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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

F*ck No

Empowering the emphatic 'No'.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

≈ about a season

Altars

Platforms for connecting with the High.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

≈ about a day

Archetypal Motor Gestures of Stoke

Fist pump as neural exercise.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about 15 minutes

Art as a Vehicle for Self-Knowledge

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

CREATIVE PRACTICE

≈ about 30 minutes

Balance Rocks

The art of stone piling.

NATURE PRACTICE

Bake

Baking as restorative practice.

SELF PRACTICE

Bowling

Bowling as relationship practice.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

Boxing

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

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

≈ about a season

Calligraphy

At the intersection of visuality and literacy.

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Chop Wood

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

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

≈ about a day

Dance

We should dance.

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about 30 minutes

Finding Your Voice Artistically

Pete Jackson on finding your artistic voice.

SELF PRACTICE

≈ about 15 minutes

Fix Something

The particular benefits of fixing things with your hands.

SELF PRACTICE

Forest Tending

On stewarding wild places.

NATURE PRACTICE

≈ about a day

Gardening

Get your hands in the earth.

NATURE PRACTICE

≈ about a season

Knit

On the pleasures of knitting.

SELF PRACTICE

Learn the Clarinet

On woodwinds and vagal tone.

SELF PRACTICE

Learn to Set Clear Boundaries

Exploring the power of setting clear boundaries.

RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE

≈ about 30 minutes

Lift Weights

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

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Make a Puzzle

Putting things back together.

SELF PRACTICE

Mandalas

A creative and contemplative practice.

CREATIVE PRACTICE

≈ about 15 minutes

Origami

The Japanese Art of Paper-folding.

CREATIVE PRACTICE

≈ a tiny practice

Paint

Painting for creative self-expression and wellbeing.

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Partner Dancing

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

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

≈ about a season

Play an instrument

On learning to play an instrument.

HAND-BASED PRACTICE

Prune Your Trees

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

NATURE PRACTICE

≈ about a season

Racquet Sports

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

MOVEMENT PRACTICE

Rest into Gravity

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

AWARENESS PRACTICE

≈ about 60 minutes

Sculpt

Making in three dimensions.

SELF PRACTICE

≈ about 30 minutes

Throw a Pot

The mudslick joy of the potter's wheel.

SELF PRACTICE

Tidy Up the Nest

Cleaning as restorative practice.

SELF PRACTICE

≈ about a day

The Unangan Way

Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff on his Unangan people's lifeways.

INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS

≈ about 60 minutes

Use Your Hands

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

HAND-BASED PRACTICE

≈ about 15 minutes

Weave

On the metaphor, activity, and meditation of weaving.

HAND-BASED PRACTICE

Whittle

Making with a penknife in spare moments.

SELF PRACTICE

≈ a tiny practice

Woodworking

Exploring handwork with wood.

HAND-BASED PRACTICE

≈ about a season

Lectures on the new FOUNDATION MODEL in General Autonomics

Foundation Model of Autonomics

A Conversation with Darcia Narvaez, PhD: The Evolved Nest

A Conversation with Alika Atay: The Importance of the Aina

The Original Context - A Film by Nic Askew

The Autonomic Spectrum Seminar - Spring 2024

On the relationship between Autonomic State and Mindful Awareness

Portals to the Connection Architecture

A Conversation with Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff

A Conversation with Lee Mun Wah: An Unfinished Conversation About Race

A Conversation with David Mars, PhD: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships

A Conversation with Deb Dana, LCSW: Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory

A Conversation with Vincent Felitti, MD: The Origin and Implications of the ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study

The Lost Keynote: Toward Ancestral Futures in Medicine and Mental Health

A Conversation with Stephen Porges, PhD: The Origins and Implications of the Polyvagal Theory

The Autonomic Spectrum Lectures - Autumn 2023

The Autonomic Spectrum

How Your Nervous System Works

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

Deprogramming the Colonial Mind #1: Re-Languaging Regeneration - ONLINE VERSION

Technical Onboarding

Re-Languaging Regeneration: Tiokasin Long-form Seminar

Indigenous Worldviews of Relatedness

The Complete Restorative Practices Film Series

Becoming a Real Human Being with Ilarion Merculieff

The Connection Masterclass

Deep Nature Connection

Anti-Racism for White Folks - LIVE COURSE

Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory Masterclass

Becoming Anti-Racist (a course for white folks)

Healing Trauma

Nurturing Connected Human Beings

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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