The Original Context
An exploration of the deep ancestral context that humans have deviated from– and how we can reclaim it.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
The Evolved Nest
Dr. Darcia Narvaez introduces us to the crucial concept of the Evolved Nest.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 30 minutes
Getting Our Nervous Systems Back to Normal
How do you get your nervous system settled again?
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 15 minutes
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This is a navigational aid to help you see how the platform is organized. The tiles in the following section are educational films and conversations.
Turning on the Connection System
Natureza Gabriel explains the importance of connection for wellbeing.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 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
≈ about 30 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
≈ about 60 minutes
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
≈ about a day
From Head to Heart in Neurophysiology
Dr. Stephen Porges on the origins and implications of the Polyvagal Theory.
CONVERSATION
≈ about a day
Escaping the Prison of the Mind
A conversation with Earl Simms about escaping the prison of our own thinking.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 30 minutes
The Greatest Distance in the World
Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff on traversing the distance from the head to the heart.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about a day
Heartfulness
A deep dive into mindful awareness, or mindfulness, which would be better termed 'heartfulness' in English.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about a day
The Original Language (or How to Talk to Everything)
Exploring the role of language in experiencing relatedness.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
The Language of Transformation
A conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse about the language of intuition.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
Exiting the Language of Domination
The Lakota language has no words for domination.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about a day
Peace with the Earth
Tiokasin Ghosthorse explores the difference between peace on earth, and peace with earth.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
Hawa'iian Indigenous Natural Farming
Indigenous Hawaiian perspective on the land and spirituality.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
Deprogramming the Colonial Mind
How do we exit the thoughtforms of domination into which we have been socialized?
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
Psychologies of Liberation
Dr. Mary Watkins on co-liberation and accompaniment.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
Healthy Relationships
Dr. David Mars explores the nature of what makes relationships healthy.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
How Whiteness Operates
Natureza Gabriel on the invisibilized inner workings of whiteness.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 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
≈ about a day
In Someone Else's Shoes
What would it feel like to live as a person of a different race?
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 30 minutes
Relational Mindfulness
Master Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah on applying mindfulness in relationships.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about a day
Building Peace
Pete Jackson explores the martial discipline of building peace within and around us by dismantling the constructs of war.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
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
≈ about a day
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3 Steps: Assess, Down-Shift, Connect
An approach to figuring out how to work with your own distress.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 30 minutes
The Analogy of Self as Water
Understanding Polyvagal Theory through the lens of water.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 30 minutes
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
Calming Anxiety
How can we understand anxiety differently so that we can calm it more effectively?
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 15 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
≈ about 30 minutes
Coming out of Fight
Foundations of working with fight (sympathetic) states.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 30 minutes
Coming out of Flight
Foundations of working with flight (sympathetic) states.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 30 minutes
Connection Mapping
Mapping your connections to support wellbeing.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ about 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
≈ about 30 minutes
Five Doorways
Exploring the five doorways from safety > connection > interoception > intuition > relatedness > enduring wellbeing.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 15 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
≈ about 60 minutes
Healing from Shock Trauma
Exploring the spiral healing trajectories of resolving shock traumas.
FRAMEWORK
≈ years
Interoception and Neuroception
An exploration of the concepts of neuroception and interoception as they relate to healing.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 60 minutes
Overwork | Overwhelm
Systematically taking stock of work-related overwhelm.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 30 minutes
Not Consuming Other People's Waste Energy
On not consuming the waste energy someone else hands you.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 30 minutes
Parkinson's Disease - A Novel Conceptualization
A novel conceptualization of Parkinson's Disease based on Autonomics.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 15 minutes
Taking Charge of Your Own Wellness
A conversation with Dr. Tabatha Parker about taking charge of our own wellness.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 60 minutes
Tell Your Story
Because if you don't, someone else will– and you may not recognize it as your own.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ years
To Heal or to Grow
The yin yang of healing and growing, growing and healing.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 15 minutes
Tracking as Metativity
Understanding tracking at metaphor, activity, and meditation.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 30 minutes
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This is a navigational aid to help you see how the platform is organized. Let's jump in. All the tiles that follow are practices.
Accompaniment
Practicing non-heirarchical reciprocal attunement (i.e., friendship).
