CELEBRATING 5 YEARS of Dr. Velazquez’s Brain Functioning & FND Education !
Jan 10, 2026
Brain Functioning & Functional Education is for everyone.
I know, time is limited, life is very busy, our minds are set in their way of thinking and routines, so the fact that you are here says a lot about your commitment to growth, enhancing your wisdom, wellbeing, achieving your functional, realization goals, and contributing to building a better world.
All our educational programs are designed to be done at your pace, rhythm, preference, to your satisfaction.
No judgement, expectations, criticism or weird looks.
We offer videos, groups, personalized, individual conversations, collaboration, online, in-person, international opportunities and activities.
We could also Exchange Skills while you learn the neuroscience of functional excellence.
The topics are many, endless possibilities rooted in a central existential truth, and methodology.
Below you will find options and details. Do not hesitate to contact me if questions, comments or ideas spark :)
#1. The Basics - EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION methodology
This is the backbone of our language and the way we interact with one another. We go beyond the intellectual mind, speak and behave cognitively. We do it also with our integrated being and entire human organism at work: MIND - BODY - EMOTIONS - AUTONOMIC nervous system - SPIRIT / SOUL. Review the details of Exp Edu (EE) here.
With that framework, we develop all the specific educational, interactive offerings below:
#2. Awaken Group Courses
For the general public and individuals affected by functional disorders, including their families. For details click on each course below. AWAKEN are group classes. We learn and practice with one another:
- Level 1 - Full 8 classes course “The Integrative Pathophysiological Model” in real life.
- Level 1 – Four classes trial
- Level 1 – Theory / videos only
- Level 2 - Full 6 classes Awaken “Deepening the Healthy Functional Experience”
- Level 2 - Three classes trial
- Level 3 - "The Efficiency of Change"
- Level 4 - "Body & Spirit, Collaboration & Growth"
- Awaken for Couples - An Awakening Journey Through the Three Worlds
- Awaken for Family Members
Frequently asked questions (FAQs):
- I) Why so many levels and different options? Because to engrain new functions, we must practice discipline and constancy. To go from functional disability to realization takes time, in fact months to years of steady learning and progress.
- II) Why the different frequency and duration of courses? To train the brain function in real life, where periods of support, practice, activities, and rest actually fluctuate. With Experiential Education you train healthy functions in daily life, in an accurate setting that considers how sustained growth and learning through time truly happen.
#3. Experiential Education for Healthcare and Wellness Professionals
All professionals related to, and servicing functional disorders must learn to truly solve the global upsurge of these conditions. Inform your professional of this opportunity! Send me their information and I will let them know and even pressure them to participate. Form to report your provider’s information.
Neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, emergency medicine, family, internal medicine, residents, therapists, social workers, nurses and more!
Did you have a bad experience in the healthcare system? Complete the anonymous questionnaire, request a conversation and I will turn it into research for the upcoming FNDS meeting.
#4. FND Individualized, Personalized, Self-Healing modules.
These modules and concepts are studied individually, having more focus and time to yourself.
They can be more scientific or nature-based and focused on shamanic and ancestral healing traditions, transmitted orally for thousands of years.
These self-healing programs can be utilized as Video-Only or with the FOUR Individualized Conversations packages. Paring video theory with personalized Experiential Exercises performed during the conversations can expedite learning and achieving your goals.
Scientific: Includes concepts, teachings, methodologies and understandings derived from multiple fields of research such as neurosciences, social sciences, psychology, physiology, biology, pathophysiology, emotional sciences, somatics, physiology and more. Also, from many researchers in such fields such as: Jon Stone, Mark Hallett, Goldstein, L. H., Reuber, M, Carson, A, Nicholson, T., Aybek, S., Kanaan, R. Tereza Serranová, among others. See summary article proposing the model.
Shamanic or Nature-based. Integrative: Consider the philosophy of the Three Worlds, Four Directions Medicinal Wheel and the Holocene Method. Core human wisdom since the origins of our species.
Other valuable areas/fields that can be investigated: spirituality, religion, chakras or high energy centers, vibrational medicine, reiki, mediumship, etc.
Teachings from great and well recognized world leaders are also utilized to help untangle dilemmas that could trigger dysfunction between cognitive mind - emotions - physical body - spirit / society. For example wisdom legacy from Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, and more.
See some of the literature that composes our experiential concepts and discussions.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs):
- What is the difference between this service and a mainstream conventional conversation with a physician or psychologist?During our conversations we will teach you, show you, explain, point out, and bring to your awareness the exact dysfunctional concepts playing a role in your own organism. In our group classes we teach and learn utilizing real community dynamics, rooted in a timeline that joins past-present-future.
We enter philosophical existential conversations if necessary to seek truth. We also check the connection between your thoughts, emotions, body, autonomic nervous system and integrative organism functioning.
We provide personalized and unique exercises as homework, so you can continue understanding, investigating and unraveling your own experience, at your pace, until you feel satisfied with yourself.
