A training in Body Psychotherapy and Counseling

Introduction to the Moving Cycle

Participants will learn:

• Principles of Movement that apply to healing and well being
• Movement strategies that promote empowerment, satisfaction, and grace
• Body states that promotes, responsibility, appreciation of self and others, and effective action
• Experiential understanding of how the body changes its mind

Participants experience and luxuriate in the work for themselves. This work alternates between whole group movement times, and one person working with a facilitator, while the third person witnesses and supports. These sessions work therapeutically and creatively to recover flexibility and choice in ones physical structure, emotional life, thinking, and sense of connection to others. Discussion time integrates the member´s experience with the theories of the work. This seminar promotes personal healing and familiarity with the Moving Cycle form.

Rhythm of Self and Other – Relational, Character and Energy work

Participants will learn:

• relationship dynamics in movement and non-verbal communication
• observing and engaging with movement obstacles in oneself and others
• practicing effective movement sequencing as a means of enhancing relationships
• using movement to regulate ones vitality consciously

This modul offers deeper theoretical studies of movement, delivered in a discussion and demonstration format, as well as honing practical skills for applying the Moving Cycle to ones profession. Trainees learn how to facilitate the four phases of the Moving Cycle, and engage in supervised practice sessions.
This seminar promotes personal effectivness in assisting others in conscious movement.

Working with the Continuum of Movement

Participants will learn:

• An experiential and theoretical understanding of the continuum from habits to creativity
• A somatically-centered theory of addiction and addiction recovery
• Identifying obstructed movements, which are often signaled by subtle and small movement “tags”
• Understanding our relationship to natural and un-natural pleasure, and how to commit to natural pleasure
• How to restore completed movement sequences.

This seminar focuses on what occurs when we consistently obstruct movement, whether it be physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. It also trains methods of restoring movement capacity. Chronically held back movement creates a sense of lack. That can become intolerable, leaving us vulnerable to addiction. This phase difines addiction broadly and looks to the body to help us restore a sense of fullness, bodyfulness – that is our birthright.

Using Touch , Developmental Movements and their Relationship to Attachment Patterns

Participants will learn:

• To move precisely, “read” the moving body and be able to identify subtle disruptions in movement
• To learn to see and recover early movements within a secure relationship where you are being seen
• To learn the types of touch ethics, as well as contra-indications for the use of touch sessions
• To understand the physical imprints of early childhood trauma and how to use touch and Moving Cycle interventions to Work effectively with them

Keeping a focus on completing movement sequences, we will Work with details of developmental movements, early childhood imprints and how imprinted interruptions of these movements harm adult functioning. By commiting to accurate, detailed and creative recovery of these movements, we can set the stage for healthy adult behavior. Because these movements are often from pre-verbal or nonverbal times, touch more than words often becomes the treatment of choice.
Trainees therefore will learn the basic principles and practices of proper use of touch in body-centered psychotherapy. Special attention will be placed on ethics, indications and contra-indications, and basic clinical strategies.

Having successfully finished Modul 4, you will receive a  certification  ” Moving Cycle Practitioner”