About Body Stress Release

About BSR

Body Stress Release (BSR) is a unique complementary health technique, researched and developed in South Africa in the 1980’s by Gail and Ewald Meggersee, and practised worldwide

Body Stress Release offers a gentle and effective way to release stored tension from the muscles, and works with your body’s natural desire to be stress-free.

This stored tension may be the cause of discomfort or other symptoms you’re experiencing. This can include a multitude of indications such as backache, neck pain, headaches, sciatic pain, cramp, constipation, vulval pain and anxiety – to name a few.

Our bodies store this body stress in layers, often over many years. Think of the layers of an onion. With BSR we encourage the body to release these layers, just like peeling back the layers of an onion.

Body Stress Release uses information provided by your body to locate stored tension. This could be affecting your nervous system and, therefore, your body’s ability to function to its fullest potential.

Our bodies store this body stress in layers, often over many years. Think of the layers of an onion.

With BSR we encourage the body to release these layers, just like peeling back the layers of an onion.

Body Stress Release uses information provided by your body to locate stored tension.

This could be affecting your nervous system and, therefore, your body’s ability to function to its fullest potential. Like to know MORE

Is BSR for me?

Body Stress Release is for everyone…and every BODY! Most of us carry stress and tension from our everyday lives. Some stress in our lives can be positive.

After all, stress caused by everyday challenges can help us to grow and develop. But when that stress becomes overwhelming, it can start to affect our mental and physical well-being. 

A regular BSR session can help to keep your body in balance – offering relief from small aches and niggles to more serious pain and discomfort

Body Stress Release is suitable for all ages, including infants and the elderly.

The origins of BSR

Body Stress Release is a unique complementary health technique that was researched and developed in South Africa in the 1980s by Gail and Ewald Meggersee, and is now practised worldwide.

The need to develop this technique arose from the debilitating pain that Ewald suffered after he fell from a tree at age five. This pain was felt all the way into adulthood.

During their research, they discovered how the body automatically reacts to stress in a highly organised way and stores the stress as lines of tension in specific directions.

They also discovered how those different areas are interconnected, and that body stress in one part of the body can affect another part too. Their research and Ewald’s continued healing led to the creation of Body Stress Release

What is body stress?

Our bodies are designed to handle daily stresses and strains in the form of mental, physical and emotional stress.

We adapt to this positively until we find ourselves under excessive stress. As soon as this point of stress overload is reached, the muscles can tighten in a protective action, attempting to limit movement in the affected area. This tightening can result in the stress or tension becoming locked into the body’s physical structures.

This is what we call ‘body stress’, and over time this accumulative build-up of body stress exerts pressure on the spinal nerves and may cause pain, numbness, muscle weakness, stiffness, distorted posture and impaired functioning.

At first, you may feel progressively tired and achy, but later pain, stiffness, or numbness might set in. The effects vary, but the result could be a slow decline in overall health as it reduces the efficiency of your body’s natural self-healing ability.

Very often, a client will report that their extremely painful symptoms have been brought on by the tiniest of movements, when in fact this seemingly insignificant movement is likely to be the last straw, resulting in body stress becoming locked in.

The physical tension needs to be effectively and precisely released to encourage and restore normal functioning, and in order to stop the cycle of stress overload and compensation.

The causes of body stress

What happens during an appointment?

During your first appointment, I will give you a brief explanation of Body Stress Release and take a detailed case history.

You remain fully clothed. I have a specially designed BSR couch, which you will be lowered down on, so there is no climbing on and off. I then test your body for body stress using a series of gentle reflex tests along your spine and other areas of your body as required. Your body will indicate the exact sites of body stress. I then apply a gentle but precise stimulation to the affected areas to encourage your body to ‘release’ the tension, thereby restoring communication and its natural self-healing abilities.