TRANSFORMATIVE RESILIENCE TRAINING FOR TEENS & ADULTS
Limbic & Attachment Interoceptive Recalibration
(LAIR)
LAIR is the technique SOVRAN uses to reduce automatic reactivity at its source—so meltdowns happen less, recovery happens faster, and home feels safer and steadier in months, not years.
Effective targets for your family:
Escalation and shutdown patterns
The stress loop that spreads across the household
Reactive communication that breaks trust
The “walking on eggshells” dynamic
The automatic beliefs and attachment protections that keep reactivity repeating
A Comprehensive Solution for Emotional Wellness
LAIR is available exclusively through SOVRAN and SOVRAN certified practitioners.
The LAIR technique is an advanced and comprehensive bottom up method that leverages the brain’s high‑speed body‑to‑brain nerve pathways to directly reach brain centers responsible for emotion, learning, memory, reward, and fight-flight-hide-shutdown responses.
By combining the best evidence-based bottom up techniques, standardizing these methodologies, and expanding on them to overcome the limitations faced by other bottom up and top down methods, LAIR reaches the root of emotional dysregulation to systematically:
- Balance fear, sadness, anger, emotional numbness, and happiness
- Recalibrate hypervigilant fight‑or‑flight responses
- Resolve ineffective coping strategies and self‑sabotaging patterns
- Rewire dissociative responses and freeze states
- Reset limiting inner dialogue
- Restore the capacity for healthy, secure relationship attachment
- Transform deeply ingrained, stress and trauma‑based beliefs
Interoception: Your Child's Stress-and-Safety Signal System
Interoception is your body’s internal awareness system. When it runs “too hot,” small stressors feel like threats—and big reactions happen fast. LAIR retrains this system so the nervous system returns to baseline more easily.
Research shows that anxiety, depression, PTSD and other emotional imbalances, are caused by a complex interplay of neuroplasticity, deeply ingrained beliefs about self-worth, and the ability to form safe relationship bonds.
Basic bottom‑up practices like breathwork, yoga, and mindfulness can offer a helpful reset in the moment, but their effects don't last and require frequent repetition to maintain. EMDR can have more lasting effects, but like the others, is limited by dissociation (feeling numb or disconnected from your body) and overwhelming emotional states as well as the inability to access forgotten or buried memories that impact how you interpret your experiences, beliefs about yourself, and your ability to feel safe in relationships.
Basic bottom up practices can be valuable, and some are incorporated into LAIR training, however, alone, they generally do not target the same specific brain systems or deliver the same level of lasting, structural change that LAIR is designed to achieve.
Science Behind How LAIR Boosts Neuroplasticity
(an increase in brain cell to brain cell connections that occurs with learning)
- Somatic and interoceptive experiences naturally increase neuroplasticity, and can be measured using markers like BDNF, GDNF, and NGF.
- These factors support learning, memory, survival, growth and function of healthy brain cells.
- Enhanced neuroplasticity translates to faster and more sustainable functional gains as natural learning pathways are associated with deeper subconscious learning and don't require conscious memorization.
- For example: touching something hot and learning about the associated pain and danger. This is almost impossible to forget. This is how primary or embodied learning works using these rapid learning pathways. They become fully integrated.
- Think about learning to stand, walk, or ride a bike. Once we learn to balance, we don't forget. In this example, trauma or disease can impair parts of the brain required to balance, but that change in ability is different than forgetting.
By enhancing neuroplasticity and improving interoceptive processing, LAIR helps breakthrough old patterns to achieve deeper, faster, and more durable change while cultivating empowered resilience, authenticity, and a felt sense of safety in one’s own body.
Improving interoceptive processing is an important part of resolving anxiety, depression, PTSD, eating disorders (binge/restrictive), ADHD, OCD, and substance use disorders, as well as improving autism symptoms.
What if your memories are buried, and you can't recall them?
No problem.
- Buried memories that can't be consciously recalled impact many aspects of your life—shaping your decisions, influencing your self-worth, and limiting your potential.
- These deep seated memories may be linked to fear of rejection, or feelings of shame, guilt, or unworthiness, for example, and drive choices that trap you in cycles of broken relationships and missed opportunities.
- Because they can't be directly recalled, it can be impossible to access forgotten memories using talk based approaches. For enduring results and lasting resilience, it's essential they are addressed.
- Hidden wounds can be accessed and healed using interoceptive techniques.
- The LAIR technique helps clients heal the trauma wounded parts of the brain impacted by buried memories, unlocking rapid transformation and untapped potential—creating lasting change that willpower and logic alone can't achieve.
- This is "the work" people idealize but struggle to complete on their own due to buried memories, blocks, blind spots, inexperience, and limiting beliefs.
Other Tools We Use To Save Time & Expense
When our clients experience significant blocks and high levels of emotional dysregulation, we may suggest clients consult with a licensed ketamine prescriber. Ketamine is an FDA approved medication for anesthesia that when used off-label along with the LAIR technique can help get faster results for clients stuck with resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, and OCD.
The evidence is clear: mental wellness approaches achieve superior outcomes when the limbic system is naturally targeted through interoception (feeling) rather than relying solely on thinking (cognitive analysis). Our innovative approach bypasses the inherent limitations and biases of top-down processing while working directly with the body's innate ability to heal, and subconscious regulatory capacity. Because our clients learn through embodied exercises to work with their nervous system to restore emotional health, they are empowered, and their nervous systems naturally shift to a higher level of function.
Comparison To Other Somatic Methods
Coming soon.
The LAIR Experience
In a private, quiet setting of their choice, we guide clients through a series of interoceptive exercises, breathwork techniques, and movements that support recalibrating their emotions and attachment styles while building resilience—via an encrypted virtual portal.
The process is bottom up- focused on identifying triggers in the memory, the attached emotions, sensations, maladaptive beliefs, and incompleted subconscious survival responses. The method uncouples the triggers from the memory and helps the emotional and attachment system recalibrate.
The experience may cover memories that have resulted in emotional and mental blocks, and dissociation, as well as powerfully restorative feelings of internal peace and calm.
Clients who have been prescribed ketamine by their medical provider pair their home ketamine with LAIR emotional balancing, resilience building and attachment reset, to achieve deeper more lasting results.
An eye mask and noise cancelling earbuds or earphones are recommended to support focus.
