, explains what it means for our wellbeing.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory

Deb Dana, LCSW, Founding Instructor of the Polyvagal Institute, helps us apply Polyvagal Theory to our wellbeing.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

From Head to Heart in Neurophysiology

Dr. Stephen Porges on the origins and implications of the Polyvagal Theory.

CONVERSATION

Escaping the Prison of the Mind

A conversation with Earl Simms about escaping the prison of our own thinking.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

The Greatest Distance in the World

Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff on traversing the distance from the head to the heart.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Heartfulness

A deep dive into mindful awareness, or mindfulness, which would be better termed 'heartfulness' in English.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

The Original Language (or How to Talk to Everything)

Exploring the role of language in experiencing relatedness.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

The Language of Transformation

A conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse about the language of intuition.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Exiting the Language of Domination

The Lakota language has no words for domination.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Peace with the Earth

Tiokasin Ghosthorse explores the difference between peace on earth, and peace with earth.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Deprogramming the Colonial Mind

How do we exit the thoughtforms of domination into which we have been socialized?

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Psychologies of Liberation

Dr. Mary Watkins on co-liberation and accompaniment.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Healthy Relationships

Dr. David Mars explores the nature of what makes relationships healthy.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

How Whiteness Operates

Natureza Gabriel on the invisibilized inner workings of whiteness.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

An Unfinished Conversation about Race

Lee Mun Wah facilitates a deep inquiry into racism and what is required to dismantle it.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

In Someone Else's Shoes

What would it feel like to live as a person of a different race?

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Relational Mindfulness

Master Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah on applying mindfulness in relationships.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Building Peace

Pete Jackson explores the martial discipline of building peace within and around us by dismantling the constructs of war.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Activism from the Heart of Nature

What is the activism of the heart? Skeena Rathor, Co-Founder of Extinction Rebellion, on activism coming from the deepest love.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

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3 Steps: Assess, Down-Shift, Connect

An approach to figuring out how to work with your own distress.

FRAMEWORK

The Analogy of Self as Water

Understanding Polyvagal Theory through the lens of water.

FRAMEWORK

Archetypal Motor Gestures

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

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Behavior Change

It's so hard to change behavior. How can we start?

FRAMEWORK

Calming Anxiety

How can we understand anxiety differently so that we can calm it more effectively?

FRAMEWORK

Change the Inputs

Your nervous system is an input/output system. So if you want to change how you feel, change the inputs.

FRAMEWORK

Coming out of Appease

Foundations of working with appeasing (fawning).

FRAMEWORK

Coming out of Fight

Foundations of working with fight (sympathetic) states.

FRAMEWORK

Coming out of Flight

Foundations of working with flight (sympathetic) states.

FRAMEWORK

Coming out of ShutDown

Foundations of working with dorsal vagal states.

FRAMEWORK

Connection Mapping

Mapping your connections to support wellbeing.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Deviation from the Ancestral Baseline

Dr. Darcia Narvaez explains the origin of our deviations from ancestral baselines (cultural, individually, and with respect to worldview).

FRAMEWORK

F*ck No

Empowering the emphatic 'No'.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Elite Performance

How appropriate challenge drives elite performance.

FRAMEWORK

An Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory

We use imagery of the Polyvagal Theory to enter into its meaning and significance for our wellbeing.

FRAMEWORK

Healing from Shock Trauma

Exploring the spiral healing trajectories of resolving shock traumas.

FRAMEWORK

Interoception and Neuroception

An exploration of the concepts of neuroception and interoception as they relate to healing.

FRAMEWORK

Overwork | Overwhelm

Systematically taking stock of work-related overwhelm.

FRAMEWORK

Not Consuming Other People's Waste Energy

On not consuming the waste energy someone else hands you.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Taking Charge of Your Own Wellness

A conversation with Dr. Tabatha Parker about taking charge of our own wellness.

FRAMEWORK

Tell Your Story

Because if you don't, someone else will– and you may not recognize it as your own.

SELF PRACTICE

To Heal or to Grow

The yin yang of healing and growing, growing and healing.

