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ITALY · SUMMER 2027

Autonomic and Interoceptive Tracking Retreat (Europe)

IntermediateHosted by Hearth Science

This is our 5-day deep dive into autonomic and interoceptive tracking. It is the European capstone retreat for the Yearlong Autonomics Practicum, so half the seats are reserved for people in that training.

Stone bridge arch framing a river and old buildings in Varallo

ABOUT THIS TRAINING

This is our 5-day deep dive into autonomic and interoceptive tracking. It is the European capstone retreat for the Yearlong Autonomics Practicum, so half the seats are reserved for people in that training. The remaining seats are for people who have studied this work before and/or have instructor approval.

This is a training, not a healing retreat. In order to join this training, you should already have done significant work on your own autonomic nervous system. While it is inevitable that a certain amount of healing happens in the context of the retreat, that is not the focus of this retreat. That is prerequisite to this retreat, not part of it. If you are passing through a difficult period of time, or looking for a retreat to help your nervous system heal, this is not the right retreat for you. Instead, consider one of our introductory trainings or reach out to our Autonomics Clinic.

READ ABOUT AUTONOMIC TRACKING

The ancestral/ Indigenous art and science of hard-ground tracking provides an epistemic mode directly applicable to the moment-to-moment tracking of human autonomic nervous system structure and function. This mode can be applied as a primary, empirically verifiable way of knowing to apprehend more about the structure and function of the living nervous system. Its systemic application has informed the development of Autonomics.

Our paper on ResearchGate: Autonomic Tracking: Methodological Viability of an Alternative Epistemological Approach

WHO SHOULD APPLY

By instructor approval

Half the seats are reserved for Yearlong Practicum participants. The rest are for people who have studied this work before and/or have instructor approval. You should already have done significant work on your own autonomic nervous system.

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.

VARALLO

The teachers, Natureza Gabriel, Chiara Cerli and Martin Vachon, in a hill town in northern ItalyPainted baroque ceiling and a glass chandelier in a church in Varallo

PRACTICAL DETAILS

Times
9 am Wednesday to 4 pm Sunday.
Language
Taught in English.
Accommodation and meals
Not included in tuition.
Getting there
Fly into Milan. Varallo is about 1 hour 45 minutes away.

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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LECTURE SERIES ⌖ MONTHLY SESSIONS THROUGH MARCH 2027

Architecture & Dynamics of the Living Autonomic Nervous System

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A deep dive into the intellectual history of autonomic science, this lecture series reaches back to the origins of the field nearly 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, exploring how category errors in its foundations have infiltrated the modern view of the nervous system. Asks the big questions – why do you have a nervous system? What is stress? What is wellbeing? Redraws the neuro-anatomical maps of your autonomic nervous system from first principles. Modifies how we understand the ways that they coordinate and de-coordinate. Breaks the stasis in the Polyvagal Controversy.

Yearlong Autonomics Practicum

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Our deepest yearlong training in the art & science of Autonomics. The deepest dive into our pedagogical model: neural cartography, transformation of the ANS, autonomic tracking. For practitioners interested in centralizing the living nervous system in their practice.

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From trainings at our headquarters Northern California (45 minutes NW of San Francisco), to Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (Gabriel is faculty), to trainings at our new hosting venue in Northwest Italy (fly into Milan).

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