The Autonomics Clinic
The Autonomics Clinic is a neuro-transformation clinic. We apply autonomics to the treatment of stress-related disorders and increasing human and planetary flourishing. Ideally we do this face-to-face in the Living World, but we also make house calls, and work on Zoom because our clients live around the world.
The clinic works with individuals and groups.
Our work is focused on healing (we consult and treat many autonomic issues that allopathic medicine says cannot be healed). For a list of symptoms that we treat, go here.
We also engage in neuro-transformational coaching work with leaders, visionairies, and change-makers who realize that limitations on the functioning of their deep neurology are inhibiting the fullest expression of their potential. For a list of competencies we help people grow, go here.
We consult with mission-aligned teams to improve organization function, coherence, alignment, and innovation.
(We been invited to work with, train with, presented, or taught through the organizations and publications listed below…)
THE ROLE OF AUTONOMICS IN DAILY LIFE
The general population is extremely un-informed about the degree to which the moment-to-moment functioning of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is THE primary driver of our quality of life. Autonomic dys-regulation happens with varying levels of severity. On one end of the continuum are profoundly debilitating dysautonomias, complex chronic illness, and severe post-traumatic and complex post-traumatic disorders. These extreme responses compromise everyday quality of life significantly. Yet there is an entire range of autonomic dysfunction that may not even be clinically classified, where the ANS is simply not functioning in an optimal manner.
This occurs when the habituated baseline state of the ANS is not on the health-creating side of autonomic functioning, and is, unfortunately, the baseline state for most modern people. (We wrote the book The Neurobiology of Connection to comprehensively address this subject.) For some, this habituated baseline means perpetually residing in a subtle fight-or-flight response; for others it is the subtle withdrawal and dampening of shutdown. When our autonomic composition is baselined in one of these places, which is typically the result of successful adaptations to early life events that have led to accumulated allostatic load (stress responses), it colors our daily experience of being in our bodies and minds in pervasive ways.
Changing your autonomic composition, which is a result of clearing residual allostatic load: archived incomplete autonomic responses, and the associated neurochemistry residual in the body, as well as increasing the functional availability of your connection system and its response flexibility will have direct and obvious transformational effects on your quality of life.
We are the world-leading experts in facilitating these processes, setting diagnostic and clinical standards in these areas, and engaged in seminal research about them.
Our work has been requested by the United Nations, NATO, Fortune 500 companies, elite global leadership and executive coaching firms, and some of the finest medical schools in the world. Hearth Science, Inc. may have the only accurate in vivo map of autonomic physiology in the world.
Gabriel’s prior experience includes nearly 30 years of study and research, leading to a new foundation model in autonomic physiology (Autonomics), architecting the first comprehensive autonomically-informed diagnosis and treatment clinical software platform on earth, being the lead teacher of a global Polyvagal study group with 5000 clinician members, writing and art directing the Official Polyvagal Posters with Stephen W. Porges, PhD, and working adjunct to various functional medicine teams on numerous complex neurological cases over the past decade.
He is exceptionally good at working with the autonomic nervous system in real time. He’s also very straightforward when his expertise is not a good match for what you’re trying to change.
“HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR PROGRESS TOWARDS YOUR INITIAL TREATMENT OBJECTIVES?
Beyond my imagination - I’ve dreamed of my body releasing from a lifetime of tension. I’ve read about this, heard promises of this and now I know, truly understanding how it feels. To describe my hands & legs without tension - awesome - just smiling from ear to ear. We surpassed what I was able to imagine. At first I was surprised how prepared I felt in our first session — it felt natural to let go of meaning making & fixing and to simply allow. I was ready on many levels. And stunned & fascinated & intrigued by the release.
HOW MUCH SYMPTOM RELIEF HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED?
No longer waking up at 3:30am to explosive cortisol surges. (At least 20 years) My guts are much calmer — from close to IBS regularly to relaxed gut; few emergencies. My hands are relaxed when I sleep & walk. My legs are getting there. And my skill of assisting the muscles to lengthen out of the contracted dreaming has improved upon waking in the morning.
AS YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM HAS HEALED/TRANSFORMED, HAVE YOU NOTICED OTHER CHANGES IN THE WAY YOU FEEL, YOUR PERCEPTIONS, OR YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE?
I’ve noticed so many shifts, some quite subtle: I’m calmer, smile more, laugh out loud more, even caught myself singing - out loud! My overall vitality matches my belief system. Described as more depth & breadth. My posture is naturally more upright. I’m walking with comfort because my hips are gliding. My vigilance has softened to a broader perception of what’s going on around, feels more agile.
HAVE YOU NOTICED ANY CHANGES TO BASELINE STRESS LEVELS?
I especially noticed my body holding my fear with the latest medical diagnosis; I spoke about the fear (historically there was no voice) and I was able to regulate in the doctors office, stay attuned to what was being presented and I didn’t rush to ‘fix’ the problem with research, trusting my gut and caregivers. So returning to a fully attuned body rather quickly.
ON A SCALE OF 1-10, HOW SATISFIED ARE YOU WITH THE COURSE OF TREATMENT?
10+ I am deeply touched by the patience and subtleties of the work we have done together. The quintessential moments of desire, practice and acceptance for me, matched with Gabriel’s masterful skill of attention, intuition & wisdom - a trust dance. It’s beautiful work.”
“I teach people how to connect (and re-connect) with themselves, one another, and the Living World, and I build and create things that foster the proper intuitions of relatedness. ”
—Natureza Gabriel, Founder
Please read this before you request a consultation
The Hearth Science autonomics clinic is a neuro-transformation clinic that centralizes autonomics in the diagnosis and treatment of stress-related disorders, and engages in depth neuro-transformational work with individuals and groups. We are frequently consulted about complex neurological issues that have an autonomic component, including various kinds of trauma and complex trauma exposures, and neurological issues with balance and proprioception. Many people referred to us on the healing side of our work have consulted with numerous neurologists, or been repeatedly told that there is no treatment for their symptoms.
We do not treat complex chronic illness, MCAS, ME/CFS, POTS, dysautonomias, or auto-immune issues, but we can direct you to appropriate referral partners including our partners at Gordon Medical Associates, founded by our colleague Eric Gordon, MD, who runs a practice in San Rafael, California focused on unraveling complex chronic illness with whom we consult as adjunct (typically these diagnoses are complex intersections of autonomic, immunological, and endocrine systems, and in those situations we are adjunct to primary care, but not the treatment home.)
We also work on the autonomics of elite performance, broadly construed. This facet of our work includes work with elite athletes, as well as leaders, visionaries, and executives to address the deepest neurological strata of performance.
If you are interested in a consultation with the Autonomics clinic, which is the first step in a prospective clinical engagement with us, please fill out the form below. Let us know if your goal is simply to have an additional perspective or neurological consultation, or whether you’re hoping to work one-on-one with Gabriel. After the initial consultation, if we believe there is a good fit, and we believe we can help you, we will design a treatment framework. In most cases, we work with with people every other week for 45 to 90 minutes per session for a mutually-agreed upon duration: at minimum four sessions. We do this work on a cadence such that your nervous system can enter into the rhythm of call-and-response with the work.
The work is extremely focused, and we only work with a handful of clients at any given time. Our results typically exceed client expectations.
Gabriel is the Founder of Hearth Science, the Developer of Autonomics, and the principal architect of the Autonomic Compass: an autonomically-informed diagnostics and treatment software platform that we built from scratch. He is the author of 14 books about the autonomic nervous system, trains healing arts practitioners around the world, and teaches and lectures internationally.
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