Autonomic Mapping

Polyvagal Mapping

Where are we anyway?

When we think about assessing our present moment nervous system state, this practice can help us to better understand our responses to threat, what sends us there, and how we get back home. The video above will walk you through some approaches to this.

Related Practices:

This practices really fortifies our ability to self-assess and understand the way that our own nervous system works. It expands upon and deepens the first part of 3 Steps: Assess, Down-Regulation, Connect. It is connected, conceptually, to a deeper understanding of Polvyagal Theory, which you can gain through our conversation with Dr. Stephen Porges about resilience: A Polyvagal Perspective on Resilience. This is also related to Core Neurobiological Self, and Coming out of Fight, Coming out of Flight, and Coming out of Freeze. See Interoception. It involves Tracking our own Physiology, and is related to the Pattern Language of Nature (we are part of nature) and to Bird Language, particularly the baseline distinction between safety and threat. If you'd like a brief introduction to the theory, visit our Brief Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory. For a comprehensive exploration of the theory with its developer, see The Future of Medicine and Mental Health, with Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD. With regard to healing traumas and down-shifting other distress states, see Healing Trauma.

Who taught us this?

The Polyvagal Theory is the pioneering work of Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD. Deb Dana is Founding Faculty, with Dr. Stephen Porges, of The Polyvagal Institute. She is the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection, and the forthcoming Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory. She is co-editor, with Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD of Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory, of which this deep learning platform, our Official Polyvagal posters, and our Restorative Practices of Wellbeing book/app are also examples.

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Who taught us this?

The Polyvagal Theory is the pioneering work of Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD. Deb Dana is Founding Faculty, with Dr. Stephen Porges, of The Polyvagal Institute. She is the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection, and the forthcoming Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory. She is co-editor, with Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD of Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory, of which this deep learning platform, our Official Polyvagal posters, and our Restorative Practices of Wellbeing book/app are also examples.

Teach me how

Check here for classes.

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