Understand the patterns running your life.
The Release Practice is Rich Mancuso's private-session offering — an umbrella that brings together BSR (Breathe, Stretch, Release) with Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work. Two practices, one session — doing what most approaches keep separate: helping you understand why you keep reacting the way you do to life, and releasing where that pattern lives in your mind and body. Built for high-functioning people who are done managing symptoms and want to find the root cause of suffering in their life.
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You're successful from the outside, but certain disruptive patterns and feelings keep showing up.
You can perform, achieve, and hold things together, and certain situations still cause the same reactions. It seems like no amount of insight, success, or willpower can really change these patterns that have been with you almost your whole life.
- You overthink, shut down, avoid, or react in ways you later question.
- You know what you "should" do, but part of you still resists.
- You feel tension or emotion in your body before you can explain it.
- You keep running into the same patterns in relationships or work.
- You've done therapy or coaching, but something still feels unresolved.
- You want self-understanding, not just another mindset framework.
Never heard of IFS or BSR? Good, you can start here.
You don't need any background in this work. Here's what each practice is, in plain terms.
A map of your inner world.
IFS is an evidence-based approach built on a simple idea: your mind isn't one voice. It's made up of "parts": the part that overworks, the part that avoids the hard conversation, the part that goes quiet when you're criticized. Each one is trying to protect you, using a strategy it learned a long time ago.
Underneath all of them is a calmer, clearer you. IFS helps you meet your parts with curiosity instead of judgment so they and you can learn to react differently to the world.
Answers the question "why do I keep doing this?" and changes your relationship with the pattern, not just your awareness of it.
A way back into the body.
BSR (Breathe, Stretch, Release) is a body-based method developed by Rich Mancuso, shaped by more than 25 years of his own practice and search for contentment. It combines eccentric stretching and breathwork.
Here's why it matters: stress and old emotion don't just live in your thoughts. They live in your shoulders, your jaw, your breath. You've felt this. BSR releases that physical tension first, so the deeper work isn't blocked by it. It's not a workout, it's how you get out of your head.
Calms your body and quiets your mind, so the insight actually lands, instead of staying theoretical.
When your body is able to relax, your mind follows.
Here's the gap this work fills. Talk-therapy approaches give you insight, but you can't think your way out of a pattern your body is still holding. Body-based approaches help you relax, but the patterns come back, because you never understood the emotions and thoughts that were driving them. That's why Rich combines both a talk-based and body-based approach in the same session, it allows you to relax your body and then unburden your mind, so your entire system can integrate the change.
"BSR calms the body. IFS helps you understand what is really there."
- Movement and stretching release physical tension, so you're actually present, not analyzing from a distance.
- IFS work uncovers what's driving the pattern, so you can feel it in real time, not just describe it from memory.
- Breathwork releases the emotions that come up, so they don't continue to show up so strongly, and your new realizations don't just become more insights you carry around without integrating.
A session moves through three layers.
The order adapts to you — Rich works with whatever you walk in carrying that day.
Move
Sessions begin in the body. Guided movement and resistance stretching help you arrive — getting out of your head and into physical awareness before any internal work begins.
Meet the parts
You turn inward with curiosity — meeting the parts that protect, react, avoid, or push — without judgment, and understanding the role each one plays.
Breathe
Breathwork quiets the mental noise and releases what the IFS work opened up — through the body, so it doesn't just get filed away as another realization.
The structure is flexible. Rich's preferred flow is movement → IFS work → breathwork, so the breath deepens and releases what you've just uncovered. But if you arrive with a loud mind and can't get out of your head — very common the first time — breathwork comes earlier, to create the quiet first. Either way, you don't have to figure out the order. That's his job.
Every session is customized.
75 minutesThe structure shifts depending on what is present that day. Some clients need more movement. Some go straight into breathwork. Some sessions are almost entirely parts work.
The consistent intention: help you access the body, understand the parts that are active, and leave with more awareness, clarity, calm and self-connection than when you arrived.
- Check-in to understand what is showing up that day
- Guided movement or resistance stretching to settle into the body
- IFS parts work to explore the patterns beneath your reactions
- Breathwork to connect with and release what you find
- Release and settle, leaving lighter than you arrived
Start with one session. Continue if the work feels right.
Start with 2 sessions
Your first session is $99, your second is $50. Two full 75-minute sessions — for less than the price of one at the standard $150 rate. Even two sessions are enough to feel a real shift. You'll experience the full sequence — movement, IFS work, and breathwork — and you'll know by the end whether this is for you.
