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Getting Our Nervous Systems Back to Normal
How do you get your nervous system settled again?
FRAMEWORK
≈ 7 Minutes
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The Evolved Nest
Dr. Darcia Narvaez introduces us to the crucial concept of the Evolved Nest.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 30 minutes
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
≈ 30 minutes
Turning on the Connection System
Natureza Gabriel explains the importance of connection for wellbeing.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 45 minutes
Deviations from the Nest: ACES
Dr. Vincent Felitti, Co-Principal Investigator of the ACES study, explains what it means for our wellbeing.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 60 minutes
Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory
Deb Dana, LCSW helps us apply Polyvagal Theory to our wellbeing.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
60+ minutes
From Head to Heart in Neurophysiology
Dr. Stephen Porges on the origins and implications of the Polyvagal Theory.
CONVERSATION
60+ minutes
Escaping the Prison of the Mind
A conversation with Earl Simms about escaping the prison of our own thinking.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 30 minutes
The Greatest Distance in the World
Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff on traversing the distance from the head to the heart.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
60+ minutes
Heartfulness
A deep dive into mindful awareness, or mindfulness, which would be better termed 'heartfulness' in English.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
60+ minutes
The Original Language (or How to Talk to Everything)
Exploring the role of language in experiencing relatedness.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 60 minutes
The Language of Transformation
A conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse about the language of intuition.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 60 minutes
Exiting the Language of Domination
The Lakota language has no words for domination.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
60+ minutes
Peace with the Earth
Tiokasin Ghosthorse explores the difference between peace on earth, and peace with earth.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 60 minutes
Psychologies of Liberation
Dr. Mary Watkins on co-liberation and accompaniment.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
60+ minutes
Deprogramming the Colonial Mind
How do we exit the thoughtforms of domination into which we have been socialized?
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 60 minutes
Healthy Relationships
Dr. David Mars explores the nature of what makes relationships healthy.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 60 minutes
How Whiteness Operates
Natureza Gabriel on the invisibilized inner workings of whiteness.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 30 minutes
An Unfinished Conversation about Race
Lee Mun Wah facilitates a deep inquiry into racism and what is required to dismantle it.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
60+ minutes
In Someone Else's Shoes
What would it feel like to live as a person of a different race?
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 30 minutes
Relational Mindfulness
Master Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah on applying mindfulness in relationships.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
60+ minutes
Building Peace
Pete Jackson explores the martial discipline of building peace within and around us by dismantling the constructs of war.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 60 minutes
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The Analogy of Self as Water
Understanding Polyvagal Theory through the lens of water.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 20 minutes
3 Steps: Assess, Down-Shift, Connect
An approach to figuring out how to work with your own distress.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 20 minutes
Calming Anxiety
How can we understand anxiety differently so that we can calm it more effectively?
FRAMEWORK
≈ 10 minutes
Change the Inputs
Your nervous system is an input/output system. So if you want to change how you feel, change the inputs.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 30 minutes
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
≈ 30 minutes
An Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory
We use imagery of the Polyvagal Theory to enter into its meaning and significance for our wellbeing.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 60 minutes
Interoception and Neuroception
An exploration of the concepts of neuroception and interoception as they relate to healing.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 45 minutes
Not Consuming Other People's Waste Energy
On not consuming the waste energy someone else hands you.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 30 minutes
The Shape of our Yearning for Relatedness
On the importance of learning to understand the shape of our yearning for relatedness.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 10 minutes
Taking Charge of Your Own Wellness
A conversation with Dr. Tabatha Parker about taking charge of our own wellness.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 45 minutes
Tell Your Story
Because if you don't, someone else will– and you may not recognize it as your own.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 20 minutes
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Accompaniment
Practicing non-heirarchical reciprocal attunement (i.e., friendship).
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
Allow Yourself to Grieve
An exploration of working more skillfully with grief.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
Ancestral Neurotechnologies of Wellbeing
A conversation about connection phenomenology.
CONVERSATION
60+ minutes
Animal Rituals
Lest you think humans are the only creatures that engage in courtship rituals...
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
Apprentice to Grief
What does it mean to turn towards grief as teacher?
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ 10 minutesA Brief Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory
Our shortest visual introduction to the work of Dr. Stephen Porges.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
A Polyvagal Perspective on Resilience
Dr. Stephen Porges shares a polyvagal perspective on resilience.
