Introductory Workshop Bodymind Integration – Core Strokes™ – 18>19 April 2020

Introductory workshop⎮Core Strokes™ ⎮Postural Integration® ⎮ Energetic Integration®⎮18-19 April 2020

Later dates here

With Dirk Marivoet, MSc. 

Trainer/Supervisor for Core Strokes™,  Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration® and Pelvic-Heart Integration® – Teacher/Supervisor for Core-Energetics®

THE WEEKEND

During the weekend you will be introduced to the Core Strokes™,  Postural and Energetic Integration® Therapy Models. During these two days we work with a synthesis of Reichian Breathwork, Gestalt, Body Reading, connective tissue work, bodymind drama and character analysis. Participants will have the opportunity to experience this work – focussing on “Posture” (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) and on “Energy Economy” –  in a safe and inviting environment under the guidance of an experienced teacher with 35 years of experience in Body Psychotherapy. This is an opportunity for personal work and development in a group context. Given the integrative discipline-transcending character, this workshop is open to interested students and professional therapists. Bring especially your curiosity, your willingness, and your desire to move with you so that you can experience your body, feelings and emotions. For people who are interested in following the professional training in 2020, this Workshop gives you a sense whether to train yourself in this modality.  The contents and working methods that are provided in the training are adequately covered.

What is Core Strokes™ ?

Core Strokes™ is grounded in unconditional positive regard, empathy, congruence, authenticity, caring for the self and for the other, phenomenological assessment strategies, self-discovery, and insight. These core qualities permit therapeutic intervention in life areas which are otherwise hardly accessible, such as love, hope, meaning of life, loss, relationships, creativity, holism, spirituality, freedom, transcendence, personal growth, social justice, multicultural and gender issues, responsibility, and interdependence. 

Core Strokes™ sessions invite a person to come out with a new part of themselves, or an old part of themselves that has been hiding in their body as symptoms. The presence of the therapist should give the client the courage to begin revealing, purifying and transforming all that is coming out of him/her. 

What is Postural Integration®?

Postural Integration® is an approach that supports a growth process of the whole person, based on his posture. Your posture tells a lot about who you are. By profoundly liberating the myofascial tensions in your body in combination with simultaneous work with breath, movement, energy and the interpersonal relationship, the different body areas can be made aware individually and in relation to each other and the surrounding environment. Unprocessed and unconscious – possibly traumatic – experiences from your personal history can thus be integrated. Energetic Integration® works with the model of Jack Painter’s Energetic Cycle to improve “Energy Economy” and transforming stress, fatigue and blocked energy into flow and pleasure.

You can experience in this workshop the many ways in which you yourself prevent yourself from living deeply and fulfillingly. By learning to move the blocked energy and the associated emotions in a targeted way and to bring them into interaction, you come into a positive lifestream. You will find out how your body and your feelings are an important guideline for change in your life.

You will experience how in this process your entire body begins to change visibly and tangibly. In the work we do, we integrate Reichian insights and practices, Gestalt work, Acupressure (based on 5-elements theory), Bodymind Drama (Embodied role playing, Triangle work (Child, Father, Mother, Ancestors, other placeholders), etc.

People who have experienced this work firsthand, tell us that they become livelier, more powerful, joyful, courageous …. Postural and Energetic Integration® are creative, dynamic and ultimately enjoyable ways to fully experience the creativity, dynamism and joy of your own life force.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Facilitation: Dirk Marivoet, Trainer/Supervisor for Core Strokes™,  Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration® & Pelvic-Heart Integration® – Teacher/Supervisor for Core-Energetics Body Psychotherapy.

Costs: € 200 (Incl. Group room – Excl. Food and Lodging). Early Bird 180 euro – until April 1st 2020

Send money to account number with BIC GEBABEBB and IBAN BE17001255696221 of Dirk Marivoet with in subject line: workshop Core Strokes™ 

Where: IBI, Destelbergenstraat 49-51, B-9040 Gent, België, Tel: +32 9 228 49 11

When: 18-19 April 2020

Hours: Saturday 10 am – 6pm and

                Sunday 10 am – 5 pm

Lunch:  There is a one hour lunchbreak. Bring your own lunch.

Lodging: There are a several B&B’s in the neighborhood.

Language: English (translation where necessary) For more information, inscription and payment, please  contact us.

International Training in English⎮Core Strokes™ ⎮Postural Integration® ⎮ 2020

Accredited by ICPIT

For more info please contact

dirk@bodymindintegration.com or see elsewhere on this website.

www.bodymindintegration.org

Currently we are running a PHI -3 year training in Hungary. For more information about this program, please go here.

In Body Psychotherapy, the body traditionally is seen as the “congealed life history” of the person. Evidence from neuroscience and research into the nature of consciousness reveals that “current awareness is a carpet that is woven with threads of memories from the past.” What this means is that we unconsciously tend to become entangled again and again in the same recurring patterns, which are based on impressions and conclusions from this (sometimes distant) past. From these entanglements arise ultimately all kinds of suffering, pain and discomfort that may affect our health.

The scientific research from the last 50 years, has shown that the CLIENT himself carries a vision as to the possible solutions and has implicit ideas about the desired change (a theory of change).

