Live the Neurobiology of Connection with Us

For 5 days in October (from the 9th to the 13th), at our pristine eco-reserve in Northern California, I am going to teach a deep-dive retreat in The Neurobiology of Connection. This will be a sensate foraging into the deep neuro-ancestral foundations of wellbeing in an aboriginal context.

This five-day training will focus on the tracking of autonomic state and subtle interoceptive and field awareness. The training is geared toward wellness practitioners interested in refining their embodied ability to track autonomic state and its texture, nuance, and flavor in an embodied manner. In order to do this effectively, we work to continually refine our own discernment and hone our nuanced ability to track subtle shifts in our own, and our clients’ somatic presence, and awareness.

The retreat will focus on refining
1) interoceptive awareness skills from within a framework of applied mindful awareness
2) nuanced tracking of ecological/ environmental inputs, e.g., how is the context in which we are situated moving through the body
3) understanding, at a felt level, the somatic signature of different autonomic states and how they tune the physiology
4) tracking, in clients, what phenomena are close enough to the surface to work with most readily
5) continuing to refine your autonomic intuition

THE PLACE

This retreat will be held at our Northern California Eco-reserve, a unique 10-acre Nature Preserve that is part of a former 1,500 acre sheep ranch in West Marin County, California, near Nicasio. Here’s a view of the valley from above:

The valley in which our eco-reserve resides has been continuously inhabited for at least 8,000 years. (We know this because of the dating of nearby petroglyphs). It is part of an ancestral Indigenous trade route that connected peoples from the Sierras to the sheltered coast of Tomales Bay. The land itself has a talent for awakening intuition.

We have been stewarding this context for four years now, and slowly and carefully building it out by hand. All of the buildings on the property are intentionally designed to foster the proper intuitions of relatedness with the Living World.

You can take a closer look at our Forest Lab here.

We are discounting registration for the retreat from now until June 1. Registration requires instructor approval. So if you are interested, please email us at support@restorativepractices.com. While the retreat is primarily for wellness practitioners, if you are an interested layperson with background in this area, and interested in attending, you can email us and we can discuss this with you and see if there is a fit. The retreat will be limited to 12 participants.

I will be personally leading the retreat (Gabriel).

You can learn more about the training here: