1. Rather than fostering dependence on the practitioner, Vittoz empowers the client.  Dr. Vittoz was interested in offering his clients “tools to heal themselves,” using resources already resident in the conscious mind.  A long course of sessions with the practitioner is unnecessary. The clients learn the exercises and use them in their everyday lives as they choose.
2. Vittoz is drug free.
3. Personal freedom and responsibility of the client are central.  Although general work  may evoke emotions and memories from the past, folks choose to investigate them or leave them as they are.
4. Vittoz is holistic in nature.   All of the exercises aim at unifying and balancing the person, bringing together mind, body and spirit.  The exercises address the five senses as they enhance  connection to the outside world.
5. The Vittoz method is pragmatic. Vittoz wrote no books on theory.  The method is simply made up of a large number of exercises described intuitively and validated by the clients themselves.

      Vittoz is most effective one-on-one.  Exercises are chosen specific to each client.

6. Vittoz is uniquely adapted to the needs of the Western world in the 21st century. Dr. Vittoz esteemed that to living in the Western world, even as early as 1880, was akin to living in the fast lane.  He felt his clients lived mostly “in their heads,” processing ideas, leaving conscious input of the five senses behind. Their eyes “saw” but they processed and remembered little of what they saw.  (“Where did I put my keys?”) Their ears “heard” but they processed little of what they heard.  (“Did you speak to me?  What did you say?”) 
   
   Today, bombarded by stimuli, we place a low priority on direct experience.  We employ strategies to distance ourselves from sensory stimuli.  Rather than choosing which sensory stimuli to process, we distance ourselves from what we consider to be the sensory onslaught of the modern world.
   
   Medical studies show that considerable mental effort is required to avoid processing direct stimuli to the five senses, giving birth to a source of  the “stress” of which we speak so frequently in the 21st century.