For the THERAPIST, the body is the guide to help reveal this theory of change, thus triggering an effective therapeutic process that leads to more satisfying, effective and satisfying interactions.

Body-oriented psychotherapists need in their guidance to learn how to trust their senses as necessary tools in the making of therapeutic contact. The ability to do this can throw the needed light on important aspects of the suffering that the client carries. These and other skills are demonstrated as well as practiced in this workshop.

Participants will be able to learn how to distinguish affective states from cognitive states. They can experience exercises in learning how to have an eye for and how to name the various emotional states as they appear in body posture, facial expressions and tone of voice. Naming the emotional states as opposed to only listen to the content of the words of the client, creates a kind of sheath to the emotions and makes them thus more manageable.

The process of becoming aware of feelings and cognitions evolves gracefully into specific forms of bodywork, in order to provide depth and feel to the process of transformation. For example, work with posture, movement, energy, voice, breathing, touch help to unlock, ground, limit and contain the powerful feelings and conflicts that are trapped in the bodymind. Gestalt process work, embodied psychodrama (bodymind drama) and deep bodywork help to release and integrate what you have learned to suppress and oppress – often associated with deficits in the satisfaction of basic needs. The way of working will help one to develop a perspective and an ability to be aware of how one feels and thinks without becoming immersed in those states.

The workshop is open to anyone interested in BodyMind Integration – Body Oriented Psychotherapy (both ” laypeople” and professionals can participate). Those who are interested in taking part in the body psychotherapy training will be provided all necessary information before enrolling.

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Advanced Somatic Centering™

Advanced Somatic Centering™ 

“Psychotherapeutic Touch, Fascia integration, Core Consciousness, Growth & Energy within a Body Psychotherapeutic & Bodymind Integration Frame”

A 10-day Residential Training

Open for Body Psychotherapists & Bodymind Integrators who wish to integrate Psychotherapeutic Touch and Deep Bodywork in their practice 

Delivered Diploma: Advanced Somatic Centering™  

When? New Date will be announced (10 days) 

Where? New place will be announced

Enjoy yourself with a group of colleagues coming from around the world and learn Advanced Somatics for Body Psychotherapy or Bodymind Integration, Psychotherapeutic Touch and Deep Bodywork skills focussing on the 4 Diaphragms of Body Balance.

About the Training

We will introduce you to methodological work with the inner core, different release work techniques and pathways to enjoyment of deep inner power. We will also introduce crucial discoveries from the last thirty years in natural and human sciences and implement many of these discoveries throughout the course of the workshop. New ideas and advanced directions for your practice will be suggested and our Advanced Manual will be provided to follow the classwork. The combination of practical work, deep experiential interactions, theoretical understanding of techniques and the enlargement of our system of scientific reference will improve your practice and allow for more robust experiences for your clients.

Teaching will be in English (translations possible into French, Dutch and German). It is a wonderful opportunity to meet practitioners-colleagues from all over the world.

Goals of the Advanced Somatics for Body Psychotherapy & Bodymind Integration Training: 

Touching the core – We will work with energy (known as “the energetic cycle”), psychotherapeutic touch techniques for interacting with the client at the level of intimacy and embodied empathy, the principles of “release and integration” and will gradually focus on the diaphragms of body balance which are the fontanelles along the cranium, the floor and ceiling of the mouth, the thoracic inlet with first rib, the breathing diaphragm and the pelvis. When these diaphragms are released, they begin to shift spontaneously, rhythmically and freely interact with one another creating warmth and wellbeing.

Extending and deepening your knowledge and skills. 

To deepen your knowledge base, many state of the art topics will be incorporated including overview and application of somatic methods, body language in action, advanced strategies for addressing developmental/ maturational needs, and unification/integration of polarities. Your skill levels will be further extended with the use of verbal and non-verbal language and meaning in body psychotherapy and the development of consciousness. We will introduce advanced sessions for working with the core.

Empowering the Practitioner

We will work with the physical aspects and the energy/consciousness of the pelvis expressed through the pelvic floor and the sexual organs and  learn to open layers of tissue and feelings while developing healthy boundaries. This helps the client to clear away old frustrations as well as pain and create a new possibility to connect within self and others at a deep intimate level of passion, love and joy. The last stages of the Energetic cycle (excited breath, orgastic breath, ecstatic breath, etc.) that relate to the tissue work around the deep core will also be explored. This material will be tied in with theories coming from Wilhelm Reich and the Post-Reichian Methods like Core-Energetics, Gestalt, Bioenergetics, Bodynamics, Biodynamic Massage, etc.

Working with Stubborn Defenses

In order to touch the armored core, we need to recognize how the body organizes its defences and how it forms character patterns of restricted breath, muscular contraction and habitual movement, as well as incomplete emotion and thought. To handle the shocks, traumas and all the continuing demands of our lives, we use characteristic attitudes and habits to try to hold ourselves together, hold on to what we can, hold ourselves up, hold ourselves deep inside or hold ourselves back. By working with our breath and touching the deepest layers of our tissue, advanced practitioners help their clients learn where and how their persistent character armor defends the core and how to let it go. In this advanced training we will cover topics such as relationships are regulators, the social engagement system, the inhibition of action syndrome, the PTSD paradigm, the inflammation paradigm, predisease pathways, etc.

