A return to what matters
INTERVAL is a six-phase protocol built to guide your body out of a stress state and into genuine recovery — deliberately, in a fixed order, over two hours.
Virginia Parmentola — physiotherapist with a background in neuroscience research. She built the method around how the body actually shifts out of sympathetic overdrive.
What shifts the body is deliberate activation of the parasympathetic system — the vagus nerve, the body's main conductor of calm.
Modern life keeps most of us in sympathetic dominance — the state of alertness and low-grade threat known as fight-or-flight. Held long enough, it quietly wears on sleep, digestion, and emotional regulation.
The research on vagal regulation is what the method is built on: breath, slow movement and sustained touch are the levers it uses to signal safety to the body, so it can finally stand down. INTERVAL applies them in sequence — it doesn't claim to measure them.
Each part of INTERVAL is chosen for its documented role in the literature on autonomic and vagal regulation. The method doesn't run trials of its own — it applies, in a deliberate order, what the research already supports.
Structured breathing to slow the heart and cue the parasympathetic system.
Slow, low-intensity movement through the body's main stress-holding areas.
Individual hands-on work — sustained, targeted touch to release held tension.
A calm, controlled sensory environment that lets the system settle.
Guided inward attention that builds awareness of the body's own signals.
Built by Virginia Parmentola — physiotherapist with a background in neuroscience research. The full rationale behind each choice is available on request.
Before each session, every participant fills in a short personal intake — medical history, physical conditions, how you're doing. Where something needs adapting, it's adapted. The structure of the method stays intact.
This isn't a group class where you disappear into the room. Each person is attended to individually — that's what the hands-on phase depends on.
Two hours · 80€ · Paris & Tenerife.