Primal Reflex Release Technique

It’s the part of your nervous system that regulates heart rate, blood pressure, respiration (breathing), and digestion. It controls your smooth muscles, like glands and internal organs. The ANS receives information about your body and the external world and responds by stimulating the sympathetic system, or inhibits through the parasympathetic system. 

Symptoms of an upregulated sympathetic response include:

• High or low blood pressure, and heart racing 
• Shortness of breath
• Anxiety, severe fatigue, and brain fog
• Nausea, abdominal pain, constipation, or diarrhea, IBS
• Temperature Regulation especially of extremities that can include shivering/ sweating. 
• Constant muscle and joint pain
• Sleep problem that may include heart racing 
• Food and skin allergies and/or sensitive skin
• Being constantly on the lookout for potential danger or threats
• Vivid memories or flashbacks of traumatic situations from your past
• Extreme sensitivity to sounds, smells, textures or sights
• Outbursts of anger or rage

People with Depression and Anxiety commonly also have insomnia, panic, irritability, racing thoughts, and rumination. This is caused by their ANS getting stuck in high-alert mode. Norepinephrine overload, chronic stress, PTSD, and biological predisposition cause these symptoms.

PRRT treats these sympathetic nervous system dysfunctions and puts your body in a state of rest. Immedialy you'll feel your body ease and let go of years of stress. PRRT has been scientifically proven to lower blood pressure , lower heart rate, lessen cortisol, and  raise oxytocin. You feel more grounded and able to connect to your friends and loved ones. 

Homework will be given each session to help you on your journey to a more concious state of being. 

PRRT does in minutes what it takes hours and even multiple sessions of massage to attain. You’ll go home with exercises you can do on your own to get similar downregulation of the ANS that is achieved with PRRT. The goal is to help you when you need but give you the tools to gain esteem and understanding on how you can control your ANS and thus gain control over anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, brain fog, and many of the other symptoms associated with hEDS/HDS, POTS, MCAS, and/or Fibromyalgia.

In people who have hEDS/HDS, POTS, MCAS, and/or Fibromyalgia, their ANS is dysfunctional and up-regulated more often than people without these syndromes. Damage to small nerve fibers is also seen in all three of these conditions. 

hEDS/HDS - The lack of joint and body proprioception with EDS causes constant fight or flight responses in the body. The constant strain on the ligaments, tendons, and fascia causes more tearing than in other people. This can also affect nerves, causing them to be pinched or compressed. Vegas nerve compression is common. 

POTS - With hEDS/HDS clients, their connective tissue is loose and allows blood to pool in the body when standing. The ANS overcompensates by dumping adrenaline and norepinephrine (stress hormones), which leads to heart racing upon standing or during exercise. 

Fibromyalgia Shares many of the same symptoms, such as sleep disturbances, chronic pain, and other sensitivities. It is also associated with a highly upregulated nervous system dominated by a sympathetic nervous system. 

MCAS - Mast cells are often located near nerves and can inflame these nerves causing long term and chronic pain, skin irritations, and keeps the sympathetic nervous system in overdrive. 

PRRT is a manual therapy that downregulates a hyper-aroused ANS! PRRT is founded on the principle that over-stimulation of the body’s primal reflexes creates painful compensation patterns. Primal Reflexes including the startle, withdrawal, and protective joint reflexes, are hardwired in the nervous system for survival. When these reflexes persist they create a constant sympathetic flight or flight response. PRRT inhibits these reflexes allowing the body and ANS to rest.