Pav Shakti
InnereSource was not assembled from a theory. It was discovered in the treatment room — and confirmed by science years later.
From Biochemical Engineering to the Treatment Room
My path into this work didn't begin with bodywork — it began with a spiritual awakening. A profound opening that expanded my perception of self and reality. What followed was not what I expected: depression. The system had opened, and what it met was the full weight of everything accumulated within it.
Talking therapies helped — they gave me language, narrative, context. But they worked in the upper registers: from the chest and neck upward. They didn't reach what was held lower. Bodywork did. Not understood differently — felt differently. A depth of release and a quality of ease that conversation never touched.
That felt difference, in my own body, is where InnereSource began.
"The work came first. The science arrived years later — not as the origin of InnereSource, but as its independent confirmation."
My background was in Biochemical Engineering. I was trained to trace cause through complex systems precisely, step by step. When I encountered bodywork that produced what talking could not, I didn't abandon that precision — I brought it into the treatment room. What followed was a retraining, and then a private practice that opened in 2008.
The Discovery That Shaped Everything
Across thousands of hours of hands-on work, a pattern kept repeating: releasing held energy at a specific site in the body would often produce the spontaneous recovery of a memory or story connected to that exact location — material the conscious mind had filed away long ago, still held, intact, in the tissue. The body remembers what the mind has forgotten. That single observation is the seed of everything InnereSource builds toward.
Early practice was often alongside psychotherapists, working with clients already in psychological support. What the release work produced that talk therapy alone hadn't was not just relief — it was longer-lasting resolution. Not management, not insight alone, but biological completion of what had been left incomplete.
Theoretical frameworks — Levine, Rothschild, Polyvagal Theory, Assagioli's Psychosynthesis — arrived afterward, as confirmation. InnereSource was not assembled from these lineages. It was observed in sessions, named from lived experience, and mapped retrospectively onto research that confirmed it.
Explore the InnereSource Modality →What Twelve Years in Practice Revealed
Between 2008 and 2020, I worked with hundreds of clients across thousands of individual sessions, refining what would become the InnereSource modality. What I was noticing in those sessions — the difference between areas of the body that were full and alive, and areas that were guarded, held, apparently absent — was not something I found in a textbook. It was something I learned to read with my hands and my attention, session by session.
The body carries material not just as memory or emotion, but as held biological charge — encoded in tissue, in the nervous system, in the lower body in particular. The legs, hips, pelvis, and sacral base hold some of the oldest and most densely suppressed material. The upper body braces to keep it there. This is not a metaphor. Peer-reviewed neuroscience — including Holstege's mapping of descending pathways directly into the sacral spinal cord, and Kearney and Lanius's research on uninhabited body areas — has since confirmed what the tissue was demonstrating in the room from the very beginning.
"I was not applying a theory. I was observing what the body does when it is finally held well enough to begin completing what it started."
That is what InnereSource is: precise conditions for the body's own completion intelligence to do what it has always known how to do.
Rebuilding — and Returning
In 2020, my practice paused. What followed were several years of profound personal challenge — a period during which I was forced to bring everything I had developed to bear on my own system in ways I had not anticipated. InnereSource was not merely a professional methodology I set aside. It was what I returned to, again and again, as the primary means of navigating grief, loss, and a level of sustained pressure that exceeded anything I had previously encountered.
I emerged — slowly, honestly — with a deeper understanding of what this work actually is: not a technique for those with a particular problem, but a fundamental approach to what it means to inhabit a human body that has lived a human life.
The practice is now rebuilt, and deliberately different. What was once in-person, one-to-one work has moved online — making it possible for people wherever they are to do genuine deep work from the safety of their own space. And alongside private 1:1 work, I now offer structured group programmes: The Deconditioning Protocol, a curriculum that carries the full InnereSource framework across seventeen modules, for those ready to work with the method in a sustained, supported way.
The work is the same. The reach is wider. And if anything, the years between have only sharpened my certainty that what the body holds — and what becomes possible when it finally releases — is far more profound than any framework for it.
Training & Background
- MSc in Biochemical Engineering
- BSc in Microbial Biotechnology
- Advanced Research (PhD Candidate) in Biochemical Engineering — UCL
- Founder & Developer — InnereSource Modality
- Private Practice Practitioner — 2008 to present (now online)
- Advanced Lymphatic Drainage & Myofascial Release
- Trauma-Informed Somatic Work
- Body-Energetic Field Integration
Find the Right Path for You
Whether you are drawn to the depth of 1:1 work or the sustained arc of a structured group programme, there is a way in.