Touching the Core

In the deep work with the core the advanced practitioner follows the basic segments or diaphragms of body balance which include the fontanelles, the floor and ceiling of the mouth, the thoracic inlet and first rib, the breathing diaphragm, the pelvis and pelvic floor. Some of the deepest work with the core includes release of the core tissues of the pelvis, which holds many of our strongest feelings and attitudes. A thorough understanding of working with developmental and maturational needs is also included. Working with the structures of the core the advanced student learns to help the client open layers of tissue and feelings in a safe and respectful way. Advanced techniques and strategies will be taught to help the client clear away old frustrations and pain, to connect with self and others and ultimately connect at a deep and intimate level of love, joy and fulfilment.

Finding Harmony and Integration

Using the advanced somatic methods, you will learn new ways as a body psychotherapist or bodymind integrator of helping your clients release their deepest armoring. Yet with the release of these very old habits and attitudes, they also need help finding a new centre and integrating this newfound change into their lives. By coordinating tissue, breath and feeling with special somatic strategies, you as a practitioner help clients more fully integrate major dimensions of the self, such as genetic inheritance, left and right hemisphere, sensorimotor functions and masculine-feminine sides. By interacting skillfully with the core, advanced practitioners learn powerful ways to help the top of the body to cooperate with the bottom, the right and left sides to function as a team, and the front and back to move harmoniously with each other. With the discovery of a new inner center, energy can then radiate outwardly and inwardly in flowing waves through all the body diaphragms in a socially engaged and spiritually rich manner.

Implementing into Clinical Practice and Information Exchange

Different possibilities and new directions to enhance your private practice will be suggested. While all this work and new strategies are very powerful, we also realize the importance of spending time to discuss case studies coming from group members as well as the trainers. To enrich and deepen this advanced training experience, sharing circles will be utilised from time to time.

Practical

Entry Criteria: Practitioners in Body Psychotherapy with knowledge about hands-on bodywork (fascia) & Bodymind Integration Methods, Core-Energetics®, Bio-Energetic Analysis and related disciplines with a minimum of one year of experience interested in “psychotherapeutic touch” and myofascial integration. Practitioners of (Psychotherapeutic) Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration®, Pelvic-Heart Integration® are also welcome.

Where: Place will be announced

Cost: 1500 euros. Prices do not include room and board.

When: Date will be announced.

Certification: After successful completion of this training and a written 10-page long thesis, you will be granted the title of Advanced Somatic Centering Practitioner.

Contact – registration – further information

IBI secretariat –

Ph. +32 (0)9 2284911 –

Trainers
Dirk Marivoet (B)

Dirk Marivoet:  Registered Psychotherapist (ECP, EABP, BVP-ABP, WAPCEPC) & PT, Psychomotor Therapist (VVPMT), Dirk has more than 30 years of experience working with General Psychotherapy, Body Psychotherapy, Bodymind Integration and Shamanism. He is a trainer of Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration® and Pelvic-Heart Integration® as well as a teacher and supervisor of Core-Energetics (trained with Dr. John Pierrakos, student of W. Reich). He maintains a private practice in Ghent (B), is the founder and director of The Institute for Bodymind Integration (IBI) an active academic, co-founder of the Core Science Foundation.

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Workshop for Men in Greece 21>23 June 2019

THE INSTITUTE OF CORE ENERGETICS -GREECE

ANNOUNCES

UNFOLDING THE MASCULINE CORE

A WORKSHOP FOR MEN

FACILITATED BY DIRK MARIVOET

In Greece 21>23 June 2019

NOOSFERA – Vrisoules, Xilokastro Greece


Download Flyer workshop for men-Greece-June 2019

Men today are searching for a higher sense of identity and purpose that will nourish their life with passion and embolden integrity.

In these times of tremendous rebirth conscious men are called to claim
their power to hold the great responsibilities of life with a joyful, calm and unwavering sense of caring.Thus they can become agents of positive change in their lives and the world.

In this workshop we will create together a safe place which will help you:

  • Discover a new sense of personal depth
  • Open your heart to boundless expressions of courage and creativity
  • Access your own power and truth
  • Unfold your masculine core
  • Learn new ways of communicating and belonging to community
  • Live out of your authentic self

The foundation of this workshop for men uses the Core-Energetics Evolutionary Process, as well as Jungian archetypal theory which is ancient psychology renewed for our modern world, offering a boon of resources to help men navigate their way out of the quagmires and begin to create a deep sense of themselves that is virtuous and magnanimous.

Welcome!

FACILITATION

Dirk Marivoet is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Bodymind Integration in Belgium.  A psychotherapist-supervisor in private practice for over 30 years, he works with individuals and groups. He is staff member of NICE (Training institute of CoreEnergetics in the Netherlands), the International Institute for Pelvic-Heart Integration and guest teacher at sever al other institutes worldwide. He has served on the psychiatry faculty for over 10 years at the University of Leuven. Dirk enjoys helping both men and women in finding their own identity and ways of relating.

