Transformational Retreat October 23-27, 2024

Forest Lab, 45 minutes north of San Francisco

In this 5-day depth transformational retreat, we 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.

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