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Accupressure Sandals
Accupressure sandals to deepen your sense of groundedness.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Allow Yourself to Grieve
An exploration of working more skillfully with grief.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Ancestral Neurotechnologies of Wellbeing
A conversation about connection phenomenology.
CONVERSATION
≈ about a day
Animal Rituals
Lest you think humans are the only creatures that engage in courtship rituals...
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Apprentice to Grief
What does it mean to turn towards grief as teacher?
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutesA Brief Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory
Our shortest visual introduction to the work of Dr. Stephen Porges.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
A Polyvagal Perspective on Resilience
Dr. Stephen Porges shares a polyvagal perspective on resilience.
CONVERSATION
≈ about 60 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
The Art of Witnessing another Human
How are we to bear witness to one another's humanity & what happens when we do?
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
As the whirlwind intensifies
Staying centered in times of increasing intensity.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Avoid these Common Ways of Disconnecting
Twelve common ways people fall out of connection.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Barefoot Shoes
How barefoot shoes can contribute to your sense of wellbeing.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ about a day
Befriend a Tree
Building ropes of connection with a particular tree & why you'd want to.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Beings of the Ancient Future Now
Rediscovering original social circles and our Indigenous selves.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
Bird Language
Because you are the only animal in the forest who doesn't understand it.
NATURE PRACTICE
Boxing
A practice to restore the energy of self-defense and clarify boundaries.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Build a Shelter
The archetypal practice of building your own shelter.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Build Friendships
On the challenges and opportunities of building friendships with people who are different than you.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ years
Build Multi-Cultural Communities
What it takes to build multi-cultural community.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Building Ropes
Exploring the San concept of building ropes of relatedness.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ years
Cello
The cello is the (western) instrument that resonates most fully with the human body.
HAND-BASED PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Clean Your Heart
How do we clean our hearts when we have been exiled from them because of unethical behavior?
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Coming out of a High Intensity Push
So you pulled an all-nighter, and now you can't sleep.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ about a day
Create a Restorative Ambiance
How do you create a space that is restorative?
SELF PRACTICE
≈ about a day
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
≈ about 30 minutes
Digesting Your Experience
Because sometimes indigestion is not because of food.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 30 minutes
Discover Tiny Moments of Unexpected Beauty
Finding the sublime hiding in the ordinary.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Dismantling Deathways
Tiokasin Ghosthorse on the language required to recover the impulse of Life.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ about a day
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
≈ about 60 minutes
Don't Drink that Stuff
Refined sugar is the addiction hiding in plain sight.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Do Something That Makes No Sense
On dismantling the hegemony of cognition.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Dream Tracking
John Stokes on applying the art and science of tracking to your dreams.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Embodied Movement
Exploring the wheel of awareness through body movement.
MOVEMENT PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Emotional Yoga
A practice for contacting, clarifying, and metabolizing emotional energy.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Examine How You Use Language
Practice putting language in service to your evolution.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ years
Explore Transition Zones
The zones of interface between different ecologies are often the most vibrant.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about a day
Fanning the Fires of Community
Sobonfu Somé on the heart of the village.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Feeding Your Confidence
Exercises to nourish the root of your confidence.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Feel Your Feelings
Many of us don't know how to fully experience our own emotions.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Finding Your Voice Artistically
Pete Jackson on finding your artistic voice.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Four Sacred Colors, Four Sacred Gifts
Ilarion Merculieff explains the four sacred directions and the four sacred cultures.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ about 15 minutes
Get a Plant
One of the simplest possible ways to harmonize with Nature.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Get to Know your Local Flora and Fauna
Becoming familiar with the non-human inhabitants of place.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
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
≈ about 15 minutes
Glimmers
Deb Dana, LCSW, Founding faculty of the Polyvagal Institute, teaches a brief practice on finding micro-moments of connection.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
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
≈ about 15 minutes
Grief Tending
On rituals for attending to our individual and collective grief.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Hacking Your Connection System
Quick tricks for turning on the connection system.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Hawaiian Universal Farmer's Prayer
Sam Ka'ai explains the traditional Hawaiian farmer's relationship with the feeding place, and the universal prayer of relating to it.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ about 15 minutes
Hear Where You Are
Bio-acoustician Michael Stocker on the sense of hearing throughout the animal kingdom.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Hold Tight to Littles
Indigenous childrearing practices to optimize neurodevelopment.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ years
Implicit Bias & Owning Whiteness
On applying Polyvagal Theory to anti-racist practice.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ years
The Importance of Disgust
Inquiry into the most primal of emotions.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ about a season
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
Listening to the Story of State
Deb Dana, LCSW on listening to the autonomic state beneath our cognitive stories.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Living Water
Just what is water and how does it relate to our wellbeing?