TUITION:270€/ 240€ by April/18

240€ with a 100€ dep by Feb, 28th/18

BOARD & ROOM*: (non-vegetarian)

Single room: 172€/ Double room: 138€ /Triple room:128 € *

prices do not include the 24% VAT

Institute for Core Energetics Greece: Karytsi sq. 5,Athens, 105 61 Athens – Greece Τ: +30 210 72 25 263

For further information, and to register, please contact us at:akladeftira@yahoo.gror coreenergeticsgreece@yahoo.com

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Introductory workshop⎮Postural Integration® ⎮ Energetic Integration®⎮9-10 February 2019

With Dirk Marivoet, MSc. 

Trainer/Supervisor for Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration® and Pelvic-Heart Integration® – Teacher/Supervisor for Core-Energetics®

THE WEEKEND

During the weekend you will be introduced to the Postural and Energetic Integration® Therapy Model. During these two days we work with a synthesis of Reichian Breathwork, Gestalt, connective tissue manipulation, bodymind drama and character analysis. Participants will have the opportunity to experience this work in a safe and inviting environment under the guidance of an experienced teacher and supervisor. This is an opportunity for personal work and development in a group context. Given the integrative discipline-transcending character, this workshop is open to interested students and professional therapists. Bring especially your curiosity, your willingness, and your desire to move with you so that you can experience your body, feelings and emotions. For people who are interested in following the professional training that starts 2019, it is mandatory to follow an Introduction Workshop. The contents and working methods that are provided in the training are adequately covered.

What is Postural Integration®?

Postural Integration® is an approach that supports a growth process of the whole person, based on his posture. Your posture tells a lot about who you are. By profoundly liberating the myofascial tensions in your body in combination with simultaneous work with breath, movement, energy and the interpersonal relationship, the different body areas can be made aware individually and in relation to each other and the surrounding environment. 

You can experience in this workshop the many ways in which you yourself prevent yourself from living deeply and fulfillingly. By learning to move the blocked energy and the associated emotions in a targeted way and to bring them into interaction, you come into a positive lifestream. You will find out how your body and your feelings are an important guideline for change in your life.

You will experience how in this process your entire body begins to change visibly and tangibly. In the work we do, we integrate Reichian insights and practices, Gestalt work, Acupressure (based on 5-elements theory), Bodymind Drama (Embodied role playing, Triangle work (Child, Father, Mother, Ancestors, other placeholders), etc.People who have experienced this work firsthand, tell us that they become livelier, more powerful, joyful, courageous …. Postural Integration® is a creative, dynamic and ultimately enjoyable way to fully experience the creativity, dynamism and joy of your own life force.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Facilitation: Dirk Marivoet, Trainer/Supervisor for Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration® & Pelvic-Heart Integration® – Teacher/Supervisor for Core-Energetics Body Psychotherapy. 

Costs: € 220 (Incl. Group room – Excl. Food and Lodging). 

Send money to account number with BIC GEBABEBB and IBAN BE17001255696221 of Dirk Marivoet with in subject line: workshop PI/EIWhere: IBI, Destelbergenstraat 49-51, B-9040 Gent, België, Tel: +32 9 228 49 11

When: 9-10 February 2019

Hours: Saturday 10 am – 6pm and 

                Sunday 10 am – 5 pm

Lunch:  There is a one hour lunchbreak. Bring your own lunch.

Lodging: There are a several B&B’s in the neighborhood.Language: Depending on the international interest, the workshop can be given in English, Dutch, French (or a combination of languages and translation where necessary)For more information, inscriptionand payment, please  contact us.

International Training in English⎮Postural Integration® ⎮ 2020

Accredited by ICPIT

For more info please contact

dirk@bodymindintegration.com

www.bodymindintegration.com

Currently we are running a PHI -3 year training in Hungary. For more information about this program, please go here.

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International Pelvic-Heart Integration® Workshop in English – Belgium (Lasne) 20>23 September 2018

Living the Mystery
of the
Masculine and Feminine

 


International Pelvic-Heart Integration® (PHI) Level I Workshop in Belgium : 20>23 September 2018

Beyond Attraction-Rejection, Happiness-Frustration,
Joy- Heartbreak

International Workshop guided by Dirk Marivoet (B) and Elisabeth Renner (A), Licensed Psychotherapists and International Trainers and Supervisors for PHI.

 

Are you longing to create and sustain healthy, dynamic relationships? Would you like to experience your full sexual energy and pleasure? Are you able to harness the innate action energy of your masculinity and tap into the receptivity and intuition of your femininity?

We often resign ourselves to repeating cycles of being attracted to and then rejected by the opposite sex. This pattern of finding short lived happiness and joy often leads to plunging back into unforeseen frustration and heartbreak. We can become intrigued and overwhelmed by the mystery of the opposite sex. Yet, when we really feel both the masculine and feminine already inside of us and then letting these parts of us interact with each other, we can find our way to sustainable excitement, deep love and even ecstasy. Our sexuality then comes from the wonderful mystery within us and guides us in our relationship with others.