Continue with the 12-session container
If it resonates, continue into the full container: 12 sessions over a maximum of 16 weeks. This is where the larger, lasting shifts in your life happen. Every private client also receives lifetime access to the BSR Digital Class — the full 1-hour class and 15-video pose library — to take home and practice between sessions.
Is this right for you?
This may be for you if —
- You are high-functioning but internally stuck in certain patterns.
- You want to understand why you react, avoid, or shut down.
- You are open to both emotional work and body-based practices.
- You want something deeper than traditional coaching or talk therapy.
- You are curious about IFS but want a more embodied experience.
- You are already in BSR and want to go deeper in private work.
This may not be the right fit if —
- You are not open to body-based work at all.
- You want a purely intellectual conversation.
- You are not willing to look honestly at your own patterns.
- You are not ready to do the work.
- You are not curious about the "why" underneath the patterns you keep repeating.
The goal is not to become someone else.
It is to understand yourself more clearly — and from that, move through life with more choice.
More space
A wider gap between trigger and reaction, so you can choose your response rather than be driven by it.
Pattern awareness
A clearer understanding of the emotional and behavioral patterns you keep running and what drives them.
Body connection
A stronger, more trusting relationship with what your body is telling you before your mind has words for it.
Self-trust
More confidence in your own internal signals, greater clarity in decisions, less dependence on external validation.
Clearer relationships
Understanding the parts of you that show up in relationships — protective, avoidant, reactive — and relating with more openness.
Self-understanding
Tools for knowing your own internal system — not as a project to fix, but as a system to understand.
- IFS Certified Coach
- Founder, BSR
- Breathwork Facilitator
- Virtual + NYC In-Person
Rich Mancuso
Rich Mancuso is the founder of BSR — Breathe, Stretch, Release — and an IFS certified coach. He teaches weekly classes in New York City and has spent years watching how physical practice creates an opening for deeper internal work.
The work is informed by more than 25 years of Rich's own journey of discovery, years spent working on his own patterns and searching for what actually creates change. He found IFS because it answered the question his BSR work kept surfacing: why do people act the way they do, even when they want to change?
His private clients have included professionals across finance, medicine, and service industries — people who are high-performing on the outside but navigating something harder internally. The Release Practice is what he built to bring these two worlds together: IFS parts work as structured self-inquiry, combined with the body-based practices of BSR, in one session. The goal is consistent: help clients understand themselves more clearly so they can live with more freedom, connection, and awareness.
What people usually ask before getting started.
Is this therapy?
This work uses IFS-informed parts work and somatic practices from BSR. Rich is not a licensed mental health professional. Sessions are self-inquiry and coaching — not a substitute for clinical or mental health treatment. If you are navigating a clinical condition, working with a licensed therapist alongside this work is encouraged.
Do I need to have done BSR before?
No. Some clients come from Rich's group classes, but The Release Practice is adapted for wherever you are. No prior experience with BSR or IFS is required.
What does a session actually look like?
Sessions are 75 minutes and shaped around what you bring in that day. The typical sequence: guided movement or stretching, then IFS work, then breathwork to release what came up. The order can shift — when your mind is loud, breathwork comes earlier. You don't need to prepare anything.
I'm not really a "feelings person." Will this work for me?
You're the exact person this was built for. Many of Rich's clients are analytical, skeptical, and used to solving problems by thinking harder, which is precisely why the work starts in the body, not in conversation. You don't have to arrive open. You just have to arrive.
Do I have to commit to the 12-session container?
No. The starting point is your first 75-minute session at $99, and if it resonates, a second at $50 — two sessions for less than the standard $150 rate for one. If you want to go deeper, the 12-session, 16-week container is where the lasting change happens. It's offered, not required. Every private client also receives lifetime access to the BSR Digital Class — the full class and 15-video pose library — to take home and practice between sessions.
What does it cost?
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Is this available virtually?
Yes. Virtual sessions are available and fully effective. In-person sessions are available in New York City.
What is the difference between The Release Practice and regular BSR classes?
BSR group classes focus on movement, breathwork, and physical release. The Release Practice goes further — combining that with structured IFS parts work to explore the internal patterns beneath your reactions, in a 1:1 setting built around your specific situation.
You can't think your way out of this. You can feel your way through it.
If you've read this far, something on this page sounded familiar. Start with your first 75-minute session at $99 — with a second at $50 if it resonates. Two sessions for less than the price of one at the standard rate. No program, no pressure, no sales call.
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