The Inherited Release Method (IRM) is a trauma healing approach that works with the body’s innate intelligence, there is no need to relive the past or revisit every painful memory. This method is for those who carry emotions, patterns, or pain that never truly felt like theirs. It helps you recognise what’s inherited, what’s absorbed, and what’s ready to be released.
IRM blends energy work, nervous system regulation, and body-based techniques to clear generational, intergenerational, and ancestral trauma stored in the body. It’s not about bypassing the experiences, but rather finally understanding what your body has held onto, and letting it go with intention. This work restores balance to both the physical and energetic systems, bringing clarity, peace, and a renewed sense of self.
IRM is not appropriate for children, during pregnancy and for anyone with a history of schizophrenia or taking anti-psychotic medications. IRM is limited to one session per week, the sessions continue beyond the table and can take a week of processing. You will begin to appreciate why as you start to work with this powerful modality. Spinal Flow is an appropriate modality for all and can also help release trauma over many more sessions, very gradually.
If you have unintegrated trauma, you might be:
Trapped in fight, flight, freeze or fawn
Feeling numbness and dissociated/disconnected from your body
Dreading, fearing or feeling blocked moving towards your goals and desires
Experiencing a deep sense of powerlessness and overwhelm
Stuck in the past memories and flashbacks, or memory loss of a traumatic event. Replaying things in your mind and re-triggering emotions
Disconnected from joy, feeling like your upper and lower body is detached.
Feeling stuck, defeated, unable to show up the way your soul truly desires
Actively seeking someone or something
Low self-esteem and feelings of worthlessness
Suppressing your emotions, because most times, the feelings are too intense
Finding yourself getting irritated easily, having outbursts, or unable to regulate
What is a session like?
Every session is very different for every client. The sessions are a creative process and respond to your intentions and what you need in that moment. You have so many options to tailor the sessions to create a safe space for you to let go, surrendering to your own system to release what it feels ready to.
Your body may physically move, you may feel emotions rise, different sensations over the body, you may feel you go on a journey or see images or gain deep understandings and clarity. You may feel very relaxed and none of these things happen. Whatever happens is what you needed and future sessions will be completely different. Some experiences may not make a lot of logical sense or may seem like fragments; these will release and you do not need to understand but you will feel some sense of completion.
Your system will create the perfect experience for you and you will be held and supported to both feel this and following the session some practices will be suggested to ensure that you can integrate your release into your life following the session in an empowering way.
The sessions extend beyond our time together. Some people may experience their release where ever they next feel comfortable, maybe at home or when the release feels most relevant, to help you understand more fully or to ensure you have what you need from the release. Things may occur after the session that help experiences to make sense within your life. Over our sessions you are encouraged to develop practices which strengthen your sense of connection to your ancestors, nature and your deepest self both in our sessions and in your wider life. As you release, you will also receive more of who you truely are.
Releasing can look very different in each session: it can include emotions, natural releasing noises, such as: groans, cries, screams, interesting noises. Any way the body naturally releases: coughing, laughing, a runny nose, burps etc. Body movements, shaking, flicks, arm and finger movements, head movements. Nothing will occur without you allowing this; these are ways you can allow release and you will learn to become more and more comfortable with a variety of ways to release. These are expressions of what is releasing. If you feel very concerned about ugly crying in the healing room, it will wait until you are home and comfortable, however, learning to allow yourself to express your deep emotions when you feel safe too is so powerful and this journey can help open this skill.
If you do have fears about specific sensations or experiences openly share these, let your body and practitioner know how you feel. Titration is an important part of our sessions: this is therapeutic technique that involves gradually and slowly working with trauma so that the system is never pushed into overwhelm. We can incorporate a pace and plan that feels safe for you and develop skills so you can release in ways that are not triggering and feel empowering, by choice and through your own allowing and opeing process.
IRM was developed by Elizabeth Brown and is informed by a wide range of powerful scientific understandings of trauma, the nervous system and epigenetic and intergenerational trauma. It is a modality grounded in being fully human and brings all the wisdom of all the ancient ones who have also all had to survive and heal right into your body.
I’ve trained in many modalities over the years, but the deepest wisdom I carry hasn’t come from a textbook. It’s come from sitting with real people. From learning alongside healers and mentors. From witnessing the truth that rises when someone is finally ready to feel what they’ve been holding.
My life has always been shaped by self-inquiry, spiritual practice, and embodiment. Not just as concepts I’ve studied, but as ways I’ve survived. Healing isn’t just something I offer. It’s something I’ve had to live through, over and over.
The practices I share now are the ones that brought me back to myself. They’re not just tools. They are how I move through life. They shape how I listen. They are the foundation of how I hold space for others.
