Autonomic Nervous System Restoration
Learn to regulate your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), which controls the fight/flight/freeze response, essential body processes including heart rate, circulation, temperature, metabolism, digestion, respiration, hormone flow, and sleep! Researchers now estimate that more than 80% of health conditions start as an imbalance in the ANS.
Get educated about the Autonomic Nervous System & how to keep yours resilient with simple tools. Unravel past ANS events in your history with gentle guidance to help restore full range of function. This means more resilience for life and less stress.
What is the ANS?
The Autonomic Nervous System is commonly known by people for its "fight-or-flight" (or freeze) response to potential threats. In its normal, non-threatened functioning, the ANS automatically regulates our body processes including heart rate, baseline metabolism, body temperature, hormone flow, sleep and much more. When under threat, the ANS automatically runs through a threat response hierarchy and performs the operations to the best of its ability (alarm, orient, fight, flight, freeze, discharge, rest).
The ANS is made up of three branches-- the Social Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, and Parasympathetic Nervous System. Each perform essential functions in life as a human.
When we experience a traumatic event (such as a car accident, sudden injury, abuse situation, witnessing violence, etc.), our ANS attempts to run through the response hierarchy. Often, there is no time to fully complete the entire hierarchy. For example, in a car accident that happens suddenly, the ANS may only have time to alarm or orient. In other cases, the only option available is to freeze, as fight or flight are not options (as in a baby left in its crib who physically cannot fight or flee).
After traumatic events, the full capacity and resilience of the ANS is thwarted. It remains "stuck" in whatever option worked to survive the trauma. The next time a potential threatening situation arises (for example, driving a car), the ANS will default to the same place it got stuck in the threat response hierarchy. Because you survived successfully, the ANS will use that strategy again and again.
However, your full range of motion in the ANS has been restricted. This means that your ANS needs a little help to re-set. When past events are allowed to fully complete the entire threat response hierarchy, the ANS defaults back to its full range of functioning. This is when an ANS Restoration session is helpful.
What can I expect from an ANS Restoration session?
The client is either seated in a chair or lying on a massage table. If the client wishes, we start with discussion & explanation of the ANS and the potential relation to the client's specific conditions. We will practice simple somatic (body-oriented) tools that regulate and restore the ANS. The emphasis is on building the client's internal resources and healing capacity. Specific polarity and craniosacral holds relevant to the ANS may also be employed.
Rates:
$108 per session
Sessions for newborn babies & their families are $40!
If you are in financial need, please contact me to explore possibilities
Avalon received her training in Nervous System Regulation from John & Anna Chitty at The Colorado School of Energy Studies.
Get educated about the Autonomic Nervous System & how to keep yours resilient with simple tools. Unravel past ANS events in your history with gentle guidance to help restore full range of function. This means more resilience for life and less stress.
What is the ANS?
The Autonomic Nervous System is commonly known by people for its "fight-or-flight" (or freeze) response to potential threats. In its normal, non-threatened functioning, the ANS automatically regulates our body processes including heart rate, baseline metabolism, body temperature, hormone flow, sleep and much more. When under threat, the ANS automatically runs through a threat response hierarchy and performs the operations to the best of its ability (alarm, orient, fight, flight, freeze, discharge, rest).
The ANS is made up of three branches-- the Social Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, and Parasympathetic Nervous System. Each perform essential functions in life as a human.
When we experience a traumatic event (such as a car accident, sudden injury, abuse situation, witnessing violence, etc.), our ANS attempts to run through the response hierarchy. Often, there is no time to fully complete the entire hierarchy. For example, in a car accident that happens suddenly, the ANS may only have time to alarm or orient. In other cases, the only option available is to freeze, as fight or flight are not options (as in a baby left in its crib who physically cannot fight or flee).
After traumatic events, the full capacity and resilience of the ANS is thwarted. It remains "stuck" in whatever option worked to survive the trauma. The next time a potential threatening situation arises (for example, driving a car), the ANS will default to the same place it got stuck in the threat response hierarchy. Because you survived successfully, the ANS will use that strategy again and again.
However, your full range of motion in the ANS has been restricted. This means that your ANS needs a little help to re-set. When past events are allowed to fully complete the entire threat response hierarchy, the ANS defaults back to its full range of functioning. This is when an ANS Restoration session is helpful.
What can I expect from an ANS Restoration session?
The client is either seated in a chair or lying on a massage table. If the client wishes, we start with discussion & explanation of the ANS and the potential relation to the client's specific conditions. We will practice simple somatic (body-oriented) tools that regulate and restore the ANS. The emphasis is on building the client's internal resources and healing capacity. Specific polarity and craniosacral holds relevant to the ANS may also be employed.
Rates:
$108 per session
Sessions for newborn babies & their families are $40!
If you are in financial need, please contact me to explore possibilities
Avalon received her training in Nervous System Regulation from John & Anna Chitty at The Colorado School of Energy Studies.