Natureza Gabriel - Decoding The Neurobiology of Connection

Natureza Gabriel is an ancestral neuroscience pioneer, the developer of Autonomics, and the founder of Hearth Science—an organization & community offering tools, trainings, and practices that help people cultivate nervous system fluency and deepen their experience of well-being.

At the heart of his work is Autonomics: an animist cartography of living autonomic physiology. This framework has been shaped by over three decades of collaboration with more than one hundred mentors and advisors across 25 healing traditions and 24 cultures, many indigenous. It is considered one of the first accurate maps of the living Autonomic Nervous System in modernity. 

His Autonomics trainings have been sought out by the United Nations, a division of NATO, global social and ecological movements, and elite firms in executive coaching and leadership development.

He is the author of many books, including Restorative Practices of Well-Being, Finding Home in Your Nervous System, Autonomic Triage, and The Neurobiology of Connection.

In this episode, we speak about the origins of Gabriel’s autonomic model and how it diverged from Polyvagal Theory, the 13 autonomic states, what entails a healthy nervous system, the limits of HRV and the future of diagnostics, practices to rebalance the nervous system, the limitations of modernity, and pathways towards civilizational wellness.

🔗[Links & resources] 🔗

• Gabriel’s personal site 
• Gabriel’s autonomic trainings
• Gabriel’s clinic
• Restorative practices portal
• The Neurobiology of Connection by Natureza Gabriel
• Ground: How Modernity Disconnected from the Earth, Why it Matters & How to Fix It by Natureza
• Finding Home in Your Nervous System by Natureza Gabriel
• Awakening Human Connection by Natureza Gabriel
  
  

🕰️[Time stamps] 🕰️

0:00 - Introduction 
3:52 -  The origins of autonomics (bridging neuroscience and autonomic physiology) 
7:53 - Stephen Porges, polyvagal theory and moving beyond a two-system autonomics 
21:44 - The 13 Autonomic States 
31:31 - Neuroception, Neurology & Neurochemistry 
34:55 - What is a healthy autonomic nervous system?
42:39 - The limits of HRV and the future of autonomic diagnostics 
49:17 - The importance of restorative practices 
52:00 - How to rebalance a hyper-activated nervous system 
1:01:09 - How to rebalance a shut-down nervous system 
1:05:47 - The importance of community in healing and processing grief 
1:11:45 - The limitations of modernity 
1:14:55 - Ground: How modernity disconnected us from the Earth 
1:24:10 - The challenges of running a company in a culture of domination 
1:33:52 - How do we bridge power & wisdom? (Becoming a mycelium network)
1:45:10-  The disconnection that underlies the techno-optimist worldview
1:48:33 - Pathways towards civilizational wellness

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