Autonomic Mandala

A limited-edition version of this poster is available through our collaboration with Metalabel here. It is collectible and comes with a certificate of provenance, if you care about that sort of thing.

Hearth Science is pioneering the ancestral future of wellbeing by uniting the cutting-edges of neurophysiology with Indigenous and ancestral lifeways.
The Autonomic Mandala presents our new Foundation model in autonomic physiology, which uses color theory to illustrate the complete spectrum of embodied autonomic states, in pure symbolic form.

The poster

• Re-organizes the functional divisions at the foundation of neurology
• Expands the Polyvagal conceptualization of the Social Engagement physiology
• Clarifies the synergistic nature of the three primary autonomic systems as they interact across a continuum of safety, danger, and life threat
• Delineates the interactions of neurochemistry with neural platform that undergird autonomic state
• Illuminates six additional states beyond the seven articulated by Polyvagal Theory: restore, enjoy, compete, accommodate, appease, dorsal appease
• Visualizes pathways directly from shutdown states to connection states (a circle or spiral, not a ladder)
• 36 inches wide x 24 inches tall

This poster is pure symbol.
It is unmuddied by text or explanation.
It comes with a downloadable PDF explaining the poster.

For alternate sizes:

18 inches wide x 12 inches high, version here.