The twenty women in this study are not clients who came for a handful of isolated sessions. They are long-term peiec® students who have remained engaged with the pathway for approximately two to five-plus years. This study is concerned with what became apparent for them after that sustained engagement - not with a single session, technique, or short-term response.
The question behind this study is not whether someone felt better in a moment. It is: what becomes possible over time? What do long-term students themselves report changing - across the body, the nervous system, the energetic system, the field, consciousness and the deepest awareness, and in the way they meet everyday life - after continued engagement with peiec?
peiec is deliberately progressive. The methodology was largely given to Anandi Sano progressively, while she was teaching live — techniques, applications, diagrams and understandings emerged piece by piece, rather than the entire methodology being designed in advance and subsequently divided into modules.
Over time, it became apparent that this progression was doing more than teaching increasingly advanced techniques — the practitioner was developing alongside the methodology. This is part of why a long-term cohort is particularly relevant here: the study begins to examine what students themselves report after remaining engaged with that progressive process for years, rather than after a single technique or a short block of sessions.
Autonomy is central to peiec. The work is not intended to leave a person increasingly dependent on a practitioner in order to create change for them. Over years of engagement, long-term students report learning to observe themselves, apply the work to their own body and system, recognise their own patterns, and increasingly work with their own state rather than requiring someone else to do it for them. The statements below speak to that shift.
Taken together, these scores suggest that after years of engagement, this cohort reports relying less on external guidance to regulate their own state — consistent with the peiec principle that the person, not only the practitioner, becomes increasingly able to work with their own system over time.
Additional conditions reported: fibromyalgia · ME/CFS · CPTSD · eating disorders · alcohol dependency · agoraphobia · ASD/ADHD · endometriosis · cancer recovery
This study documents participants' reported experience of this kind of longer-term, system-level change. It does not independently establish the biological or physiological mechanism responsible for it — that lies beyond what a self-report questionnaire of this kind can determine.
Long-term peiec education is not simply the accumulation of techniques. As students continue applying the work over years, many describe a parallel development in themselves as the person doing the work — sharper self-observation, changed perception, a growing energetic awareness, greater discernment in what they notice and how they respond, and a quieter, steadier internal state. Where the questionnaire responses speak to this, it is reflected in the voices below, organised by the five layers of the peiec framework.
Participants describe this layer less in terms of dramatic new experiences and more in terms of a change in ground - an increasing stillness, reduced internal noise, and a subtler quality of awareness of themselves and of life around them. These are self-reported changes in the quality of a person's own experience. What can be said is that long-term students report this quality of stillness and awareness as something that has become more constant in daily life, rather than something visited briefly during a practice or session.
That is the question this study returns to. Rather than focusing on symptom reduction alone, this cohort of long-term students reported changes across multiple aspects of the human system - the body, the nervous system, the energetic system, the field, consciousness and the deepest awareness - together with changes in autonomy, self-observation, and their own capacity to work with themselves.
The functional changes documented here - the sleep restored, the pain resolved, the baseline shifted, the capacity transferred - are the outermost, most measurable layer of what participants describe after years of engagement. They are real, and they are pointing toward changes that a questionnaire of this kind can only partly capture.
Many of these participants have walked this path for years, and several described the deeper shifts in regulation, embodiment, presence, and lived experience as difficult to fully put into words. Many describe a quality of being that has moved beyond what they can easily articulate — a groundedness, a gentleness, a way of inhabiting life that did not exist before and does not require maintenance.
Interestingly, many participants shared that completing the questionnaire itself was revealing. Because the changes in this work tend to unfold gradually over time, several people commented that they had not realised how much had shifted until they stepped back and reflected on their journey. Looking across areas such as the body, stress response, clarity of thinking, emotional stability and daily life functioning allowed them to recognise the depth of change that had quietly taken place.
This data is offered not as proof of a universal outcome, but as honest documentation of what twenty long-term students report after years of genuine engagement - and as the beginning of longitudinal documentation of human and practitioner development within peiec. The peiec pathway speaks for itself. The data simply makes some of what it produces, over time, visible.