Body Stress Release - Randpark Ridge/Boskruin

27/01/2026

26/01/2026

Ready to reconnect with your body?

In a fast-paced, high-stress world, Body Stress Release offers a gentle, natural path to healing, balance and wellbeing.

Body Stress Release works by observing the body’s own signals.
The body naturally reacts when there is hidden tension or muscle tightness, and these reactions guide the practitioner to the exact areas where stress is being held.

Your journey starts with booking your first session.

👉 Find a certified Body Stress Release practitioner near you
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📧 info@bodystressrelease.co.za

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18/12/2025

Let’s Talk About Veins, Baby!
The Underrated Highways of the Human Body

While arteries often steal the spotlight, veins are the real underdogs of the circulatory world — quietly returning blood back to the heart, defying gravity, and working hand-in-hand with your lymphatic system to keep you alive, oxygenated, and detoxed.

Here’s everything you didn’t know you needed to know about these blue-hued beauties:

1. What Exactly Are Veins?

Veins are blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood from your tissues back to the heart (except for the pulmonary vein, which carries oxygenated blood from the lungs — a fun twist!).

They have thinner walls than arteries and rely on valves to prevent blood from flowing backward — especially in your legs where gravity tries to fight them daily!

2. How Are Veins Linked to the Lymphatic System?

Think of your veins and lymphatic vessels as two sets of parallel drainage systems:
• Veins carry blood.
• Lymphatic vessels carry a clear fluid called lymph made up of proteins, cellular waste, and immune cells.

The connection point? The subclavian veins — where lymph is ultimately emptied back into your bloodstream. Without healthy veins, lymph can’t complete its journey!

Study Reference:
• Olszewski, W.L. (2003). The lymphatic system in body homeostasis: physiological conditions. Lymphatic Research and Biology.
• Rockson, S.G. (2001). The unique biology of lymphatic edema. Lymphatic Research and Biology.

3. Veins Are Smartly Designed Against Gravity

In your legs, veins work with muscle contractions (your calf muscles especially) to pump blood back to the heart — a system sometimes called the muscle pump. That’s why movement is essential!

Fun Fact: Your veins have one-way valves that work like trapdoors. When they weaken or fail, you get varicose veins.

4. Veins Store Most of Your Blood!

At any given time, nearly 70% of your blood volume is in your veins. They are called capacitance vessels because they expand and store blood — sort of like the body’s blood banks.

5. Lymph Can’t Flow Without Vein Cooperation

Your lymphatic fluid is filtered through lymph nodes and eventually empties into the venous system, specifically into the right and left subclavian veins. If the veins are congested, inflamed, or compressed — lymph drainage suffers.

This is why therapies like manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) and movement-based lymph flow also indirectly support venous return.

6. Blue Blood? Not Quite.

Veins appear blue under the skin due to how light penetrates and reflects — but the blood in veins is actually dark red, just low in oxygen!

7. Vein Health = Lymph Health

Poor venous return can lead to fluid retention, heaviness in the legs, and a stagnant lymph system. For example:
• Chronic venous insufficiency often coexists with secondary lymphedema.
• After surgeries (especially involving lymph node removal), your veins and lymph system need extra care.

Tips to Love Your Veins (and Lymph):
• Move often – walking activates your muscle pump!
• Elevate your legs – especially after long days.
• Dry brushing and MLD – stimulate superficial lymph & vein pathways.
• Hydrate well – to reduce blood viscosity.
• Avoid prolonged sitting/standing – static posture leads to stagnation.

In Summary

Your veins are more than just tubes carrying blood — they’re a lifeline that works in harmony with your lymphatic system to remove waste, maintain fluid balance, and support immune function.

So next time you see a little blue line on your wrist or foot, give it some love — because your veins are doing WAY more than meets the eye.

This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your healthcare provider before making changes to your health regimen.

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12/12/2025

As human beings we are made up of three aspects - body, mind and emotions. These are, of course, interconnected and interdependent. When we have a physical experience, it also affects us mentally and emotionally; something that has a mental or emotional impact will also reverberate into the body.
When body stress is present, not only are there physical effects, but one’s mental and emotional well-being are undermined. After the physical tension is released, some people become aware of greater mental clarity. Others feel an emotional lightness, or a surge of enthusiasm for life as energy levels rise.’ - Gail Meggersee

23/10/2025

Body Stress Release has been known to have clients making comments like:
I feel lighter than I have in years
So this is what it feels like to be truly pain-free
Since going for BSR, my body feels 5 years younger
Try it for yourself … You'll thank me later!
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21/10/2025

BSR AND THE HEALTHCARE SPECTRUM
BSR stands squarely under the title ‘complementary’. It is a health-care profession that works alongside medicine, in cooperation, not in competition.

15/10/2025

WHY YOU NEED BSR TO RELEASE BUILT-UP TENSION:
Your brain processes massive amounts of information from your sense organs, muscles, and chemical receptors. The system that filters these is the reticular activating system, and it is vital to our well-being, as we would be completely overwhelmed without it.
In the same way that we stop noticing the ticking of a clock after hearing it for a while, this system also has a dampening effect on the nerves, causing the body to cease taking instructions and allow tension to be stored. BSR creates the correct stimuli to help the brain register locked-in tension and initiate the body's healing process for the tension and its related symptoms.
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09/10/2025

Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day. Why not make a point of reaching out to someone you know who is, or might be, struggling and show them that they are not judged, and that they are not alone.
Also, remember that BSR can help release held or stored emotional trauma that has shown up as locked-in tension in the body. So, if your friend is struggling, a voucher could be helpful.

08/10/2025

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OUR LOGO:
The BSR logo depicts a white leafy tree on a dark green background. Below it, the dark green root system is a symmetrical pattern of loops on a white background. The arcing lines represent the unseen pathways of communication in the body - the coherent flow of life energy. The roots may also symbolise body stress, hidden ‘underground’, and demonstrate that although stress is an undermining force, it is stored in an organised form (there is order and intelligence, even in apparent chaos). When the stress is released, the life energy is restored, represented by the flourishing tree.

08/10/2025

If you or someone you love is living with any of these kinds of struggles, we would love to help!
BSR is a gentle, non-invasive technique that uses lines of nerve communication within the body to release built-up body tension and stress, which in turn leads to the symptoms shown here.
Find a practitioner near you to help bring some relief:
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28/04/2025

What a wonderful conference we had in George! Food for the soul

It's true! When we are young we are invincible until we age and stress builds up over the years in our body. BSR has all practitioners AND their clients to claim back, to varying degrees, the feeling of childhood freedom in their backs due to the gentle power of the Body Stress Release technique and its ability to help the body self-heal.

25/04/2025