April 23-27, 2025: Embodiment and the Deep Nervous System

LOGISTICS: A five day deep-dive into embodiment through the Deep Nervous System in Northern California.

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ABOUT: This five-day training with Hearth Science Founder Natureza Gabriel and Marcia Miller, E-RYT 500, IAYT registered yoga therapist, certified iRest teacher, is a deep dive into exploring embodiment through the deep nervous system.

All of us are wearing a body, and whether we recognize it or not, one of the primary axes of embodied organization is the Autonomic Nervous System.

The Autonomic Nervous System contains the deepest and most powerful levers that govern our moment-to-moment experience of wellbeing.

Our bodies are, at some level, a historically-accreted epiphenomenon of how we have metabolized, or failed to metabolize, the allostatic load of our life's experiences.

There are three primary autonomic systems, and most people are centered to greater or less degree in one of them.
These are the Connection System, which undergirds salugenic (health-creating states).
The Movement System, which undergirds fight-flight responses.
The Grounding System, which in its lifethreat configuration undergirds shutdown states.

Each of these systems writes the neurological, chemical, and metabolic code for the body that we are wearing.

In this retreat, we will use the body as the primary doorway for learning the deep map of autonomic systems and how they inter-relate to scaffold the entire range of automic states that are the primary energy-processing templates for lived experience.

Who is this retreat for? If your body is a primary way that you make sense of the world, this retreat will dramatically refine your understanding of the core drivers of how it feels to be you, and dramatically deepen your ability to experience ease in the body. We will be working with wellness professionals, body workers, and interested laypeople in this retreat.

NB: This course requires instructor approval. Please do not reserve a space without checking with us.