About N.O.T.

About Neural Organization Technique (N.O.T.)

Neural Organization Technique (N.O.T.) is a gentle, hands-on method that reorganizes the body’s structural, neurological, and energetic systems back to their original state of coherence. It was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Carl A. Ferreri, D.C., who discovered that many chronic physical and emotional conditions stem from disorganization in the body’s foundational reflex patterns. The work is being taught and carried on by Dr. Sheel Tangri located in Costa Rica. (https://drsheeltraining.com)

The human nervous system is organized around three primary survival programs — fight-or-flight, feeding, and reproduction. When trauma, injuries, or developmental stressors disrupt these programs, the brain and body begin to operate out of sequence. Reflexes that should happen automatically start to misfire, and compensatory patterns take over. Over time, this disorganization can manifest as pain, immune system problems, anxiety, dissociation, learning disabilities or emotional instability to name a few.

Through Applied Kinesiology muscle testing, N.O.T. identifies which circuits have gone offline and which reflexes are no longer communicating properly. The practitioner then uses gentle contact points and specific corrective procedures to turn on or reorganize these systems — restoring communication between the brain, spine, and body’s sensory network.

Because the corrections work at the level of the body’s original operating system, the changes tend to be rapid and lasting. Many clients notice a deep sense of integration and grounding immediately. Once the nervous system’s foundational programs are restored, the body often no longer needs to maintain its old survival strategies. When that organization returns, everything starts to flow again. The brain and body come back into conversation. Reflexes fire in the right order. Energy moves more freely. People often describe feeling clearer, calmer, and more integrated — as though something that had been offline for years suddenly came back on.

Once coherence is restored to the nervous system, healing is only the beginning. Coherence opens a new way of being — one where creativity, clarity, and presence flow naturally. The body stops working to survive and starts participating in life again. What follows isn’t simply recovery; it’s the emergence of a deeper, more coherent expression of who you truly are. When we no longer orient to threat, we begin to organize around truth. From that alignment, new states of awareness unfold — creativity, intuition, and relational clarity — each one a reflection of the system remembering its original architecture of order and intelligence.

As the body remembers its divine architecture, you begin to remember what it feels like to be truly safe inside yourself. At its essence, N.O.T. is both a clinical protocol and a sacred restoration. It allows the body to return to divine order —by remembering the intelligence it was built from. N.O.T. is essentially a sacred conversation with the body. When we listen, it will talk. It will come back into relationship with the present moment and release the stored trauma it holds from the past. When a body is no longer in trauma, it begins to interact with a greater quantum reality, the unseen world that is holding this world. It is time to truly awaken, and it is my belief that the body and the nervous system are the bridge.

What Happens in a Session

Each session begins with listening — not just to your history, but to how your body and fascia is speaking through movement, tone, and subtle reflexes. I use Applied Kinesiology muscle testing to communicate directly with your nervous system. This allows us to locate which circuits are under stress or disorganized, and to identify the specific sequence in which they need to be restored. The process is gentle and collaborative. You’ll remain fully clothed and lying comfortably while I make light contact with key reflex points on your body. Together, we observe how your system responds — what strengthens, what weakens, what releases. These responses guide the entire process. We follow the body’s own order of operations.

The first step is taking the body out of fight or flight. For some, this may be the first time in a lifetime that the system has ever truly disarmed and relaxed. As safety returns, we begin to work through the body layer by layer — physical structures, reflexes, and stored trauma patterns. Sometimes we locate experiences that were never fully processed, events that still trigger the body into defense. As those layers unwind, the body can finally reorganize its deeper systems — digestion, hormones, learning pathways, and sensory processing — restoring communication between the brain and body. Sometimes the processing is very physical, sometimes emotional, and other times spiritual. The body guides the process.

This work is very deep. It helps reorient the body out of trauma and back into the present moment — the essence of healing dissociation. My dissociation mentor used to say to me, dissociation is an orientation issue. The mind, nervous system and orienting reflexes are oriented to the past memory. When the system can re-orient to the present moment, the body realizes it is here now, and that it is safe enough to stay. Once this happens, healing can be profoundly fast. From there, coherence can begin. As the system reclaims its natural order, you can start to experience life through connection rather than defense — grounded, awake, and at home in yourself again.