Modules available
Packages of 4 videos + 4 PDFs with self-reflection exercises + 4 x 1hr conversations.
What changes is the topic of the videos, all providing a solid foundational, integrative background of wisdom that can lead you to easier, joyful and more successful exercises. The videos inform the cognitive mind of the concepts that will be later practiced, facilitating your own energetic unraveling. Click on each one below to review details.
For the video only programs check out the Store
FND Module 1: A New Path to Healing
Three Worlds: Journey from the Subconscious to the Supreme
Spring & Spirit: A New Sunrise of Consciousness
Summer: Emotions as Your Compass
Winter & Mental/Cognitive network
Individualized topics
Single talk or Package of 3 conversations
Do not know where to start? Complete the following anonymous questionnaire and let us schedule a 30’ free introductory conversation. Scholarship opportunities available!
Note to your deepest self:
With Dr. Velazquez, following the importance of concepts such as honesty, basic human needs, expression, constant growth and truth seeking, no topic is tabu, covered, dismissed or avoided during our conversations. For example, sexuality, abuse, spirituality, politics, religion, dream analysis, interpersonal dramas and dilemmas, the modern chaos, social inequalities, loneliness, mediumship, marital betrayal, and much more.
These topics can be discussed during any of the above personalized and group conversations.
Other quick ways of learning
For the beginner and advanced student, for all societal streams.
- Crush IT! It is fun to get together as a group and brainstorm, discuss, dissect the topics that are constantly coming up with the unfolding of life!
- Get the affordable and comprehensive Membership: We must belong to a community, where meaningful conversations and healthy functioning is constantly practiced and remembered.
- Read the Blog posts: If you enjoy reading or even writing, this is a place for you. Blog posts can also be printed out and shared with your friends, family and even providers.
- Connect through social media awareness / fact check
There is scientific evidence that dysfunction can spread through social media, through subconscious hypnotic and imitative mechanisms, cognitive and behavioral for example.
Are you going to allow that to happen to your loved ones?
Don’t let them fool you!
Through Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and more! We could do LIVEs, brief educational sessions and much more. Remember, my programs are about you. Global functional wellness and realization.
- Education for the serious and responsible PSYCHONAUT.
Preparation, Navigation and Integration.
Safe, Efficient and Ethical use of natural psychedelic substances.
To derive the maximum benefit from these substances, being a guide, a support team member, or a participant, you need a minimum basic foundational knowledge and understanding about spirituality and nervous system functioning inserted in society.
Do not risk your experience, time and money! Be prepared, seek the right guidance about these 3 key steps to psychedelic experience success.
- I) Preparation: 3 days to 1 month before undergoing and experience, participants must prep their nervous system to adequately receive the medicines.
- II) Navigation: Consists of the methodology, techniques and tools utilized to enjoy a safe experience, cultivating goals and intentions, avoiding significant excessive discomfort and potential side effects that can occur with these and any other substances that exist. Even water! If you drink too much water, you can suffer from brain swelling. If you drink excessive water with meals, it can affect digestion processes. Only imagine what can happen with psychedelics when participants and guides are ill-prepared!
III) Integration: Psychedelic natural substances offer tremendous number of insights, information, wisdom, clues, understanding and felt experiences in a very short time (usually 4-12 hr. of ceremonial time).
It is paramount to dedicate time to learn the proper tools to unravel, remember, memorize integratively, and find paths to bring to realization, materialization and to fruition all that you wish to achieve. Alike, after returning to your chosen environment, it is necessary to continue the process of psycho-somatic release, and to adjust accordingly everything that the organism perceives and receives.
People can change, and the environment could be harsh in front of it. Support may be necessary. Finding new paths in a pre-set world can be difficult at times. Having an ally can make a huge difference! For these and many other reasons, integration talks and processes are vital to achieve goals and avoid negative consequences.
Education for guides, coaches, ceremony participants, preparation teams can be carried out under any of the above programs, as scientific and nature-based shamanic concepts are also used.
Contact me if questions, to collaborate or to start getting you ready for your goals!
WhatsApp 001 (USA) 719-290-8410
#10. Other educational material: Publications.
Dr. Velazquez publishes her discoveries, understandings and educational methodologies for functional well being, for the medical and general community. Do not miss the opportunity to work directly with her and her team, to practice the best of ancestral and modern wisdoms in real life!
Article: Functional Neurological Disorder: Historical Trends and Urgent Directions
Another one is coming out soon. Yay!
Books:
The Shaman’s Wife
Science and Shamanism: A Necessary Encounter.
The above books were originally written in Portuguese and Spanish.
Dr. Velazquez is looking for collaborators who wish to read some of them and translate them. This can be part of the skills exchange program. Complete your request if it excites you! We will schedule a collaborative conversation to achieve common goals.
#11. Coming Soon!
In-home educational services
Coaching for social reintegration: Go back to studying and the productive market! This program tells us how many good results, acquiring knowledge and wisdom about the functioning of the nervous system, can produce!
With love and care,
Dr. V 
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