In this workshop we will discover how our characteristic breathing patterns, thoughts, emotions, and body armour block the free flow of our life force and inhibit our capacity for sensual pleasure and orgasmic release. We use breath, movement and mindful touch to feel the unity of love and satisfaction. Psychodrama, imagery and role plays are helping us to explore the sexual and heart energy from our ancestors and our inner triangle (father, mother, child) which becomes a template for future relationships. Experiencing the spiritual presence of our ancestors is powerful and helps us to heal old wounds carried through generations. Pelvic-Heart Integration® is helpful and supportive in creating a new wave of consciousness in all of us.

Pelvic-Heart Integration® explores together with you the unconscious emotional body armor and breathing patterns, as well as habitual protection and defense patterns, that were learned in the Triangle Mother/Father/Child that determine your relationships in the here and now. Role playing, Imagination, Body Talk, „Hands-on” techniques, expression and movement, as well as exchanges in the group, accompany you in this process.  Work with our ancestors and their spiritual force support you in bringing old, passed on wounds though generations, to a healing movement. New pulsating vibrancy and creativity begin to flow and to create a new source of Bodymind Consciousness.

SEMINAR LEADERS:



DIRK MARIVOET (B): 
Psychotherapist, Trainer for Pelvic-Heart Integration®, Postural Integration® & Energetic Integration® – Teacher and Supervisor for Core-Energetics®. Loves the Fire, Father of two children, from Ghent (Belgium).


ELISABETH RENNER (A): Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist, Trainer for Pelvic-Heart Integration®, Postural Integration® & Energetic Integration®. Loves the Water, from Graz (Austria).

 

WHEN: Thursday September 20th at 5.30 pm until Sunday September 23rd at 4 pm.

 

WHERE: Route d’Ottignies 9c (in front of 34) B-1380 Lasne Chapelle. Contact Béatrice Lacroix: bea@jjlacroix.be – Phone : +3226551308

 

COSTS for Workshop: 

EARLY BIRD RATE: Enroll before August 15th and pay 420 €

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 12

NORMAL RATE: Enroll after August 15th and pay 450 €

Send money to: Bank account number (Inst. for Bodymind Integration): BE24 0017 2768 0538 with mention “PHI-workshop Lasne”

 

REGISTRATION AND CANCELLATION

  1. Registration per email (Dirk Marivoet: dirk@bodymindintegration.com) or the contact form and our confirmation email counts as definitive enrollment
  2. Cancellation is possible via a confirmation email from us
  3. Cancellation until 3 weeks prior to the workshop: a cost of 25% of the workshop fee is due.
  4. In case of cancellation within the last 3 weeks prior to the workshop (also in case of sickness or not showing up), the total amount will be withheld unless a substitute can be found.
  5. In case the workshop does not meet the required minimum number of participants at least one month in advance of the workshop, the workshop may be cancelled. A full refund will be issued to anyone registered for the event.
  6. TRAVEL INSURANCE: We are not responsible for refunding any costs associated with travel, lodging, or incidental losses incurred in the event the workshop is cancelled or you back out for any reason.
  • FOOD and LODGING :Snacks, tea and coffee are served by the venue.If you want to stay overnight at the venue, you need to book and pay for your stay at : Béatrice Lacroix: bea@jjlacroix.be
    • Phone : +3226551308
    • Send the Money for Food / Lodging here) : JJ Lacroix (BIC :      GEBABEBB / IBAN:      BE 0327 1012 1787 84) 

HOW TO GET THERE :

  • BY AIR : 
  • Airport : Brussels-National Airport
  • Other Airports :
    • Brussels South (Charleroi)

CONTACT and INFORMATION: 

Dirk Marivoet: dirk@bodymindintegration.com

Elisabeth Renner: elisabeth@bodymindintegration.at

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Pelvic-Heart Integration Workshop in Corsica 30/03 > 02/04/2018

Living the Mystery
of the
Masculine and Feminine

 


Pelvic-Heart Integration® (PHI) on the beautiful island of Corsica : 30/03 > 02/04/2018

Beyond Attraction-Rejection, Happiness-Frustration,
Joy- Heartbreak

International Workshop guided by Dirk Marivoet (B) and Elisabeth Renner (A), Licensed Psychotherapists and International Trainers and Supervisors for PHI.

 

Are you longing to create and sustain healthy, dynamic relationships? Would you like to experience your full sexual energy and pleasure? Are you able to harness the innate action energy of your masculinity and tap into the receptivity and intuition of your femininity?

We often resign ourselves to repeating cycles of being attracted to and then rejected by the opposite sex. This pattern of finding short lived happiness and joy often leads to plunging back into unforeseen frustration and heartbreak. We can become intrigued and overwhelmed by the mystery of the opposite sex. Yet, when we really feel both the masculine and feminine already inside of us and then letting these parts of us interact with each other, we can find our way to sustainable excitement, deep love and even ecstasy. Our sexuality then comes from the wonderful mystery within us and guides us in our relationship with others.

