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COLUMBUS (OH) · AUTUMN 2027

Autonomics Meets Embodiment Practice

IntroductoryHosted by Hearth Science

In our second training in Columbus, Ohio, we continue deepening participants’ familiarity with the autonomics model and the neural cartography of states, and explore how the model informs embodiment practices, with a particular focus on yoga. This retreat is general and introductory.

Mist rising off a wetland at dawn, white asters in the foreground, near Columbus

ABOUT THIS TRAINING

In our second training in Columbus, Ohio, we continue deepening participants’ familiarity with the autonomics model and the neural cartography of states, and explore how the model informs embodiment practices, with a particular focus on yoga. This retreat is general and introductory. A background in yoga or a nervous system practice is a good place to start; we are also glad to welcome people who have neither, though some of the terminology may be specialized.

LISTEN TO A PODCAST ABOUT THIS

J. Brown Yoga Talks

Natureza Gabriel Kram, founder of Hearth Science and author of The Neurobiology of Connection, talks with J about the recent controversy surrounding Polyvagal Theory. They discuss the autonomic nervous system and origins of PVT, history behind Grossman and Porges dispute, heart-rate variability and resilience, neuroanatomical physiology, triune brain, reliable measures of vagal tone, embodied sense of safety, respiration metrics and compute power, accurate terminology, and aligning with the language of what it means to be a human.

Listen to the episode on J. Brown Yoga Talks

WHO SHOULD APPLY

No prerequisites

No prerequisites. A background in yoga or a nervous system practice is a good place to start. Short application required.

Every Hearth Science training asks for an application, so that each cohort is a group of people who chose to be there and were chosen.

BATTELLE DARBY CREEK METRO PARK

The teachers, Marcia Miller and Natureza Gabriel, standing together in a forest

PRACTICAL DETAILS

Times
9 am Friday to 4 pm Sunday.
Language
Taught in English.
Accommodation and meals
Not included in tuition.
Getting there
Fly into Columbus (CMH), about 45 minutes from the park. There are hotels and short-term rentals nearby.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“When I study with Gabriel it requires my total attention. I am unlearning at basically the same velocity that I am learning. I am watching ideas fall apart and reconfigure before me in realtime.”

Kim Barthel
Founder, Relationship Matters; occupational therapist, speaker, multi-disciplinary teacher, mentor and best-selling author

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