I work everyday with the structural integration piece of toning this nerve and, more commonly, the negative effects of not hydrating the connective tissue/fascial environment it lives in. There is a physical/structural component to every disease/issue and this nerve is the big communicator; and along with psoas, the divining rod of the body; the lighthouse; the chakra alignment, the knowledge interpreter...I would love to see a part 2 and 3 and 4 to this, Gil. Thanks for the ease and flow of your educating style.
I find that your comment on "hydrating" to be unusual if not virtually unique. There are two (designated by anatomists) fluids that accompany every peripheral nerve: perineurial fluid and endoneurial fluid. These two fluids are essential for the structure of the nerve to function, yet I have found that most every teacher for CEU credits is unaware of this essential functional component as if these fluids do not exist. I would be interested in your take on this lack of awareness since you specialize on this structure. I'm especially curious as to why it seems that most therapists focus on structure without mentioning the contribution of fluids to structure. You can reach me at info@optimalbodywork.net. Look forward to your insights and thanks for jogging my mind as to the importance of fluids.
Thank you! And I agree with Barry, thank you for bringing up this essential component of nerve health, that being the fluid dynamics and hydration aspect, super important!
Ooh a whole course, hmm, that's probably a very good idea, I will do some homework and think on how I might organize that, thank you for your enthusiastic interest!
Thank-you so much for this. I have worked with people with PTSD for many years as a massage therapist and a big part of my work has been influenced by Stephen Porges, yourself, Babette Rothschild (who I have trained with) & Bessel van der Kolk..all of you have helped me to support clients to reconnect into their bodies (top down and bottom up approaches (as discussed in The Body Keeps The Score), combining mindfulness, talking and touch), helping clients to find what works for them to re-regulate ANS responses and learn what feels 'safe'/find their voice/(re)establish boundaries. Viva la vagus nerve!..and thank-you for all you do/bring/the way you express the wonders of being human x
Thank you for your kind words Kathryn, the most gratifying part of my work is learning how folks like yourself and other practitioners take information that I share and put it to work in service of uplifting suffering humanity, thank you for doing what you do!
@@kathrynsmith3133 Ha we shall see about that! The above little clip required no homework on my part, a course surely would! And that being said, I have found the best way to learn is to have to teach something!
Thank you both for your help.🙏I get a nudge from the Universe to learn more about nerves as I dont know much from this perspective although I have been doing acupunture for 25 years.
I like to wander and wonder within my skin, breathe and attend to the sensations to track the moving dance and always grateful for the kind introduction of a map to guide the experience! Thanks as always!
Fabulous - love your enthusiasm . Love Steve Porges work. Vagus is a major component of my work for folks with high level trauma. Love to hear more of your insights.
Thank you, Gil. I did not realize how far into the abdominal cavity it wandered. The hydration point someone made piques my curiosity. I learn so much from these sessions as I commute to and from Seattle on the ferry.
Gil - THank you so much for your "lively" and "engaging" educational videos! I am curious about what you may know about issues surrounding post Covid and the potential of the vagus nerve being involved with the challenges with taste and smell in some who have long term side effects/impact after having Covid. Thank You.
Cranial I, the olfactory nerve, is the afferent path for smell, while Cranial VII, the facial nerve, delivers taste from the forward 2/3rds of the tongue's tastebuds, and Cranial IX, the glossopharyngeal nerve along with Cranial X, the vagus nerve, bring sensory information from the back 1/3rd of the tongue and epiglottis to the medulla oblongata of the brainstem. So issues with taste and smell involve quite a bit more nerve fibers than just the vagus. Personally I'm not sure why that info is not being picked up, but I also am an extreme optimist and lean hard into the possibility of being relieved of such distresses regardless of cause. We are very healable beings!!
