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Body sensations

17 techniques · 6 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
Body Reading
Body Reading
Observation and description of the client's bodily organization: posture, muscular tone, breath, distribution of energy. Creating a "body ma…
Bioenergetics
Eye Segment Work
Eye Segment Work
Exercises for unblocking the ocular segment: wide opening of the eyes, tracking an object, focus/defocus. Restoring a living gaze.
Bioenergetics
Jaw Release Work
Jaw Release Work
Techniques for unblocking the oral segment: massage of the masticatory muscles, opening the mouth, sounds, biting a towel. Release of suppre…
Bioenergetics
Lying Down Integration
Lying Down Integration
A closing practice: the client lies on the back, breathes freely, feels the back's contact with the floor. Integration of the bodily and emo…
Coherence
Somatic Tracking of Emotional Learning
Somatic Tracking of Emotional Learning
Attention to bodily sensations as markers of the activation of emotional knowledge — tightening, heaviness, trembling, warmth signal implici…
Hakomi
Accessing Core Material
Accessing Core Material
Gently leading to the deep beliefs through mindfulness, tracking, and probes. Core material is the set of beliefs that organize the whole of…
Hakomi
Immersion
Immersion
Deep staying with an emotional or bodily experience in mindfulness. Not analysis, not change — simply full presence with what is there.
Hakomi
Mindful Self-Study
Mindful Self-Study
A practice for the client between sessions: deliberate slowing down and observing one's reactions in everyday situations. Transferring the m…
Hakomi
Mindfulness Invitation
Mindfulness Invitation
Helping the client move out of ordinary conversation into a state of mindful inner observation. The key transition of a Hakomi session.
Hakomi
Nourishment
Nourishment
Providing the "missing experience" — what was absent at the moment the core belief was formed. Through words, gestures, touch, in a state of…
Hakomi
Somatic Unwinding
Somatic Unwinding
Following spontaneous bodily movements of the client in mindfulness. The body "knows" how to resolve tension — it only needs space.
Hakomi
Tracking
Tracking
Continuous observation of the smallest bodily signals of the client: micro-movements, breath, tone of voice, facial expression. The foundati…
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.
Sandplay
Safe Space Building
Safe Space Building
The client creates a safe place in the sandbox — a resource image they can return to. Especially valuable in trauma and anxiety work.
Sandplay
Sand Work Without Figures
Sand Work Without Figures
The client works only with sand — digging, smoothing, shaping, creating a landscape. Tactile contact with sand regulates the nervous system …
UP
Interoceptive Exposure
Interoceptive Exposure
Deliberately evoking bodily sensations that the client interprets as dangerous, in order to reduce fear of the body's normal sensations.
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