Online Winter Session: January & early February 2026

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In our winter session, Gabriel is going to teach the new book, GROUND: How Modernity Disconnected from the Earth, Why It Matters, and How to Fix It, with a specific focus on deepening our embodied experience of contact with the Living Earth, and autonomic integration of deep grounding states.

The book releases December 15. If you preorder by December 5, you should receive it by December 20.

We will ask that you read the book prior to the beginning of the session, which is not a tiny ask, because it is about 400 pages.

We will meet weekly on 4 x Tuesday mornings: January 13, 20, 27, and February 3, from 7 am to 10 am Pacific time.

(We know that this is an odd time, but it is what we have available due to the vagaries of Gabriel’s teaching and clinical schedule.)

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Modernity, as a moment and a construct of progress (linear time) is largely a domination paradigm. In the book Gabriel explores the past 12,000 years of our species’ lineage history with a focus on denaturing events that have shaped our cultural inheritance, including supremacy mind, the long tail of the roman empire, enclosure of the commons, the origin of right angles, and other phenomena that have disconnected us from the earth.

He explores the way that this denaturing has worked in the civilization, and in the past hundred years of his family, using it as a sort of case example.

He then looks deeply at the physiology of lifethreat states, and the neurobiological sequelae of getting stuck in lifethreat responses.

The book is an inquiry into what is required of us to heal from millenia’s long injury to our deep rootedness in the earth.

The winter session is experimental, and experiential. It should be a deep learning opportunity for us all. The book is new, and he hasn’t taught this stuff that much yet, so it should be an interesting ride. It feels important to us to be teaching these practices during these times.