Omg......Gil.... Your every where these days In my garden in my kitchen I wonder How many of us are Tuning in To Our Mr Vagus Nerve Himself Connecting us all Belfast Ireland 🇮🇪😎
I understand from Jean Pierre Barral that the lower esophageal sphincter is innervated by the vagal nerves and its function is to allow food from the esophagus into the stomach and to prevent regurgitation of acidic stomach contents back into the throat. It is not a true muscular sphincter valve, and responds rapidly to psychological stress. The lower esophageal sphincter will stay closed under sympathetic excess and can stay shut when drinking a lot of water while active on a hot day, eating something cold such as ice cream, or eating when one is completely unrelaxed. Esophageal reflux (GERD) can arise when the parasympathetic mode keeps the sphincter open. I picture the left and right wrapping around the stomach portal allowing or not allowing the passage of food and/or emotional responses. Interesting how you say the heart talks to the brain through this same nerve.
Hi Donna thanks for this very interesting addition to the particulars of this particular area of vagal nerve supply, cool stuff! Given the many "stops" the vagus nerve makes along the course of its wanderings, it is a long story what is happening where and how :) In general we can note that what motor nerves that are supplied by the vagus nerve are mostly heading towards multiple organs, without being the sole motor supply necessarily, and that the majority of its fibers are sensory, and autonomic. I think of it as sniffing about the body gathering information from all quarters visceral, and then sharing that information with the brain to make autonomic adjustments. Go vagus go!
I have not but I would not be surprised to learn of such a connection, fibers get very thin down there as they widely distribute, and it is not an easy matter to follow their full extent at the gross dissection level where I work, but I bet the students of the microscope could tell us more, anyone?!
Thanks for these great videos! How about more on the vagus nerve? Trying to resolve chronic trauma...... practitioners are telling me my issues are due to "dorsal vagus nerve"..... More info please! Thanks!
I heard about a study of women who had experienced total spinal paralysis, but they were still able to experience orgasm with certain types of genital stimulation; the hypothesis was that the vagus nerve goes all the way to the cervix (and probably to a similar location in men).
according to Michael Shea he mentioned - The vagus nerve orchestrates the orgasm reflex thru a peptide - VIP (vasointestinal peptide); how it gets damaged with abuse, enema abuse, toilet training abuse; violation in the pelvic floor; the BIG groundbreaking info (from studies with paraplegic women who could still have orgasms despite spinal cord injury…WOW!!!) - how the orgasmic reflex gets into the inferior hypogastric plexi and the anterior branch of the vagus in the intestines.
Hi Kelly thank you for watching! I am not sure what level of friendship there is between the psoas m. and the vagus n. to be honest, and, I would add that any imbalance is unlikely easily pinned imo on any particular anatomically named structure but rather on a possible less easy to describe imbalance in the flow of energy through all the structures related to a particular area, just my two cents!
Thank you for your excellent videos. As an PT with 25 years experience, I am still learning new things from you. Do you think the vagus nerve could become entrapped a as it passes through the diaphragm after a gastric bypass?
I'm curious , Is it possible that using the Transversus Abd. manipulates the vagus nerve Bottom up by changing the visceral inner pressure ? not only Top down? I work with people that suffer from various Trauma conditions and I see interesting effect when they start regulating themselves mentaly through the work of what we call "core" muscles - especially TA fanction. I wonder if it has an anatomy reference. I would love to learn more from you!
Thank you! To learn more from me just swing by my website linked to in the description beneath the video :) As for your questions, no doubt we can affect vagal tone, and create a parasympathetic response, not only from bottom up, or top down, but from side to side, around the bend and through the middle! The body is a whole, which can only be touched as a whole, and that circle can be entered at any point to good effect with the right energy, and intention, with the particular technique being less mission critical than the fact that adjustments to the nervous system can be accomplished through myriad ways, including hands-off techniques, verbal cues, etc. in addition to hands-on support!
Thanks so much Gil! Please check out Dr. Majs work on blending Dr. Porges work with a body work bottom up approach to healing trauma. She developed The Triple Vagal Method TVM™. We are still in the soft launch of the modality, we are already creating massive waves in the field of somatic bottom up trauma healing. A fellow colleague of yours contacted us to show us this amazing video! We are sharing this for sure! Thanks again!