Who is N.O.T. for?

Neural Organization Technique can help anyone, the younger the better. Most traumas begin in our infancy and childhood years; therefore, the nervous system is stuck in survival anticipating the next possible trauma because the body is already in a weakened state of disorganization “in the jungle”. When symptoms show up as physical pain, emotional overwhelm, or a sense of being disconnected from yourself, the common thread is disorganization in the nervous system — the body trying its best to adapt.

Many of my clients come to me after years of trying different treatments and therapies that have helped but never reached the root cause. They’ve done the work yet still feel stuck in the same patterns. Some live with physical symptoms that don’t seem to heal no matter how many approaches they try. Others have processed old memories repeatedly, but those experiences still run quietly in the background of daily life. Applied Kinesiology is not guesswork; it’s a precise method that lets us communicate directly with the nervous system’s living intelligence. Through muscle testing, we can locate the specific memories, ages, and layers of the body that need attention. It is a much faster and direct route to accessing the cause by following the living wisdom of the body. The places we end up in session are often very surprising to the client.

This work is particularly supportive if you have had:

• Birth trauma or early developmental complications • Car accidents, concussions, or physical injuries • Childhood falls or repeated impacts that the body never fully recovered from • Sexual abuse or boundary violations • Attachment, development or emotional trauma • Chronic pain, fatigue, or hormonal imbalance • Learning challenges or sensory processing issues • Symptoms that don’t seem to get better • Immune system weaknesses

This work is for anyone ready to come back into their body and live from a place of coherence rather than compensation. Whether your goal is physical healing, emotional regulation, or spiritual integration, we start with one simple truth: when the nervous system is organized, everything else can begin to heal.

How It Works

In each session, I use Applied Kinesiology to gently test the body’s circuits and reflexes. This allows us to locate where the nervous system has become disorganized — sometimes from physical injury, sometimes from emotional or developmental trauma. The body’s intelligence will often reveal not only the pattern, but the age or moment when it began.

Once we know which reflex is dysfunctional or not working, I reactivate the reflex with light touch or rubbing. I can then recheck the reflex with muscle testing to confirm that the reflex is back on and power is flowing. I then proceed to the next reflex in the sequence of corrections. If it is strong, I leave it alone and continue to check the next reflex, but if that shows weakness, it is my knowledge to know how to reset it. Neural Organization Technique is a very specific and reproducible protocol that works on everyone, as we are all born with these basic survival programs. It is analogous to resetting a computers basic operating programs when you originally bought it.

Sometimes soft tissue release is necessary. Other times, emotional processing of an old trauma may be what is needed. Over the course of four to six sessions, we peel back the layers like an onion — following the natural sequence of repair the body chooses, rather than forcing a direction.

If you’re experiencing physical symptoms, this work can often help reveal why they are there — what the body has been trying to protect, express, or hold together. When the system returns to coherence, many symptoms no longer need to exist. It’s important to note: N.O.T. is not symptom management or treatment in the traditional sense. I don’t chase symptoms; I organize the nervous system, and as order returns, the system often resolves what it no longer needs to carry.

If your focus is more spiritual or psychological, the same principle applies. We don’t select which traumas to process — we follow the body’s intelligence. Each layer knows when it’s ready to release, and when coherence returns, a deeper clarity, stillness, and self-recognition often emerge. Many people describe this as a profound realignment or even a quantum reorganization — where the body, mind, and energy field come back into harmony with the original design.

Why the Body Must Be Seen as a System and Not as Parts

N.O.T. reveals something that many modalities overlook. All systems in the body have a profound interconnectivity. A reflex imbalance in the feet changes diaphragmatic tone. A cranial torsion changes pelvic stability. A digestive reflex collapse changes the way the jaw fires. None of these relationships are symbolic — they are the architecture of neurological sequencing.

