After Foundations · A live 6-month experience

ARM Immersion: where you live the method, together.

Knowing what moves your Autoimmune condition and living it are two different things. Immersion is the season where you live it, six months, in a small group walking the same path. Foundations gave you the map. This is the trail.

Starts January 2027

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Joining costs you nothing and commits you to nothing. Prefer to start now? Begin with Foundations.

For 7 years my labs came back ‘normal’ while my body was quietly unraveling. What began to change was not trying harder. It was walking the steps in order, and not doing it by myself.
Daniela Hess

You know the words already. ‘I know what I am supposed to do.’ ‘I start, and then life happens.’ ‘I do not want to do this by myself again.’

This is for the woman who has the map and has not yet walked the whole trail. And for the woman who walked part of it on her own, and would rather not do that again.

A live session every week for 6 months, a month on each of the 6 Keys, and the food work walked start to finish as a group. A full Core AIP elimination and reintroduction, a nervous system that learns a calmer baseline, and rhythms that hold long after any course ends.

Education and support, not medical advice. It walks beside your care, it does not replace it. Every body is different, and results vary.

Meet Daniela Hess

I live with Hashimoto’s, and in Immersion I walk the whole six months with you, toward Remission.

Daniela Hess, MSEd, CTACC, RYT500 · Functional Wellness Consultant and Autoimmune Educator

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Foundations, then Immersion

Learn the map, then walk the whole trail together

Foundations, 6 weeks

About 90 minutes on each Key. Enough to teach you what actually moves an Autoimmune condition, and why. You leave understanding your own picture.

Immersion, 6 months

A whole month on each Key, and a live session every week. Long enough to actually implement it, then come back with what happened. You leave having lived it.

Never on your own

A small, live community walks the whole season beside you, so the space between your doctor’s appointments is no longer something you cross alone.

Side by side

Foundations and Immersion, side by side

Foundations teaches you the 6 Keys. Immersion is the season where you live them.

Foundations and Immersion compared, row by row
Feature	Foundations	Immersion
How long	6 weeks	6 months
Time on each Key	About 90 minutes	A full month
How often you meet	Once a week, 6 Sundays	Once a week, for all 6 months
The food work	Taught, and you begin when ready	A guided 90-day Core elimination, walked as a group
Reintroductions	On your own, afterward	4 weeks, guided, ending in your own template
Great Energy Qigong	14 days, live	A month of weekday Qigong, plus Sunday mornings
Group size	Open	Capped at 50
What you leave with	Understanding your own picture	Having lived it
Starts	August 16, 2026	January 2027

What the 6 months hold

The framework, lived all the way through

A live session every week, for all 6 months. Taught live, never pre-recorded, and every session carries both teaching and open Q&A. Support in between, so a hard week is never a week you wait out alone.
A guided 90-day Core AIP elimination, walked as a group. Supported start to finish, with reintroduction as the goal from day 1, and a full month of transition before it begins so you are not dropping everything at once.
4 weeks of guided reintroductions, and your own personalized template. You do not finish on a generic protocol. You finish knowing what your body actually does with each food, and eating from a plan that is yours.
Visiting educators through the nervous-system season. Guests who teach their own specialisms alongside me, including somatic work and nervous-system care, so you are not only getting 1 practitioner’s lens for 6 months.
A full month of daily Great Energy Qigong, live. Every day Monday through Friday for a month, plus the Sunday morning class. The gentle nervous-system practice developed for women with Autoimmunity, that holds the rest of the work together and gives you energy rather than costing it.
Full access to the ARM AIP Companion App. Your day-to-day guide through the protocol, the whole way through.
Live coaching, community, and accountability. A small group walking the same path, so you are not crossing this season by yourself.
A deeper turn through all 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission. From knowing them to living inside them, one season at a time.

The 6 Keys, lived deeper

In Foundations you learn them. In Immersion you live each one.

Over six months we give every Key its own season, long enough for it to become the way you live rather than one more thing to remember.

Key 1

Community & Foundations

How the 3 factors come together for Autoimmunity to actually develop, the difference between normal and optimal lab ranges, all learned in the live company of women who truly understand what it means to live with Autoimmunity.

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The ground upon which everything rests. Foundations and Autoimmune 101: how an Autoimmune condition actually develops, the labs to ask for, and the difference between normal and optimal lab ranges. You gain the knowledge, and you gain it in company, because we are not designed to heal in isolation.

Key 2

Gut & Nourishment

What inflammation actually is, and which foods calm it, the Autoimmune Protocol, blood sugar, and the true nuances of the gut barrier, where much of your ability to move Toward Remission lives.

