Deb Dana offers professional training for practitioners, and more general courses designed to be easily accessible for non-clinicians to learn about navigating their own nervous systems. Please contact us if you would like advice on choosing a course.
Rhythm of Regulation® Courses & Training for Professionals
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Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation: Polyvagal Theory in Therapy
An introductory-level course based on Deb’s seminal book, Polyvagal Theory in Theory: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation.
This on-demand book study course includes 20+ hours of Polyvagal-guided training presented by Deb herself. The program includes lifetime access to the video content as well as the accompanying readings, handouts and worksheets for you to use on your own and with your clients.
On-Demand
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Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice Training Series
An unparalleled professional clinical training series led by Deb and her Senior Training Team.
With over 40 hours of learning material via live training sessions, Q&As, recorded webinars, demonstrations, readings, handouts, and official exercises and worksheets created by Deb, this comprehensive hybrid training offers practitioners a deeply immersive and interactive learning journey to becoming Polyvagal-informed.
On-Demand and Live-Online
Next Cohort Begins: September 2026
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Learning Labs Series I: Four Specific Polyvagal Deep Dives
An intermediate-level course designed for practitioners who have completed basic Polyvagal training.
The Learning Lab Series I offers practitioners an opportunity to deepen their existing knowledge of Polyvagal-guided therapy in four specific areas: Bringing a Polyvagal Lens to Remote Sessions; Introducing Polyvagal Theory to Clients, Colleagues & the Community; Setting up a Polyvagal-Informed Session; Embodying the Polyvagal Perspective.
On-Demand
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Learning Labs Series II: Four Specific Polyvagal Deep Dives
Part Two of Deb’s popular intermediate-level Polyvagal Learning Labs Series.
The Learning Labs Series II provides practitioners a continued opportunity to develop and broaden their knowledge and skillset in Polyvagal-guided therapy using Deb’s renowned framework in four additional areas: From State to Story; Mapping the Regulated System; Flavors of Autonomic Response; Working with Couples.
On-Demand
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Deb Dana's Advanced Master Class Retreat Series
These intimate, in-person retreat-style workshops take participants on an immersive and experiential learning journey as they deepen their understanding, application and embodiment of Polyvagal-guided living and clinical work.
Deb's Master Classes are advanced-level training and are intended for those who have completed the Foundations training series or other multi-day foundational training with Deb and are actively using PVT in their work with clients.
Washington, Maine
Next Retreat: June 2027
Upcoming Live Events and Training
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Parla Con Deb Dana (Talk with Deb Dana): A 3-Part Live-Online Series
Rhythm of Regulation’s Italian partner, Teoria Polivagale, is hosting a special three‑session online series with Deb this fall: Parla Con Deb Dana, a training designed to explore what happens when the nervous system becomes “stuck” in particular states and how we can gently guide it back toward safety and connection.
Across three 90‑minute sessions, Deb offers practical tools, clinical insights, and polyvagal‑guided strategies for working with sympathetic activation, dorsal collapse, and trauma patterns. Each gathering includes 30 minutes of teaching followed by a full hour dedicated to Q&A, creating a spacious environment for deeper exploration and real‑time integration.
Open to both professionals and non‑professionals with a basic understanding of Polyvagal Theory, this series provides an accessible way to learn with Deb and strengthen your polyvagal‑informed practice.
The sessions will be held in English and will include simultaneous translation in Italian.
Hosted by Teoria Polivagale
Begins October 9, 2026
Live-Online
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Perspectives on Psychotrauma: Treating Trauma Through IFS and Nervous Systems States
Join Deb and Frank Anderson for a rare two‑day training exploring how Parts Work and Polyvagal Theory can come together to support deeper, more flexible trauma treatment. Designed for clinicians working with the complexity of psychotrauma, this workshop offers an integrative lens that honors both the language of internal parts and the autonomic states that shape lived experience.
Across two days of teaching, dialogue, experiential practice, and live clinical demonstrations, Deb and Frank illuminate how their perspectives intersect in real time. How adaptive responses form, how nervous system states influence narrative and behavior, and how clinicians can read both dimensions moment‑by‑moment in session. Rather than presenting two separate models, they demonstrate how these approaches can mutually enrich one another and expand clinical choice.
This event brings together two major voices in trauma care for the first time in France, with professional simultaneous interpretation into multiple languages. Participants will leave with a more nuanced clinical map, practical tools for working with complexity, and a clearer sense of how to integrate modalities without becoming rigid or formulaic.
Hosted by Quantum Way
October 20–21, 2026
In-Person + Live-Online
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Befriend Your Nervous System: A Retreat in the US with Deb Dana
Join Deb for this seven‑day immersive retreat on the shores of Lake Superior designed to help mental health professionals gently befriend, understand, and regulate their nervous systems. This retreat offers a spacious environment for inner work, rest, and embodied exploration of Polyvagal Theory as both a personal practice and a clinical framework.
Participants will explore the landscape of their autonomic nervous systems through teaching, experiential exercises, movement, sound healing, and time in nature. The retreat weaves together personal regulation practices with clinical application, supporting clinicians in developing a deeper felt sense of safety, connection, and therapeutic presence.
Hosted at Wild Rice Retreat, the week includes daily workshops with Deb, small‑group practice, local experiences, and ample time for reflection. Online preparation and post-integration circles surrounds the in‑person retreat, offering continuity, support, and community before and after the gathering.
Designed for therapists, psychologists, counselors, and other helping professionals, this retreat provides a grounded, experiential way to deepen Polyvagal‑informed awareness and bring regulation‑based practices into clinical work.
Hosted by Life Architect
March 1 - 7, 2027
Bayfield, Wisconsin
Co-Hosted On-Demand Trainings
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Psychotherapy Networker: Masterclass
Co-Hosted with PESI
Polyvagal Informed Therapy Masterclass
Join Deb in a one-on-one analysis with Networker Continuing Education Director and clinician, Zachary Taylor, as they discuss Deb's unique contribution & how she works moment-by-moment in real time.
See Deb Dana in action with real clients and experience how applying Polyvagal Theory insights can transform your treatment outcomes
On-demand
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Finding Safety in your Nervous System
Co-Hosted with Sounds True
A Non-Clinical Introductory Program for Curious Humans
This online course offers resources to help calm your body & soothe your soul. Here, Deb Dana provides her valuable blueprint for building resilience and finding safety during the many ups and downs of life.
On-demand
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Polyvagal Theory: The Science of Safety, Trust, and Self‑Regulation in Action
Co‑Hosted with W. W. Norton
Join Deb, along with insights from some of the most influential voices in trauma therapy, in this on‑demand Read & Watch program exploring the science of safety, trust, and self‑regulation. This immersive learning experience weaves together teaching, clinical demonstration, and guided reflection to illuminate how the autonomic nervous system shapes experience and informs therapeutic choice.
Through a blend of video teaching and real‑world clinical application, the program highlights how Polyvagal principles can support safety, strengthen therapeutic engagement, and foster pathways toward regulation and connection. Clinicians will gain a clear, accessible understanding of autonomic processes and practical ways to bring polyvagal‑informed skills into their work.
On‑demand