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23 techniques · 5 approaches
Bioenergetics
Basic Grounding
Basic Grounding
A stance with soft knees, feet parallel and shoulder-width apart. The sense of contact with the floor, of support, of stability. The foundat…
Bioenergetics
Bioenergetic Breathing
Bioenergetic Breathing
Deepened breathing through the mouth with emphasis on the full exhale. Reduction of control and the allowance of suppressed emotions through…
Bioenergetics
Bioenergetic Stool Breathing
Bioenergetic Stool Breathing
Lying on the back over a special stool (or a folded blanket). Opening the chest and diaphragm, deepening the breath through passive stretch.
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
Character Structure Analysis
Character Structure Analysis
A joint exploration of the client's character structure: how the body is organized in response to early experience, which defenses have beco…
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
Kicking Exercise
Kicking Exercise
On the back, alternating kicks into the mattress with the legs. Release of the pelvic segment, work with suppressed protest and vitality.
Bioenergetics
Lowen's Bow (Arch)
Lowen's Bow (Arch)
A backward arch with fists at the lower back. Opening of the front surface of the body, activation of breath, stimulation of the energetic f…
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…
Bioenergetics
Mattress Hitting
Mattress Hitting
An expressive technique: hitting a mattress or pillow with the fists or a tennis racquet. Release of suppressed anger, rage, and frustration…
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…
Bioenergetics
Vibration Work
Vibration Work
Deliberate evocation and sustaining of natural bodily vibration through stress positions. Vibration is a sign of a living body and of a free…
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
Contact Statements
Contact Statements
Verbal mirroring of the client's current experience. Not interpretation, but acknowledgment of what is there. Creates the sense of "I am see…
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
Little Experiments
Little Experiments
Simple bodily or verbal experiments in mindfulness: try a posture, a movement, a phrase — and observe the reaction. A safe way of exploring.
Hakomi
Probes
Probes
Small experiments in mindfulness: the therapist speaks a phrase or makes a gesture, the client observes the inner reaction. Probes surface c…
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
Taking Over
Taking Over
The therapist physically takes on an action the client is performing unconsciously (supporting the shoulders, pressing) so the client can re…
Hakomi
Tracking
Tracking
Continuous observation of the smallest bodily signals of the client: micro-movements, breath, tone of voice, facial expression. The foundati…
IBCT
Acceptance Letter
Acceptance Letter
Each partner writes a letter describing what they accept in the other — including what they used to want to change. The letters are read in …
IBCT
Trigger Sequence Analysis
Trigger Sequence Analysis
A detailed tracking of the chain: trigger → interpretation → soft emotion → hard reaction → partner's reaction → amplification. Helps to see…
IFS
Somatic IFS Technique
Somatic IFS Technique
An extension of standard IFS developed by Susan McConnell. The body is regarded as the main dwelling place of parts: every sensation, tensio…
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