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Join Dr Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, an internationally sought-after teacher, therapeutic yoga instructor, and leading voice in healing PTSD and complex trauma. This hybrid of live-online sessions and self-paced curriculum offers a unique opportunity to enhance your personal and clinical practice with cutting-edge techniques promoting physiological and psychological wellness. Dr. Schwartz will explain the science of natural vagus nerve stimulation and guide you through an experiential process, allowing you to sense the benefits of these practices for yourself and teach them to others.

This clinical training certificate course is essential for psychotherapists who are wanting to utilize polyvagal-informed interventions in therapy with their clients. The emphasis in this somatic training is learning bottom-up techniques that promote more profound shifts in the underlying physiology of the nervous system to provide deeper change and transformation.

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 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. Dr. Stephen Porges joins this course for a live discussion on April 29.

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 9, beginning September 15, 2025! Earn your Polyvagal-Informed Certificate from PVI, the founding home of Polyvagal Theory. Our flagship course offers an in-depth exploration of the Polyvagal Theory and its application to our lives, led by Dr. Stephen Porges and 9 experts in the fields of neuroscience, healthcare, and therapeutics. This course explores Polyvagal Theory like no other. Enroll today! Includes a live discussion with Dr. Porges.

This 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 October 2, and join Dr. Barili for 6 live sessions beginning October 9. Dr. Stephen Porges joins this course for a live discussion on December 11.

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.