Columbus, OH : September 25-27, 2026: Living the Neurobiology of Connection

This class is by application. First step is filling out an Expression of interest here.

Join Gabriel for a 2-day deep-dive into The Neurobiology of Connection.

Our work is about coming home to yourself through the autonomic nervous system, which is the deepest layer of your nervous system, with the strongest shaping force over your lived-moment-to-moment experience of wellbeing. We will spend one evening and two days exploring the experiential practice of deepening our embodied experience of safety, and opening the neurological doors to connection in and through the body. Our bodies have an innate and aboriginal language that most of us do not speak at all. In this two-day training, Gabriel will work to acquaint (re-acquaint) you with this deepest primal animal and embodied aspect of being. We will learn to communicate with our own nervous systems, and that of others through the embodied language of sensation, and begin to learn to read to map of our own (and other people's) autonomic selves.

This is a layer of self beneath language, and far beneath thinking, and it is spoken by animals in the forest as well as humans. Our goal is to help acquaint you with, and deepen into an experience of the vitality of this autonomic self.

In this two-day in-person training in Columbus, Ohio we'll deep-dive into the neurobiology of connection, focusing on autonomic fluency, and the five doorways to enduring wellbeing. Safety is the doorway to connection, connection is the doorway to interoception, interoception is the doorway to intuition, intuition is the doorway to relatedness, relatedness is the doorway to enduring wellbeing. This training is capped at forty (40) participants. Participants will receive a complimentarycopy of Restorative Practices of Wellbeing.

For whom is this training appropriate? Yogis, meditation practitioners, anyone with an interoceptive or somatics or movement practice, including coaches and wellness professionals and interested individuals of all kinds wishing to apply the principles of autonomics to wellbeing. For whom would it not be appropriate? People taking psychotropic medications, people with active substance abuse issues, people with complex chronic illness (what I'm teaching about autonomic intervention won't work the same way for you), people with Axis 2 disorders (personality disorders), people in extreme distress, or mental health crisis. In order to benefit from this training you should be in a relatively balanced place– somewhat subjective given the dumpster fire of modernity, we realize– but you need a base of some stability in the body and mind to integrate this material in ways that are useful.