Dorsal belly
shutdown and stillness
The belly is used as a visual anchor for stillness, collapse, and shutdown language in popular polyvagal teaching. The placement is editorial and does not anatomically locate dorsal vagal function in the abdomen.
Point 4 of 4 in Polyvagal Spiritual Map
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Stephen W. Porges, The Polyvagal Theory (scholarly_modern)