CONVERSATION
≈ 45 minutes
Art as a Vehicle for Self-Knowledge
How can we use art to find out more about who we really are?
CREATIVE PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
The Art of Witnessing another Human
How are we to bear witness to one another's humanity & what happens when we do?
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
As the whirlwind intensifies
Staying centered in times of increasing intensity.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
Barefoot Shoes
How barefoot shoes can contribute to your sense of wellbeing.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Befriend a Tree
Building ropes of connection with a particular tree & why you'd want to.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
Beings of the Ancient Future Now
Rediscovering original social circles and our Indigenous selves.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 60 minutes
Bird Language
Because you are the only animal in the forest who doesn't understand it.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
Boxing
A practice to restore the energy of self-defense and clarify boundaries.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
Build Friendships
On the challenges and opportunities of building friendships with people who are different than you.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 45 minutes
Build Multi-Cultural Communities
What it takes to build multi-cultural community.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 10 minutes
Building Ropes
Exploring the San concept of building ropes of relatedness.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
Clean Your Heart
How do we clean our hearts when we have been exiled from them because of unethical behavior?
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ 30 minutes
Coming out of a High Intensity Push
So you pulled an all-nighter, and now you can't sleep.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Common Ways of Disconnecting
Twelve common ways people fall out of connection.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 15 minutes
Compost Winter
Year-ending practices of inner composting and reflection in winter.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
The Cure for Loneliness
How do we learn to bring our authentic self into relationship with others?
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
The Daisy Model of Self-Regulation
A simple model for understanding how your nervous system works.
FRAMEWORK
≈ 30 minutes
Discover Tiny Moments of Unexpected Beauty
Finding the sublime hiding in the ordinary.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 2 Minutes
Dismantling Deathways
Tiokasin Ghosthorse on the language required to recover the impulse of Life.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
60+ minutes
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
≈ 45 minutes
Dream Tracking
John Stokes on applying the art and science of tracking to your dreams.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 30 minutes
Easing out of the Pandemic
Helping your nervous system feel safe around others after two years of isolation.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
Embodied Movement
Exploring the wheel of awareness through body movement.
MOVEMENT PRACTICE
≈ 30 minutes
Emotional Yoga
A practice for contacting, clarifying, and metabolizing emotional energy.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ 30 minutes
Examine How You Use Language
Practice putting language in service to your evolution.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Explore Transition Zones
The zones of interface between different ecologies are often the most vibrant.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Fanning the Fires of Community
Sobonfu Somé on the heart of the village.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 10 minutes
Feel Your Feelings
Many of us don't know how to fully experience our own emotions.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
Four Sacred Colors, Four Sacred Gifts
Ilarion Merculieff explains the four sacred directions and the four sacred cultures.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ 5 Minutes
Get to Know your Local Flora and Fauna
Becoming familiar with the non-human inhabitants of place.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 10 minutes
Getting Out of the Box
Tiokasin Ghosthorse on dissolving the mental box of the English language.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 15 minutes
Gratitude Practices
John Stokes on the importance of gratitude and its potential for healing.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
Grief Tending
On rituals for attending to our individual and collective grief.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ 15 minutes
Hacking Your Connection System
Quick tricks for turning on the connection system.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Hawa'iian Indigenous Natural Farming
Indigenous Hawaiian perspective on the land and spirituality.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ 60 minutes
Hear Where You Are
Bio-acoustician Michael Stocker on the sense of hearing throughout the animal kingdom.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ 30 minutes
Hold Tight to Littles
Indigenous childrearing practices to optimize neurodevelopment.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Implicit Bias & Owning Whiteness
On applying Polyvagal Theory to anti-racist practice.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
Learn to Set Clear Boundaries
Exploring the power of setting clear boundaries.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 30 minutes
Lift Weights
Sometimes you need to push something heavy around–so it doesn't stay inside you.