FRAMEWORK

Tracking as Metativity

Understanding tracking at metaphor, activity, and meditation.

FRAMEWORK

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Accompaniment

Practicing non-heirarchical reciprocal attunement (i.e., friendship).

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Allow Yourself to Grieve

An exploration of working more skillfully with grief.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Altars

Platforms for connecting with the High.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Ancestral Connection

On rootedness in our lineage.

SELF PRACTICE

Ancestral Neurotechnologies of Wellbeing

A conversation about connection phenomenology.

CONVERSATION

Animal Rituals

Lest you think humans are the only creatures that engage in courtship rituals...

NATURE PRACTICE

Apprentice to Grief

What does it mean to turn towards grief as teacher?

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

A Brief Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory

Our shortest visual introduction to the work of Dr. Stephen Porges.

SELF PRACTICE

A Polyvagal Perspective on Resilience

Dr. Stephen Porges shares a polyvagal perspective on resilience.

CONVERSATION

Archetypal Motor Gestures of Stoke

Fist pump as neural exercise.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Art & Science of Connection

A deep-dive into connection phenomenology.

CONVERSATION

Art as a Vehicle for Self-Knowledge

How can we use art to find out more about who we really are?

CREATIVE PRACTICE

The Art of Witnessing another Human

How are we to bear witness to one another's humanity & what happens when we do?

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

As the whirlwind intensifies

Staying centered in times of increasing intensity.

SELF PRACTICE

Avoid these Common Ways of Disconnecting

Twelve common ways people fall out of connection.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Barefoot Shoes

How barefoot shoes can contribute to your sense of wellbeing.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Bake

Baking as restorative practice.

SELF PRACTICE

Behavioral Addiction

On social media and attention.

SELF PRACTICE

Befriend a Tree

Building ropes of connection with a particular tree & why you'd want to.

NATURE PRACTICE

Beekeeping

On befriending the most noble of insects.

NATURE PRACTICE

Be Yourself

Everyone else is taken anyway.

SELF PRACTICE

Befriend the Stone People

The wisdom of the mineral kingdom.

NATURE PRACTICE

Becoming a Real Human Being

Indigenous wisdom on becoming truly human.

CONVERSATION

Beings of the Ancient Future Now

Rediscovering original social circles and our Indigenous selves.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Bicycle

The simple virtues of self-propelled two wheel transport.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Bird Language

Because you are the only animal in the forest who doesn't understand it.

NATURE PRACTICE

Birth

The meeting between fear and love.

SELF PRACTICE

Bowling

Bowling as relationship practice.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Boxing

A practice to restore the energy of self-defense and clarify boundaries.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Build a Circle

Explorations in the technology of the circle.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Build a Shelter

The archetypal practice of building your own shelter.

NATURE PRACTICE

Build Friendships

On the challenges and opportunities of building friendships with people who are different than you.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Build Multi-Cultural Communities

What it takes to build multi-cultural community.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Building Ropes

Exploring the San concept of building ropes of relatedness.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Campfires

Contender for the original restorative practice of all time.

NATURE PRACTICE

Celebrate Success

On the importance of feeling victorious.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Chaordic Imagery

Imagery on the boundary between order and chaos.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Chop Wood

Chop wood, carry water and all of that...

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Clean Your Heart

How do we clean our hearts when we have been exiled from them because of unethical behavior?

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Collapse

Coming to terms with the climate crisis.

SELF PRACTICE

Cold Therapy

Healing benefits of immersion in very cold water.

NATURE PRACTICE

Coming out of a High Intensity Push

So you pulled an all-nighter, and now you can't sleep.

SELF PRACTICE

Compost Winter

Year-ending practices of inner composting and reflection in winter.

NATURE PRACTICE

Cooling Anger

A checklist of practices for downshifting the fight response.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Create a Restorative Ambiance

How do you create a space that is restorative?

SELF PRACTICE

Cultural Fire

Reframing narratives around wildfire.

NATURE PRACTICE

The Cure for Loneliness

How do we learn to bring our authentic self into relationship with others?

