What Is Pain Source Release?
Pain Source Release (PSR) is a gentle hands-on therapy. It is a type of myofascial release. Patricia Lovell named Pain Source Release and trade marked the teaching of it in 2003. It focusses on getting out of your own way. Even though it can be an active bodywork technique, it is a type of meditation. With gentleness and quiet, the client can enter their safe space where healing can take place, whatever that may be.
I hold the area giving you pain, supporting the tight or restricted tissue. I wait until your body recognises that it is being supported and doesn’t have to work so hard anymore and starts to relax.
As you relax your whole body softens and a chain reaction starts. I can feel your muscle tone and muscle recruitment change. I continue to support you using gentle pressure and stretch, but do not stop any movement or change that is going on in your body.
You take the lead and I follow
By working like this I am not getting in your way and you are working out how to change and rebalance. Because you have recognised your own tension and your body has worked out a different way to move, there is every likelihood that you will continue to improve after a treatment.
Sandra works in a quiet and pain free way. I can actually feel my muscles and body tissue etc. repositioning itself.
It is possible that you will feel immediate relief, or the softening will start a chain of events that can go on for weeks. Sometimes you might not even realise that anything has happened, but it will have helped you to get in touch with your body again, allowed chronically tight tissue to soften so that your body can perform better, sleep better and become less stressed.
Often you realize over the next week or so that the nagging pain or weakness that was constantly there is now gone. “It’s wow, there’s no pain!"