When the World Feels Divided
When a heated conversation about the Israel-Palestine conflict erupted in Thailand, Hadi didn't see enemies—he saw bodies bracing for safety. Using Bodynamic, a method that reads trauma through muscle tension and posture, he transformed a potentially explosive moment into an embrace between two men whose families have been at war for 70 years. What if understanding the body's defenses could help us meet division with dignity instead of fear?
The Bodyknot: A Comprehensive Guide to Communication, Therapy and Personal Growth
“The Bodyknot” is a Bodynamic-based, nine-element framework for “untying” misunderstandings and stuck patterns in communication by tracking experience from context/basic mood all the way to actions. It’s presented as a practical map for therapists as well as for managers and individuals who want clearer, more grounded conflict resolution and self-expression. The piece also highlights how different character structures tend to fixate on—or skip—specific stages, and it offers structured guidance and exercises to build more complete processing and relational clarity.
Reclaiming Wholeness: Ukrainian Veterans and the Somatic Revolution of Healing
Reclaiming Wholeness: Ukrainian Veterans and the Somatic Revolution of Healing By Hadi Bahlawan-Marcher, Kristina Vasiljevaite Marcher & Dominic Mathias Ukraine: When the Model Met the Moment In 2015, in response to a rising mental health crisis among Ukrainian veterans, Bodynamic partnered with Pobratymy and local leaders. Under the guidance of Ditte Marcher (a global expert in veteran trauma), four full training cohorts launched.This wasn’t therapy. It was co-education, a horizontal exchange and an invitation to [...]
Jedi
I stared to learn about Bodynamic when I was a child. My grandmother, Lisbeth developed the system and my mother was teaching it. A lot of the work was about how to heal after various types of trauma. I used the system and its methods and understanding a lot, consciously to make myself better in different areas. Unconsciously it was used by my parents and grandparents to heal my personal traumas as a child, as I had a serious health issue. I remember clearly how often Lisbeth would remind me to put focus on my center. I thought it was very irritating. She would often say: “sense your center, sense your center”.
Self-Support Manual & Exercises for Crisis work (in English & Ukrainian)
The process of returning to civilian life might begin with the decision to end the service or to go home - in case of a volunteer battalion. However, while the body returns home, our mind might take a long time to integrate the experiences of war and to learn how to live at peace with ourselves and people around us. This process is often complex and manifests itself as insomnia, impulsiveness, excessive aggression, loss of interest in the profession (or other familiar activities) that the person engaged in before the war, depression, and lack of enjoyment in life.
Building up Hope – Webinar
Bodynamic is offering a Free Webinar in these Corona times. If you are feeling down or feel like you have lost hope, this webinar is for you. Hope can create miracles. Hope can decide who lives and who dies. Hope can support you in choosing life instead of the fear of death. Hope is contagious – the best virus in the world. You can do what you want, if you want what you [...]
DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA FROM A BODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE
Developmental trauma from a bodynamic perspective By Ditte Marcher and Lene Wisbom, March 2020, ©Bodynamic International ApStranslated into English by Tina Janken Tage In Bodynamic we differentiate between open and closed coding’s, developmental trauma, PTSD and Complex PTSD.All these elements can be seen in a BODYMAP. This article will explain how developmental traumas can be seen in a Bodymap and how they show up in certain EGO-functions.In open coding behavior, you become conscious of your [...]
It Takes Courage to Stay in the Shy Moments
It Takes Courage to Stay in the Shy Moments By Hadi Bahlawan Marcher and Lene Wisbom A man enters a party with many new people. To join in and as an attempt to connect with these unfamiliar people he makes a joke. Everyone stares at him, no one laughs. The joke falls flat because it was loaded with harsh humour and this party was not the best place to share [...]
Bodymap Testing & Interpretation
A central hypothesis in Bodynamic Analysis concerns the time period in which individual muscles come under voluntary control. There is observed to be a critical time period in which they acquire an imprint. This imprint is not simply about physical strength or kinesthetic ability. It concerns the psychological content or issue associated with the activity or function of this muscle. Thus the muscle encodes or "remembers" what happened in the emotional/ psychological environment in the time period in which it came under conscious control.