@Integrated Somatic Institute, Dr Majs is not alone. Numerous bodywork modalities have added PVT to their curriculum, and some for many years. Porges was an advisor for the Rolf Research committee in the 1990's even. Bringing in PVT with bodywork and then adding in the work of Derrida, Foucault and Heidegger's "Dasein" (among other Semiotic, Existential and Post Modern/Post Structuralist thinkers) is the next step as I see it. Imagine beingness as not a construct instructed to you but. a construct that is non-constructable. If every human is unique, there can be no construct that. 100% serves us all. All models are false, and then so is the model we take to be. Being, without a model, simply is. And in an over simplistic response, that is the goal to me of bodywork, allowing a client to be without constraints which limit them :)
¡Que maravilloso nervio! Su nombre en español “vago” es del latín ‘vagus’ : que anda de una parte a otra, sin detenerse en ningún lugar; o dicho de una cosa que no tiene objeto o fin determinado, sino general y libre en la elección o aplicación; impreciso, indeterminado. Me pregunto ¿por qué lo habrán nombrado Vago? Este nervio no tiene nada de ‘vagus’! 😄
Brilliant information My sons symptoms where reduced By taking Probiotics To Turn on the signals in And Neurons To the Brain 🧠 It's The Interstitium That Does a lot of the work It Crosses Bacteria from the Blood Veins and capperllies To all The Cells in our Bodies I'd Love to be in a fun Research Team Like Myth Boosters But Body issues Boosters Oh it's afternoon Playing Mum and Research today
I work everyday with the structural integration piece of toning this nerve and, more commonly, the negative effects of not hydrating the connective tissue/fascial environment it lives in. There is a physical/structural component to every disease/issue and this nerve is the big communicator; and along with psoas, the divining rod of the body; the lighthouse; the chakra alignment, the knowledge interpreter...I would love to see a part 2 and 3 and 4 to this, Gil. Thanks for the ease and flow of your educating style.
I find that your comment on "hydrating" to be unusual if not virtually unique. There are two (designated by anatomists) fluids that accompany every peripheral nerve: perineurial fluid and endoneurial fluid. These two fluids are essential for the structure of the nerve to function, yet I have found that most every teacher for CEU credits is unaware of this essential functional component as if these fluids do not exist. I would be interested in your take on this lack of awareness since you specialize on this structure. I'm especially curious as to why it seems that most therapists focus on structure without mentioning the contribution of fluids to structure. You can reach me at info@optimalbodywork.net. Look forward to your insights and thanks for jogging my mind as to the importance of fluids.
Thank you! And I agree with Barry, thank you for bringing up this essential component of nerve health, that being the fluid dynamics and hydration aspect, super important!
@@barrycraig6165 I never knew this, thank you for the knowledge!!!
Please do a course on the vagus nerve! I'd love to learn more about it from you!
Ooh a whole course, hmm, that's probably a very good idea, I will do some homework and think on how I might organize that, thank you for your enthusiastic interest!
@@gilhedley449 a course on the Vagus Nerve, please! Count me in!
Thank you so much Gil. You mentioned a possible further exploration of the vagus nerve sometime in the future. I would really love that!
Thank you Roy!
Thank you for this clear explanation. Glad to meet you, Vagus🤝
Vagus replies: Very pleased to make your acquaintance as well Nancy!
Gil, just another reminder. You are so loved and appreciated by me, and what seems like others. Grateful for you.
I appreciate knowing that very much Andrew, thank you for saying so "out loud"~
❤
Thank-you so much for this. I have worked with people with PTSD for many years as a massage therapist and a big part of my work has been influenced by Stephen Porges, yourself, Babette Rothschild (who I have trained with) & Bessel van der Kolk..all of you have helped me to support clients to reconnect into their bodies (top down and bottom up approaches (as discussed in The Body Keeps The Score), combining mindfulness, talking and touch), helping clients to find what works for them to re-regulate ANS responses and learn what feels 'safe'/find their voice/(re)establish boundaries. Viva la vagus nerve!..and thank-you for all you do/bring/the way you express the wonders of being human x
Thank you for your kind words Kathryn, the most gratifying part of my work is learning how folks like yourself and other practitioners take information that I share and put it to work in service of uplifting suffering humanity, thank you for doing what you do!
