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.
The Gaia Method is a holistic body-oriented treatment modality developed by Susanne Roursgaard that works with soft De-Armoring, energy work, breath, sound, therapy, and gentle movement to integrate body, mind and soul. In addition, the [ Read more … ]
Convulsions — usually associated with epileptic seizures — are conditions in which muscles continue to rapidly contract and relax quickly, and cause uncontrolled shaking of the body. Client’s self-induced convulsions, or convulsions induced by a [ Read more … ]
Shamanic De-Armoring is not just one particular De-Armoring modality (although some providers use that term to define their work) but a range of De-Armoring treatments that associate themselves fully or partly with ancient Shamanic concepts [ Read more … ]
Before we look at what’s involved in sex-positive therapy, massage, and bodywork, we’ll first briefly discuss the phenomenon of sex-positivity, which will help to place the topic of this article in a wider perspective. The [ Read more … ]
Simulation and roleplay used as a technique in De-Armoring can be a means to induce subconscious and/or unconscious emotions or trauma to surge fully to the surface, which gives an opportunity to analyze and digest [ Read more … ]
Belly2Belly was created by David Cates, a Tantra teacher, trauma and sexual healer who devoted his practice to exploring sex, intimacy, and connection. David describes Belly2Belly as an embodied partnered meditation practice that relaxes our [ Read more … ]
When people experience stress, anxiety, anger, or are not being able to speak out or express themselves and feel restrained, it’s very common that they clench their jaw or grind their teeth; over time this [ Read more … ]
In this article, we discuss the symptoms of an armored chest and the techniques that are commonly used to De-Armor the area. The chest is a location of our body that may react strongly on [ Read more … ]
Apart form the difference between Full Body De-Armoring and Partial Body De-Armoring, one also finds the difference between external and internal De-Armoring. External work is performed on the outside of the body, and internal work [ Read more … ]
People can obtain scars in many different ways. Scarring can happen through surgery, radiation treatments, birthing, injury, infections, accidents, or modifications of the body (such as Gender Affirming Surgery and Breast Plastic Surgery). In addition, [ Read more … ]