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This new Community Practice Group at PVI follows Jan Winhall’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and her new book, “20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction” in a paradigm-shifting, deeply somatic approach that challenges current pathologizing models of addiction. Over the course of 20 weeks, participants will explore each practice in live sessions, in groups led by FSPM certified facilitators, and with their felt sense/focusing partner. This offering is not just for those who struggle with addiction, but anyone hoping to manage distressful emotions and difficult sensations, and preempt trauma responses and addictive processes, such as numbing, dissociating, and struggling with bad habits. Participants will gain tools to recognize and rewire autonomic states and find the felt sense of body wisdom.

Our voice is a profound resource that shapes how others perceive and engage with us. Whether in leadership, parenting, performing, counseling, therapy or coaching, our voice can either invite closeness or create distance. Its tone, rhythm, pace, and pitch signal safety or risk, connection or disconnection, confidence or doubt. While these dynamics often occur unconsciously, this new course empowers you to intentionally develop strategies to align your vocal and physiological presence with your core values, aspirations, and intentions.

This new program offers an exciting opportunity for clinicians who have been trained with an accredited EMDR trainer to further their practice with the integration of Polyvagal Theory. This integration offers a robust, dynamic, neuro-informed framework for case conceptualization, treatment planning, and client transformation. The approach applies not only to work with trauma and PTSD, but also in the treatment of addictions, anxiety, depression, grief, chronic pain, and adjustment disorders.

This exciting new course explores human physiology and the nervous system on every level, with special attention given to the bi-directional brain-gut axis and microbiome health and functionality. When we feel safe in our bodies, we can optimize our metabolic resources, regulate our internal systems, and shift our behaviors, improving our overall health, resilience, and quality of life. By understanding how food, sensory input, neuroception, interoception, and more influence our nervous system, we can make small, impactful changes in our physical and mental health.

Learn how to teach Polyvagal-Informed Focusing, based on Jan Winhall’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model. Specific tools and strategies will be shared so that you will feel confident in teaching focusing and the basics of the FSPM. Add this skill to your professional toolbox and become a Certified FSPM Facilitator! Part of a series of trainings with Jan Winhall.

Enrollment is now open for Cohort 7, beginning April 8, 2025! Our flagship Certificate Course offers an in-depth exploration of the Polyvagal Theory and its application to our lives. Led by Dr. Stephen Porges and 9 leading experts in the fields of neuroscience, healthcare, and therapeutics, this course explores Polyvagal Theory like no other.

This certificate course integrates the wisdom healing traditions of Yoga and Qigong with Polyvagal Theory. Learn how to use your nervous system and vital energy to promote good health and achieve your highest human potential, sharing it with clients and loved ones. You can take in the material at your own pace within each self-paced module beginning March 6, and join Dr. Barili for 6 live sessions beginning March 13.

In this 10-hour course, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how our nervous systems drive our contagious emotions and perspectives and explore a new lens of discipline that gets ahead of negative behaviors.

This consultation course is for those who have completed Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, or its equivalent, and are eager to continue the stimulating journey of learning about and applying the model.

This introductory course is for professional groups who wish to combine training in the key principles of Polyvagal Theory with discussion of how to apply it in their respective field. Course combines self-paced lectures with a live discussion with one of our polyvagal experts. Contact us for a customized course for your group or organization.