Portals to the Connection Architecture

This is not a pedagogical course.
It is an experiential meditative community union.
Your nervous system is an altar to your spirit.
Your body contains at least 13 neurophysiological portals to the architecture of your connection system.

Moving from south to north in your body, these include

• •Your skin
• •Your posture
• •Your gestures
• •Your feet
• •Your genitals
• •Your hands
• •Your breath
• •Your heart
• •Your voice
• •Your face
• •Your eyes
• •Your ears
• •Language itself

Each week you will receive an essay on one of the portals, to invite your contemplation of its intelligence and deep mystery.
We will then, together, through a body-based practice, invite you to open that portal.

We are working here in a framework as follows:
Safety is the doorway to connection.>>>
Connection is the doorway to interoception.>>>
Interoception is the doorway to non-cognitive ways of knowing, of which we are going to explore the physiological basis of 13.>>>
Non-cognitive ways of knowing are the doorway to relatedness.>>>
Relatedness is the doorway to enduring wellbeing.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Gabriel is Founder of Hearth Science, Convener of the Restorative Practices Alliance, and Founder of BEYOND WELLNESS. A connection phenomenologist and neural cartographer, he is the developer of the Hearth Science modality, and has led over 2,500 trainings at the intersection of neurophysiology and indigenous and ancestral lifeways internationally. He was asked to train the entire faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Hearth Science, and has trained tribal leaders. He is principal architect of the Restorative Practices Deep Learning platform, Host and Director of the Restorative Practices Film Series and the Connection Masterclass. His writing has appeared in Psychology Today, and he is author of the Connection Phenomenology series. He stewards an eco-reserve in Northern California where Hearth Science is headquartered.