The Be-Activated System in Pretoria: Unlock Your Body’s Natural Potential

At Just Physio in Pretoria, we proudly offer the Be-Activated System – a powerful technique developed by Douglas Heel, which activates your fascia and restores your body’s natural ability to move, breathe and perform optimally.

This hands-on method improves movement, posture, energy, and balance throughout your body, by stimulating neuromuscular points. We look deeper than the location of the pain, extending our assessment to your movement pattens, breathing and lifestyle. Our team will help you unlock your body’s full potential by combining holistic physiotherapy with the Be-Activated System, ensuring long-term results.

What fascia does – and how the Be-Activated System unlocks its full potential

Fascia is the body’s internal web – a connective tissue network that links every part of you, which surrounds and supports your muscles, bones, nerves, arteries and organs.

When fascia is healthy, it is smooth, fluid and flexible. However, stress, injury, poor posture or inactivity can make fascia sticky and stiff, which restricts movement and causes discomfort or pain.

The Be-Activated System at Just Physio releases this ‘stickiness’ and restores the natural fluidity and mobility of your fascia. As your fascia moves more freely, your body regains ease, flexibility and optimal function.

Your core: The foundation on strength

Your core is more than your abs – it’s your body’s powerhouse. There are key muscles that drive movement and stability, and these include the following:

• Diaphragm – the muscle you use most for breathing and stability
• Gluteus maximus – the muscle best for strengthening your movement and posture
• Psoas – the deep hip flexor muscles you will use for mobility and balance
• Pelvic floor muscles – these are the muscles that are essential for support and control
• Deep spinal muscles – the muscles crucial for alignment and coordination

When these muscles activate in harmony with one another, your body moves efficiently and powerfully.

Why the Diaphragm Is the Key Player

Your diaphragm is not just for breathing – it’s your core stability’s foundation. When activated correctly through the Be-Activated System, you breathe more efficiently and move better.

When you breathe properly through your diaphragm, you:

• improve your posture and spinal alignment
• ensure better lower back and sacroiliac joint mobility
• calm your nervous system and reduce stress
• enhance digestion and blood flow
• increase your energy and mental clarity
• reduce pain and improve overall wellbeing.

Movement from the inside, out with Be-Activated

In an ideal body, movement begins in the core (Zone 1) and flows outward to your arms and legs (Zones 2 and 3). This ‘1-2-3’ pattern creates efficient, powerful, and pain-free movement.

Unfortunately, stress, long hours of sitting, and poor posture often disrupt this sequence. When your core isn’t functioning correctly, your other muscles compensate to offset this. This overuse of muscles in the wrong way leads to fatigue, tightness and injuries.

Children naturally breathe through their bellies and move from their hips – that’s why they are rarely injured. The Be-Activated System retrains your body to move this way, restoring your natural efficiency and freedom.

Unfortunately, stress, long hours of sitting, and poor posture often disrupt this sequence. When your core isn’t functioning correctly, your other muscles compensate to offset this. This overuse of muscles in the wrong way leads to fatigue, tightness and injuries.

Children naturally breathe through their bellies and move from their hips – that’s why they are rarely injured. The Be-Activated System retrains your body to move this way, restoring your natural efficiency and freedom.

How stress affects your body

Modern life constantly activates our ‘fight/flight/freeze’ system, leaving the body in a state of tension and overdrive, which makes recovery and relaxation difficult when this state becomes your ‘normal’.

The Be-Activated System at Just Physio Pretoria calms your nervous system and brings you back to balance. After just one session, patients often report clearer thinking, deeper breathing and renewed energy. As your body shifts from survival mode to balance, you’ll experience greater freedom to move, breathe, and perform.

What to expect in a Be-Activated session

The Be-Activated System reawakens your body’s natural patterns, and you’ll experience this in your session through the following:

• Fascia release to activate key muscles like the glutes and psoas
• Testing and re-testing 14 key points to show measurable progress
• Breathing training to balance your nervous system
• Mobility restoration to free sticky fascia
• Self-activation techniques you can take with you beyond your session, which will only require two minutes from your day

In just three, one-hour sessions, patients will begin to see noticeable results.

What to Expect in a Be-Activated Session

Developed by Douglas Heel, the Be-Activated System reawakens your body’s natural patterns.
At Just Physio in Pretoria, your session includes:

• Fascia release to activate key muscles like the glutes and psoas
• Testing and re-testing 14 key points to show measurable progress
• Breathing training to balance your nervous system
• Mobility restoration to free sticky fascia
• Self-activation techniques you can do in just two minutes a day

Most people experience noticeable results within three one-hour sessions.

Follow-Up and Maintenance

The Be-Activatied System is not a quick fix, but a long-term reset for your body. To maintain results, we recommend:

• First 3 initial sessions
• 1 month: Reinforcement session
• Every 6 months: Maintenance sessions
• Daily: 2-minute self-activation practice

Consistency helps your body stay aligned, resilient and free from old compensation patterns.

The Benefits of the Be-Activated System

Patients who commit to the Be-Activated process often experience:

• Greater movement efficiency and coordination
• Less pain and lower injury risk
• Improved energy and endurance
• Better posture and breathing patterns
• Greater stress resilience and mental clarity

Book Your Be-Activated Session in Pretoria Today

Are you ready to unlock your body’s true potential?

At Just Physio in Pretoria, our trained physiotherapists use the Be-Activated System to help you move better, breathe deeper, and live pain-free.

Book your session today and start your journey toward long-term recovery, strength and well-being.