Service Description

The Integrated Listening System (ILS) is a five-day auditory intervention that engages the nervous system via the vagus nerve to reduce stress, increase resilience and enhance social engagement. When we have frequent anxiety or experience trauma our nervous system becomes "trained" to focus on a certain sound frequency (low sounds which our system associates as predatory).  The music is edited to play sounds within a certain range which "wake up" the full scale of the auditory system and affect the whole of the sympathetic nervous system (affecting the fight/flight/freeze response which we can be running much more than needed when we are often anxious).  This system was developed by Stephen Porges, a pioneer in adding to the understanding of the autonomic nervous system, and his work been studied for 20 years with results published in peer-reviewed journals.   I have been continuously amazed by the results of this system as an opening to possibilities for supportive change. This package includes an intro Session, five 50 minute listening sessions, check-in sessions during the listening protocal, and a follow up session. This service is only available in the Bay Area.