PulsePlay

Sync with Science. Live in Rhythm

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What is PulsePlay?

PulsePlay is not just another technique aimed at “fixing” or training the body better. We have enough of those. Rather, it’s a process that helps individuals synchronize their ability to create naturally occuring oscillations in the body with natural rhythmic biological processes through specific movement and sensory interactions with the environment. In other words, PulsePlay provides a more modern day framework for restoration and rebalancing that provides both the structure and freedom that is necessary to to do the work.

PulsePlay is designed for children, adults, and professionals, offering an integrated approach that blends foundational principles from movement science, social-emotional development, neurodevelopmental growth, neuroplasticity, fascia science, trauma release, and more—all brought together in a play-based exploratory model that helps promote autonomic balance.

How is PulsePlay Different Than Conventional Physical Therapy or Movement Training

PulsePlay is unique because it blends sensory and movement training in a way that no other program does—and unlike most therapy or training, it’s self-directed. As emerging science continues to support the idea that “it’s all connected,” PulsePlay offers a framework to explore this concept by revealing and familiarizing the “parts” while at the same time allowing those parts to synchronize together in never before seen ways that promote new movement experiences. It encourages you to connect again to your body's spontaniety and wisdom, tap into this innate intelligence, and move more creatively from it—right from the start. We offer the structure to do just this.

PulsePlay is a flexible model that helps you reconnect to the natural, self-directed problem-solving strategies rooted in human biology and present in organic life. It does this by integrating both top-down and bottom-up processing together, creating a dynamic conversation between what you are experiencing and what you know while simultanously creating a stronger connection between brain and body. Best of all, it’s taught through a science-backed and play-based experiences.

Defining the "Pulse" in PulsePlay:

Like other types of theraputic models, Pulseplay helps to realign and rebalance dysregulated rhythms in the body caused by injury, stress, trauma, and chronic illness. It does this differently by instead of telling you what to do, it first connects you to your Pulse, your body's natural and reflexive responses to the enviornment and uses them to create oscillations. These include reflexes and other involuntary behaviors that lie at the core of our physiological systems and that enable rapid internal communication without concious effort. The fascial web, circulatory system, nervous system, lymphatic system, digestive system, and respiratory systems all have them. These autonomic reflexes are not only essential for survival but also play a vital role in early brain and body development. Much like a conductor leading a symphony, the goal is to help synchornoze with them. Through targeted techniques, or changes in our enviornment, we can show you how to direclty interact with these reflexes to ffoster a more cohesive engagement among these systems, allowing them to work more in harmony with one another.

How We Connect To The Pulse:

We help by naturally connecting to your autonomic nervous system responses through various sensory and movement experiences that fit your personality. For many, movement and sound work very well. These practices help create a conscious experience of the body’s oscillatory and reflexive behavior and provide access points for entry.

Science Behind The Pulse:

Accessing the Pulse, or oscillatory behavior, is easy for most. Oscillations occur naturally in our body already and during movement such as walking, tapping of foot to music, or breathing. When we interact with our oscillatory behaviors this often involves many different areas of the brain that also help auto-regulate and organize our body that include but not limited to motor and sensory coretex, cerebellum, basal ganglia, insula, default-mode-network, as well as many others including regions of auditory cortex.

Interacting with the Pulse serves as a gatway accessing reflexive behavior of the autonomic nervous system. Even though the mechanisms are not fully understood yet, early research demonstrates these movements can be benficial to improving our health and promoting healing.

We believe the body's adapted reflex response to specific enviornemental (or internal) stressors whether from previous insult to nervous system, underlying neuromyofascial imbalances and/or hyper- and hypoactive protective responses can be catalysts to helping create these bodily oscillations. These oscillatory behaviors vary amongst individuals: some are fast, others are slow, others irregular, some require the body to create specific shapes in order to activate. A common feature shared amongst all is that these oscillations is that they allow generation of movement derived from the autonomic nervous system that can be redirected into other areas of the body that benefit from movement and restimulation - especially when in a safe and supported enviornment. The body's own self-generating energy system.

Once you connect with this oscillating experience and get familirized with this behavior, you then are able to working direclty with that energy to help redirect to different areas of your body through top-down sensory and movement experiences. We teach how to do this through "Play."