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Dance

We should dance.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

The Daisy Model of Self-Regulation

A simple model for understanding how your nervous system works.

FRAMEWORK

Dawn

Harmonizing with energies of sunrise.

NATURE PRACTICE

Descent

On dropping down into grief.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Develop the Land

What does it really mean to 'develop' land?

NATURE PRACTICE

Digesting Your Experience

Because sometimes indigestion is not because of food.

FRAMEWORK

Discover Tiny Moments of Unexpected Beauty

Finding the sublime hiding in the ordinary.

SELF PRACTICE

Dismantling Deathways

Tiokasin Ghosthorse on the language required to recover the impulse of Life.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Dismantling the Construct of War

Pete Jackson explores Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and how the construct of war has been applied to society to divide us.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Dive

Ocean immersion as restorative practice.

NATURE PRACTICE

Don't Drink that Stuff

Refined sugar is the addiction hiding in plain sight.

SELF PRACTICE

Do Something That Makes No Sense

On dismantling the hegemony of cognition.

SELF PRACTICE

Dream Tracking

John Stokes on applying the art and science of tracking to your dreams.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Drop Fossil Fuel

How would it feel to just stop burning carbon?

NATURE PRACTICE

Eat Seasonally

The ancient wisdom of eating in tune with the harvest.

SELF PRACTICE

Embodied Movement

Exploring the wheel of awareness through body movement.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Emotional Yoga

A practice for contacting, clarifying, and metabolizing emotional energy.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Every Head is a World

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Examine How You Use Language

Practice putting language in service to your evolution.

SELF PRACTICE

Explore Transition Zones

The zones of interface between different ecologies are often the most vibrant.

NATURE PRACTICE

Fanning the Fires of Community

Sobonfu Somé on the heart of the village.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Feeding Your Confidence

Exercises to nourish the root of your confidence.

SELF PRACTICE

Feel Your Feelings

Many of us don't know how to fully experience our own emotions.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Figure out Who Lived Here Before You Arrived

Ethics for settler colonists.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Find Your True North

Strengthening your inner compass.

SELF PRACTICE

Finding Your Voice Artistically

Pete Jackson on finding your artistic voice.

SELF PRACTICE

Fire as Teacher

Learning from fire as an elemental teacher.

NATURE PRACTICE

Fix Something

The particular benefits of fixing things with your hands.

SELF PRACTICE

Fly Fishing

Ye antique arte of flye fishyng.

NATURE PRACTICE

Follow Your Heart

The heart should be telling the mind what to do.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Forage

On finding food and medicine around you.

NATURE PRACTICE

Forest Bathing

Shinrin-Yoku: sensual immersion in the forest for wellbeing.

NATURE PRACTICE

Forest Tending

On stewarding wild places.

NATURE PRACTICE

Form a Band

On learning to harmonize with others.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Four Sacred Colors, Four Sacred Gifts

Ilarion Merculieff explains the four sacred directions and the four sacred cultures.

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS

Gardening

Get your hands in the earth.

NATURE PRACTICE

Gather Flowers

A simple way to connect with joy.

NATURE PRACTICE

Get a Plant

One of the simplest possible ways to harmonize with Nature.

NATURE PRACTICE

Get to Know your Local Flora and Fauna

Becoming familiar with the non-human inhabitants of place.

NATURE PRACTICE

Get to Know Your Neighbors

Building community where you live.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Getting Out of the Box

Nobel-nominated Peace & Earth Activist Tiokasin Ghosthorse, of the Cheyenne River Lakota, on dissolving the mental box of the English language.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Glassblowing

An elemental creative practice.

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Glimmers

Deb Dana, LCSW, Founding faculty of the Polyvagal Institute, teaches a brief practice on finding micro-moments of connection.

SELF PRACTICE

GMOs and Your Health

Alika Atay explains why the traditional Hawaiian people reject GMOs (genetically-modified organisms).

