March 2020 Ayahuasca Retreat Testimonials
A participant from our March 2020 retreat shares insights from his experience. He also retrospectively talks about his participation in the ayahuasca ceremony and our workshop.
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Stephen Porges "The Polyvagal Theory"
William Stranger interview Dr. Stephen Porges.
Dr. Stephen Porges – Neuroscientist at the University of North Carolina – Department of Psychiatry (UNC Chapel Hill) and Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington The Polyvagal Theory introduced a new perspective relating autonomic function to behavior that included an appreciation of autonomic nervous system as a “system,” the identification of neural circuits involved in the regulation of autonomic state, and an interpretation of autonomic reactivity as adaptive within the context of the phylogeny of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system.
Stephen W. Porges is a “Distinguished University Scientist” at the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington and professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Prior to moving to North Carolina, Professor Porges directed the Brain-Body Center in the department of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also held appointments in the departments of psychology, bioengineering, and worked as an adjunct in the department of neuroscience which he found suited him and it became his priority.
In 1994 he proposed the polyvagal theory providing insight into the mechanism mediating symptoms observed in the brain. The theory has stimulated research and treatments emphasizing the importance of physiological state and behavioral regulation. Stephen Porges is married to C. Sue Carter, a world leader in the role of neuropetides oxytocin and vasopressin in social cognition.
