A member arrived at SoliVana three months after stepping back from a company they'd built over six years. They came in tired, not unhappy. The exhaustion had a specific shape — short fuse, shallow sleep, no off switch. The morning HRV on their wearable was sitting in the low 20s. They had not been below 50 ms in their twenties.
Week one: triage.
We started with two REST Floating Therapy sessions in the first seven days. The goal was to give the autonomic nervous system a clean break from input. They reported feeling "switched off" by minute thirty of the first float. By the second float, they slept through the night for the first time in nine months. HRV ticked up to 34 ms within four days.
Weeks two through six: building variance back in.
Once baseline cortisol had stopped flooding the system, we added Fire & Ice Contrast Therapy twice a week. The point was not the cold, or the heat. It was the switching speed. After four weeks of that pattern, their HRV had moved into the mid-40s, and they reported that "calls feel less expensive."
The point was not the cold or the heat. It was the switching speed.
The boring habit.
Around week five we added something dull. They agreed to set a hard light-out time and put the phone in another room overnight. Magnesium glycinate before bed. No alcohol within three hours of sleep. The therapy work was load-bearing, but this is what compounded.
Weeks seven through twelve: cadence.
Once HRV was stable in the 50s, we shifted to a maintenance cadence — one float every other week, contrast once a week, and a half-day Tech Detox at week nine. They crossed 60 ms around day 80. By day 90, the seven-day average sat in the low 60s.
They are not the same person who walked in. The metric is downstream of that, not the other way around.