The Nervous System Drop: Total Parasympathetic Reset
Float therapy, salt room, and infrared sauna combine for a complete nervous system reset-designed for moms, high-stress professionals, and racing minds.
Your mind won’t stop. Even when you’re exhausted, it keeps running-the lists, the worries, the replays of conversations, the planning that never ends.
You’ve tried to relax. But telling a racing mind to calm down is like telling water to stop being wet.
This isn’t a willpower problem. Your nervous system is stuck in overdrive.
The Nervous System Drop is designed to do what willpower can’t: total parasympathetic reset.
The Protocol
Float (93.5–95°F) → Salt Room → Infrared Sauna
This sequence is specifically designed to downshift your nervous system from fight-or-flight to rest-and-restore.
Float Therapy (93.5–95°F) - You enter a float pod filled with body-temperature water saturated with 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt. You float effortlessly. No light. No sound. No gravity. No sensory input whatsoever.
The water temperature is precisely calibrated to 93.5–95°F-the point where you can’t tell where your body ends and the water begins. Your brain, starved of input to process, finally stops scanning for threats. The mental chatter goes quiet. For many people, it’s the first real silence they’ve experienced in years.
Salt Room - After the profound release of floating, you move to our Himalayan salt room. The air is saturated with microscopic salt particles. You breathe deeply. The salt is naturally anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial-your respiratory system clears and calms. The gentle pink glow and quiet space extend the parasympathetic state, giving your nervous system time to settle into this new mode.
Infrared Sauna - We finish with gentle infrared heat. Not the aggressive heat of traditional saunas-infrared penetrates tissue directly, raising your core temperature without overwhelming your system. Your muscles release any remaining tension. Blood flow increases. The warmth signals safety to your primitive brain. You emerge loose, warm, and deeply calm.
Who This Is For
Moms - You’re on call 24/7. Your nervous system is wired to respond to every cry, every need, every potential crisis. Even when the kids are asleep, part of you is still scanning. This protocol gives you space where there’s nothing to monitor, nothing to respond to, nothing needed from you. Just rest.
High-Stress Professionals - You carry the weight of decisions, deadlines, and other people’s expectations. Your shoulders live near your ears. Your jaw is clenched. Sleep doesn’t restore you anymore. This resets your baseline so stress doesn’t become your permanent state.
People With Racing Minds - Anxiety. Overthinking. The 3am spiral. Your brain won’t stop solving problems that don’t exist yet. This protocol interrupts the pattern at a neurological level. When there’s no input, there’s nothing to spin on.
What Happens During the Drop
The first few minutes in the float pod, your mind might resist. It’s used to constant stimulation. It might feel strange, even uncomfortable.
Then something shifts.
Without anything to process, your brain waves slow from beta (active thinking) to theta (deep relaxation, creativity, the state just before sleep). Your heart rate drops. Your breathing deepens. Stress hormones clear from your bloodstream.
By the time you move to the salt room, you’re in a different state. Thoughts still come, but they don’t stick. They drift through like clouds.
The infrared sauna seals it in. Heat and stillness. Your body remembers what peace feels like.
What You’ll Feel After
The first thing people notice: the quiet. Not external quiet-internal quiet. The background noise of anxiety, planning, and worry… pauses.
The second thing: your body feels different. Looser. Lighter. Like you’ve put down a weight you forgot you were carrying.
Many people sleep better that night than they have in months. The effect often lasts for days.
One member called it “finally coming home to myself.” That’s exactly what it is.
Making It a Practice
We recommend The Nervous System Drop weekly for anyone dealing with chronic stress, anxiety, or nervous system dysregulation. For maintenance once you’ve restored balance, monthly is often enough.
Some people pair it with therapy or other healing work. The combination is powerful-the nervous system drop creates space for processing and integration.
Booking Notes
The full Nervous System Drop takes about 2.5 hours. We recommend scheduling it when you don’t have to rush back to anything demanding. Late afternoon works well-you can go home, eat something light, and let the effects settle.
If you’re dealing with acute anxiety or stress, start with weekly sessions for a month. After that, most people find their own rhythm. Some need it weekly. Others come monthly for maintenance. There’s no right answer-just whatever keeps your system regulated.
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