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 through Tantric practices is a popular way of emotional, trauma, and sexual healing, and in this post we discuss what is involved and what we can expect in Tantric De-Armoring. Goals and Health [ Read more … ]
The term Body De-Armoring is often used in conjunction with Body Psychotherapy (or Body-Oriented Psychotherapy). But what exactly are the differences and similarities, and how do these two healing modalities relate to each other? Body [ Read more … ]
Hakomi Experiential Psychotherapy — also called Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy — was created by Ron Kurtz (1934-2011) and is a type of holistic Body-Centered therapy that uses mindfulness and somatic interventions (body-oriented) to support clients’ [ Read more … ]
Core Energetics — or the Core Energetics Evolutionary Process — is a Body-Oriented Psychotherapy modality developed by John Pierrakos (1921 – 2001), a physician, psychologist and psychiatrist, who together with Alexander Lowen also created Bioenergetic [ Read more … ]
Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957) was an Austrian physician and psychoanalyst, and arguably the “Godfather” of modern Body De-Armoring (also written Body De-Armouring) and Body Psychotherapy (Somatic Therapy or Body-Oriented Psychotherapy). As a student of [ Read more … ]
Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957), an Austrian physician and psychoanalyst, and the “Godfather” of Somatic Therapy and Body Psychotherapy, developed a particular view on the relationship between Vital Life Energy (which he called Orgone Energy), [ Read more … ]
In this article, we discuss how Talk Therapy is used in Body De-Armoring therapies. But, before we embark on that further on in this article, let’s first look at what Talk Therapy involves. What Is [ Read more … ]
Developed by Dr. David Berceli, the Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) are a set of seven exercises that support the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of tension that where created in the body [ Read more … ]
Although Body De-Armoring is about release of muscular tensions and related emotional trauma in a general sense, it’s often equated with Sexual De-Armoring or even Genital De-Armoring, that is, with sexual trauma healing. Creation of [ Read more … ]
Emotional repression and suppression both play an important role in Wilhelm Reich’s theory and practice of Character Armor and Body Armor, and subsequently in De-Armoring (also called Emotional De-Armoring). Nevertheless, it’s not uncommon that the [ Read more … ]