The word somatic comes from the Ancient Greek sōmatikós, which means “bodily” — and from the word sôma, which means “body”. Nowadays, the most common use of somatic is in the meaning of “part of, [ Read more … ]
Conscious Connected Breathing or Conscious Connected Circular Breathing is basically carried out just like Circular Breathing, but then done deliberately without any pause between inhaling and exhaling. As such, it explicitly links inhalation and exhalation [ Read more … ]
Middendorf Breathwork therapy was developed by the German Professor Ilse Middendorf (1910 – 2009). The method is also called the Middendorf Breath Experience, Breathexperience, or the Perceptible Breath Experience (which are all translations of Der [ 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 … ]
Holotropic Breathwork was developed by Stanislav and Christina Grof in the 1970s, and is based on the idea that its breathing techniques and accompanying features can deliberately induce altered and/or non-ordinary states of consciousness, which [ Read more … ]
Rebirthing Breathwork aka Therapeutic Conscious Connected Breathing or Conscious Energy Breathing was developed in the 1970s by Leonard D. Orr. A fundamental idea behind Rebirthing Breathwork is that one can treat certain diseases, addictions, and [ Read more … ]
Shamanic Breathwork is about awakening and connecting to your “inner Shaman,” your inner healer, that is, it’s foremost a self-healing Breathwork modality, one that taps into your subconscious emotional and traumatic blockages, exposes those, to [ 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 … ]