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Food as information, not punishment. The Autoimmune Protocol, the elimination and reintroduction seasons, blood sugar and meal order, and the gut barrier and stomach acid that sit at the center of so much. Where a great deal of the leverage lives. And it is profoundly nourishing to be among caring company who know your world, without your having to explain or convince anyone.

Key 3

Environment & Rhythms

Sleep patterns, your morning and evening habits, especially with technology, daily movement so you are not sedentary, and the hidden toxins in your everyday environment. Set these into a steady rhythm, and your hormones and your energy start to steady with them.

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Sleep, morning light, daily movement, and the toxins and load in your home. Your body keeps time by light, movement, and rest, and when your days take on a steady shape, your hormones and energy steady with them. Once your rhythms are set they ask for almost no willpower. They are the container the rest of the work heals inside.

Key 4

Love & Healthy Relationships

Your relationships, partners, colleagues, family, siblings, children, shape your inflammation more than you have been told. Tend your self-honesty and your boundaries, soften your inner dialogue, and let yourself be cared for, guided through it all in the course.

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The relationships you live inside, and the one you have with yourself. Tending an honest boundary, softening how you speak to yourself, and letting yourself be cared for. The safety you feel in your closest relationships shapes inflammation more than most people are ever told, because your nervous system is always listening for whether you are safe and held.

Key 5

Calm & Resilience

Great Energy Qigong, gentle enough to do standing or seated, that is unlikely to trigger a flare and gives you energy instead of taking it, alongside Effortless Meditation, the practice our students love and actually stick with, moving your body toward the rest-and-digest, parasympathetic state where real healing happens.

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The nervous system work. How chronic stress drives inflammation, and the daily practices that move the body toward the rest-and-digest state where it repairs. These include a slower breath, a few honest minutes of meditation, and Great Energy Qigong, which is suitable for women with Autoimmunity or any chronic condition, gentle enough that it typically does not cause flares and does not cost you energy to do.

Key 6

Purpose & Aliveness

Your spark of life is something to protect and nurture: cultivating real joy, connecting to what gives your life meaning, and letting yourself belong. This is not the reward waiting at the end of healing. It is part of what does the healing.

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The often-overlooked medicine of joy, meaning, creativity, and belonging. Protecting the one thing each week that makes you feel like yourself, the walk, the music, the friend, the work that is actually yours. This is not the reward at the end of healing. The spark of your own Aliveness is part of what does the healing.

The shape of the 6 months

A month for every Key, and a season for the food work

Every Key gets a full month, because a month is how long it takes to learn something, put it into your actual life, and come back with what happened. The AIP work runs underneath the whole middle of the season, which is the only honest way to walk a 90-day elimination.

Month

Community & Foundations

Education and connection. You learn how an Autoimmune condition actually develops, the labs to ask for, and the difference between normal and optimal ranges. And you get to know the women you will walk the whole season beside, which is not a warm-up. It is Key 1.

Month

Gut & Nourishment, and the transition

The food work begins gently. This is the transition phase, where you ease in rather than clearing your kitchen overnight. By the end of the month you are ready to begin the elimination properly.

Month

Environment & Rhythms

Sleep, morning light, daily movement, blood sugar, and the toxin load hiding in an ordinary home. Once these are set they ask for almost no willpower, and they become the container the rest of the work heals inside.

Month

Love & Healthy Relationships

What you carry in your relationships, including the one with yourself. Honest boundaries, the conversations that have been held back, and how you speak to yourself. I teach Foundations of Awareness inside this month.

Month

Calm & Resilience

The nervous-system season, and the month with the most visiting educators. Somatic work, nervous-system care, and practices that teach a body it is safe to stop bracing. Reintroductions also begin here.

Month

Purpose & Aliveness

What you are recovering for. Joy, meaning, and the things that make you feel like yourself rather than merely functional. Your reintroductions finish, and you move onto a personalized template that is genuinely yours.

Running underneath, months 2 to 6

The Autoimmune Protocol, start to finish, as a group

A month of transition, then a full 90-day Core elimination across months 3, 4 and 5, then 4 weeks of guided reintroductions beginning in month 5 and finishing in month 6. This is the piece that does not fit inside a 6-week course, and it is the main reason Immersion is 6 months rather than shorter. You are not doing it alone, and you are not doing it from a PDF.

You are not doing this alone

The whole season, walked together

We are not designed to do our healing work in isolation. So much of what wears a woman down with an Autoimmune condition is not only the symptoms, it is carrying them alone, explaining yourself over and over, wondering whether anyone really understands.

