Bodynamic is a precise and practical approach to working with the body to make verbal psychotherapy more efficient and effective. This somatic therapy enables the practitioner to make precise interventions related to the developmental origins of your clients’ current problems. Bodynamic International offers a diversity of training programs. Currently there exist five basic types of training.

Workshops

Workshops are a great way to experience aspects of the Bodynamic system without making a longer commitment to a training program. Many different workshops have been offered over time and many new ones are constantly created. Typically lasting 1-5 days there are no prerequisites to taking these. Workshops have had the following subject matters:

Archetypes
Centering, Boundaries & grounding
Boundaries vs. Limits
Dance between Mutual connection & Dignity
Work with your own greatness
Spirituality

Foundation

The Foundation Training is the one-year basic training of Bodynamic System. During the basic training you will learn the character structures, the character positions as well as the basic meanings to understand contact and communication as it is presented through the system (mutual connection, dignity, boundaries, centering and grounding).

The structured description of the different phases of development during childhood, which include a central developmental issue and their connection with the different developing defense mechanisms, provide a comprehension frame of human expression. Through the education you will strengthen your abilities, so that you are present and precise in your professional work.

The Foundation Training applies to people who work with other people as: psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers, doctors, advisers, physiotherapists, alternative healers etc. or to people that wish to improve their interpersonal relationships. The Foundation Training is an open education circle, which helps you to enhance or improve your skills, while, at the same time, it provides you the possibility to continue to the 3-year Practitioner Training.

Practitioner

This is a three year training program to be a professional certified Bodynamic Body Psychotherapist. This training is already being integrated and used also in other forms of psychotherapy, all kinds of bodywork, social work, business consulting and mental health and care professionals who want to expand their knowledge and precision by learning the muscles coding system.

This training has being qualified in Denmark through Reflektor, a company that evaluates and analyzes the professional standards in the public and private sector to assure and create better quality for the health sector and holds the standards that are required by EABP (European Association of Body Psychotherapy). Prerequisite to participate in Bodynamic’s Practitioner Training is to have finished Bodynamic’s Foundation Training.

Shock Trauma

Our P.T.S.D. Training consists of two parts. The first part (PTSD I) is the personal process of healing your own P.T.S.D. in 3 modules. The second (PTSD II) is the Training in healing P.T.S.D of others also in 3 modules. The Shock Trauma training is available to anyone and there no prerequisites.

Personal process of healing your P.T.S.D (PTSD I) – Our experience has taught us that when someone hasn’t worked with his own PTSD, they get too much into their own process during the course and they do not gain everything the training has to offer. So therefore we added a three module course in which you get the chance to work first with your own PTSD. During these modules the focus will be on each persons process. This adds invaluable experience and gives us the client’s point of view. This will deepen and strengthen your ability to connect and your empathy in treatments will emerge more naturally. The first stage is also addressed to non professionals who want to start the process of healing their own PTSD.

Training in Shock Trauma and healing P.T.S.D. (PTSD II) – During the second stage of PTSD II you will learn, amongst other things, how to recognize the symptoms of P.T.S.D. and the life-changing decisions which are connected with trauma, how to heal it and how to include the body in a direct and natural way, using methods like body sensing and understanding reflex movement patterns. The Shock Training applies to people who work with other people as: psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers, doctors, advisers, physiotherapists, alternative healers etc. Completing PTSD I is a prerequisite for PTSD II.

Specialist Classes

Specialist Classes consist of training in the following areas:

Full Bodymap (prerequisite: first 2 years of practitioner completed, and exams passed)
Reorienting Birth for professionals (no prerequisite)

Training Testimonials

Training Paths

Training can be accomplished in a few different ways, depending on the interest of the individual. Training can also be done in stages based on time available. Shock Trauma training and Workshops can be done concurrently with Foundation, Practitioner & Specialist Classes.

Average Time taken to complete training levels:

Foundation is typically 18 days over the course of 1 year
Practitioner is 75 days over the course of 3 years
Completing both Specialist Classes is ~28 days
Shock Trauma is 30 days over the course of about 1.5 years

Traditional International Path

*Note: The Training path for North America (Canada & United States) differs slightly. While Healing Developmental Disruptions is similar in scope and length to a Foundation training, the content differs slightly. While Healing Developmental Disruptions teaches the use of some muscles and Foundation does not, it misses out on other aspects. Missing aspects are included in the North American Practitioner Training. For more information on North American training please visit bodynamicsusa.com

become a

Bodynamic Practitioner

by completing:

Foundation Training
Practitioner Training

study outline

become a

Bodynamic Analyst

by completing:

Foundation Training
Practitioner Training
Shock Trauma Training – I & II
Specialist Classes
- Full Bodymap
- Reorienting Birth for professionals

become a

Bodynamic Trainer

by completing:

see details in link below for
- how to become a Assistant
- how to become a Supervisor
- how to become a Trainer of various courses

Apprentice to Master

Global Training Schedule

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Brazil
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Canada
Edmonton	Healing Developmental Disruptions	English	Nov 8 – 12, 2018 Jan 11 – 14, 2019 Mar 29 – Apr 1 , 2019 Jun 14 – 17, 2019	MORE INFO

