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 … ]
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 … ]
Neo-Reichian Massage Therapy draws on the insights and work of Wilhelm Reich, notably on his Vegetotherapy practice, and takes into account that many physical tensions, pains, muscle contractions and constrictions in the body represent (or [ Read more … ]
Body Armoring — in British English Body Armouring — is a concept developed by the Austrian physician and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, and a way of explaining subconscious and/or unconscious physical tensions and restrictions in the [ Read more … ]
People who look for Sexual De-Armoring Courses and Somatic Sex Education Training often arrive at so-called Sexological Bodywork™, a modality created by Dr. Joseph Kramer that combines Taoist and Tantric concepts, Asian massage and bodywork [ Read more … ]