Body Mind Intelligence

Personal and Professional Training Program in Bodymind Intelligence

Where physical, emotional and spiritual health meet

Our physical, emotional and spiritual health are our true wealth. In a time of great transitions, the need to learn what creates physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing becomes vital.

We carry in us the ability to liberate the sources of our wellbeing. To do it, we need an education which is not just informative but also transformative. The necessary knowledge and wisdom are more available than ever today, but it is up to us to walk the path and learn to listen to the intelligence of our bodies and beings: to our body-mind "intelligence".

This body-mind intelligence includes the living experience of wholeness, physical, energetic, emotional, psychological and spiritual. It encompasses all our feeling senses and includes the intelligence of heart, soul and all being.

Today, science has proven that the key factors in healing are the energetic reality of love (i.e. consciousness in its many forms) combined with moderrn bodymind training methods and meditation techniques.

The objectives of THE TRAINING PROGRAM in BODYMIND INTELLIGENCE are:

• to discover the innate healing powers of your bodymind intelligence, to develop a quality of presence and to tap into your own sources of wellbeing and even sacredness.
• to foster an intimate, rooted partnership with your body and a profound development of your perceptions and feelings.
• to connect the intelligence of the heart with science both Oriental and Occidental.

It is a valuable personal growth process and a rich professional methodology. The basic principles and techniques of this training program can be applied to therapeutic situations as well as to many aspects of our daily life. Some workshops are open to all, which means that they can be taken as individual units of study. People from all walks of life have found past training sessions useful, experiencing remarkable improvements in their physical, emotional and spiritual lives. See testimonials below.

IT CAN HELP YOU

• learn to deal more consciously with physical, psychosomatic and emotional tensions.
• use precise and highly effective tools that relieve such body pain and tension as backache, headache, insomnia, anxiety and emotional stress.
• be more in contact with the intelligence of your bodymind, developing a more intimate partnership with this “higher” intelligence.
• bring sense and sensitivity to your experience and rediscover a deep reverence and joy for life.

WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?

• would like to learn about the innate intelligence of your bodymind as well as practical “hands-on” techniques that promote health and wellness for yourself and others.
• feel the need to change your lifestyle and improve your wellbeing.
• desire to work as facilitators or caregivers, professionally or personally, helping others and contributing to the evolution of consciousness.
• are a health-care professional, a social worker, a teacher or work in human resources or in any of the helping and educational professions.

Experience an ‘opening of the heart’ by transforming your ideals and beliefs into authentic consciousness. Out of this consciousness comes an enrichment and a deepening of our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

TRAINING FORMAT

Each of the three levels is a complete unit and can be taken on its own. For professional certification, the necessary practicum hours are required.

• 1. Basic course: 2 days (open to all)
• 2. Personal Training I: Year 1: 18 days plus 100 hours for professional certification. Seven workshops of 3-4 days (21 days) including the Basic course.
• 3. Professional Training II: Year 2: 17 days plus 150 hours for professional certification (Professional training).

The first year’s work is based on various topics and can be taken as a personal training program.
The second year is oriented towards the development of themes and skills, practice and supervision.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE TRAINING

Bodymind Intelligence Basic Course^®

Our physical, emotional and spiritual health is our true wealth. In this course you will begin to learn how to let go of physical and emotional tensions and protect against illness, through bodymind techniques combined with the wisdom of Chinese medicine, meditation and the transformative healing powers of the heart.

The topics are:

• Health according to Taoist Philosophy.
• Body awareness: from doing to being. Qi Gong exercises.
• Introduction to Taoist acupressure and deep tissue massage to release physical and emotional tensions and balance the bodymind.
• Taoist philosophy. The theory of the five elements according to Chinese medicine.
• Principles of the segmental neo-Reichian therapy approach. Work with 'muscular armouring' and emotional release. Basic techniques for letting go of physical and emotional stress.
• Intuition, the heart and ‘the touch of presence’.
• Meditation: silence and the space beyond the mind.

We will put an emphasis on hands-on practice, so that you can appreciate the effectiveness of your work right from the start.

PERSONAL TRAINING: 1^st YEAR: AN OVERVIEW

Theory and approach

• Taoism, maps of consciousness and theories of modern body-oriented psychotherapy.
• Powers and laws of the five elements in Chinese medicine and the psychic forces involved.
• Meridians and their physical, psychological and energy aspects. The extraordinary meridians.
• Body segments and muscular armouring in the neo-Reichian approach.
• Stress, burnout and illness. The meaning of suffering. The path of inner healing.
• The heart as a doorway to transformation. The heart, the greatest healer. The heart and the immune system. The intuitive healing powers of the heart.

Techniques for body-energywork and bodymind therapy

• Body awareness, body language and expression, conscious breath work
• Principles of neo-Reichian work.
• Counselling techniques and the space of ‘being’.
• The touch of presence and deep tissue massage.
• Taoist acupressure and meridian massage.
• Basic techniques of bodymind therapy.
• The channels of perception according to Arnold Mindell.
• The experience of the transformative intelligence of the heart. Recognizing the space of synchronicity. Development of intuitive competence.
• Body-energy work. Readings from the psyche and the space of synchronicity.
• Meditation practice and presence with oneself and others.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: 2^nd YEAR: AN OVERVIEW

This 2^nd year of training focuses on advanced skills and a wider understanding of methodologies, assisting people in their personal and therapeutic development. Major themes and techniques will be reviewed and developed more deeply.

Theory and philosophy

• Yogic and tantric philosophy and humanistic psychology.
• Levels of consciousness. The chakras and the subtle bodies.
• Transpersonal and modern shamanism.
• Advanced Reichian work and bioenergetics analysis. Introduction to Alexander Lowen’s approach.
• In-depth study of the laws of the five elements, the meridians and their physical, psychological and energetical aspects as well as the extraordinary meridians.
• Projections and defence mechanisms.

Bodymind techniques and the client-therapist relationship

• Development of techniques encountered in the first year: acupressure, touch of presence, neo-Reichian work.
• Additional bodymind techniques: gestalt, conscious breathing, body language and regression methods.
• Further counselling techniques in bodymind therapy.
• The client-therapist relationship and the therapeutic process.
• Projection, identification, defense strategies.
• Evaluation techniques and kinesiology.
• Working with boundaries.
• Development of intuition and application of synchronicity in therapeutic situations.
• Meditation practice.
• The power of intuition. Psychic readings from the heart.
• Body- and energy work from the space of synchronicity.
• The perceptive body and mindfulness.

Themes to be explored

• Review and development of first-year themes.
• The transformational intelligence of the heart.
• Childhood trauma. Physical and psychological abuse and the path of healing.
• The seven ways to face the shadow 2.
• Working with boundaries.
• meditation as a facilitator for therapy and a tool for personal transformation.
• the healing forces of nature and the importance of environment.
• Finding your destiny. Connecting with your deeper truth, your vision and your mission.
• Exploring the transpersonal and the shaman in us.
• Advanced work with expression, movement and voice.

REGISTRATION

Each candidate will be asked to attend an interview and an individual session at the start of the training. A minimum of 5 individual sessions must be taken (at a reduced cost) by each student during training. Context, continuity, and support are offered to students who choose the training program for their personal growth or as professional development.

CERTIFICATE

Each step of the training program is complete in itself and leads to the certificate in Bodymind Intelligence. Bodymind Intelligence is a registered trademark and can only be used after successful completion of the courses.

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