Your Autonomic Nervous System has the strongest shaping force of any biological system over your moment-to-moment experience of wellbeing, yet most people do not understand anything about it. In this practical skills development handbook, learn to understand your Autonomic Nervous System, and how it governs your felt experience in response to your moment-to-moment detection of safety, danger, or lifethreat.
Using clear and down-to-earth analogies- understand autonomic state as water wearing each of her three faces, your neurology as an inward forest, and the spectrum of autonomic states as a palette of colors that can combine in unique ways- you will learn to understand the range of functions your Autonomic Nervous System governs, how it works, and how you can work with it to grasp and then move the deepest levers that govern your wellbeing in the direction of thriving.
Learn the foundational autonomic fluency required to grow your ability to notice, be informed by, and support the needs of your deepest survival systems, which are always shaping your interactions with the world, whether you are aware of it or not. With awareness practices to engage them, and reflective exercises so that you can explore them, you will learn to engage directly with the deepest layers of your nervous system, which communicate not in words but in the language of the felt (sensation, emotion, embodied memory).
Open the door to the original language of the body in its ancestral awareness, a way-of-knowing that has been systematically suppressed, overlooked, and negated in the modern world, yet is a primary doorway to sovereign embodiment. A practical, action-oriented handbook to build autonomic awareness, fluency, and agency, Autonomic Compass will give you a whole new set of tools to locate the truest coordinates of your thriving.
Gabriel, Natureza: - Natureza Gabriel is the principal neural architect of Autonomics: a cutting-edge & ancestral update to our understanding of living autonomic physiology, which he has developed over 30 years of trans-disciplinary study and research with input from well over 5,000 wellness professionals, and 100 mentors and advisors from 25 lineages of healing in 24 cultures. His mind was trained at Yale and Stanford Universities, his heart has been educated in ceremonies and circles. He has spent 30 years studying connection through the lenses of neuroscience, mindful awareness, social justice, deep nature connection, non-cognitive ways of knowing, Indigenous Lifeways, and cultural linguistics.
He is Founder and CEO of Hearth Science: a translation research firm pioneering the union of neurophysiology and ancestral awareness to turn on the deepest drivers of human wellbeing. He is the principal architect of the
Autonomic Treatment Atlas, a proprietary diagnostics and treatment software platform that centralizes autonomic physiology in the diagnosis and treatment of stress-related disorders and the creation of enduring wellbeing. He is Host and Executive Producer of
The Restorative Practices Film Series,
The Connection Masterclass,
Evoking Connection States, and
Lectures on the New Foundation Model in Autonomics. In autumn 2023, after writing and art directing the Official Polyvagal Posters, and collaborating with Stephen W. Porges to develop intellectual property translating Polyvagal Theory to a broader audience, he was asked to lead the global Polyvagal Study Group on Facebook. He has been asked to teach Autonomics to people in 50 countries, executives in Fortune 500 companies, the faculty of medical schools, governments, international NGOs, and tribal leaders.
He is the author of
The Neurobiology of Connection, which Rick Hanson, PhD calls, "A masterwork!", and eleven others books. He lives in Northern California with his family, where he tends a forest.
