ARC is a unique Integrative Bodywork protocol developed over 28+ years working with 50,000+ clients, 5,000+ students, and 500+ allied health professionals.
ARC promotes functional neuroplastic and epigenetic adaptations to catalyze, support, and accelerate healing, recovery, and realizing one’s full health, personal, and life potential.
ARC provides more benefits than Therapeutic Bodywork/Massage, Acupuncture, and Somatic Therapy by synergizing their disciplines into integrated sessions (without needles).
Explore ARC
Build the bridge to your Destination
ARC leverages integrative biological strategies to make it feel natural and profoundly easier to establish the habits and mindset you need to realize your personal and professional aspirations.
Create your new Story
ARC replaces internal narratives that inhibit your freedom and growth with new ones that unleash your full adaptive, creative, and regenerative powers to create the health and life you desire.
Ancient Wisdom + Modern Science
ARC refers to the luminous electrical discharge between electrodes akin to the form of acupressure therapy known as Jin Shin. ARC illuminates the mystique of Chinese Medical Theory with the light of Modern Science for a more complete and effective model of Integrative Medicine.
Systemic Body-Mind Support
Like nutrition, exercise, sleep, hydration, and meditation, ARC works on a systemic level to prevent dysfunction, degenerative conditions, injuries, and disease, while promoting balance, coordination, homeostasis, and optimal recovery and healing.
YOU are the most powerful medicine.
ARC is a full-spectrum approach to health that helps you access the natural medicine of your body and mind when they're supported by proper nutrition, exercise, sleep, hydration, living with meaningful purpose, fulfilling relationships and work, and professional medical care.
How ARC works
ARC activates the parasympathetic response to:
- relax nerves
- release fascia
- free blood flow
- optimize ATP production
- support cellular signalling
- enable nerve conductivity
- balance hormones
- enter alpha and theta brain states
- promote neuroplasticity
- expand neural processing
- drive functional adaptations
- restore homeostasis
- catalyze healing
- improve physical and cognitive function
Mutual Therapeutic Resonance
ARC sessions relax the nerves, tissues, and entire systems of both facilitator and recipient. This mutually reinforces, amplifies, and prolongs healthy biorhythms via synchronous recipocal vibration between partners. Both bodies processes information in the tissues, neurons, and epigenome during sessions, resulting in adaptations, insights, and new awareness and perspectives.
"If you listen to your body when it whispers, it won't have to scream."
Neglecting our inner needs forces our body to "speak louder" to get our attention the only way it knows how: PAIN
About 83% of people in the world live in developed countries where our nervous system is overloaded by media-rich environments, dense populations, and social pressures that obscure the inner voices of our body and soul until they have to "scream" to get us to take care of them. ARC helps us turn the outer volume down and tune into them so they don't have to.
Relax, Reset, Renew, Thrive!
ARC helps your mind get out of your body's way so it can deeply relax, reset, and guide your choices, so it feels simply natural to optimally support your health and cultivate a profound sense of wellbeing.
In 1 hour, you and a partner, friend, colleague, or family member you deeply trust can start practicing ARC through comfortable clothing as often as you want!
Experience ARC
Get ready for your world to shift on its axis! Read below about our founder's awakening experience that began his 28-year journey that culminated with this opportunity to start making quantum leaps and bounds on yours:
"By the end of my first session I felt like I was both in and all around my body.
It also felt like my body had been turned 180-degrees on the table at some point, but I didn't know when that happened. When I opened my eyes and saw I never moved, it was surprising and surreal. When I stood on the floor again, I felt like I was floating in the heavens, yet more grounded and centered than I recalled ever feeling before.
I felt like my entire being had been struck by a thunderbolt of clarity that was as profoundly peaceful as enlivening. I was filled with an exciting sense that I had been transported into a parallel universe where infinite possibilities were now available to me, with a peculiar sense that it had been waiting for me! The following year, when I began training at the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, I learned that this novel experience of polarities is what it feels like when Yin & Yang are in balance within us. This is what it feels like to be in The Tao. - James Vaughn, Founder
It also felt like my body had been turned 180-degrees on the table at some point, but I didn't know when that happened. When I opened my eyes and saw I never moved, it was surprising and surreal. When I stood on the floor again, I felt like I was floating in the heavens, yet more grounded and centered than I recalled ever feeling before.
I felt like my entire being had been struck by a thunderbolt of clarity that was as profoundly peaceful as enlivening. I was filled with an exciting sense that I had been transported into a parallel universe where infinite possibilities were now available to me, with a peculiar sense that it had been waiting for me! The following year, when I began training at the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, I learned that this novel experience of polarities is what it feels like when Yin & Yang are in balance within us. This is what it feels like to be in The Tao. - James Vaughn, Founder
Only 6 Requirements:
- Two people with average physical ability and passion for health.
- Complete mutual trust, and commitment to one's full potential.
- A massage table, or raised bed with room to lunge on 3 sides.
- A rolling stool.
- Internet connection.
- Laptop, Desktop, or Smart TV (ideal) with camera and mic.
You already know how.
Our instinct to grip and rub sore, tense muscles made Massage Therapy humanity's first form of medicine. You will learn how to tap into your inner wisdom.
Learn the fascinating history of Massage Therapy here.
Just see, feel, and do it.
You don't have to know the science to simply do it.
With our expert instruction, you'll give each other integrative bodywork better than 99% of professionals. (You'll also learn the science and lore.)
Fast-Start Training
In just 1 hour, you can learn how to give and receive ARC in comfortable clothing with a partner, friend, colleague, or family member as often as you want.
Give each other 8 sessions on separate days, every other day, no more than 1 week apart each.
Get a Live Video Coaching session to:
- Make sure you're following the protocol correctly
- Share your experiences and results
- Give feedback about the training
- Get your questions answered
Training includes:
- Illustrated instructions and Live Video Coaching.
- Education and resources to support your development.
- Exercises to advance your skill.
- Lifestyle Tips to optimize your results.
- Holistic Health Evaluation to assess your potential.
- Online Community Support.