Modern life places relentless demands on the nervous system. Whether you're facing mental burnout, physical tension, poor sleep, or chronic fatigue, your body’s ability to recover is often compromised by an overactive stress response. At the Performance Medicine Institute, we created Reset: The Stress & Recovery Experience — a 40–60 minute guided therapeutic session designed to deactivate the stress response and restore a balanced parasympathetic state, where true healing and recovery can begin.
Each Reset session combines gentle neck and back mobilization, vagal nerve stimulation, and precision dry needling, targeting both the muscular and neurophysiological sources of tension. The session begins with 20 minutes of assisted stretching and soft tissue therapy focused on the cervical spine, shoulders and low back — areas most commonly overloaded by postural strain and where the body carries a lot of stress. This prepares the body for deeper parasympathetic activation and improves mobility and breath mechanics.
Next, we guide patients through 20 minutes of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation, using low-frequency electrical pulses. The vagus nerve is the primary conduit of the parasympathetic nervous system and plays a vital role in regulating inflammation, digestion, heart rate, and emotional state. By activating this nerve pathway, we shift the body out of “fight-or-flight” and into “rest-and-digest,” improving mood, lowering blood pressure, and reducing systemic tension.
Finally, each session concludes with targeted dry needling to specific homeostatic trigger points — areas that research has shown are deeply involved in regulating the body’s stress and inflammatory responses. Dry needling, which is very similar to acupuncture, has been shown to reduce elevated muscle tone, calm central sensitization, and modulate key autonomic pathways through local and systemic neurochemical effects. By releasing both physical tension and neurogenic inflammation, this final phase of the session helps restore homeostasis and leave patients feeling grounded, calm, and physiologically rebalanced.
The entire Reset experience is designed not just to provide temporary relaxation, but to retrain your nervous system, recalibrate stress tolerance, and create a durable shift toward greater resilience, recovery, and inner calm.
If you're feeling worn down, chronically tense, or simply need a reboot, our Reset session is a scientifically backed way to bring your nervous system back into balance. call or text us at to schedule your session today and experience the power of strategic recovery at Performance Medicine Institute.