In Immersion you do not have to. You walk the six months inside a small, live community of women who understand your world without your having to convince them. I walk hand over hand through it with you, alongside others on the same path, so the in-between space between your doctor’s appointments is no longer something you cross by yourself. When a week is hard, there are people who get it. When something shifts, there are people who celebrate it with you. The company is not a bonus on top of the work. It is part of how the work heals.

Two women together on a porch, one listening, one heard

An Autoimmune Protocol meal at a real table

Who guides you

Caring, steady hands for the whole season

I am Daniela Hess, an Autoimmune Educator and Functional Wellness Consultant. I came to this work the long way, through 7 years when my body was slowly unraveling and every lab came back ‘normal’. Hashimoto’s, hypothyroidism, SIBO. What finally changed everything was understanding what was driving it, and the steps that move an Autoimmune condition toward Remission.

Immersion is where I walk the whole six months with you. Not from the outside, but as someone who lives with Hashimoto’s and teaches the way toward Remission. It is education and support, not medical advice, and it walks beside your care.

Lives with Hashimoto’s, feeling fully Alive and flourishing with Autoimmune
Functional Wellness Consultant and Autoimmune Educator
Co-founder of Great Energy, Great Energy Qigong teacher
Midlife Mentor, Spiritual Guide, and Enneagram guide
Daniela Hess, MSEd, CTACC, RYT500

Walking this path, alongside others

“One of the greatest gifts of this work has been learning to trust myself again. … Having someone knowledgeable, compassionate … walk alongside me through this journey has been invaluable.”
Private Autoimmune coaching client, Hashimoto’s, Midlife

“I am a newly retired mental health specialist thankful to have found Great Energy. Daniela and Christopher have created a healing community with nourishing resources for living on and off the mat.”
Nita B., retired mental health specialist

“I … quickly realized I needed this great energy and healing for myself. … I am able to cope with … stressful situations in life so much better after learning Qigong, especially with learning Daniela’s Keys for managing stress.”
Kristy G., Great Energy Qigong certification student

Before you ask

Questions women ask about Immersion

When does ARM Immersion start, and how long is it?

Immersion opens in January 2027 and runs for six months. You meet live once a week for all six months, and each of the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission gets a full month. Exact dates are set in September, and the waitlist hears them first.

What is the difference between Foundations and Immersion?

Foundations is six weeks and gives about 90 minutes to each Key, so you understand your own picture. Immersion gives a full month to each Key, with a live session every week, so you move from understanding it to living it. Foundations is the map. Immersion is the trail.

Do I have to finish Foundations before joining Immersion?

It is the natural order and most women come that way, because Immersion assumes you already know the 6 Keys. If you have not taken Foundations, say so when you join the waitlist and Daniela will tell you honestly whether to start there first.

How much does ARM Immersion cost?

Tuition is set in September 2026, along with the exact dates. The waitlist hears both before anything is announced anywhere else. Joining the list costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

How many women are in the group?

Immersion is capped at 50 women. It is capped so that Daniela walks the whole six months with you rather than teaching at you, and so there is room in a live session for your actual question rather than a queue.

Is this medical treatment, or a replacement for my doctor?

Neither. Immersion is education and support, and it walks beside your medical care rather than replacing it. Every one of the 6 Keys assumes you are also working with a skillful practitioner. Every body is different, and results vary.

What we do not talk about enough

Isolation is not neutral

Most women are handed one instruction. Get good at managing your flares.

Nobody says the other thing. That there are steps, in an order, that move an Autoimmune condition toward Remission.

That is not your fault. You were given the part of the picture your doctor was trained to give you, and when the rest of it never arrived, you assumed there was no rest of it.

Many of us with Autoimmunity carry a tremendous fatigue, and a loneliness that is fairly unique to Autoimmunity. We are not designed to heal in isolation. Isolation is not neutral. It is its own kind of stress, and stress is a trigger for Autoimmunity.

Away from Remission looks like managing this quietly on your own. Googling alone at midnight, the way I did.

I have watched women’s whole nervous systems settle the moment they finally found people who understood what this path asks. Before they changed a single thing.

Immersion is six months of not doing it by yourself.

This is our plan

ARM Immersion, opening January 2027

Tuition and exact dates are set in September. The waitlist hears both first, before anything is announced anywhere else, and Immersion is capped at 50 women, so the list is where the seats go first.

Joining costs you nothing and commits you to nothing. It puts you at the front when the season opens.

You are on the list. We will email you the moment January 2027 dates and enrollment open.

Not ready to wait? Start with Foundations instead.