WORKING WITH
THE BODY
THE METHOD
Bodywork is a fundamental part of any therapeutic process. When we got hurt, wounded as a child, our needs were not met or we were abused, we left the body to escape the hurt that we had no way to process at that early time. These memories are still there and if we do not include the body we remain disscociated. Not grounded. And these hurts cannot heal and continue drive our behaviours unconsciously. Our psychological suffering is not only cognitive or emotional—it is embodied.
The body stores, expresses (often unconsciously in the form of pain, tension, dysfunction or dis-embodiment), and perpetuates unresolved emotional experience, and therefore must be included directly in the therapeutic process.
Through our early conditioning and psychological wounding, we built defenses in order to survive and our body became the ‘body of tension’ with habitual patterns of tensions, in stead of the ‘Body of Bliss’.
Wilhelm Reich did a lot of research early of last century and showed how being repressed directly leads to changes in our biophysiology and muscular tension which he called ‘armour’. Reich and Alexander Lowen identified specific patterns of tension related to our wounding during different developmental phases identifying five basic what Lowen called body-types.
Bodywork is a fundamental part of any therapeutic process. When we got hurt, wounded as a child, our needs were not met or we were abused, we left the body to escape the hurt that we had no way to process at that early time. These memories are still there and if we do not include the body we remain disscociated. Not grounded. And these hurts cannot heal and continue drive our behaviours unconsciously. Our psychological suffering is not only cognitive or emotional—it is embodied. The body stores, expresses (often unconsciously in the form of pain, tension, dysfunction or dis-embodiment), and perpetuates unresolved emotional experience, and therefore must be included directly in the therapeutic process.
Through our early conditioning and psychological wounding, we built defenses in order to survive and our body became the ‘body of tension’ with habitual patterns of tensions, in stead of the ‘Body of Bliss’. Wilhelm Reich did a lot of research early of last century and showed how being repressed directly leads to changes in our biophysiology and muscular tension which he called ‘armour’. Reich and Alexander Lowen identified specific patterns of tension related to our wounding during different developmental phases identifying five basic what Lowen called body-types.
GETTING STARTED WITH THE WORK THROUGH:
SESSIONS
GROUPS
Sessions are possible in person or online via zoom.
Sessions, groups and other events are conducted either in English or in Dutch, according to individual wishes
To take part in one of the sessions, meditations or events: please email Adhira at contact@lifeandcare.eu or message: 0636002634
body oriented session
These sessions address usually specific issues, identified through an intake together with you, or through going through the inner child work or other protocols. For instance the sessions can address the need for grounding, the need for opening the breath, the chest, or the heart, the need for opening specific areas of tightness or constriction, or to address a collapse in a part of the body (often the solar plexus or the heart), the need for softening, or the need for additional or specific hold.
The sessions are planned in consultation with you, and can range from an added session as part of the inner child protocol to a stand alone session to support with trauma release, or a series of specific body work sessions to open the body, reveal the truths that have been suppressed there, to restore the flow and aliveness in the body and allow us to feel and enjoy our body once again.
For more information or how you can take part in one of our sessions, meditations or events, please email me: contact@lifeandcare.eu or whatsapp: 0636002634