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the neurobiology of connection

may 15-18, 2025: bay area, Northern California

Transformational Retreat May 16-18, 2025

Bay Area, Northern California

In this 3-day depth transformational retreat with Natureza Gabriel we will deep-dive experientially into the foundation model of Autonomics. On days two and three we will focus on tracking autonomic physiology, and evoking connection states.

This training is for practitioners: wellness professionals and coaches. A foundation literacy with autonomic physiology will be presumed. You can achieve this in a variety of ways, including by doing self-paced work with our Practitioner Training Subscription.

Gabriel will teach the neurobiology of connection, scaffolded on his 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.)

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This training will host a small number of practitioners 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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