MOVEMENT PRACTICE
Listening to the Story of State
Deb Dana, LCSW on listening to the autonomic state beneath our cognitive stories.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ
Tiokasin Ghoshorse on deeper meanings of the Lakota phrase Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ 2 Minutes
Mourning the Wild Destroyed
Mourning for places we love that have been harmed.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 15 minutes
Mystery Symptoms and Time Delays
Explores not being able to understand the relationship between changes in symptoms, and what caused them.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Nourish the Roots
Indigenous farming techniques for fortifying plant growth.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 45 minutes
Open your Heart
A Kundalini yoga practice for deepening feeling and opening the heart.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ 10 minutes
Orienting to the Four Directions
Becoming directionally oriented to the four cardinal directions.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
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
≈ 60 minutes
Prune Your Trees
Master Gardener Arthur Baker on the art and science of pruning.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 45 minutes
The Quick Checklist
If you don't feel good and you don't know why, try this quick list.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 2 Minutes
Reflective Listening
Listening to understand what is important to the speaker.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
The Relationship between Immunity and Stress
How connection strengthens immunity.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
Resilience in the Black Community
Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, and Gloria Yamato on resilience.
CONVERSATION
60+ minutes
Responsibilities versus Rights
Chief (and Professor) Oren Lyons on why it should have been a Bill of Responsibilities.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ 5 Minutes
Restoring the Sacred Feminine
Ilarion Merculieff on the importance of restoring the sacred feminine.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ 20 minutes
The Root Disease of Modernity
Collective acculturation into the dissociation at the heart of modernity.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 10 minutes
Secrets of Natural Movement
An extraordinary workout led by John Stokes.
MOVEMENT PRACTICE
≈ 45 minutes
Self-Compassion
Treating yourself the way a true friend would treat you.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
The Seven Infinitive Forms of Domination
Back to the latin to understand how we got into this domination paradigm.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 60 minutes
Smile
The neurophysiology of the smile and its importance as an access point to the Connection system.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Smile when you Exercise
Turning on the connection system while you work out.
MOVEMENT PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
Speaking from the Heart
On learning to speak from your heart– not your head.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 15 minutes
Spoken Word
Jahan Khalighi demonstrates the power of the spoken word.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Stare Vacantly into the Distance
Boketto: The Japanese art of staring vacantly into the distance.
SENSORY PRACTICE
Take the Unpaved Road
Because it is about the journey, not the destination.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 2 Minutes
The Tao of Apocalypse
How embracing the destruction wing of creation can bring us life.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 45 minutes
There Should be Wetlands Here
On the casual and normalized desecration of land in the name of progress.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
Toward Indigenous Models of Forest Stewardship
Beto Borges and Tashka Yawanawá on Indigenous models of stewarding forests.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ 45 minutes
Tracking and the Arts of Life
An introduction to the art and science of hard-ground tracking with John Stokes.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ 45 minutes
Tracking Basics: (Developing Intuition)
A simple outdoor practice for augmenting our intuitive abilities.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 5 Minutes
Tracking Physiology
The intersection of Polyvagal Theory and hard-ground tracking.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
Tracking the Movement of Attention
Moving attention through the eight channels.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 30 minutes
Transforming Vicarious Trauma
A framework for addressing secondary traumatic stress for caregivers.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
Turning Your Nervous System into Your Ally
Dr. Jeff Rockwell on how to turn your nervous system into your friend.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 20 minutes
The Unangan Way
Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff on his Unangan people's lifeways.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ 45 minutes
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
≈ 10 minutes
Visit A Country Where You Don't Speak the Language
Explorations in stepping outside your cultural context.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
Vista Views
Looking out from high up is one of the two primal view situations of deepest relevance to our biology.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ 7 Minutes
Wash Their Hair
In Brasilian Portuguese, the word cafuné describes the sensuality of running your hands through someone's hair.
The Way of the Tracker
A very deep dive with John Stokes, Founder of the Tracking Project.
CONVERSATION
60+ minutes
Ways of Knowing with Your Feet
On non-cognitive ways of knowing: thinking with and through your feet.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
Weaving Living Networks
Practical and tactical relational technologies for weaving living networks.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ 30 minutes
What is Technology?
An exploration of what we mean by the word 'technology'. Why don't we talk about ancestral technologies? Relational technologies? Cultural technologies?
FRAMEWORK
≈ 20 minutes
Working with Betrayal
On working with betrayal and other emotions you don't want to feel.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ 20 minutes
The Yawanawa Light
Chief Tashka Yawanawá on the Indigenous Yawanawá people of Acre, Brasil.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ 30 minutes
Yoga
Which comes from the Sanskrit word for 'yoke': as in yoking the mind and body together.
MOVEMENT PRACTICE