Postural Integration® is a type of holistic bodywork created by Jack Painter (1933 – 2010) in the 1960s. It’s usually practiced by professional health practitioners working with both bodywork and Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. The treatment is [ Read more … ]
It’s difficult to give consistent information of how a Body De-Armoring session (or sessions) will take place, because it basically depends on the type of De-Armoring modality applied, and the background, training, and lineage of [ Read more … ]
Grounding, also called Earthing, is the belief and practice that it’s necessary to restore direct contact between one’s body and the Earth to maintain or restore health and happiness. The practice of Grounding involves sensing [ Read more … ]
Genital De-Armoring is a specialization within Sexual De-Armoring, which again is part of Body De-Armoring. As a rule, in Genital De-Armoring the therapist or practitioner will work with the genitals and erogenous zones, which include [ Read more … ]
Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP)™ was developed by Ratha Chek, and is a body-centered therapy that focuses on enhancing the body’s own capacity to heal from body-stored trauma by freeing the body, breath, and energy [ Read more … ]
Movement, dance, and posture influence emotional or psychological states (and vice versa), and hence they can be therapeutically used to increase body awareness and better understand the relationships between one’s emotions and physiological experiences. It [ Read more … ]
In this post, you’ll find an overview of Somatic Coaching and Somatic Therapy Courses, Classes, and Workshops in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. Somatic Therapy — also called Mind-Body Therapy — is a very broad [ Read more … ]
In relation to the Body Armor, the psychotherapist Wilhelm Reich postulated the theory of Segmental Armouring. In this theory, there are seven segments of the body where Armoring (muscular tensions, contractions, and/or numbness) and subsequent [ Read more … ]
There are a lot of myths about the negative effects of masturbation, some of which came into existence simply to scare people off to engage in “immoral practices,” others because of ignorance and misinformation, and [ Read more … ]
There are different Body De-Armoring approaches and techniques, and in a general sense we could say that it depends on the training, background, and lineage of the De-Armoring practitioner or therapist what techniques they will [ Read more … ]
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