@@kathrynsmith3133 Ha we shall see about that! The above little clip required no homework on my part, a course surely would! And that being said, I have found the best way to learn is to have to teach something!
Thank you both for your help.🙏I get a nudge from the Universe to learn more about nerves as I dont know much from this perspective although I have been doing acupunture for 25 years.
I like to wander and wonder within my skin, breathe and attend to the sensations to track the moving dance and always grateful for the kind introduction of a map to guide the experience! Thanks as always!
Thank you Gabe!
Complete awesomeness!!!! Never enough 🤍🤍🤍 yes 🙌🏽 please more videos on Vegus nerve
I'll get something in the cue :)
Fantastic intro! Vagus nerve made a great first impression! Thanks, Gil!
Glad to hear that Elizabeth, more to come!
Fabulous - love your enthusiasm . Love Steve Porges work. Vagus is a major component of my work for folks with high level trauma. Love to hear more of your insights.
Thank you Karen!
Thank you, Gil. I did not realize how far into the abdominal cavity it wandered. The hydration point someone made piques my curiosity.
I learn so much from these sessions as I commute to and from Seattle on the ferry.
Fun! Enjoy those beautiful views!
I came here after listening to you on the Art of Move Podcast. i like you Mr. Hedley and loving your work.
Ah that's good to know Vaibhav, thank you!
Your description and illustration make it easier understand. Thank you!
Thank you, I'm glad to hear that!
Agreed! How fun. Thank you.
Thank you Gil for your well-informed shorts…..love your amazing expression into this amazing “body” of surprising life!❤️
Thank you so much, I appreciate your appreciations!
Gil - THank you so much for your "lively" and "engaging" educational videos! I am curious about what you may know about issues surrounding post Covid and the potential of the vagus nerve being involved with the challenges with taste and smell in some who have long term side effects/impact after having Covid. Thank You.
Cranial I, the olfactory nerve, is the afferent path for smell, while Cranial VII, the facial nerve, delivers taste from the forward 2/3rds of the tongue's tastebuds, and Cranial IX, the glossopharyngeal nerve along with Cranial X, the vagus nerve, bring sensory information from the back 1/3rd of the tongue and epiglottis to the medulla oblongata of the brainstem. So issues with taste and smell involve quite a bit more nerve fibers than just the vagus. Personally I'm not sure why that info is not being picked up, but I also am an extreme optimist and lean hard into the possibility of being relieved of such distresses regardless of cause. We are very healable beings!!
You make learning fun!!
Thank you Angel!
@@gilhedley449 😊
Omg......Gil....
Your every where these days
In my garden in my kitchen
I wonder
How many of us are
Tuning in
To
Our Mr Vagus Nerve
Himself
Connecting us all
Belfast Ireland 🇮🇪😎
Haha there's no gittin' rid of me!
Another well done talk Gil. I love the visualizations from your memories to the white board. So helpful! Thank you my friend.
Aww thanks Carol! I am just winging it in these vids, no planning, straight from brain to board, I'm glad it's working for you!! :)
So interesting Gil!
Lol I do 2 comments as well
I get so excited so.etimes
Brilliant information
I appreciate your interest!
I understand from Jean Pierre Barral that the lower esophageal sphincter is innervated by the vagal nerves and its function is to allow food from the esophagus into the stomach and to prevent regurgitation of acidic stomach contents back into the throat. It is not a true muscular sphincter valve, and responds rapidly to psychological stress. The lower esophageal sphincter will stay closed under sympathetic excess and can stay shut when drinking a lot of water while active on a hot day, eating something cold such as ice cream, or eating when one is completely unrelaxed. Esophageal reflux (GERD) can arise when the parasympathetic mode keeps the sphincter open. I picture the left and right wrapping around the stomach portal allowing or not allowing the passage of food and/or emotional responses. Interesting how you say the heart talks to the brain through this same nerve.