The "Play"

This is where you'll be introduced to a range of mindfulness and body-based tools that will be used to interact and harmonize with your Pulse. The "Play" component is like the melody in a song—it stands out, captures attention, and provides a focal point to work from. By combining these rich, sensory-stimulating experiences, you're also experiencing powerful and direct ways to connect with your body through differnet sensory, movement, and environmental interactions. Finding the ones that work best for you and that are most influential on your Pulse is the focus of Play.

Exploring Tools Through Creating & Play:
As you explore different techniques and ways to interact with your body from a concious and more mindful level, you'll start to organize the unique responses and effects they have on both your mind, body, and the neuromyofascial web. You’ll discover which tools resonate best with you and give you greater access to the Pulse (harmonizing with your natural biological rhythms). You will also learn which tools and techniques are unfamiliar, less tolerated, and that may require slower titration to become more amiliar with. All of this helps to build the new organized form of you.

This approach is both exploratory and empowering as you build a personalized toolkit—techniques and strategies that will deepen your connection to your body and provide better autonomic balance in a creative, and goal-supportive way. We provide you with an A-Z library of techniques and tools here so do not worry. We will start with the things you are familiar with and slowly bring in things that may be quite new that we have derived from many different methods and healing arts disciplines. Best of all, each is your choice and introduced as you see fit.

Combining Pulse and Play Together

Even though the "Pulse" and "Play" are experienced as seperate, they are always work together. But here is where you can mix them creatively to bring forth something completely new. Working with both individually and learning from each, then combining together offers a unique and very different experience when working with the autonomic nervous system and the neuromyofascial web in ways that can supports greater self-expression and better self-organization. We are complex systems, and being able to mix Pulse and Play together can offer many new creative pathways through movement and sensory experiences. This is at the heart of PulsePlay. The ability to move between these two elements and combine them in ways that resemeble the more you, creates not only a more efficient body, but a space for the emergence of what we believe is a more natural and truer creative expression of each individual regardless of their condition and disability.

Why Children, Adults, and Professionals Love Play

Both children and adults are drawn to PulsePlay because of it's creative nature as well as clear differentiation it offers between working with voluntary and involuntary systems of our body. It provides space for shared language to exist amongst various ideas while at the same time honors the uniqueness and preferences of each persons body. It is NOT a method or discipline, but a newer way to interact the the body's natural and spontanous behaviors that make us human. The tools and techniques are not design to fix, but provide a way to explore, respond to, and regulate our experiences in a safe, and more play-based way. Most importantly, its fun to do.

Empowering Creativity and Self-Problem Solving

One of the hallmarks of PulsePlay is its ability to help individuals create newness in the moment. With basic tools and techniques combined in unique ways, the program supports real-time experiences of neuroplasticity, fascial remodeling, and allows your body to rebalance through play.

Creating New Sensory and Movement Experiences & Embracing Complexity

PulsePlay embraces creating movements that may look different, strange, or atypical—but feel right. These unique, sensory-rich experiences offer valuable feedback tailored to each person’s body and through this process allows you to use that information in new ways that is beneceptive and promotes greater awarenss and healing to occur.

Rhythm and Spontaniety Through Entraiment
It's ok to break the rules and follow your natural rhythms—PulsePlay actually provides you with the different tools and guidance to creatively and expressively do just this. For many rhythm offer the mind predictability and can assist in allowing deeper levels of entrainment to occur that connects us to autonomic balancing states.

Interactions Between Enviornment and Neuromyofascial Web

PulsePlay reveals how our movement responses and interaction with the environment are part of an ongoing conversation and one that we can participate with and take part of. Unlike other techniques where you are the recipient, PulsePlay lets you be both the player and audience at the same time. It helps individuals better understand their body's responses—and helps show how you can shift them to build greater resilience.

Connecting to Emotions & Developing Resiliance following Trauma and Early Developmental Influences

Even in the most complex or unusual movement patterns, PulsePlay offers through movement and sensory experiences new pathways to reconnect the underlying influences and trauma when we are ready and in a step-by-step way that lets you tackle large jobs.

The 20/80 Split

Similar to how we operate an I-phone these days, Pulseplay at it's basic can do alot for you, but for those that want to go beyond and really dive deep into the autonomic nervous system and rhythmical behaviors of the body, this process helps you to stay organized and guides you through this

PulsePlay Programs:

PulsePlay in an exciting new way that let's you develop a stronger and more connected relationship with not only the work that is needed more than ever, but in a new and fun framework that makes doing it enjoyable and feed the creative soul that each body has while improvign self-regulation, performance, and healing.

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Children and Young Adults