Dear Readers–
I will be teaching two sections of a unique seminar next fall on our new foundation model of Autonomics. This framework, which we have spent the last decades developing, moves beyond Polyvagal Theory into a novel ancestrally-informed synthesis. (The Neurobiology of Connection will be one of our working texts.)
We will be training 30 practitioners from around the world in two cohorts. We will have sections of the seminar meeting at two different times, making this content accessible to people around the world. Our objective is, in part, to rapidly accelerate a trans-disciplinary cohort of practitioners speaking a common language who can implement this lens in their work with patients and clients, and engage in participant action research.
The course is by application. One of our sections has two spaces remaining, the other has more. We are seeking applicants who are already familiar with autonomic physiology, mindful awareness, and have a venue to apply what they are learning in their work. The application process will begin with the initial application below. If we’re interested in advancing your application, we will interview you.
One section of the seminar meets from 7 to 8:30 am, the other from 3:30 to 5 pm PST (-7 hours GMT) on Tuesdays weekly from September 3 to November 19 (fall academic calendar.)
You can learn more about the course, its objectives, tuition, and logistics here. Our cohorts this past year typically included a mix of medical and alternative medical professionals (MDs, NDs, etc.), mental health professionals (psychologists, social workers, MFTs), physical and occupational therapists, conflict resolution experts, body-focused therapists and bodyworkers, mindfulness and yoga teachers, etc.
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Following is a bit of what previous participants have said about our seminar over the past year.
I have taken both of Gabriel Kram’s seminars on the Autonomic Nervous System and am astounded by the amount of learning in these programs. As a yoga teacher and therapist for nearly 50 years, I have been a student of the nervous system for decades. What I am learning now is exciting not only intellectually–pieces are coming together in ways I never would have imagined—and I am learning through embodiment. When Gabriel says something confounding (in the best way), I take it into my personal practices and teaching and experiment. When my community and I get an inner embodied confirmation along with the intellectual ideas, we know we have learned something important. My students love how my teaching has evolved since studying with Gabriel. He has taken Polyvagal Theory to the next level in ways that make it more practical and healing. In addition to his own brilliance, he attracts groups of amazing people from multi-disciplinary backgrounds who have become not just my colleagues but my friends.
-Marcia Miller, Founder Marcia Miller Yoga
Our autonomic physiology seminar was, in brief, and I say these words with potency, an altogether grounding reorientation of my connection to Self and my Environment which manifested itself during a period of deep and painful metabolization of emotions and nervous system states which were previously unexperienced by my physical body. Not only was it meaningful for me, but it was in fact quite necessary for me in order to remain acutely conscious, observant, and attentive to the ways in which connection and safety desired to show up for me in a life context/situation which seemingly provided very little. In this way, it meant a great deal to me - and as I've always felt, known, and seen, this connected world knows the confluences of support, required growth and stretch, invitations to expansions and safeties in contraction much better than I am necessarily consciously aware. This course provided the banks and power charge to a river of insight, of revelation, and of reorientation.
Personally, it allowed me to apply grounded theoretical learning to the movement of energy within my own body and community. In turn, it contextualized the physiological requirement of containing, of holding, and of relating in a way that illuminates the beautiful symbiosis between our unconscious lives and our automated physiology. This course brought phenomenal clarity, with neurophysiological acuity and revelational attributes, to the relationships between my own fields of study – restoration, creative expression, conflict dissolution and contextualization – and the general notion that in fact all of these fields are not separate at all.
-J. Ariel Guy, Counselor, Conflict Consultant, Artist & Mental Health Eductor (presently residing in Tel Aviv)