Hi Donna thanks for this very interesting addition to the particulars of this particular area of vagal nerve supply, cool stuff! Given the many "stops" the vagus nerve makes along the course of its wanderings, it is a long story what is happening where and how :) In general we can note that what motor nerves that are supplied by the vagus nerve are mostly heading towards multiple organs, without being the sole motor supply necessarily, and that the majority of its fibers are sensory, and autonomic. I think of it as sniffing about the body gathering information from all quarters visceral, and then sharing that information with the brain to make autonomic adjustments. Go vagus go!
This is great. So funny. Can you describe more about how it innervates in the diaphragm and pelvis in a second date sort of way? 🙂
Haha I would like to know more about that too, I will do some homework before we take that second date!!
Great Video Gil! My psychologist recently made me aware of this Vagus Nerve. It's most interesting indeed!
I have so much more to learn about it Michael, and I'll share more as my own knowledge builds!
Beautiful intro! thanks
You're welcome! And now I have a "vagus playlist" building to follow up on this! ua-cam.com/play/PLQRL-lRQdb5gp9T3qF0J5OWjgAYixcT96.html
Such a great video - thanks for sharing your findings. I was wondering if you'd ever found a connection of the vagus nerve to the bladder?
I have not but I would not be surprised to learn of such a connection, fibers get very thin down there as they widely distribute, and it is not an easy matter to follow their full extent at the gross dissection level where I work, but I bet the students of the microscope could tell us more, anyone?!
There are a plexi of pelvic parasympathetic that provide balancing functions to the pelvic region
I will be taking on the plexi in greater earnestness in my upcoming Nerve Project, wish me luck, I have a lot to learn!
Thanks for the introduction.
Thanks for watching Stephanie!
Thanks for these great videos! How about more on the vagus nerve? Trying to resolve chronic trauma...... practitioners are telling me my issues are due to "dorsal vagus nerve"..... More info please! Thanks!
Yes I will do more vids on the vagus nerve! I do have a few more in a Vagus Nerve playlist on my channel here, but more to come, good idea!
Can we have a second date with the vagus nerve?
I think we will :)
@@somanaut Yes, please!
I heard about a study of women who had experienced total spinal paralysis, but they were still able to experience orgasm with certain types of genital stimulation; the hypothesis was that the vagus nerve goes all the way to the cervix (and probably to a similar location in men).
It may be so! And if not, there are many roads to Rome!!
So interesting.
according to Michael Shea he mentioned - The vagus nerve orchestrates the orgasm reflex thru a peptide - VIP (vasointestinal peptide); how it gets damaged with abuse, enema abuse, toilet training abuse; violation in the pelvic floor; the BIG groundbreaking info (from studies with paraplegic women who could still have orgasms despite spinal cord injury…WOW!!!) - how the orgasmic reflex gets into the inferior hypogastric plexi and the anterior branch of the vagus in the intestines.
Thank you for this info, I will look it up@@breathe.move.perform.health
Thank you!! Very helpful and I love your vibe!
So brilliant! 😁
Thank you for watching Elysium!
Awesome! Does Vegas nerve interact with the psoas muscle? Could they both be part of an imbalance of tension near the back/bottom rib area?
Hi Kelly thank you for watching! I am not sure what level of friendship there is between the psoas m. and the vagus n. to be honest, and, I would add that any imbalance is unlikely easily pinned imo on any particular anatomically named structure but rather on a possible less easy to describe imbalance in the flow of energy through all the structures related to a particular area, just my two cents!
I love this keep doing your thing
Thank you will do!
Thank you (from a Somatic Psychologist)!
I do enjoy. Thank you!
Yay!
