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
Some workshops are now available online live, and can be participated in from anywhere in the world! See the top of Global Training Schedule below.
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. 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.
Master 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)
- Supervision Education ( (prerequisite: first 2 years of practitioner completed, and exams passed and having clients in Bodynamic therapy)
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
become a
Bodynamic Analyst
by completing:
- Foundation Training
- Practitioner Training
- Shock Trauma Training – I & II
- Specialist Classes
- Full Bodymap
- Reorienting Birth for professionals
Global Training Schedule
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 Live Online Training |
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| Online (Europe Time Zone) | Foundation | English | Mar 3 – 5, 2023 May 5 – 7, 2023 Jun 30 – July 2, 2023 Sept 8 – 10, 2023 Oct 20 – 22, 2023 Nov 17 – 19, 2023 Dec 15 – 17, 2023 |
Online (Europe Time Zone)
Workshop: Attachment, Bonding, Connectedness, and Contact
English
October 26 – 29, 2023
Online (Europe Time Zone)
Practitioner
English
Starting Jan 25, 2023
Online (Europe Time Zone)
Foundation
English
Starting Jan 26, 2024
 Brazil |
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| Rio de Janerio | Practitioner 13 x 6 days (wrong dates at link to Brazil calendar) |
English with translation into Portuguese |
June 6 – 11 2019 (1/13) Oct. 10 – 15 2019 (2/13) March 19 – 24 2020 (3/13) May 28 – June 2 2020 (4/13) Sep. 24 – 29 2020 (5/13) March 11 – 16 2021 (6/13) June 10 – 15 2021 (7/13) Oct. 7 – 12 2021 (8/13) March 17 – 22 2022 (9/13) June 2 a 7 2022 (10/13) Sep. 29 – Oct. 4 2022 (11/13) March 16 – 21 2023 (12/13) June 15 – 20 2023 (13/13 |
 Bulgaria |
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Sofia
Practitioner
English with translation into Bulgarian
Starting October 19, 2023
Finishing June 8, 2025
Contact Irena Anastasova
irena.anastasova@abv.bg
for more info
Sofia
Foundation
English with translation into Bulgarian
15-19 November, 2023
7-11 February, 2024
17-21 April, 2024
19-23 June, 2024
Contact Irena Anastasova
irena.anastasova@abv.bg
for more info
 Canada |
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| Edmonton | Practitioner | English | Starting Sept 8, 2021 |
 Denmark |
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| Hørsholm Åben for tilmelding |
Chok Traume 5 x 6 dage udsat |
Danish | 16 – 20. november 2022 15 – 19. februar, 2023 3 – 7. maj 2023 30 august – 3. september, 2023 1 – 5. november, 2023 24 – 28. januar, 2024 |
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| Hørsholm Start 2022Åben for tilmelding |
Foundation 4 x 5 dage | Danish | 12 – 16. Oktober 2022 30 nov. – 4. dec. 2022 8 – 12. marts 2023 23 – 27. august 2023 |
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| Hørsholm Mulighed for tilmelding indtil 24/1-22 |
Practitioner | Danish | Oct 6, 2021 to April 6, 2025 |
 Germany |
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| Munich | Shock Trauma | English with translation into German | 1. Modul: 30.11. – 04.12.2022 2. Modul: 15.02. – 19.02.2023 3. Modul: 10.05. – 14.05.2023 4. Modul: 27.09. – 01.10.2023 5. Modul: 29.11. – 03.12.2023 6. Modul: 28.02. – 03.03.2024 |
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| Trier | Foundation | German only | 1. Modul: 24.02.23 bis 26.02.23 2. Modul: 21.04.23 bis 23.04.23 3. Modul: 12.05.23 bis 14.05.23 4. Modul: 16.06.23 bis 18.06.23 5. Modul: 30.08.23 bis 04.09.2023 6. Modul: 06.10.23 bis 08.10.23 |
Munich
Workshop: Puberty – for graduates of the Bodynamic Foundation Training
German Only
04.05. – 07.05.2023
Penzberg
Workshop: Self-Assertion
German Only
21.07. – 23.07.2023
Munich
Foundation
German Only
Starting Oct 5, 2023
Munich
Practitioner
German Only
Starting Jan 24, 2024
Greece
Hong Kong Iceland |
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India
Israel
Luxembourg Netherlands |
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 Poland |
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| Wroclaw | Practitioner | English with translation into Polish | Starting Nov 3, 2021 |
 Portugal |
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Lisbon
Foundation
English with translation for Portuguese
Module 1: July 5th to 9th, in-person
Module 2: Sept 20th to 24th, in-person
Module 3: Nov 29th to Dec 3rd, online
Module 4: Feb 28th to Mar 3rd, 2024, online
Lisbon
Practitioner
English with translation for Portuguese
Starting Jul 2024, 9 to 14
 Russia |
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Spain Turkey |
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TBA
Foundation
English with translation into Turkish
Apr 5 – 9, 2023
Jun 1 – 4, 2023
Sept 27 – 30, 2023
Nov 15 – 19, 2023
TBA
Ukraine United Kingdom |
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| London | Shock Trauma Training | English | Apr 19 – 23, 2023 Jun 7 – 11, 2023 Aug 30 to 3 Sept, 2023 Nov 22 to 26, 2023 Feb 7 – 11, 2024 May 1 – 5, 2024 |
 United States of America |
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| Training Coordinators by Region | ||
| Brazil | Andrea Miranda | andreamcmiranda@gmail.com |
| Bulgaria | Irena Anastasova | irena.anastasova@abv.bg |
| Canada | Jonathan Zerbin | jonathan@bodynamic.com |
| Canada | Arijana Lukic | arijana@bodynamic.com |
| Denmark | Nadine Vinther | nadine@bodynamic.dk |
| Germany – Bavaria | Michael Rupp | michael.rupp@bodynamic.de |
| Germany – Bavaria | Anna Wolter | anna.wolter@outlook.com |
| Germany – Rhineland-Palantine, Saarland | Patricia Graul | graul@panambi.de |
| India | Rashmi Ajay | rashmi9944@gmail.com |
| Greece | Kalliopi Zorzou | kalliopi@bodynamic.gr |
| Luxemburg | Patricia Graul | graul@panambi.de |
| Netherlands | Kristina Vasiljevaite | kristina@bodynamic.com |
| Hong Kong | Karen Wong | georgetown94@gmail.com |
| Israel | Adily Elstein | adilyel@gmail.com |
| Poland | Marta Ułaszewska-Żuk | marta@interp.pl |
| Portugal and Spain | Marlene Barroso | info@psicossomatico.pt |
| Ukraine | Inna Gavryliuk | Inkagav@gmail.com |
| United Kingdom | Prahlad Galbiati | contact@prahlad.info |
| USA | James Nicholas | james@bodynamic.com |