You are allowed to want things to be easier
You may have learned a great deal about yourself already. You may understand your neurodivergence, your anxiety, your sensory needs or the way stress affects you. You may have been taught strategies for managing difficult moments, conserving energy, avoiding overload or recovering afterwards.
This matters. So does accepting the person you are.
But acceptance does not mean giving up on making your life more bearable. You are allowed to want more ease in your body; more confidence in how you respond to the world - and more freedom in the way you want to live.
And while you understand what people are asking you to do...
- you just can't do it!
Your mind and body go in opposite directions. It's like the software has stalled.
You feel at odds with the people around you, and frustrated that you can't get what you want done.
Your body drops out. Speaking becomes challenging. Transitions are impossible.
You watch yourself, like you're not really inside your body.
Fixing the gap between what you know you can do and what your body lets you do is what A.R.T. does best
A.R.T. FOUNDATIONS
A gentle, powerful introduction to the Anxiety Reframe Technique
This is an invitation to see shutdown states and anxiety through an entirely new lens.
You’ll walk away with practical tools, science you can easily incorporate, and a fresh connection to your own nervous system intelligence.
Understand your nervous system and why your body responds the way it does
Learn practical ways to work with overwhelm, shutdown, anxiety
Build greater awareness of what is happening inside your body
Develop more confidence, agency and choice in how you respond
Find your centre more easily — and learn how to return to it
Create more flexibility, ease and freedom in everyday life
COURSE MODULES
1: Setting a New Stage
We step back from labels and looks at the whole person. Using Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, we explore how your experience is shaped by:
- your body and emotions
- relationships and environment
- culture and life experience
- autism, neurodivergence and mental health frameworks
- the ideas and labels you may have absorbed about yourself
The aim is to give you a broader, more respectful way to understand yourself — including your strengths and the things you genuinely want to change.
Integral Theory / History / Neurodivergence / The Whole Person
2: Polyvagal Theory
This module explores Polyvagal Theory through an A.R.T. lens, with added biology and anatomy to help make sense of:
- stress, overwhelm and shutdown
- meltdowns and sudden loss of access
- energy and autonomic state
- connection and wellbeing
- patterns common in autism and neurodivergence
- why the body can respond differently from what you consciously want
The aim is to help you recognise your own patterns more clearly and understand what may be happening underneath them.
Polyvagal Theory / Autonomic States / Autism / Neurodivergence / Shutdown / Wellbeing
3: Brain/Body Circuitry
We explore how the body’s major regulatory systems work together, including the:
- brain
- vestibular system
- immune system
- autonomic nervous system
- limbic system
Through an A.R.T. lens, we explore why you may feel clear and capable at one time, then foggy, overwhelmed, shut down or physically limited at another.
These principles can help make sense of aspects of autism and neurodivergence, as well as trauma, chronic illness, anxiety and fatigue.
4: Brain Plasticity
Drawing on Anat Baniel’s Nine Essentials - through a neurodivergent lens
You’ll look at how:
- attention supports learning
- variation opens new options
- curiosity changes engagement
- pacing reduces overload
- meaningful experience helps new patterns stick
The focus is on helping the system become more flexible, especially when it is sensitive, easily overwhelmed or prone to getting stuck.
Neuroplasticity / Nine Essentials / Variation / Attention / State Flexibility / Agency
5: Hara Ball Exercise
Here we introduce the Hara Ball Exercise, one of the core practices in A.R.T.
You’ll learn how simple rhythmic movement and pressure can support:
- body awareness
- autonomic regulation
- state flexibility
- movement and coordination
- a stronger sense of connection to the body
The focus is on learning the Hara Ball itself — how to do it correctly, what to notice, and when to use it.
Autonomic Regulation / Hara / Movement / Interoception / State Flexibility
6: Hara Hand Points
This module explores how the brain maps and organises sensory information, and how this can affect:
- emotion
- body awareness
- autonomic response
- familiar patterns of reaction
You’ll then learn Holly’s A.R.T. Acupressure Hand Points — using targeted sensory input to: notice change; interrupt familiar patterns; support a different physiological response
Practical instruction and a real-life case study are included.
Neurosensory Alignment / Sensory Mapping / Interoception / Acupressure / Autonomic Response
WHAT YOU GET
* 6 online modules & accompanying fillable workbooks.
* 12 live video replays on the practical application of concepts and techniques of Anxiety Reframe Technique (A.R.T.)
* 6 month access to content
* Work at your own pace
* Certification Exam - for those who require a certificate, + who wish to proceed to A.R.T. practitioner accreditation
Fee
$280 USD
Ready to learn the foundations of A.R.T. and begin working with your own nervous system?
REVIEWS
Fee Plumley, UK
“After several years of searching for the Holy Grail - somatics trauma therapy through the neurodivergent lens - I was nervously excited to discover Holly's practice earlier this year. Holly guided me through a week-long intensive, which fundamentally shifted both baselines and perspectives, and drastically improved my immediate wellbeing and longer-term self-belief. The experience has been quite literally life changing and I haven't stopped praising both the somatics practices and Holly ever since! I'm very much looking forward to starting her new A.R.T Course so that I can learn even more about the science behind the therapy, and be able to actually share its benefits with others, instead of just raving about them! Holly is an absolute delight to work with, having the envious ability to hold a calming space for challenging moments, while also sharing the more complicated science with a side order of laughter. I cannot recommend her more.”
Katherine Davey, USA
"Holly’s technique offers me a way to harmonize body, mind, and spirit on demand that works for me, in a way that is natural and nourishing for me. It’s play. As I do her exercises, I finally sense and respond effectively to my body telling me how long to spend in any one activity, how many times to do them, how to sequence them, like how I can sense my body telling me it’s thirsty or ready to get up. It’s fun. Her technique does not force my body to do things it doesn’t want to do or force my mind to do things it doesn’t want to do, like override every plea from my body that it’s nearing or past its limits. It’s joy."
