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August 2025 Kauai: What is Healing?

Transformational Retreat August 5-10, 2025

North Shore of Kauia, Location TBD

In this 6-day depth transformational retreat with Sela Weaver, Founder of the Vagus Study Group, we will host a space for wellness practitioners to deepen into an exploration of what healing means…

Gabriel will teach the neurobiology of connection, scaffolded on his forthcoming book, The Neurobiology of Connection and its associated Foundation Model of Autonomics. Based on 30 years of research, crowd-sourced with more than 15,000 participants in 50 countries, co-created with input from more than 100 advisors in 25 disciplines of wellbeing across 24 cultures (many of them Indigenous), including a dozen of the world’s leading experts in connection and wellbeing, the Foundation Model unites the cutting-edges of autonomic physiology, neurochemistry, and ancestral lifeways into a living map of embodied autonomic states. Fluency in this map teaches humans how to locate themselves in the foundation layer of physiology that governs visceral state, sense of self, emotions, cognitions, the way we perceive the world around us, and the behavioral repertoires available to us. It teaches us how to transform from living in defensive states (fight, flight, appease, freeze, shutdown), which are necessarily pathogenic, into connection states that are salugenic (e.g., health-creating.)

Sela Weaver is Founder of the Vagus Study Group, and has been exploring ways of knowing for most of her life. Together we will deep-dive into questions that are rarely examined, yet might merit being centered in our wellness practices.

What is healing?

Who or what is healed?

Where does healing come from?

Answers to these questions, in a modern western paradigm, tend to provoke consternation, but by deepening into these questions we can awaken insights that have the potency to transform how we conceive of and relate to the work that we are doing with patients and clients.

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This training will host a small number of people from around the world who wish to come into circle to deep-dive into these themes. If you would care to join us, please detail below the nature of your interest.

If we are interested in having you join us, we will follow up with an interview.

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