In this workshop we will discover how our characteristic breathing patterns, thoughts, emotions, and body armour block the free flow of our life force and inhibit our capacity for sensual pleasure and orgasmic release. We use breath, movement and mindful touch to feel the unity of love and satisfaction. Psychodrama, imagery and role plays are helping us to explore the sexual and heart energy from our ancestors and our inner triangle (father, mother, child) which becomes a template for future relationships. Experiencing the spiritual presence of our ancestors is powerful and helps us to heal old wounds carried through generations. Pelvic-Heart Integration® is helpful and supportive in creating a new wave of consciousness in all of us.

Pelvic-Heart Integration® explores together with you the unconscious emotional body armor and breathing patterns, as well as habitual protection and defense patterns, that were learned in the Triangle Mother/Father/Child that determine your relationships in the here and now. Role playing, Imagination, Body Talk, „Hands-on” techniques, expression and movement, as well as exchanges in the group, accompany you in this process.  Work with our ancestors and their spiritual force support you in bringing old, passed on wounds though generations, to a healing movement. New pulsating vibrancy and creativity begin to flow and to create a new source of Bodymind Consciousness.

SEMINAR LEADERS:


DIRK MARIVOET (B): 
Psychotherapist, Trainer for Pelvic-Heart Integration®, Postural Integration® & Energetic Integration® – Teacher and Supervisor for Core-Energetics®. Loves the Fire, Father of two children, from Ghent (Belgium).

 

 


ELISABETH RENNER (A): Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist, Trainer for Pelvic-Heart Integration®, Postural Integration® & Energetic Integration®. Loves the Water, from Graz (Austria).

 

 

 

WHERE? 

LODGING:

HOW TO GET THERE :

  • BY AIR : Air Corsica – Air France – EasyJet – ASL
  • Closest Airport : Calvi-Sainte Catherine – 20260 Calvi (12 km)
  • Other Airports :
    • International Airport of Bastia – Poretta – 20290 Lucciana (98 km)
    • Ajaccio – Campo Dell’oro – 20090 Ajaccio (165 km)
    • International Airport Figari-Sud-Corse – 20114 Figari (229 km)
  • BY SEA : Corsica Linea – Corsica Ferries – You arrive in Calvi (12 km) or L’Île-Rousse (26 km).

COSTS for Workshop: 

EARLY BIRD RATE: Enroll before February 15th and pay 420 €

NORMAL RATE: Enroll after February 15th and pay 450 €

REGISTRATION AND CANCELLATION

  1. Registration per email and our confirmation email counts as definitive enrollment
  2. Cancellation is possible via a confirmation email from us
  3. Cancellation until 3 weeks prior to the workshop: a cost of 25% of the workshop fee is due.
  4. In case of cancellation within the last 3 weeks prior to the workshop (also in case of sickness or not showing up), the total amount will be withheld unless a substitute can be found.
  5. In case the workshop does not meet the required minimum number of participants at least one month in advance of the workshop, the workshop may be cancelled. A full refund will be issued to anyone registered for the event.
  6. TRAVEL INSURANCE: We are not responsible for refunding any costs associated with travel, lodging, or incidental losses incurred in the event the workshop is cancelled or you back out for any reason.

REGISTRATION

Sophie Anquetil : lewatsu@gmail.com  Phone: +33 664 785 610

CONTACT and INFORMATION: 

Dirk Marivoet: dirk@bodymindintegration.com

Elisabeth Renner: elisabeth@bodymindintegration.at

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Workshop for Men in Greece 15>17 June 2018

THE INSTITUTE OF CORE ENERGETICS -GREECE

ANNOUNCES

LIVING LIFE WITH A FULL HEART AND A STRONG SPINE

A WORKSHOP FOR MEN

FACILITATED BY DIRK MARIVOET

In Greece 15>17 June 2018

Sometimes in the cycle of living, loving and just plain surviving we men can lose ourselves or become uncertain about what it means to be a man today.

We’re called upon to be providers, protectors and achievers – the strong spines – and at the same time loving, emotionally open and available – a full hearted being. But from time to time we feel like we are running on empty. And our life challenges may leave us feeling disconnected or alone.

This workshop is for men of diverse ethnic or spiritual backgrounds, or sexual orientation who are willing to communicate on an authentic valued level and want to connect more fully with their identity as a man. That is an epic journey of discovery that all men must travel… And this journey of growth of men is a journey inwards.

You can learn how we explore in many ways the many issues which repeatedly arise for men: isolation, competitiveness, loneliness, lack of friendship with other men, numbness to your own feelings, difficulty in developing intimacy, emotional over-dependence on women, lack of positive masculine identity, depression, frustration, inappropriate expressions of anger,..

After this workshop you find that you are more available to your families, loved ones and communities, and more in touch with your body and your purpose. You will simply be a better partner, lover, father, friend and man.

