Upcoming Events

This March, polyvagal-informed women's heath expert Chantal Traub and special guest Dr. Sue Carter return to PVI to offer a three-part series specifically designed for women in or entering mid-life, and for those working with or supporting this population.  Midlife and menopause can be a creative transformative experience. This series will center self-care and self-compassion strategies to manage chronic stress and create safety in the body. You can enroll in just one session in this education series for $65, or save by signing up for all three for $149. If you are unable to join us live in real time, your registration includes access to the session recording(s).

​Join PVI and Course Partner Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT, for a combined Author Talk and Info Session! Jan Winhall has recently published “20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction,” in which she presents readers with two vital tools for healing: learning how to recognize and rewire their autonomic state, and finding the felt sense of somatic wisdom. This compassionate and inviting model centers the intelligence of the body to allow for deep healing, and these 20 step-by step exercises present an accessible approach for clinicians, their clients, and anyone on the journey to healing from trauma and addiction.  ​During this event, Jan will also share about the new Community Practice Group at PVI, which follows Jan's Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and the practices in her new book, creating 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. Come see if this new offering is a good fit for you on your healing journey. Live sessions begin May 21, 2025. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Can't join us for this event in real time? No worries! Your registration here ensures that you will receive the recording of this session sent to you by email within 48 hours of the live event.​​​​​​​​​​​

The 2025 PVI International Gathering will take place from October 31-November 2, 2025 at the Omni Amelia Island Resort & Spa. This year our focus is The Vagus Nerve: A Path to Wellness. ​​ ​ View our schedule of main stage presenters, opportunities for connection and co-regulation with fellow attendees, and exclusive hotel accommodations at the link below.   This event is live-in person. Registration for online virtual attendance is also offered. Special Early Bird Tickets are on sale now! We hope you will join us!

The newly published book, Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives, edited by Herbert Grassmann, Maurizio Stupiggia, and Stephen W. Porges PhD, represents a significant consolidation of innovative research and clinical approaches aimed at addressing trauma through various somatic modalities. ​This volume of collected work from some of the world’s leading experts in trauma aims to delineate this novel domain of research and clinical intervention. It elucidates the common thread linking the contributing authors and introduces a new clinical perspective.  Join PVI as we host the editors of this book along with a lineup of six of the contributing authors: Jan Winhall,  Donnalea Goelz, Ruby Jo Walker, Betsy Polatin, Chantal Traub and Michael Allison. The editors will share about the scope and intent of the book; each author will present an overview of their chapter from the book, and share an embodiment practice rooted in their work and research. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Can't join us for this event in real time? No worries! Your registration here ensures that you will receive the recording of this session sent to you by email within 48 hours of the live event.

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. While these dynamics often occur unconsciously, this new course, Aligning Our Voice with Our Intentions: A Polyvagal Course for Communication with Mattie Shisko and co-instructor Michael Allison, empowers you to intentionally develop strategies to align your vocal and physiological presence with your core values, aspirations, and intentions. This live-online course begins April 29, 2025. ​Come join PVI Course Partners Mattie Shisko and Michael Allison to learn more about this learning opportunity. Mattie will share an overview of the curriculum and learning objectives for the course, and will be available to answer any of your questions! If you can not attend live in real time, a recording will be emailed to all who register.

Join PVI Course Partners Michael Allison and Mattie Shisko for this free, live-online Community Conversation. This month they welcomes guest BG Mancini for "Digesting Cues of Safety & Threat Through Our Food and Environment." Our Brain-Gut-Nervous System axis continuously influences our health, well-being, healing, relationships, and performance—both in the moment and over our lifetimes. Understanding how our food and environment signal safety or threat is essential to caring for our physical and mental health. This conversation will explore the immediate and long-term consequences of the cues we are feeding our nervous systems and introduce a Polyvagal-informed approach to harness our integrated brain-gut-nervous system for greater wellness and resilience, and a more optimal human experience. BG Mancini teaches the upcoming PVI Course, "Polyvagal Theory & the Brain-Gut Axis: An Intro to Neuro-Integrative Medicine," which begins March 25, 2025. Can't join us live in real time? Your registration includes access to the event recording that is emailed out within 48 hours of the live event.

Join PVI and our Director of Community Development, Stephanie D'Angelo, for this free reset! Take some time out of your day to dedicate to your practice of mindfulness. Mindfulness meditation is one of the most powerful methods we have to regulate our nervous systems! During these brief practice sessions you'll explore ways you can personally create stability and cultivate safety, move toward acceptance of the present moment experience, cultivate self-compassion, practice making choices, and be curious. Everything offered during the session is invitational, and you will be empowered by having the choice to opt-out at any time. ​ Stephanie D’Angelo CMT-P has a master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University, where she developed the Polyvagal Informed Embodied Mindfulness program. Can't join us live in real time? Your registration includes access to the event recording that is emailed out within 48 hours of the live event.