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.
Body De-Armoring (in British English: Body De-Armouring) predominantly aims at bringing repressed and/or suppressed emotions and trauma to the surface. That is, De-Armoring deliberately works on making certain unwanted emotional and mental content come out [ Read more … ]
Within De-Armoring practices the focus of treatments is often on body parts that tend to hold a lot of emotions, such as the abdomen, chest, back, neck and shoulders, or the genital organs such as [ Read more … ]
The current practice of De-Armoring as developed by the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich is often synonymously referred to as Body De-Armoring, Muscular De-Armoring, or Emotional De-Armoring. In this article, we’ll discuss the meaning of the differences [ Read more … ]
On physical level, a person’s Body Armor usually expresses itself in relation to muscles, connective tissue, organs, and certain breathing, holding, and postural patterns. It can materialize itself as tensions, knots, coldness, hardness, tightness, extreme [ Read more … ]
Touch usually plays an important role in Body De-Armoring (commonly written as Body Dearmouring), but it depends very much on the specific De-Armoring treatment modality how, how much, and what kind of touch is used. [ Read more … ]
As a Thai Massage therapist I quite regularly had clients who during a session went through profound emotional release. At first I thought it was because of the way I gave Thai Massage sessions, which [ Read more … ]
Sex Doulas or Sexuality Doulas have little in common with the work of a Birth Doula, but have quite a similar job description as sex coaches, sex counselors, or sex educators, or even intimacy and [ Read more … ]
The use of mindfulness techniques is without doubt one of the most important tools within Body De-Armoring and other somatic practices. Considering that many people live rather in their heads, and in a much lesser [ Read more … ]
The term “bodywork” is applied to any therapeutic or personal development technique that is about work with the human body and which involves touch or non-touch manipulative therapy, such as massage therapy, spiritual work, breathwork, [ Read more … ]
Depending on the type of Body De-Armoring modality, both physical and emotional intimacy aspects will, can, or may come into play. In such cases, appropriate management of ethical issues and moral values is a requisite [ Read more … ]