WITH: Dirk Marivoet is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Bodymind Integration in Belgium. A psychotherapist-supervisor and a deep bodyworker in private practice for over 30 years,he works with individuals and groups. . He is staff member of NICE (Training institute of Core-Energetics in the Netherlands), the International Institute for Pelvic-Heart Integration and guest teacher at several other institutes Worldwide. He previously served as adjunct faculty psychiatry for over 10 years at the University of Leuven. Dirk enjoys helping both men and women in finding their own identity and ways of relating. He also has a background in shamanism – where the now encompasses past, present and future – and ancestral healing

WHEN: June 15-17 2018

WHERE : NOOSFERA Vrisoules,Xilokastro

TUITION: 270€/ 240€ by April/18 – 250€ with a 100€ dep by Feb, 28th/18

BOARD & ROOM*: (non-vegetarian) Single room: 172€/ Double room: 138€ /Triple room:128 €

* prices do not include the 24% VAT

 

For further information contact Anastasia Kladefteria at : akladeftira@yahoo.gr

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Het holistische mensbeeld van de lichaamsgerichte psychotherapie

Het holistische mensbeeld – om het vereenvoudigd te beschrijven – vertrekt van de ondeelbaarheid van lichaam en geest. In de betekenis van Merleau-Ponty vertegenwoordigt het lichaam een pre-reflectieve eenheid, die zelfs door de lichaam-geest splitsing blijft bestaan. (Merleau-Ponty 1945; Seewald 1996b, 31)

De holistische opvatting impliceert, dat alle levenservaringen zowel psyche als ook lichaam vormen. Op lichamelijk vlak zijn deze terug te vinden in lichaamsbouw, houding, beweging en manier van ademhalen: „Het lichaam heeft niet enkel ervaringen in de zin dat ze ze transporteert, het is deze ervaring.“ (Lowen 1988,…) Freud zei dat het Ik eerst en voor alles een lichaams-Ik is (Freud 1999, Band XIII, 253) en Alexander Lowen beschreef het lichaam als een „geïncarneerde geest” (Lowen 1991, 231). George Downing spreekt van affectmotorische schemata, die zich vanaf de geboorte en in het samenspel van sensorische, motorische, affectieve en cognitieve vlakken ontwikkelt. Zo worden in de lichamelijke handelingen van iedere mens motorische overtuigingen zichtbaar, die hij als kind op grond van zijn emotionele en cognitieve ervaring opgebouwd heeft (vgl. Downing 2005, 2006). Iedere menselijke stoornis toont zich daarom steeds op fysisch zowel als op psychisch vlak. Dat menselijke subjectiviteit belichaamd is, kan als basisaxioma van de lichaamsgerichte psychotherapie beschouwd worden.“ (Marlock/Weiss 2006a, 7)

De vraag of psychotherapie zonder betrokkenheid van het lichaam überhaupt zinvol is, wordt afgewezen door de lichaamsgerichte psychotherapieën (Röhricht 2000, 25-47): „Dit geeft de emotionele en lichaamsgerelateerde reactivering van de vroege ervaringen de beste – wellicht ook de enige – mogelijkheid voor een passende therapeutische doorwerking.” (Maaz 2001, 31)

In het middelpunt van het lichaamspsychotherapeutische werk staat het subjectief beleefde lichaam, dat herinneringen opslaat en zich in relaties uitdrukt : Aanraking, ademwerk en beweging zijn belangrijke onderdelen van de therapie. Over gevoelens wordt wel gesproken, maar er wordt veel meer de mogelijkheid gegeven, deze rechtstreeks te ervaren en uit te drukken. Wat de lichaamspsychotherapeutische methodes verenigt, „is een holistisch georiënteerd perspectief, dat naast de psychologische dimensies van de menselijke ervaring, de lichamelijke dimensie gelijkwaardige aandacht geeft. […] 

Marlock en Weiss (2006a, 8 e.v.) benoemen vier premissen, die aan de basis liggen van alle benaderingen van lichaamsgerichte psychotherapie:

1. Lichaam en Psyche zijn onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden.

2. Formatieve levenservaringen laten sporen na in het lichaam, die als karakterstructuren (Reich), als affect-motorische schemata (Downing), of complicaties (von Uexküll) worden aangeduid.

3. Het psychische niveau kan door het lichamelijke niveau beïnvloed en veranderd worden.

4. Het lichaams-psychotherapeutisch werk is gebaseerd op het geloof in zelfregulering en het ontwikkelingspotentieel van mensen.

De praktische omzetting van deze gemeenschappelijke uitgangspunten kenmerkt de verschillen tussen de Lichaamsgerichte psychotherapie-benaderingen. In Bodymind Integration (Painter, 1984) worden daarenboven aan het relationele aspect in de vorm van gelijkwaardigheid en ‘delen’ tussen cliënt en therapeut een bijzonder belang gehecht.

Referenties: 

Downing, G. (2005). Emotion, body, and parent-infant interaction. In J. Nadel and Darwin Muir (Eds.), Emotional development (pp. 429-450). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Downing, G. (2006). Fruhkinlicher Affektausch une dessen Beziehung zum Korper. In G. Marlock & H. Weiss (eds.), Handbuch der Körperpsychotherapie: 333-350. Gottingen: Hogreve.

Freud, S. (1999): Gesammelte Werke. Bd. I – XVIII. Frankfurt / Main: Fischer. Bd. XIII: Kurzer Abriss der Psychoanalyse, 405-427.

Lowen, A. (1988): Bioenergetica. 

Lowen, A. (1991): The Spirituality of the Body.

Maaz, H.-J. (2001): Integration des Körpers in eine analytische Psychotherapie. In: Geißler, P. (Hrsg.): Psychoanalyse und Körper. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 21-36.

