The Building Blocks of Experience with Rochelle Schieck
Fri, Jan 02
|Online on Zoom
We will look at Polyvagal theory through the lens of seeing the Dorsal Vagal, as the system of shut down, Sympathetic, as a system of action and Ventral Vagal, as a system of connection and explore how they are in an autonomic hierarchy, often referred to as the Polyvagal Ladder.
Time & Location
Jan 02, 2026, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST
Online on Zoom
About the event
LORE is an invitation to live a lifestyle of reverence everyday through movement, ritual, nature offerings, meditation, community building and social good. The program takes on different themes and offers you an opportunity to join live or visit recordings.
Our theme for the month of January is The Memory of Collaborative Interconnection.
As we move into the new year, I am drawing inspiration from Deb Dana's book called Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory.
In the introduction of the book Deb Dana writes, "Polyvagal Theory is the science of feeling safe enough to fall in love with life and take the risks of living." In the forward Stephen W. Porges, PhD, writes that Polyvagal Theory can be framed as a scientific extrapolation of the phylogenetic journey towards becoming social mammals, evolving out of being asocial reptiles. Our mammalian features include the process that enables downregulation of…