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Make a Photo Wall
Curating memory through photos of what we care about.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Massage your Face
Self-massage to change the inputs to your nervous system.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ
Tiokasin Ghoshorse on deeper meanings of the Lakota phrase Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ a tiny practice
Mourning the Wild Destroyed
Mourning for places we love that have been harmed.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Nourish the Roots
Indigenous farming techniques for fortifying plant growth.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Open your Heart
A Kundalini yoga practice for deepening feeling and opening the heart.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Progress is another word for domination
Progress is the relentless transformation of Mother Earth into merchandise.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
Prune Your Trees
Master Gardener Arthur Baker on the art and science of pruning.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about a season
The Quick Checklist
If you don't feel good and you don't know why, try this quick list.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Reflective Listening
Listening to understand what is important to the speaker.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Refuge Views
Connecting visually to the experience of nesting and safety.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
The Relationship between Immunity and Stress
How connection strengthens immunity.
SELF PRACTICE
≈ about 15 minutes
Resilience in the Black Community
Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, and Gloria Yamato on resilience.
CONVERSATION
≈ about a day
Responsibilities versus Rights
Chief (and Professor) Oren Lyons on why it should have been a Bill of Responsibilities.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 15 minutes
Restoring the Sacred Feminine
Ilarion Merculieff on the importance of restoring the sacred feminine.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ about 30 minutes
Secrets of Natural Movement
An extraordinary workout led by John Stokes.
MOVEMENT PRACTICE
≈ about 60 minutes
Self-Compassion
Treating yourself the way a true friend would treat you.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Self-massage
Self-massage to change the inputs to your nervous system.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
The Seven Infinitive Forms of Domination
Back to the latin to understand how we got into this domination paradigm.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 60 minutes
Smile
The neurophysiology of the smile and its importance as an access point to the Connection system.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Speaking from the Heart
On learning to speak from your heart– not your head.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ years
Stare Vacantly into the Distance
Boketto: The Japanese art of staring vacantly into the distance.
SENSORY PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
Take the Unpaved Road
Because it is about the journey, not the destination.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ a tiny practice
The Thanksgiving Address
Haudenosaunee Greetings to the Natural World
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ about 15 minutes
There Should be Wetlands Here
On the casual and normalized desecration of land in the name of progress.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Tracking and the Arts of Life
An introduction to the art and science of hard-ground tracking with John Stokes.
NATURE PRACTICE
≈ about 60 minutes
Tracking Basics: (Developing Intuition)
A simple outdoor practice for augmenting our intuitive abilities.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ about 60 minutes
Tracking Autonomic Physiology
The intersection of Polyvagal Theory and hard-ground tracking.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Tracking the Movement of Attention
Moving attention through the eight channels.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ about 30 minutes
Transforming Vicarious Trauma
A framework for addressing secondary traumatic stress for caregivers.
FRAMEWORK
≈ about 30 minutes
Turning Your Nervous System into Your Ally
Dr. Jeff Rockwell on how to turn your nervous system into your friend.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about a season
The Unangan Way
Kuuyux Ilarion Merculieff on his Unangan people's lifeways.
INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
≈ about 60 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
≈ about 15 minutes
Villaging & Animacy
Mark Bockley on the Dagara view of villaging in an animistic world.
RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE
≈ about 60 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
≈ about a day
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
≈ about a day
Ways of Knowing with Your Feet
On non-cognitive ways of knowing: thinking with and through your feet.
AWARENESS PRACTICE
≈ about a season
Working with Betrayal
On working with betrayal and other emotions you don't want to feel.
EMOTIONAL PRACTICE
≈ about a season
The Yawanawa Light
Chief Tashka Yawanawá on the Indigenous Yawanawá people of Acre, Brasil.
EDUCATIONAL FILM
≈ about 30 minutes
Yoga
Which comes from the Sanskrit word for 'yoke': as in yoking the mind and body together.
MOVEMENT PRACTICE
