Negative Freeze vs Positive Freeze Response - Yogi Explains

Summary

March 20, 2026, 11 min

Why the Freeze Response is not simply bad. Therapists working from Polyvagal Theory see a negative freeze in people who retreat from life after trauma. Yogis use the dorsal vagal freeze consciously and in balance during deep meditation, keep life cleaned out with OM Japa and Navi Kriya, and come back from it twice born.

In this video

Teaches

Freeze Response

Discusses

Polyvagal TheoryDorsal Vagal ComplexTraumaSympathetic nervous systemTwice-born

Mentions

Stephen PorgesTaoismVentral Vagal ComplexOM Japa in the ChakrasNavi KriyaKriya YogaBrother AnandamoyLeft and right brainEgo

Key moments

00:00A viewer question: isn't the freeze response bad?00:45Porges and the polyvagal view: three parts of the nervous system 02:02The vagus splits: the ventral is social, the dorsal is the freeze 02:35Negative freeze: trauma, retreating from life, no cleaning 03:56Yogis use the freeze well, and the sympathetic isn't all bad 04:50OM Japa and Navi every day to clean it out 05:34The freeze in deep meditation: the body becomes ghost like 06:29Brother Anandamoy on the burden of the body on the soul 07:35Coming back from the freeze twice born 08:37Too simplistic: the sympathetic, left brain and ego aren't all bad 09:50Closing: the beginning of the conversation