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.

Who taught us this?

This concept of mapping Polvyagal states is one that we've been working with for some time, and one that we received specific information about from Deb Dana, LSCW, author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, among other marvelous books on the clinical application of Polvyagal Theory.

Teach me how

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Who taught us this?

This concept of mapping Polvyagal states is one that we've been working with for some time, and one that we received specific information about from Deb Dana, LSCW, author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, among other marvelous books on the clinical application of Polvyagal Theory.

Teach me how

Check here for classes.

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