Jan 20 - Feb 10, 2026
Tuesdays 10 am - 12 pm (PT)
Our Right to Embody
Polyvagal-informed Somatic Wisdom for Resilience, Reciprocity and Resistance
Live Online Course with Amber Elizabeth Gray
REGISTER NOWIn a time of collective unease, how do we restore our sense of inner calm, focus and ease that root us in connection, compassion, and courage?
In this four-week experiential course, somatic psychotherapist and movement therapist Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray invites us to explore Polyvagal informed somatic and movement practices as a pathway to embodied resilience. Through gentle movement, breathwork, rhythm, and reflection, we’ll rediscover the body’s deep intelligence and learn to navigate fear, stress, and disconnection with grace, cultivating a felt sense of safety, belonging, and right action in ourselves and our communities.
Dates
Jan 20Â - Feb 10, 2026
Meeting Times
Tuesdays
10:00 am -Â 12:00 pm PT
Duration
4 Weeks
Format
Format: Live Online with Interactive Sessions
Cost
$349
In this time of heightened stress, fear, and fragmentation, reconnecting to our body’s natural rhythms is an act of resistance, restoration, and remembrance. Rooted in Polyvagal Theory and infused with body-based, ecological, and ancestral wisdoms, this experiential course offers a gentle yet transformative exploration of how our autonomic nervous system can guide us toward resilience, compassion, and collective care.
Each session blends accessible theory with embodied practices—breathwork, movement, rhythm, and reflection—to help you deepen self-awareness and strengthen your capacity for regulation and relational presence. We’ll explore how our autonomic nervous system is a pathway to healing, connection and truth-telling, that can foster compassionate right action.
This course is for all who seek to move through the world with more groundedness, reciprocity, and embodied integrity.
This course runs from Jan. 20 - Feb. 10, 2026, with live classes held on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. (PT) via Zoom. Recordings will be available for registrants who miss a session.
What You'll Learn
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The basics of Polyvagal Theory and Polyvagal-informed somatic and movement therapies
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How to map our own autonomic nervous system so we can change how we sense, feel, think, move and act
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How Polyvagal Theory helps us understand safety, connection, and resilience through the nervous system
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Ways to use breath, movement, and rhythm to support self-regulation and body-based awareness
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How attuning to our own, and others, autonomic nervous systems can promote a sense of our innate capacity for compassion, reciprocity, and resilience
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Practices for accessing body-based wisdom as a compass for truth, resistance, and collective care
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The role of the heart, belly, and spine as portals for healing, agency, and embodied compassion
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Every human being has the right to inhabit their bodies in a way that they choose.
Amber Gray
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone seeking to reconnect with the body as a source of healing, clarity, and courageous action in an often dysregulated world. It is especially resonant for:
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Therapists, healers, and somatic practitioners
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Artists, dancers, and movement-based creators
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Human rights advocates, organizers, and caregivers
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Those experiencing stress, fear, or burnout who are seeking grounded tools for resilience
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Anyone drawn to the intersection of science, spirit, and embodied wisdom
No background in Polyvagal Theory or somatics is required—just a willingness to listen inward, move with intention, and explore what it means to feel at home in your body.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Amber Elizabeth L. Gray (Muxkwudeheenawxkway; Saa’am So Otsi) is a Dance/Movement Therapist, Somatic & Human Rights Psychotherapist and longtime time yoga and Continuum teacher who works with survivors of war, torture, human rights abuses and historical trauma and oppression, at home in New Mexico and in active and post-conflict zones, refugee camps, and disasters. Equally activist, artist, advocate, mystic, author and therapist, her clinical, healing, educational and organizational work endeavors to promote reciprocity and empowerment and incite meaningful change. She brings her Polyvagal, Heart & Spirit-informed Right to Embody somatic human rights framework and Body of Change eco-somatic regenerative retreats to communities of therapists, artists, global citizens and change makers worldwide.
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Amber Gray is a passionate and compassionate trauma therapist and teacher/trainer, whose treatment model transcends disciplines. She has brilliantly infused and integrated Polyvagal Theory with its central theme of searching, obtaining, and maintaining somatic feelings of safety with movement therapies. Her work has had profound impact on survivors of torture, war and trauma by enabling them to experience safety and for their nervous systems to become sufficiently integrated to express love and trust of others.
Dr. Stephen Porges
Our Right to Embody
Polyvagal-informed Somatic Wisdom for Resilience, Reciprocity and Resistance
