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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?
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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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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)
Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory
Interoception
Taking Charge of Your Own Wellness
Escaping the Prison of the Mind
The Greatest Distance in the World
Heartfulness
The Original Language (or How to Talk to Everything)
The Language of Transformation
Exiting the Language of Domination
Peace with the Earth
Healthy Relationships
How Whiteness Operates
An Unfinished Conversation about Race
3 Steps: Assess, Down-Shift, Connect
Coming out of ShutDown
Coming out of Fight
Allow Yourself to Grieve
Behavior Change
Gratitude Practices
Calming Anxiety
Accompaniment
Altars
Ancestral Connection
Ancestral Neurotechnologies of Wellbeing
Animal Rituals
A Brief Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory
An Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory
A Polyvagal Perspective on Resilience
The Architecture of Belonging
Art & Science of Connection
Art as a Vehicle for Self-Knowledge
As the whirlwind intensifies
Balance Rocks
Barefoot Shoes
Bake
Behavioral Addiction
Befriend a Tree
Beekeeping
Be Yourself
Befriend the Stone People
Becoming a Real Human Being
Bicycle
Bird Language
Birth
Bowling
Boxing
Build a Circle
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Build Friendships with People Who are Different Than You
Build Multi-Cultural Communities
Building Ropes
Campfires
Chaordic Imagery
Clean Your Heart
Collapse
Common Ways of Disconnecting
Coming out of Flight
Compost Winter
Cooling Anger
Core Neurobiological Self (Polyvagal Theory as Water)
Connection Mapping
Cook for Yourself
Count Your Chickens
Create a Restorative Ambiance
Cultural Fire
The Cure for Loneliness
Dance
The Daisy Model of Self-Regulation
Dawn
Develop the Land
Digesting Your Experience
Discover Tiny Moments of Unexpected Beauty
Dismantling Deathways
Dismantling the Construct of War
Dive
Don't Drink that Stuff
Do Something that Makes No Sense
Dream Tracking
Drop Fossil Fuel
Easing out of the Pandemic
Eat Seasonally
Embodied Movement
Emotional Yoga
Every Head is a World
Examine How You Use Language
Explore Transition Zones
Feel Your Feelings
Figure out Who Lived Here Before You Arrived
Finding Your Voice Artistically
Find Your True North
Fix Something
Fly Fishing
Follow Your Heart
Forage
Forest Bathing
Forest Tending
Form a Band
The Future of Medicine and Mental Health
Gardening
Gather Flowers
Get a Plant
Get to Know your Local Flora and Fauna
Get to Know Your Neighbors
Glassblowing
Glimmers
Grief Tending
Grounding
Group Meditation
Hacking Your Connection System
Hawa'iian Indigenous Natural Farming
Healing Neglect
Healing Separation
Hear Where You Are
Hold Tight to Littles
Host a Dinner Party
Hydrate
If You Were a Superhero
Implicit Bias & Owning Whiteness (Polyvagal Theory & Anti-Racist Practice)
Indigenous Voices
Inhale
Interbeing
Keywords
Kotodama
Knit
Laugh
Learn Feng Shui
Learn the Clarinet
Learn to Breathe
Learn to Make Fire
Learn to Set Clear Boundaries
Lift Weights
Light Therapy
Listening to the Story of State
Living Language: Verbing
Living Water
Look up
A Lunar Eclipse
Make a Puzzle
Make Eye Contact
Make Reparations
Making Faces
Mandalas
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Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ
Moon Phases
Mysterious Fungi
Nature Faces
Nature Photography
Nostos
Nourish the Roots
Observe Closely
On Healing Legacy
Open the Window
Open your Heart
Orienting
Orienting to the Four Directions
Overwork | Overwhelm
Owl Ears
Paint
Painting with Light
Partner Drawing Exercise
People Watching
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Plant a Tree
Play
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Proper Nutrition
Prune Your Trees
Put on a Play
Qi Gong
The Quick Checklist
Quiet Your Mind
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Reflective Listening
Refuge Views
Relational Mindfulness
The Relationship between Immunity and Stress
Release Fear
Resilience in the Black Community
Responsibilities versus Rights
Restorative Justice
Restoring the Sacred Feminine
Ride the Waves
Savor Delicious Aromas
Screen Fatigue
Sculpt
Secrets of Natural Movement
Self-Compassion
Setting Down Thinking
Sit in a Treehouse
Sit spot
Skateboarding
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Sleep Outside
Slow Down
Smile
Smile Inside
Smile when you Exercise
Soften the Gaze
Sound Healing
Speaking from the Heart
Spoken Word
Spotlight of Attention
Stand Outside During a Storm
Stare Vacantly into the Distance
Stargazing
Storytelling
Strengthen Empathy
Stretch
Study the Pattern Language of Nature
Sunrise Journal
Swim
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Take the Unpaved Road
Talk with Folks You Ordinarily Don't
Tea
Tell Your Story
The Thanksgiving Address
Throw a Pot
Tidy Up the Nest
Toward Indigenous Models of Forest Stewardship
Tracking and the Arts of Life
Tracking as Metativity
Tracking Basics: (Developing Intuition)
Tracking Physiology
Tracking the Movement of Attention
Tracking the Roots of Peace
Transforming Vicarious Trauma
Triune Ethics Theory
Turning Your Nervous System into Your Ally
Turn Toward the Pain
The Unangan Way
Uncertainty
Understand the Realness of Others
Use Your Hands
Use Your Voice
Visit A Country Where You Don't Speak the Language
Visit a Farm
Vista Views
Wash Their Hair
Watch the Sunrise
Water is Life
The Way of the Tracker
Ways of Knowing (Refining Intuition)
Ways of Knowing (Think with Your Feet)
Weave
Weaving Living Networks
What is Technology?
Woodworking
Working with Betrayal and Other Emotions that You Don't Want to Feel
The Yawanawa Light
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