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Cognomovement
Release what's stuck. Rewire how you respond.
A revolutionary cognitive movement system that utilizes the eyes and nervous system to create lasting change in the patterns and beliefs that may be hindering your potential — addressing chronic concerns quickly and lastingly by stimulating auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning across both brain hemispheres.
What is Cognomovement?
A new way to move stuck patterns.
Cognomovement integrates aspects of EFT, EMDR, and energy healing, using a specialized ball to enhance hemispheric stimulation and signal transfer through the corpus callosum — the brain structure that integrates sensory, motor, and cognitive function.
The result is cohesive perception, movement, and thinking — and a body that can finally let go of what's been keeping it stuck.
Are you stuck in limiting patterns?
Free the energy that patterns keep trapped
Maybe recurring emotional patterns are affecting your well-being, health, career, or relationships. Or maybe you've made progress but hit a plateau. Cognomovement clears entrenched patterns in the body — often leaving a newfound neutrality toward the issue, and releasing the emotional charge that drains your focus.
Emotional Resilience
Build the fortitude to meet life's challenges with grace.
Physical Vitality
Ignite a vibrant energy that touches every part of life.
Relationship Dynamics
Develop deeper bonds and stronger connections everywhere.
Spiritual Awakening
Elevate your awareness and unlock a higher level of consciousness.
Nervous system regulation & stress reset
Help your system let go of stuck stress
At its core, Cognomovement is a nervous-system-based approach. Using movement, focused attention, and visual tracking, sessions shift how your system processes stress — often bringing immediate relief and long-term resilience. Many people find support with:
- Calming an overactive stress response
- Releasing emotional tension stored in the body
- Improving sleep, energy, and overall balance
- Enhancing focus, clarity, and adaptability
- More ease in communication and relationships
- Momentum toward personal goals
- Letting go of cravings or hard-to-change patterns
What does the science say?
Slow breathing
Bilateral eye movements
Breathwork + tapping
Church et al., 2012 →
Eye movements
Elofsson et al., 2008 →
Sack et al., 2008 →
Auricular acupressure
Eye movements
Shapiro, 2014 →
EMDR + tapping
Clond, 2016 →
Breath & attention
Movement
In practice
The research behind each technique
Cognomovement combines several well-studied tools — bilateral eye movements, breathwork, tapping, ear acupressure, and cross-body movement — into one session. The full method hasn't been through large clinical trials yet, but each technique inside it has published, peer-reviewed research. Here's what the studies show.
What the research found — at a glance
Calmer alarm centerBrain · amygdala quiets
Slower heart rateBody · rest-and-digest on
Lower cortisolHormones · with tapping
Better sleepSleep · with slow breathing
Sharper recallMemory · side-to-side eyes
Steadier focusAttention · breath control
Findings from published studies on the individual techniques. Details and links below.
Sleep
In a 30-day randomized trial, a few minutes of slow-paced breathing each day improved how well people said they slept, and raised overnight vagal (rest-and-digest) activity.
Laborde et al., 2019 →Mental Acuity
Just 30 seconds of side-to-side eye movements improved people's recall of what they'd learned, compared with keeping their eyes still.
Christman et al., 2003 →Nervous System Flexibility
Five minutes a day of cyclic sighing improved mood and lowered breathing rate, more than mindfulness meditation did. In a separate randomized trial, an hour of tapping (EFT) lowered cortisol, the stress hormone, more than talk therapy or rest.
Balban et al., 2023 →Church et al., 2012 →
Stress & the Brain
Brain scans show guided eye movements quiet the amygdala, the brain's alarm center, making it easier to let go of a fear response. During eye-movement sets, heart rate drops and the calming (rest-and-digest) nervous system switches on, a pattern researchers compare to REM sleep.
de Voogd et al., 2018 →Elofsson et al., 2008 →
Sack et al., 2008 →
Ear Acupressure & Stress
Gentle pressure on specific points of the ear is a simple, non-invasive way to settle an overactive stress response. A systematic review of controlled studies found ear-point therapy reduced stress and anxiety in working professionals.
Munhoz et al., 2022 →Emotional Regulation
A meta-analysis found that adding eye movements while recalling a distressing memory made it less vivid and less emotionally charged — evidence that eye movements play a real role in how EMDR works. A review of 24 randomized trials supports EMDR, which Cognomovement draws from, for emotional trauma.
Lee & Cuijpers, 2013 →Shapiro, 2014 →
Trauma Recovery
The World Health Organization recommends EMDR, which Cognomovement draws from, for trauma in adults, teens, and children. A meta-analysis of tapping (EFT) also found a significant drop in anxiety.
WHO, 2013 →Clond, 2016 →
Productivity & Creativity
Researchers found breathing and attention are linked through the locus coeruleus, the brain's alertness center — one reason controlling your breath can sharpen your focus.
Melnychuk et al., 2018 →Children's Development
In a randomized trial of 7- to 11-year-olds, regular physical activity improved executive function (planning and focus) and math achievement.
Davis et al., 2011 →Hormones & Fertility
Research coming soon — ask us what we're seeing in practice.
Want the deep dive? See Cognomovement's own research overview and evidence-based technique matrix.
These studies looked at the individual techniques, not Cognomovement itself. Cognomovement supports wellness and nervous system regulation and is not a treatment for any medical or mental health condition.
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Ways to work together
In-person sessions are done in my Herriman studio — and everything can be worked virtually, too.
Package of 6 Sessions
Six 60-minute sessions, plus a Cognomovement ball (shipped in the continental US), Mini sessions, and Basic Training. Best scheduled at weekly intervals.
Purchase Package6 Sessions + Craniosacral
Add Craniosacral Therapy to your Cognosessions — 2-hour sessions that create space to truly nurture the nervous system and allow for deeper change.
Purchase PackageCognomovement Book Club
Not your average book club — a 3-month group membership that pairs transformational books with guided Cognomovement. Includes my Basic Training + a ball. Fridays at noon.
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