Bioenergetics - Block 1

We are delighted to bring this one-of-a-kind Bioenergetics Year Long Training for the first time to the UK. This is one of less than five yearlong Bioenergetics trainings worldwide.

If you are curious about bioenergetics but don’t want to commit to a year long training, you are welcome to try the first block which is standalone.

How we embody and express our energy makes our psyche and our patterns of reactions to life visible. We hold in our bodies the energy we dared not express when we were vulnerable children, both as a tension in the muscles and as a charge of energy in the organs and connective tissue. This fixed form of expression and defence is called our character. It is our social, adapted self, and blocks and represses our spontaneous flow of life energy, our wildness, including large amounts of our sexuality and creativity.

***What is Bioenergetics?***
Bioenergetics is not to be confused with the body of work that comes from biochemistry but comes from Wilhelm Reich and the therapy developed by his students.

Bioenergetics can be taken as a self-exploration through becoming aware of tensions in your body. These tensions are created by the energies of past formative experience which are imprinted on your body. This creates your character, the person you became under the influence of your parents and your society. By becoming aware of this we can release the tension and free up our energy to choose life in each moment. Thus, we are able to free up a huge amount of energy for our aliveness, our creativity, our pleasure and joy in life to create our conscious path and fulfil our dreams.

Themes for this training are:

• Understanding the patterns and needs of one’s character type
• Moving from dependency to independence
• Being aware of your feelings and expressing them appropriately and communicatively
• Knowing what you want and what you don’t want and communicating that safely and respectfully
• Assertiveness
• Raising your energy levels, being more alive, aware, sensitive to life.
• Grounding and standing on your own feet
• Increasing the flexibility of one’s attitudes
• Flowing with life instead struggling against it
• Opening to aliveness and pleasure
• Being able to be present and to stay in contact
• Primal therapy, birth and intrauterine experiences and imprints that affect our lifetime patterns of energy.

We will support you to gain an understanding of:

• The phenomenon of resistance and how to use and work through it.
• How to work energetically and physically with projection, both positive and negative.
• The different kinds of touch, their intent and applications: holding, containing, focusing, making conscious, confronting, soothing, mothering and fathering, supporting, grounding.
• The emotional plague, repression and rebellion.
• Armouring and core energetics, energy and character.
• Imprints, memoire corporelle (cellular memory), regression, Janov and Grof.
• The relationship between consciousness and energy, catharsis, demons, creative confrontation, witness consciousness.
• The importance of breath, Reichian and other breathing techniques.
• The orgasm reflex, the birth reflex.
• Character analysis – the character types and their use in therapy.
• Therapy and spirituality.
• Techniques to raise energy, bioenergetic stress positions, Osho meditations.
• Grounding and its importance, both through the feet and through the eyes.
• The segments and their order of opening.
• Self-regulation, the inner wisdom and balance of the body
• An analysis of our own character and patterns, which we respect as a necessity for survival
• An understanding of the biographical causes of any stuckness and limitations
• Strategies for managing trauma and fear
• Supporting individuals to find freedom of expression and creativity as autonomous human beings

The ability to read the energy and character of others and know how to support their energy will also be taught. As such, it is an invaluable training both for oneself and as a professional resource for those working energetically with others.

In Block 1 the key aspects we will be exploring are:

• The relationship between tension and relaxation
• Some patterns of holding / armouring
• How to support the flow of energy
• Reich’s concept of segments and looking at some of the key ones
• How to support ones energetic flow

Dates:

The first date will go ahead based on a minimum of 12 people otherwise we will move to the next date. You will be given approximately a months notice of this if you have put down a deposit:

Thu 23 Jan to Sun 26 Jan 2025
Thu 27 Mar to Sun 30 Mar 2025
Thu 03 Jul to Sun 06 Jul 2025
Thu 09 Oct to Sun 12 Oct 2025

For the full details and to book your place, click HERE