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Body awareness

10 techniques · 9 approaches
AEDP
Somatic-Affective Tracking
Somatic-Affective Tracking
Continuous attention to the bodily markers of emotional change: tightening, expansion, warmth, cold, trembling — as a navigator of the thera…
Bioenergetics
Stress Positions
Stress Positions
Holding the body in demanding poses in order to produce vibration, deepen breathing, and "break through" muscular blocks. Bend-over, backwar…
ERT
Somatic Awareness of Emotions
Somatic Awareness of Emotions
Developing the ability to notice emotions through bodily sensations: where the emotion lives in the body, how it changes, and what it commun…
Gestalt
Amplification Technique
Amplification Technique
The client takes a barely noticeable bodily signal, emotion, gesture, or word and amplifies it several times. A barely audible voice becomes…
Hakomi
Tracking
Tracking
Continuous observation of the smallest bodily signals of the client: micro-movements, breath, tone of voice, facial expression. The foundati…
IFS
Finding a Part via a Trailhead
Finding a Part via a Trailhead
A trailhead is the entry point into work with a part. It is any external or internal stimulus that activates a part: a situation, a person, …
Längle
Value Perception / Working with Emotions as Value Signals
Value Perception / Working with Emotions as Value Signals
In existential analysis, feelings are understood as "pointers" to values. Längle distinguishes the primary emotion (a spontaneous reaction t…
MBSR
Body Scan Meditation
Body Scan Meditation
Lying down, the participant systematically moves attention through the whole body — from the toes of the left foot to the crown of the head.…
MBSR
Mindful Yoga 1 — Floor Postures
Mindful Yoga 1 — Floor Postures
Gentle hatha yoga postures performed lying on the floor, with full attention to the sensations in the body right now. In MBSR yoga is not ph…
Sandplay
Body Awareness in Sandplay
Body Awareness in Sandplay
Integrating body awareness into sand work: attention to sensations in the hands, to breath, to posture. The body knows before the mind does.
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