Stephen Porges
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Sep 15, 2026
Lindsey LockettGUEST
Can you give like, yeah, the elevator pitch? Yeah.
Lindsey LockettGUEST
In 1994, a guy named Stephen Porges, super genius, academic scientist, neuro researcher guy, came up with a model for the human autonomic, the mammalian nervous system called the polyvagal theory.
Lindsey LockettGUEST
It's based in like the vagus nerve.
Lindsey LockettGUEST
And he identified these survival states and the ways in which the nervous system automatically springs into action on our behalf.
Anna M L SmithGUEST
So from a practical point of view, what I often do is I get them to print off a polyvagal chart, which is like a bell-shaped curve.
Anna M L SmithGUEST
It's the work of Stephen Porges, and it's got three nervous system states on.
Anna M L SmithGUEST
So it's your nervous system on an A4 sheet of paper.
Anna M L SmithGUEST
I love it.
Matt BennettGUEST
So, you know, while we had our best practices was how we were implementing these, really helping to heal the disruption, the nervous system impacted by trauma.
Matt BennettGUEST
And so when I came across heart rate variability, you know, initially in Vander Kalt's The Body Keeps the Score, which some of your audience members might have heard of, and then looking at Paulie Vagel's, Stephen Porges' Paulie Vagel Theory, It's like, here's my metric.
Matt BennettGUEST
And it was just, you know, about nine years ago.
Matt BennettGUEST
It was kind of at a time where Bluetooth technology and wearables were allowing HRV to start to get out of the laboratory.
Dean HallGUEST
We make it a linear experience where here's where you start, here's where you want to end up.
Dean HallGUEST
And even Stephen Porges, you know, brilliant man who created polyvagal theory, talks about it as a ladder or many times steps.
Dean HallGUEST
Well, those are even linear.
Dean HallGUEST
But when I was in June listening firsthand to Naysha Winters, And she was showing tidal flows.
Perry NickelstonHOST
And where in Eastern medicine, you can't appreciate joy unless you've had the opposite end of it because you've got no comparison to even what it is.
Perry NickelstonHOST
And I love that journey of that analogy.
Perry NickelstonHOST
I had one of my – Stephen Porges has been on my show too.
Perry NickelstonHOST
He's a good friend.
Bianca Winter-MallariHOST
I work a lot with polyvagal theory in my work.
Bianca Winter-MallariHOST
And if you're not familiar with polyvagal theory, it's a theory that was developed by Stephen Porges that understands how the autonomic nervous system responds to cues of safety and to cues of threat.
Bianca Winter-MallariHOST
And to try and make it as simple as possible here, basically polyvagal theory recognizes that there are three broad autonomic patterns or nervous system states.
Bianca Winter-MallariHOST
So you have ventral vagal or the social engagement state, which is when we feel safe, we're able to connect, communicate, be curious about each other and the world and engage with one another.
Chris WilliamsonHOST
There was an interesting thing around the sounds from Mother's Womb.
Chris WilliamsonHOST
I had Stephen Porges on, the polyvagal theory guy.
Chris WilliamsonHOST
Oh, very interesting.
Chris WilliamsonHOST
He came up with the safe and sound protocol, SSP.
Jason PrallGUEST
So I want to get back to sort of the more grounded approach here of how this stuff works, right? There was an amazing concept or term that was coined called neuroception, right? And really, I've sort of shortened it, and it's kind of the body's ability to subconsciously read and respond to environmental cues.
Jason PrallGUEST
So this is a quote from, I believe, Stephen Porges.
Jason PrallGUEST
He says, it's how neural circuits distinguish whether situations or people are safe, dangerous, or life-threatening.
Jason PrallGUEST
The detection of a person as safe or dangerous triggers neurobiologically determined pro-social or defensive behaviors.
Doug NollGUEST
I think it does.
Doug NollGUEST
I mean, I'm, I'm, I've read Porges' work.
Doug NollGUEST
I've read his book and studied, read all his papers around the polyvagal theory.
Margaret RutherfordHOST
Mm-hmm.
Peyton McCannHOST
And then 82nd minute, Feyenoord do end up getting one.
Peyton McCannHOST
Porges sends a cross from the right side of the box to the far post.
Peyton McCannHOST
And if anyone is going to get beat on our team defensively right now, It's Jules Koundé.
Peyton McCannHOST
Koundé completely leaves Stein by himself open for the tap-in at the far post, and it's 4-1.
Kiki AthanasiouHOST
No, I mean, it's so true.
Kiki AthanasiouHOST
And also, you know, you talk about Stephen Porges and his polyvagal theory a little bit in the context of gratitude, but, and you're talking about how gratitude, according to him, activates the ventral vagal complex, which then helps create this sense of safety and social engagement.
Kiki AthanasiouHOST
And one of the interesting things I've always found about that is, and in fact, in my discussions with him was, you know, some people feel unsafe or they've had very traumatic experiences with other people.
Kiki AthanasiouHOST
And so in some ways they feel safer on their own, or they feel safer in, you know, relying on themselves.
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