Our distribution warehouse is closing - Restorative Practices is $30 off

We work with a distribution center in Texas that was recently acquired. They make all these promises like - Nothing is going to change in your service. Everything is great blah blah blah - and then the last order we sent them took them two weeks to ingest. (It should take 48 hours). A couple of days ago I get an email that explains that they are no longer warehousing products in their Texas warehouse.

Long story short, we have several thousand books in a warehouse that is about to no longer be used for distribution, and this means that it is a good time for us to incentivize your purchase of our 2021 book that Stephen Porges, PhD calls, “Remarkable,” and Dr. Jeff Rockwell (the Developer of Polyvagal Touch) calls, “A masterpiece.”

Until we figure out what we are doing with our remaining inventory (where we are going to locate it), we are offering the book for $30 off the cover price. Ordinarily it costs $49. Now it costs $19.

You can read the introduction to the book here.

Here is our description:

“We heal to the extent that we can feel ourselves. We can feel ourselves to the extent that we feel safe. When we feel safe enough, we can open our hearts to connection. This is the pathway back to human thriving.

The Connection System is a physiological system (the ventral vagal para-sympathetic aspect of the Autonomic Nervous System) that turns on when people feel safe enough to open to connection. Ancestrally, the job of culture was to create a safe enough context for this to happen predictably. In our modern world, surrounded by threat cues, dissociation, multi-generational trauma, and ecological alienation, human nervous systems are not receiving the kind of nourishment they require to access optimal states of wellbeing.

For the past 25 years Gabriel Kram has been studying this problem, since he dropped out of Yale University and began his journey to find a different pathway to wellness for himself. Unable to find an adequate body of guides or mentors in a single university setting, he gradually convened 100 advisors in 25 disciplines of wellbeing across 24 cultures to (re)create a radically comprehensive model of healing based on a very simple and ancient premise: connection is the fountain of wellbeing. This body of work asks two primary questions: How do you turn on, stabilize, and instantiate connection? And how do you remove what gets in the way?

In ancestral and indigenous cultures the world over, there exist bodies of restorative practice designed to help people return to a baseline of safety and connection when stress, threat, trauma, illness, or disaster moved people away from it. This book unites cutting-edge neurophysiology, primarily the application of Polyvagal Theory, with an array of ancestral awareness technologies. It integrates applied mindfulness, neurophysiology, somatic and emotional awareness, anti-racism, deep nature connection, cultural linguistics, and Indigenous Lifeways into a coherent framework in service of deepening connection with Self, One Another, and the Living World. It introduces hundreds of targeted neural exercises designed to restore connection: with the present moment, with ourselves, our bodies, our senses, our emotions, with one another, and with Nature. It is a guide to reclaiming the roots of our shared humanity: a doorway to the ancestral future.”

Last summer, Restorative Practices of Wellbeing surpassed our Official Polyvagal Posters as the physical product we have created with the largest international sales. At this point we have sold over 2,000 copies of the book in twenty-five countries. (Approx. 1,500 Official Polyvagal posters, by comparison.)