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS

Gratitude Practices

Master Tracker and Peace-builder John Stokes, Founder and Director of the Tracking Project, on the importance of gratitude and its relationship with wellbeing.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Grief Tending

On rituals for attending to our individual and collective grief.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Grounding

The primal importance of feeling the ground.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Group Meditation

A meditation practice for groups.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Hacking Your Connection System

Quick tricks for turning on the connection system.

SELF PRACTICE

Hawa'iian Indigenous Natural Farming

Indigenous Hawaiian perspective on the land and spirituality.

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS

Healing Neglect

Restorative practices for healing neglect.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Healing Separation

On healing original exile.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Hear Where You Are

Bio-acoustician Michael Stocker on the sense of hearing throughout the animal kingdom.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Hold Tight to Littles

Indigenous childrearing practices to optimize neurodevelopment.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Host a Dinner Party

On the art of the dinner party.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Hydrate

Water, thirst, and wellbeing.

SELF PRACTICE

Implicit Bias & Owning Whiteness

On applying Polyvagal Theory to anti-racist practice.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

The Importance of Disgust

Inquiry into the most primal of emotions.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Indigenous Voices

A short film from the Wisdom Weavers of the world.

NARRATIVE FILM

Inhale

The deep sensual pleasures of scent.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Interbeing

Towards relationality in concepts of wellbeing.

FRAMEWORK

Interocept

Bringing attention to sensation in the body.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Kayak

Sitting in water.

NATURE PRACTICE

Keywords

On the holes in the fabric of the English language.

SELF PRACTICE

Kotodama

Reflections on the spiritual interior of the word.

SELF PRACTICE

Knit

On the pleasures of knitting.

SELF PRACTICE

Laugh

When was the last time you laughed so hard you couldn't stop?

SELF PRACTICE

Learn Feng Shui

On the ancient art of Chinese Geomancy.

NATURE PRACTICE

Learn the Clarinet

On woodwinds and vagal tone.

SELF PRACTICE

Learn to Breathe

On the healing role of breath.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Learn to Make Fire

A keystone survival skill.

NATURE PRACTICE

Learn to Set Clear Boundaries

Exploring the power of setting clear boundaries.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Lift Weights

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

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Light Therapy

For Seasonal Affective Disorder.

SELF PRACTICE

Listening to the Story of State

Deb Dana, LCSW on listening to the autonomic state beneath our cognitive stories.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Living Water

Just what is water and how does it relate to our wellbeing?

NATURE PRACTICE

Look up

The wisdom of turning our gaze upward.

SENSORY PRACTICE

A Lunar Eclipse

Experiencing a mystery of Nature.

NATURE PRACTICE

Make a Puzzle

Putting things back together.

SELF PRACTICE

Make Eye Contact

Eye contact as restorative practice.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Make Reparations

Redressing historical harms.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Making Faces

How making faces turns on our connection systems.

SELF PRACTICE

Mandalas

A creative and contemplative practice.

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Meditate in Nature

A mindfulness practice set in nature.

NATURE PRACTICE

Meditation

A trauma-sensitive meditation practice.

SELF PRACTICE

Mentor Someone

Connection modeling to help someone else grow.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ

Tiokasin Ghoshorse on deeper meanings of the Lakota phrase Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ.

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS

Moon Phases

Studying the changing faces of Grandmother Moon.

NATURE PRACTICE

Mourning the Wild Destroyed

Mourning for places we love that have been harmed.

NATURE PRACTICE

Mysterious Fungi

The wonders of the fungal kingdom.

NATURE PRACTICE

Mystery Symptoms and Time Delays

Explores not being able to understand the relationship between changes in symptoms, and what caused them.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Natural Vitality

Igniting the spark of your natural vitality.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Nature Faces

Making faces out of natural materials.

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Nature Photography

Refining your nature gaze through photography.

NATURE PRACTICE

Nourish the Roots

Indigenous farming techniques for fortifying plant growth.

NATURE PRACTICE

Observe Closely

The importance of honing inner and outer observational skills.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

On Healing Legacy

How do we heal from legacies of oppression?

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Open the Window

On allowing fresh air to circulate.