Denmark
Hørsholm started/ full	Foundation 1B – 4 x 5 days	Danish	Feb 28 – Mar 4, 2018 May 23 – 27, 2018 Aug 22-26, 2018 Nov 7-11, 2018	MORE INFO
Hørsholm	Foundation 1B – 4 x 5 days	Danish	Jan. 16 – 20 2019, Feb. 20 -24 2019, Mai 22 – 26, 2019 Sep. 4 – 8 2019	MORE INFO
Hørsholm	Practitioner	Danish	Oct 12, 2017 – Aug 30, 2020	MORE INFO
Hørsholm	Shock Trauma	Danish	Oct 17 -21, 2018 Jan 23 – 27, 2019 Mar 27 – 31, 2019 Jun 19 – 23, 2019 Aug 21 -25, 2019 Nov 6 – 10, 2019	MORE INFO

Germany
Munich	Practitioner Started	English with translation into German	May 11, 2017 – Apr 26, 2020	MORE INFO
Cologne	Foundation	started
Munich	Foundation		Nov 22 – 25, 2018 Feb 7 – 10, 2019 May 2 – 5, 2019 Jul 18 – 21, 2019 Sept ??, 2019 Nov 28 – Dec 1, 2019
Cologne	Foundation		Jun 7 – 10, 2019 Aug 15 – 18, 2019 Oct 17 -20, 2019 Jan 16 -19, 2020 Mar 23 – 26, 2020 May 14 -17, 2020
Cologne	Practitioner	5 x 5 days for 3 years	Sept 8, 2020 – Feb 6, 2023

Greece

Hong Kong
Hong Kong	Foundation	English	Sept 25 – 30, 2018 Nov 6 -11, 2018 Feb 26 – Mar 3, 2019
Hong Kong	Shock Trauma	English	Oct 31 – Nov 4, 2018 Dec 12 – 16, 2018 Jan 16 – 20, 2019 Apr 24 – 28, 2019 Jun 12 -16, 2019

Netherlands
Rotterdam	Shock Trauma	English	20-24 Nov 2019 22-26 Jan 2020 4-8 Mar2020 3-7 June 2020 16-20 Sept 2020 11-15 Nov 2020	MORE INFO

Poland
Wroslaw	Foundation	English with translation into Polish	Apr 22 – 27, 2018 Sept 18 – 23, 2018 Feb 5 – 10, 2019	MORE INFO
	Practitioner	English with translation into Polish	Starts May 29, 2019 to Nov 27, 2022	MORE INFO

Portugal

Lisbon

Foundation

English with translation into Portuguese

Jan 5 – 10, 2018
May 8 – 13, 2018
Sept 25 – 30, 2018

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Lisbon

Foundation

English with translation into Portuguese

Nov/ dec 2018,
Jan 7 – 12, 2019
Sept/Oct 2019

Will be on soon

Lisbon

Practitioner 5 x 5 days a year for 3 years

English with translation into Portuguese

Start Nov 13 – 17, 2019, ends in Sep. 11, 2022

Will be on soon

Spain
Madrid	Foundation	English with translation into Spanish	Jan. 29 – Feb. 3, 2019 April 9 – 14, 2019 July 2 – 7, 2019	More info coming soon

Ukraine
Kiev	Practitioner	English with translation into Russian	Dec 9, 2018 – May 30, 2021	E-mail Inna at: inkagav@yahoo.com for more info
Kiev	Shock Trauma – PTSD 1	Russian	Mar 15 – 18, 2018 Jun 14 – 17, 2018 Sept 13 – 16, 2018 Nov 22 – 25, 2018	E-mail Inna at: inkagav@yahoo.com for more info
Kiev	Shock Trauma – PTSD 2	English with translation into Russian	Feb 7 – 11, 2018 May 16 – 20, 2018 Oct 3 – 7, 2018	E-mail Inna at: inkagav@yahoo.com for more info
Kiev	Shock Trauma – PTSD 2	English with translation into Russian	Jan 23 – 27, 2019 May 29 – Jun 2, 2019 Nov 11 – 15, 2019	E-mail Inna at: inkagav@yahoo.com for more info

United States of America
San Francisco, CA	Shock Trauma	English	Aug 13 -17, 2018 Dec 5 – 9, 2018 Feb 13 – 17, 2019 May 15 – 19, 2019 Aug 5 – 9, 2019 Dec 4 – 8, 2019	MORE INFO
Boston, MA	Healing Developmental Disruptions	English	Jan 31 – Feb 4, 2019 Mar 15 – 18, 2019 May 17 – 20, 2019 July 19 – 22, 2019	MORE INFO
Berkeley, CA	Intro Eve & 1 Day Workshop	English	Dec 14 – 15, 2018	MORE INFO
Berkeley, CA	Healing Developmental Disruptions	English	Feb 21 – 25, 2019 Apr 26 – 29, 2019 Jun 28 – Jul 1, 2019 Sept 20 – 23, 2019 Nov 8 – 11, 2019	more info coming soon
TBA	Practitioner	English	Starting Dec 10, 2019	more info coming soon

Local Training Event Organizers:

Please contact the following individuals for more information in regards to training in respective regions.

Brasil – Andrea Miranda andreamcmiranda@gmail.com
Canada – James Nicholas james@bodynamic.com
Denmark – Lene Wisbom lene@bodynamic.dk
Germany – Michael Rupp VihanM.Rupp@t-online.de
Netherlands – Kristina Vasiljevaite kristina@bodynamic.com
Hong Kong – Karen Wong georgetown94@gmail.com
Poland – Marta Ułaszewska-Żuk se@interp.pl
Portugal and Spain – Marlene Barroso barrosomarlene_28@hotmail.com
Ukraine – Inna Gavryliuk inkagav@yahoo.com
United Kingdom – Prahlad Galbiati contact@prahlad.info
United States – James Nicholas james@bodynamic.com

Interested in organizing a Bodynamic Training in your country? Please contact Lene Wisbom at: lene@bodynamic.dk