My name is Gabriel.

My work exists at the interface between neuroscience and ancestral awareness. I am a connection phenomenologist, neural cartographer, and performance neurologist trained by many of the world’s leading experts in connection and wellbeing & by indigenous trackers and wisdomkeepers. My efforts are aimed at finding synergies between these perspectives and helping humans live from the ancestral baseline in safety & connection.

In this pursuit, I have spent nearly thirty years completely rebuilding a living cartography of the Autonomic Nervous System that rewrites a significant part of the lineage history of neuroscience, the foundation model of which was reduced to practice in June of 2024.

I am Founder of Hearth Science, Inc. In collaboration with Dr. Stephen Porges, Developer of the Polyvagal Theory, I wrote and art directed the Official Polyvagal Poster, which you can find in clinics in more than 50 countries around the world.

I hosted and directed The Restorative Practices Film Series (2018-2020), The Connection Masterclass: Interviews at the ancestral future of medicine and mental health (2021-2022), and The Autonomic Spectrum Lecture Series (2023-2024) and Lectures on the New Foundation Model in Autonomics (2024).

I am author of Transformation through Feeling (2010), Applied Mindfulness: Inner Life Skills for Youth (2011), Restorative Practices of Wellbeing (2021), Keywords: A Field Guide to the Missing Words (2022), So, About that Death Cult You Joined: Essays on Empire in Modernity (2023), Origins Stories for Children (2023), Can’t Get Home (stories)(2023), The Neurobiology of Connection (2024), and GROUND (forthcoming 2025).

My article in Psychology Today on How Your Nervous System Works has been read more than 30,000 times. In 2023-2024 I ran the global Polyvagal Study group on Facebook. I have been asked to teach the modality I have been developing for 30 years with more than 100 mentors to the entire faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine, Extinction Rebellion, Indigenous tribal leaders, and some of the world’s leading executive coaching and leadership development firms.

I live in Northern California where I steward an eco-reserve.