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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FLOW STATE
-MOVE OUT OF FREEZE
A.R.T. is for people living with anxiety and panic, PTSD and CPTSD, autism, ADHD, profound shutdown and immobilisation, and complex neurological or mental health presentations where the body can feel outside your control.
A.R.T. works directly with the nervous system — widening the map it has to work from so it can become more robust, flexible and harmonised. The result is a stronger through-line between intention, body and mind, bringing greater choice and control, and more capacity for health, connection and life. For all people.
Polyvagal, Neurodiversity, and Trauma Informed
Restore Internal Flexibility
and Personal Power
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Holly Bridges
Practitioner, Educator, Author
and Creator of A.R.T.
A.R.T. AS AN INTERNAL MARTIAL ART
A.R.T. offers a steady pathway to inner coherence. Taught through simple practices, we help develop a stronger relationship with your inner state (body), and help you find - and sustain - 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
Find zero point, locate in potent space
Find objective observation and neutrality
Anchor into your body
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’
Participants: 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 seems to have discovered a new perspective on catatonia and autism."
Prof. Tony Attwood
"A.R.T in many ways is a portable toolkit for clinicians wishing to work with patients in a therapeutic and non-intrusive way."
Dr. Sree Thamburaja Consultant Forensic Psychologist FRCPsych
"Holly's 'ART Foundations' followed by 1:1 sessions have been life changing for our family."
Dr. Swati Paliwal, Mother
Unstuck
A Somatic Approach to Autistic Inertia, Catatonia,and Possibility
A powerful documentary following Scott and his family's journey - moving from catatonia, shutdown, and executive dysfunction - into a profound connection to himself and his world.
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WATCH FULL VERSION HERE (80 mins)
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