A.R.T.
Anxiety Reframe Technique®
RECLAIM YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
Award-winning, Polyvagal-led approach to finding states of peace and nervous system agility. For individuals, families and professionals.
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MOVE OUT OF FREEZE
A.R.T. is a body-based approach that helps people move out of panic, overwhelm, or shut-down by restoring nervous system balance and returning the body to its zero point - a place where calm, flow, and reconnection with the body can naturally emerge.
A.R.T. helps restores state flexibility, internal coherence and personal agency. It is based on somatic practices and neurodevelopmental psychology, and is suitable for those with low interoception and emotional connection. A.R.T. works for people who can't access restful states via breathing and meditation.
A.R.T. is Polyvagal, Neurodiversity and Trauma Informed
Suitable for Autism / ADHD / Trauma / Intellectual Disability / Inertia / Profound States / Complex Conditions / Long Covid
Healing is not the elimination of defensive states - it is the restoration of state flexibility
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About A.R.T.
Initially created to support those who cannot easily access traditional interventions or conventional practices.
Online Courses
Learn the internal martial art of A.R.T. through structured online courses; from simple foundations to deeper nervous system mastery.
1:1 Sessions
1:1 sessions provide personalised guidance in A.R.T., supporting deep nervous system reorganization and tailored pathways out of shutdown.
Holly Bridges
Practitioner, educator, and creator of A.R.T.
A.R.T. AS AN INTERNAL MARTIAL ART
Simple at the beginning, sophisticated in its depth. A.R.T. offers a steady pathway from shutdown to inner coherence, taught through clear foundations, gentle refinement, and a developing relationship with your own nervous system. This work is not so much a technique, as an internal practice to help you find your centre.
Retrain the nervous system to be less reactive
Gain robustness and resilience
Find a state of internal safety
Move into states of inner peace and stillness
Improve vagal tone
Increase strength and vitality,
Flexibility and coordination
Renegotiate trauma and early trauma
Access those hard to reach places
Quiet the mind
Learn to find zero point
Locate in potent space
Subtle, yet deeply integrated work that teaches skills for a lifetime
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REFRAME YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
A.R.T. teaches individulas to locate and know Hara – the body’s centre of balance and presence.
A.R.T. is accessible for all people - and caters beautifully for people with low interoception, low verbal ability and low emotional connection.
People say - 'It Just Makes So Much Sense!'
The Book That Started It All
REFRAME YOUR THINKING
AROUND AUTISM
How the Polyvagal Theory and Brain Plasticity Help Us Make Sense of Autism
The Polyvagal Theory suggests that the symptoms of autism are simply a learned response of the nervous system, and the result of our body being in a prolonged state of stress and fight/flight/freeze response - shutting down our physical body, digestive system and immune function. This book explains Polyvagal Theory in simple terms to help you see how these learned patterns of our autonomic nervous system affect who and how autistics/neurodivergents get to be in this world - and what we can do to ease it.
2ND EDITION (2022) License To Think
BUY"My son takes it everywhere with him. he shows it to all his teachers - to explain what's happening for him."
-Richard McDermott
Paperback copy of 'Reframe' can be purchased at all major online stores
A.R.T. EVALUATION
‘BRIDGING THE GAP: AUTISTIC INERTIA AND ADHD PARALYSIS’
Ages 9, 12, 17, and 59 - male and female
Biometric, Psychometric, Qualitative - Outcomes Showed Improved:
- Sleep
- Points of Stillness
- Mental Clarity
- Executive Functioning
- Working Memory
- Self-Regulation
- Sensory Perception
- Higher Adaptability
- Wellbeing
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
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"Holly has been a miracle worker for Scott through her gracious, patient, highly attentive work. And this was accomplished despite being on separate continents!
We are grateful for all she has taught us about the brain & body, and how & why A.R.T. works."
Lisa McDermott, Mother
"As a Psychiatrist, A.R.T exercises and vocabulary has given many patients with chronic mental health issues the much needed ‘exhale’, the words describing their experience living in and with their bodies.
A.R.T in many ways is a portable toolkit for clinicians wishing to work with patients in a therapeutically non intrusive way”.
Sree Thamburaja Consultant Forensic Psychologist FRCPsych
"Holly's ART express followed by one on one sessions have been life changing for our family. It's so good because the change is so powerful and helpful for the neurodivergent individual.
It's like learning how to be calm in your body, with the sensory differences, and much more.
Dr. Swati Paliwal, Mother
Unstuck
A Somatic Approach to Autistic Inertia, Catatonia,and Possibility
A powerful documentary following one young man’s two-year journey with Holly Bridges and A.R.T., - moving from catatonia, shutdown, and executive dysfunction - into a profound connection to his world, and to himself.
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