An overview of our articles about Armoring, the Body Armor, and Body De-Armoring practices, also called Muscular De-Armoring, Somatic De-Armoring, or Emotional De-Armoring.
Mind-Body Therapy (or MindBody Therapy) — sometimes synonymously referred to as Somatic Therapy — is a general term for a variety of healing modalities and techniques that work with both the person’s physical and emotional/mental [ Read more … ]
The word Catharsis comes from the Greek katharsis, which itself is derived from the two other Greek words kathairein (which means “cleanse”) and katharos (which means “pure”). Today, the term Catharsis is commonly used to [ Read more … ]
Bioenergetics is a term used in the field of biochemistry and cell biology relating to the energy flow through living systems. The primary aim of Bioenergetics as science is to describe how living organisms obtain [ Read more … ]
Reichian Breathwork was developed by Dr. Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian psychotherapist and the creator of Vegetotherapy. Reich is considered the forerunner and instigator of what today is known as emotional dearmoring bodywork. Aims of Reichian [ Read more … ]
In the context of massage, bodywork, and somatic therapy treatment offerings you may read that the practitioner or therapist states that they run a Trauma Informed Practice (TIP). But what is exactly meant by this? [ Read more … ]
Nowadays, you read and hear a lot about Somatic Sexology and Somatic Sex Coaching. But what exactly is implied here? In this post, we’re going to take a look at what it’s all about. Sex [ Read more … ]
Vegetotherapy is a somatic psychotherapeutic treatment developed around 1935 by Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian psychoanalyst. Reich later renamed Vegetotherapy to Psychiatric Orgone Therapy, aligning and integrating it more closely to his Orgone Life Energy theories. [ Read more … ]
Breathwork (also written Breath Work) as a distinct wellness, healing, and self-improvement modality arose in the late 1960s. It consists of breathing education, breath awareness activities, and a variety of deliberately performed i.e. conscious breathing [ Read more … ]
Holistic Pulsing is a massage treatment modality developed in the 1980s by Tovi Browning, an Osteopath and Naturopath. The treatment draws from Osteopathy as well as from other therapeutic bodywork modalities such as Tragerwork, Feldenkrais, [ Read more … ]
The concept of the existence of Orgone Energy (or Orgone Radiation) was developed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957), an Austrian physician and psychoanalyst. The idea of Orgone roughly corresponds with the [ Read more … ]