PSYCHOTHERAPY & 
SOMATIC PRACTICES
for WELLBEING and
POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH

Bioenergetic Analysis, founded by Alexander Lowen in 1950s, is a form of psychotherapy that integrates verbal and body work. At its core is the belief that whatever is experienced in the mind is equally reflected in the body and vice versa.

Emotions are bodily experiences, therefore what we live emotionally gets impressed in our body. Emotions shape our body whether we express them or whether we repress them.

 

Bioenergetics teaches us to pay attention to the way we look, the way we breathe, the way we walk, our posture, our tensions, our way of being embodied. In so doing we are able to learn the language of the body, gaining access to a deeper source of wisdom and knowing, that of the body, where our truest self resides. Bioenergetics offers an integration of verbal conversation and specific body exercises that become an act of introspection allowing us to explore our emotions, our limits, but also our resources. The exercises unveil our personal knots and stiffness, physical but emotional too. They are never executed mechanically, because conversely they aim at a full and free expression of the person. Through the body release that the exercises bring, trapped emotions gradually emerge and with time they find the opportunity to be fully lived, expressed, and in the end integrated in one's own sense of identity. Once the body starts revealing its deepest knowledge and we learn how to listen to it, then we can truly experience the enjoyable feeling of transformation happening in our body and in our behaviour. This is the path towards inner freedom, joy and wholeness.

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Bioenergetics can be practised in a 1 to 1 setting or through classes of exercises.

In INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS the use of body exercises can be accompanied by verbal elaboration and exploration.

In BIOENERGETIC GROUP CLASSES exercises are the priority and sharing of personal process is neither expected nor required. The objectives of the classes are:​​

• To offer the chance to release stress and body tensions, feel more relaxed, alive, vigorous, and dynamic.

• To acquire new information about one's self and one's body and create greater connection with one own's body.

• To promote the ability to listen to one's own emotions and sensations and to encourage their expression.

• To develop one's sense of responsibility in accepting one's limits and in seeking wellbeing.

• To become more grounded, that is to become more steady in one's own existence and reality, without living in illusions, projections, or unrooted thoughts.

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Please contact me if you have any questions about the services I offer. I will be happy to offer clarifications.