Very interesting.
Thank you for your interest Anna!
Thank you for your excellent videos. As an PT with 25 years experience, I am still learning new things from you. Do you think the vagus nerve could become entrapped a as it passes through the diaphragm after a gastric bypass?
I'm curious , Is it possible that using the Transversus Abd. manipulates the vagus nerve Bottom up by changing the visceral inner pressure ? not only Top down? I work with people that suffer from various Trauma conditions and I see interesting effect when they start regulating themselves mentaly through the work of what we call "core" muscles - especially TA fanction. I wonder if it has an anatomy reference. I would love to learn more from you!
Thank you! To learn more from me just swing by my website linked to in the description beneath the video :) As for your questions, no doubt we can affect vagal tone, and create a parasympathetic response, not only from bottom up, or top down, but from side to side, around the bend and through the middle! The body is a whole, which can only be touched as a whole, and that circle can be entered at any point to good effect with the right energy, and intention, with the particular technique being less mission critical than the fact that adjustments to the nervous system can be accomplished through myriad ways, including hands-off techniques, verbal cues, etc. in addition to hands-on support!
Amazing stuff
Thank you Michael!
oh just to good listening again
:)
Compressed vagus nerve in the neck can give people gut problems. There's so much to say about the vagus nerve😊
🙏
:)
Haha - A whole new world : )
Indeed!
Got a vague Idea about This nerve... ;)
😆
Badump bump!
Thanks so much Gil! Please check out Dr. Majs work on blending Dr. Porges work with a body work bottom up approach to healing trauma. She developed The Triple Vagal Method TVM™. We are still in the soft launch of the modality, we are already creating massive waves in the field of somatic bottom up trauma healing. A fellow colleague of yours contacted us to show us this amazing video! We are sharing this for sure! Thanks again!
I'm happy to know this supports your work, thanks for the heads up!
@Integrated Somatic Institute, Dr Majs is not alone. Numerous bodywork modalities have added PVT to their curriculum, and some for many years. Porges was an advisor for the Rolf Research committee in the 1990's even. Bringing in PVT with bodywork and then adding in the work of Derrida, Foucault and Heidegger's "Dasein" (among other Semiotic, Existential and Post Modern/Post Structuralist thinkers) is the next step as I see it. Imagine beingness as not a construct instructed to you but. a construct that is non-constructable. If every human is unique, there can be no construct that. 100% serves us all. All models are false, and then so is the model we take to be. Being, without a model, simply is. And in an over simplistic response, that is the goal to me of bodywork, allowing a client to be without constraints which limit them :)
@@IntegratedWellness Wonderful goal! Thank you Andrew!
¡Que maravilloso nervio!
Su nombre en español “vago” es del latín ‘vagus’ : que anda de una parte a otra, sin detenerse en ningún lugar; o dicho de una cosa que no tiene objeto o fin determinado, sino general y libre en la elección o aplicación; impreciso, indeterminado.
Me pregunto ¿por qué lo habrán nombrado Vago? Este nervio no tiene nada de ‘vagus’! 😄
¡De hecho, está bastante determinado! ¡Gracias por ver a Natalia!
Don't ask so many questions the first time you meet someone.
🙂 That's the nugget!
Why are some labia tissue longer than others on some women is this due to pulling and stretching
No, just the glorious variety of the human form!
Brilliant information
My sons symptoms where reduced
By taking Probiotics
To
Turn on the signals in
And Neurons
To the Brain 🧠
It's
The Interstitium
That
Does a lot of the work
It
Crosses Bacteria from the Blood
Veins and capperllies
To all
The Cells in our Bodies
I'd
Love to be in a fun
Research
Team
Like Myth Boosters
But
Body issues Boosters
Oh it's afternoon
Playing
Mum and Research today
Myth Busters spinoff, I like it!!
@@gilhedley449
Do it....your the man
Crazy Researchers
Wondering if we could bust
Diseases and illness
Lol
It's not Vay-gus it's
Va-gus