NATURE PRACTICE

Open your Heart

A Kundalini yoga practice for deepening feeling and opening the heart.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Orienting

Creating safety through sensory attunement.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Owl Ears

Calibrating your hearing in three dimensions.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Paint

Painting for creative self-expression and wellbeing.

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Painting with Light

Watching the sun paint the sky.

NATURE PRACTICE

Partner Dancing

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

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Partner Drawing Exercise

A drawing exercise for two.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

People Watching

Watching the world go by.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Pets

On the joy of non-human companionship.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Plant a Tree

A simple thing you can do to deepen nature connection.

NATURE PRACTICE

Play an instrument

On learning to play an instrument.

HAND-BASED PRACTICE

Proper Nutrition

Inquiries into the importance of self-nourishment.

SELF PRACTICE

Progress is another word for domination

Progress is the transformation of Mother Earth into merchandise. And human beings and nature, as a whole, into labor and resources for the accumulation of wealth for the benefit of the few.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Prune Your Trees

Master Gardener Arthur Baker on the art and science of pruning.

NATURE PRACTICE

Put on a Play

Theatre for building community.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

The Quick Checklist

If you don't feel good and you don't know why, try this quick list.

SELF PRACTICE

Quiet Your Mind

Learning to settle the mind by tracking the body.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Read

On the pleasures of curling up with a good book.

SELF PRACTICE

Reflective Listening

Listening to understand what is important to the speaker.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Refuge Views

Connecting visually to the experience of nesting and safety.

SENSORY PRACTICE

The Relationship between Immunity and Stress

How connection strengthens immunity.

SELF PRACTICE

Release Fear

Practices for downshifting fear in the body.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Resilience in the Black Community

Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, and Gloria Yamato on resilience.

CONVERSATION

Responsibilities versus Rights

Chief (and Professor) Oren Lyons on why it should have been a Bill of Responsibilities.

FRAMEWORK

Rest into Gravity

How is it that we've forgotten how to rest?

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Restorative Justice

On repairing relationships in the wake of harm.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Restoring the Sacred Feminine

Ilarion Merculieff on the importance of restoring the sacred feminine.

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS

Ride the Waves

On surfing as metativity.

NATURE PRACTICE

The Root Disease of Modernity

Collective acculturation into the dissociation at the heart of modernity.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Savor Delicious Aromas

Consciously inhaling the wonderful.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Dealing with Screen Fatigue

Dealing with staring at computers.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Sculpt

Making in three dimensions.

SELF PRACTICE

Secrets of Natural Movement

An extraordinary workout led by John Stokes.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Self-Compassion

Treating yourself the way a true friend would treat you.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Setting Down Thinking

On dropping down out of cognition.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

The Seven Infinitive Forms of Domination

Back to the latin to understand how we got into this domination paradigm.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Sit in a Treehouse

On trees and views and houses.

NATURE PRACTICE

Sit spot

A practice for mindfully connecting with the Living World.

NATURE PRACTICE

Sleep

How to get better sleep.

Sleep Outside

The benefits of sleeping outside by choice.

NATURE PRACTICE

Slow Down

The importance of slowing down.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Smile

The neurophysiology of the smile and its importance as an access point to the Connection system.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Smile Inside

Learn to smile from the inside out.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

Smile when you Exercise

Turning on the connection system while you work out.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Soften the Gaze

Working with the eyes to support relaxation.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Sound Healing

A fully body sound healing journey.

SELF PRACTICE

Speaking from the Heart

On learning to speak from your heart– not your head.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Spoken Word

Jahan Khalighi demonstrates the power of the spoken word.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Spotlight of Attention

Exploring how our attention works.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Stand Outside During a Storm

A vitality practice.

NATURE PRACTICE

Stare Vacantly into the Distance

Boketto: The Japanese art of staring vacantly into the distance.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Stargazing

Night sky musing to put things into proper perspective.

NATURE PRACTICE

Storytelling

On the art of storytelling.

SELF PRACTICE

Strengthen Empathy

Feeling with the perspectives of others.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Stretch

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

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Study the Pattern Language of Nature

How studying nature makes us smarter.