Marlock, G. / Weiss, H. (2006): Handbuch der Körperpsychotherapie. Stuttgart, New York: Schattauer.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945), Phenomenologie de la perception. Paris: NRF., in het bijzonder p. 81-232.

Painter J. (1984). Deep Bodywork and Personal Development. Mill Valley: Bodymind Books.

Röhricht, F. (2000): Körperorientierte Psychotherapie psychischer Störungen. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Seewald, J. (1996b): Philosophische Anthropologie – Leiblichkeit / Körperlichkeit des Menschen. In: Haag, H. (Hrsg.): Sportphilosophie. Ein Handbuch. Schorndorf: Hofmann, 21-56.

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Transformation of the Self with Bodymind Integration

TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF WITH BODYMIND INTEGRATION- Ed. Holzinger H W

Transformation of the Self with Bodymind IntegrationThis publication by the International Council of PsychoCorporal (Bodymind) Integration (ICPIT), Ghent, Belgium, comprises a series of papers on the theory and practice of Bodymind Integration, especially Postural integration (PI). It gives an overview of the experiences that have been accumulated in more than 40 years of practising and teaching in every continent of the world.

To people interested in the field of bodywork, personal growth, self-development, body psychotherapy and healing, this collection of papers and articles presents innovative knowledge and specialised developments in practice of the different yet related bodymind methods. These are Postural integration (PI), Energetic Integration (El), Pelvic Heart Integration, Bodymind Drama and Psychotherapeutic Postural integration (PPI).

The introduction and honouring of Jack Painter, PhD. – the founder of these powerful approaches – is followed by articles about the history of Bodymind Integration in the development of body psychotherapy. There then follow basic articles on methodological and theoretical backgrounds. Articles about the practice of Bodymind Integration work are presented at the end.

The authors were all trained by Jack Painter. This publication contains articles written by PI-trainers from ten different countries and three continents to honour the lifetime achievement of Jack Painter, Ph.D. whose work has been recognized with the highest award of three golden stars by the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP), Vienna, Austria, in 2011.

Articles written by:
– Raffaele Cascone (I)
– Anton Adam Eckert (D)
– Rita Erken (D)
– Dirk Marivoet (B)
– Niall O’Siochain (IRL/D)
– Jack Painter (USA)
– Carmine Piroli (I)
– Bernhard Schlage (D)
– Günter Schwiefert (AU)
– Rosa Maria Sevilla Padron (MEX)
– Massimo Soldati (I)
– Claude Vaux (F)
– Beverly Wilkinson (ZA)
– Silke Ziehl (GB/D)

www.icpit.org

 

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Embodiment in Body Psychotherapy

Embodiment

Embodiment in Body Psychotherapy

Embodiment can be defined as a subjective experience, as a felt sense of being in my body, identifying with the ‘lived body’ moment-to-moment.

There is a lot going on in the body, on all kinds of levels, every second, and it is one of the functions of consciousness to screen out the bulk of it. So ’embodiment’ cannot mean that I am aware of everything that is going on, that is impossible as we know from neuroscience. However, it does mean that reflective awareness and spontaneous processes come together, pretty much in the sense of Winnicott’s phrase “psyche indwelling in the soma” (1987). In simple terms it means that sensing, feeling, imagining and thinking are working together as aspects of an organismic, embodied experience of “interdependent self” as process.

The crucial aspect of embodiment, therefore, is not the body per se, but the mutual, reciprocal, self-regulating and self-organizing relationship of body and mind as antagonistic and complementary poles of experience: psyche and soma coming together as differentiated poles, being experienced as intimately related, as the ground of subjectivity. In this definition, then, there is no ’embodiment’ without subjectivity or intersubjectivity.

Embodiment also means that parts of our conceptual system and therefore some aspects of our language are structured by the features of our bodies and the functioning of our bodies in everyday life. Embodiment encompasses more than the (human) body. The body is some particular living entity whereas embodiment refers to a general process. Images and texts are embodied in media, a measuring system becomes embodied in an instrument, meaning is embodied in signs, habituation is an embodiment of ways of life, etc.

About intersubjectivity, Donald Winnicot once said: ‘there is no such thing as an infant’, meaning, of course, that whenever one finds an infant one finds maternal care, and without maternal care, there would be no infant. Ana-Maria Rizzuto adds ‘Communications between mother and child involve their entire bodily being; voice, posture, gestures, closeness of bodies, and ways in which their bodies fit into each other in moments of physical contact.’ The principle that ‘nurture’ gets internalized and embodied as what was previously conceived of as pure ‘nature’ was implied in character analytic theory all along: emotional interpersonal processes become internalized and embodied as body/mind processes. The way the infant is held and related to becomes the way the person’s mind is capable of holding and relating to their feelings, which is reflected in the way the brain relates to body physiology, which is reflected in the way different sub-systems of the brain relate to each other (e.g. the cortex to the limbic system).

Dirk Marivoet, Registered Psychotherapist (BVP-ABP, EABP, EAP, WAPCEPC) and Psychomotor Therapist (VVPMT), CCEP, PT

May 2013

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