YOUR BODY IS THE GREATEST TECHNOLOGY
Trauma is not the problem, if you look at nature according to Dr. Peter Levine's Waking The Tiger, animals have trauma on a daily basis. However; they are different than human beings in a sense that they can, for the most part, resolve the trauma so it doesn't get stuck in the body causing an array of emotional & physiological symptoms.
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At the Integrated Somatic Institute (ISI), we believe trauma is not able to resolve as in the animal kingdom because of one thing; that the vagus nerve is being suppressed due to a lack of vagal tone.
To address this, we have applied Dr. Stephen Porges Polyvagal Theory into very conscious and precise bodywork to rehabilitate and re-build vagal tone manually. Through this trauma-informed somatic therapy, our clients can heal unresolved traumas while also rebuilding stronger vagal tone.
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THE MANUAL TO HACKING YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE 21st CENTURY!
HUMAN EVOLUTION & TRAUMA
Never in the history of our evolution, has the nervous system been exposed to this amount of stimulus.
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Historically, humanity was evolving at a pace that allowed the nervous system, including the vagus nerve, enough time to evolve and get trained into coping with stimuli to resolve traumas out of the body.
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The industrial revolution has seen a rapid development of technology and exposure to an onslaught of stimulus. Look at today's modern-day world for instance. We have human beings as young as infants being exposed to smart screens, in effect bombarding their nervous systems with almost continuous stimulus.
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Stimulus is not a bad thing exclusively, however, when it may come at an increased speed that the nervous system isn't capable of coping and discerning, it can and often does, trigger a trauma response in the nervous system.
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This combined with a nervous system that hasn't evolved at the same rate as industrialization, has left the human race at a critical disadvantage. We as a species are unable to cope and re-regulate our nervous systems at the same rate our ancestors could.
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Historical statistics show us, that never before have we been this medicated, this stressed out and suicide rates keep climbing. We are not thriving as a species as a result. The quality of life is greatly decreased.
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Thanks to neuroplasticity, the Triple Vagal Method, works to restore and rehabilitate the trauma response to a stressful stimulus, in effect increasing your vagal tone and allowing your nervous system to catch up with life in the 21st century.