NATURE PRACTICE

Sunrise Journal

The art of tracking sunrises.

NATURE PRACTICE

Swim

Restoration through water.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Take a Nap

The lost art of the siesta.

SELF PRACTICE

Take the Unpaved Road

Because it is about the journey, not the destination.

NATURE PRACTICE

Talk with Folks You Ordinarily Don't

On stretching our empathy.

The Tao of Apocalypse

How embracing the destruction wing of creation can bring us life.

SELF PRACTICE

Tea

Because no one ever just grabs a tea.

SENSORY PRACTICE

The Thanksgiving Address

Haudenosaunee Greetings to the Natural World

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS

There Should be Wetlands Here

On the casual and normalized desecration of land in the name of progress.

NATURE PRACTICE

Throw a Pot

The mudslick joy of the potter's wheel.

SELF PRACTICE

Tidy Up the Nest

Cleaning as restorative practice.

SELF PRACTICE

Toward Indigenous Models of Forest Stewardship

Beto Borges and Tashka Yawanawá on Indigenous models of stewarding forests.

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS

Tracking and the Arts of Life

An introduction to the art and science of hard-ground tracking with John Stokes.

NATURE PRACTICE

Tracking Basics: (Developing Intuition)

A simple outdoor practice for augmenting our intuitive abilities.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Tracking Physiology

The intersection of Polyvagal Theory and hard-ground tracking.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Tracking the Movement of Attention

Moving attention through the eight channels.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Tracking the Roots of Peace

The practice of peace-making.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Transforming Vicarious Trauma

A framework for addressing secondary traumatic stress for caregivers.

FRAMEWORK

Turning Your Nervous System into Your Ally

Dr. Jeff Rockwell on how to turn your nervous system into your friend.

EDUCATIONAL FILM

Turn Toward the Pain

Accessing the intelligence in pain.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

The Unangan Way

Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff on his Unangan people's lifeways.

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS

Uncertainty

Reflections on addressing uncertainty.

FRAMEWORK

Understand the Realness of Others

The reason oppression exists is because we don't think others are as real as we are.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Use Your Hands

On the importance of hand-work and the hand-made in wellbeing.

HAND-BASED PRACTICE

Use Your Voice

Singing is one way to give yourself a massage on the inside.

SELF PRACTICE

Visceral Karaoke

Feeling the sound of yourself.

SELF PRACTICE

Visit A Country Where You Don't Speak the Language

Explorations in stepping outside your cultural context.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Visit a Farm

It's a good idea to visit a farm a meet the animals.

NATURE PRACTICE

Vista Views

Looking out from high up is one of the two primal view situations of deepest relevance to our biology.

SENSORY PRACTICE

Wash Their Hair

In Brasilian Portuguese, the word cafuné describes the sensuality of running your hands through someone's hair.

Watch the Sunrise

Many traditional cultures begin their day thus.

NATURE PRACTICE

Water is Life

On sourcing water in the Living World.

NATURE PRACTICE

The Way of the Tracker

A very deep dive with John Stokes, Founder of the Tracking Project.

CONVERSATION

Ways of Knowing Intuitively

On refining intuition.

AWARENESS PRACTICESELF PRACTICE

Ways of Knowing with Your Feet

On non-cognitive ways of knowing: thinking with and through your feet.

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Weave

On the metaphor, activity, and meditation of weaving.

HAND-BASED PRACTICE

Weaving Living Networks

Practical and tactical relational technologies for weaving living networks.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

What do we mean by the word 'Technology'?

An exploration of what we mean by the word 'technology'. Why don't we talk about ancestral technologies? Relational technologies? Cultural technologies?

FRAMEWORK

World's simplest meditation

Just what it says...

AWARENESS PRACTICE

Woodworking

Exploring handwork with wood.

HAND-BASED PRACTICE

Working with Betrayal

On working with betrayal and other emotions you don't want to feel.

EMOTIONAL PRACTICE

The Yawanawa Light

Chief Tashka Yawanawá on the Indigenous Yawanawá people of Acre, Brasil.

EDUCATIONAL FILM