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Research tool for body-oriented therapists

Body-based therapy reshapes the nervous system.
Can we track how?

Talk therapy has decades of outcome measures.

Somatic work has something harder to quantify: how the body holds stress differently, how the system begins to regulate, how resilience slowly grows.

We're building a tool that gives body-oriented therapists access to physiological patterns — a way to see nervous system change across the arc of therapy.

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Designed for practitioners who already work with the body — and want data to support what they observe.
Somatic therapist and client with wearable monitoring devices
What you'll see

Objective windows into the nervous system

Three views that give you clinical clarity and the evidence to show real change over time.

01
See client risk profile before you start
High
Moderate
Low
Chronic loadSome dysreg.Robust ANS

Understand your client's autonomic risk level before the first somatic session.

High risk – Signs of chronic stress load and low nervous system flexibility. Likely to benefit from gentle, titrated somatic work.

Moderate risk – Some dysregulation, but basic capacity to self-soothe and recover is present.

Low risk – Relatively robust autonomic health. Somatic work can deepen resilience and refine regulation skills.

02
Make the window of tolerance visible — across the whole week
Hyperarousal  ·  too activated
Inside window  ·  present & regulated
Hypoarousal  ·  shut down

Several times a day, your client briefly reports where they are in the window of tolerance. That data — combined with physiological signals from the wearable — builds a picture of how much of their week is spent in regulation versus dysregulation.

Lifestyle factors (sleep, illness, caffeine) are tracked separately, so what you see reflects the nervous system — not just a hard Tuesday.

"Look — your system is spending more of the week in the window now."

03
Track whether therapy is actually changing the system — over time
Wk 1 Wk 8 Wk 16

Week by week, Eywa builds a longitudinal picture of each client's nervous system patterns.

Does the risk profile shift? Does the window of tolerance expand — more days in regulation, faster recovery after spikes? Do resting HRV and sleep patterns move in a direction consistent with reduced stress load?

These are the questions we're researching — with your clients, and with you.

We don't claim these changes will happen. We're building the evidence to understand when, and for whom, they do.

Platform interface preview
Nervous System Dashboard showing autonomic risk profile, window of tolerance, and change over time
Process

How it works

A wearable runs quietly in the background. Your client checks in briefly a few times a day. Eywa connects the two.

"Think of this as having a caring, invisible assistant who never sleeps. Your client wears a comfortable device that gently monitors their body's natural rhythms throughout the week."
1
Your client gets a device
We provide a comfortable wearable for the research period. It runs quietly in the background — no setup, no extra work for your client.
2
Brief check-ins, a few times a day
Eywa prompts your client with short check-ins — where they are in the window of tolerance, what they notice in their body, what's happening in their day. It takes about a minute.
3
Eywa learns their individual pattern
Over time, the AI calibrates to each client. It learns what their baseline looks like, and what shifts. The longer the data runs, the more accurate the picture becomes.
4
You see the longitudinal view
Your dashboard shows how your client's nervous system has been behaving across the week, the month, the arc of therapy. Not a diagnosis — a pattern. One more layer of information to bring into your clinical judgment.
Evidence base

What the science supports

We use established physiological signals as proxies for autonomic state. What's available depends on the device used in research — but the signals we work with are well-grounded in psychophysiology literature.

Heart rate (HR) & heart rate variability (HRV)
HRV reflects vagal tone and flexibility – how well the system can move between stress and rest.
Electrodermal activity (EDA)
EDA reflects sympathetic arousal – how "revved up" the system is.
Skin temperature
Peripheral temperature reflects vasoconstriction vs. vasodilation – are we in "threat" mode or "rest-and-digest"?
Respiration rate
Breathing speed changes with arousal and regulation – slower, more even breathing is linked to greater calm and higher HRV.
PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS HRV EDA Respiration
Eywa doesn't produce binary outputs. Every insight comes with an explicit confidence level — so you always know how much weight to give it. When signals are noisy or inconclusive, the model says so.
Nervous system visualised as a luminous tree with roots and branches
Participate

Get involved

A small group of somatic therapists and their clients. Six months of real data that shapes how Eywa develops.

For somatic therapists
Join as a research practitioner
You'll contribute your clinical perspective through brief post-session check-ins and occasional contact with our research team. No research background needed — but you do need to be a licensed mental health practitioner working somatically.
  • Brief check-in after each session (5 minutes or less)
  • Occasional updates and calls with the research team
  • 6-month research period
For clients
Join as a research participant
If you're in somatic therapy — or about to start — you can join the study alongside your therapist. You'll wear a comfortable device we provide and complete brief daily check-ins about how you're feeling.

If you don't have a somatic therapist yet, we can connect you with a participating therapist in our network.
  • Wearing a wearable device (provided by us)
  • Brief daily check-ins — about a minute, a few times a day
  • 6-month research period