When you intervene in one isolated piece, you are not only treating that piece. You are treating the entire compensatory network surrounding it. The “problem” never lives where the symptoms appear. If the pelvis is rotating, the cause may be in their sister bones in the cranium called the temporal bones, stuck in counter rotation from an old trauma to the head. If the jaw is clenching, the cause may be in the digestive reflex arc. If the diaphragm is bracing, the cause may be a disorganized vestibular or balance signal. Because the nervous system organizes through hierarchies rather than regions, treating one area without addressing the layers above and below forces the system to defend the correction rather than integrate it.

Seeing the body as a system is not a holistic philosophy — it is a neurological reality. The nervous system does not allow one area to change permanently if the rest of the architecture cannot support that change. Every correction must be placed into context, or the system will revert to the most stable compensation available. This is why conventional, local treatments often produce only temporary improvement: the global strategy remains intact. N.O.T. works because it treats the strategy, not the symptom.

Why More Opens After a Session

When a N.O.T. session ends, the corrections are not finished — they are stabilized enough for the system to begin reorganizing on its own. What most people call “processing” is actually the nervous system recalibrating across multiple layers once the primary compensations have been removed. Here’s what is happening: When you correct a major adaptive layer—cranial base tension, a digestive reflex, an endocrine imbalance—the system regains access to information it could not previously process. Only then does the next layer of dysfunction become visible. Before the session, the system was too busy holding itself together to reveal the next piece. After the correction, the nervous system has enough surplus capacity to notice what else isn’t working.

This unfolding is not psychological processing; it is neurological sequencing. The brainstem re-evaluates reflex arcs. The vestibular system recalibrates orientation. The diaphragm reorganizes around new freedom. The cranial vault begins to adjust in micro-movements that were previously impossible. This new organization reveals the next compensation that was previously hidden. People often report dreams, emotional releases, new clarity, or new physical sensations after a session. This is the byproduct of a system that finally has enough bandwidth to complete physiological sequences that were interrupted years ago. The nervous system is simply continuing the work once you’ve removed the largest bottleneck.

Why This Matters

Because this is the difference between temporary improvement and actual reorganization. A system cannot reorganize all at once. It must unwind in the order it originally collapsed. N.O.T. follows that order, correction by correction, until the system can handle more complexity. Once the system reaches a higher level of coherence, it spontaneously reveals what it is ready to resolve next. This is why each session builds on the last without forcing anything open prematurely. In this sense, N.O.T. isn’t fixing parts. It’s restoring architecture. And architecture does not heal in fragments — it heals as a sequence.

This work is deep and can continue unfolding long after your retreat ends. Plan for some quiet integration time afterward — gentle movement, rest, hydration, and space for your system to settle. N.O.T. can be especially helpful before or after plant-medicine retreats, to either prepare the nervous system for expanded states or to integrate them afterward.

If your immune, hormonal, or digestive systems have been under significant strain, it may take a few weeks or months for full re-stabilization. The work itself is stabilizing, but the first visit often resets the base level of the nervous system, which can feel emotional. Occasionally, people experience detox-like symptoms as the body releases old patterns — this is temporary and part of the reorganization. The more often you engage this work, the more stable and coherent your system becomes.

What to Expect After a Session

After N.O.T. sessions, your system continues to reorganize for several days, weeks or months. Everyone is different. The work doesn’t stop when you leave the table. Your nervous system keeps integrating, communicating, and building new pathways. It’s common to feel deeply tired after a session. Some people will want to sleep for several hours. Often you will want to have quiet time or a walk on the beach. The body is recalibrating after years — or oftentimes decades — of holding tension. Drink plenty of water, move gently, and give yourself time to rest and process this profoundly deep work.

Often after one session, the system will begin to open the next level of disorganization. Some days you may feel calm and open; other days you may feel anxious and tight. The system will change day to day. Some will even experience detox symptoms such as diarrhea or fever. This is usually short lived. Memories might come to the surface and emotions might process. It is important to leave time open through the week to rest and have quiet. Most people don’t feel like working or being very busy after sessions. Remember, we are doing years of work in several days, so leave time open to give your body the chance to process through the layers. This isn’t just physical healing. Its physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual all at once.

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