Red light therapy for the southern suburbs
Support for sleep, pain, energy and skin
Apply for your complimentary first session →A quick look at the studio and how it works.
Every session has 3 steps.
Step 1: We optimise brain function by treating your neck and head first. Based on the Proximal Priority technique developed by Japanese laser researchers.
Step 2: If you have specific pain points, this will be addressed separately during the session if not already covered by the main protocol.
Step 3: You move to the bed where you relax and get true full body red light therapy, head to toe, front and back in a single treatment.
By application only.
My Money Back Promise
Your first session is free, so you can feel it before you pay anything.
After that Restore and Renew are month to month and you can stop whenever you like.
On Renew, come to all 8 sessions in your first month, give it a genuine go, and if you get to the end and you don't feel it was worth it, I'll refund that month in full.
No questions asked.
Limited spaces available
The total appointment is 40 minutes.
A walkthrough of what a session is like.
You arrive at a private room in my home in Bergvliet. This is not a fancy studio with a waiting room and water features. It is a simple, comfortable, private space. One client at a time.
For the seated phase you stay fully clothed. For the bed phase, wear underwear or light sportswear, or bring something light to lie in. The more skin the light can reach, the more you get out of the session, so wear less rather than more. Eye protection is there if you want it, though it is not required.
The session has 3 steps:
Step 1: The Seated Phase (12 minutes)
Seated and upright, fully clothed. The near infrared helmet goes on your head for the full phase. This supports hair growth but the light also penetrates into your brain to support brain function. At the same time the Target Light 4.0 works 3 points across your neck, 4 minutes each, the two sides and the base of the skull. Targeting the sides of your neck increases blood flow to your brain and targeting the base of your skull promotes nerve functioning in the brain stem.
Step 2: Your Personal Protocol
Depending on your pain point or complaints, you may get a few minutes extra directly over your problem area.
Step 3: The Bed Phase (15 minutes, in private)
When the seated phase is done, I leave the room giving you complete privacy. You remove as much clothing as you're comfortable with and get settled on the bed. When you're ready I start the lights and lower the panel from outside the door, so you have complete privacy. The full body phase runs for 15 minutes, front and back at the same time.
What is the light actually doing? Red light therapy consists of red and near infrared light. Your cells contain structures that absorb red light (in the 600nm range) and near infrared light (in the 800nm range). The research suggests this supports 3 mechanisms:
This is the basis of all healing and it's the reason why red light therapy is so useful for so many different complaints and conditions. If you can increase cellular energy production, decrease inflammation and increase blood flow, your body has the tools it needs to heal itself.
We evolved to get this kind of light from the sun, morning and evening. Modern indoor life has removed almost all of it. So when you lie on that bed, you are putting back something your body was built to receive, at a strength you would struggle to get any other way.
Everyone is different, so I am not going to promise you a specific result. What I can tell you is what I have seen, and what my clients actually report.
In nearly 10 years I have seen fantastic results across thousands of customers using this same red light technology through my company called Red Light Rising in the UK, Europe and USA. So while I cannot promise individual results, I can tell you I fully expect you to do well here, because I have a decade and thousands of happy customers behind that confidence. Most of my clients come to me with sleep problems, acute or chronic pain, injury recovery, mood or energy and skin rejuvenation.
I recommend starting with two sessions a week. Red light therapy works as a course, a consistent dose over time, which is why it's a membership and not a one-off.
Many of my clients tell me they notice a difference quickly. Some have described more physical comfort, looser joints and easier movement, a few of them after the very first session. Others find the changes build gradually over the weeks. Both are normal.
What I ask is that you give it a full month, because that is the honest test of whether it works for your body.
There are 3 things that set this apart. And no one else in South Africa has all of them.
Walk into most studios and you will find one medium panel hovering over you. You lie there, you flip over, you do the other side, but you only do your torso and back. A large area of your body doesn't get the light. That is the whole offering.
Mine is built differently. A 1.8m head to toe panel above you, a 1.8m mat beneath you, running at the same time, so the light reaches your front and back, head to toe, in one go. Add to that a near infrared helmet for your head and a targeted device for precise, up close work on the neck.
4 pieces of equipment, each doing a different job, working together in a single session. More light, from more angles, reaching more of you. No one else in the country has assembled this.
Most setups are built around a single wavelength of red light, or at most one red and one near infrared. Mine uses Advantage 900 panels running 5 wavelengths at once: 630nm and 660nm in the red, 810nm, 830nm and 850nm in the near infrared.
Why that matters to your body, not just on paper:
With 5 wavelengths working together, the light reaches the surface and the depths in the same session, instead of just one layer. A wider spectrum means more of your body is being supported at once.
Every session begins with a technique developed by Dr Toshio Ohshiro, a pioneer of laser therapy in Japan. His rule was simple. Whatever he was working on, he started at the neck first.
The sides of the neck, over the carotid arteries that carry blood up to the brain. Then the base of the skull, the dense junction of nerves where the spinal cord meets the brain and where the signals between your brain and the rest of your body all travel through. Only then, the full body.
Dr Ohshiro's reasoning is that by priming blood flow and nerve activity around the brain first, it may support better results throughout the rest of the body. Your head, after all, is where everything starts.
While we work the neck, you also wear the near infrared helmet. Research suggests it may support hair growth and may offer cognitive benefits too.
I am not going to promise you an outcome. No one honest can. What I can tell you is who walks through the door, and what they report.
Studies suggest red light therapy may support circulation, skin wellness, and the body's own energy production. What people report, in their own words, is in the testimonials below.
In their own words, shared with their permission. These are women here in the Southern Suburbs.
I couldn't get through a full bucket of balls before. Now I get through half a bucket with no pain, only boredom.
Norma
I'm not waking up 40 times a night.
Jacqui
It felt like I'd had a couple of hours on the beach.
Nancy
My energy levels have so shifted out of the red zone, and I am so happy I did the tester.
Andonia
I slept through the night for the first time in five days.
Juleen
My skin feels softer, and the irritated areas felt a lot less inflamed.
Dehandri
I also have nearly 10 years of customers using the exact same red light technology through Red Light Rising in the UK, USA and EU. These are customers of the UK product range, not studio clients here in Cape Town. Same light. Real people.
Maybe you have been through it already. The GPs. The specialists. The tests that come back normal while you still don't feel right.
Somewhere along the way you stopped believing a prescription is the only answer. You started to suspect what a lot of people are quietly working out for themselves.
The body is built to function at a remarkably high level when you give it the right conditions. It does not always need to be overridden. Sometimes it just needs to be supported.
That is the entire idea behind what I do here.
I'm Bryan Gohl, founder of Red Light Rising. Redlightrising.com
For nearly 10 years I have been obsessed with one thing: red light therapy. I have manufactured red light therapy devices, sold them across the UK and Europe, and understand this therapy more than almost anyone in this industry.
I built this setup in a private studio at my home in Bergvliet because I saw what was being offered and I knew I could do it better, so I did.
PS. There is one thing in this whole offer I cannot give everyone. There is only one bed, and I can only run so many sessions a week. That is the real reason this will only ever be a handful of members and not 90. If supporting your body the way it was built to work has been on your mind, this is the cheapest it will ever be, and the easiest it will ever be to get in.