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 Practitioner

by completing:

  • Foundation Training
  • Practitioner Training

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 Analyst and Supervisor

By completing:

  • Practitioner
  • Therapist (completing 4 year education with all exam’s)
  • Analyst (Shock Trauma and + Full Bodymap + Reorienting Birth)
  • Supervisor (Supervisor education)

Global Training Schedule

Scroll left and right to see training dates

 International Bodynamic Conference

Online

Festival

English with Turkish Translation

Feb 11 – 16, 2025

Bodrum, Turkey

Retreat Festival

English with Turkish Translation

June 26 – 29, 2025

 Live Online Training

Online (Europe Time Zone)

Practitioner

English

Starting Feb 12, 2025

Online (Europe Time Zone)

Foundation

English

Starting Feb 21, 2025

Online (Europe Time Zone)

Workshop:
Building a Strong Body Ego

English

Feb 25 – Mar 2, 2025

Online (Americas &
Europe Time Zone)

5 part Workshop Series:
Exploring Ego Aspects

English

Feb 20, 2025
Mar 27, 2025
May 1, 2025
Jul 10, 2025
Sept 4, 2025

Online (Europe Time Zone)

Workshop: Unlocking the layers of Sexuality in therapy

English

Apr 24 – 27, 2025

Online (Europe Time Zone)

Foundation

English

Starting Jan 26, 2024

Online (Europe Time Zone)

Practitioner

English

Starting Jan 25, 2023

 International Master Classes

Online (Europe Time Zone)

Supervisor Training

English

Oct 17 – 20, 2024
Dec 12 – 15, 2024
Mar 13 – 16, 2025
Apr 17 – 20, 2025

Bulgaria

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

Jan 22 – 26, 2025
Mar 19 – 23, 2025
May 7 – 11, 2025
Jul 2 – 6, 2025

Contact Irena Anastasova
irena.anastasova@abv.bg
for more info

Location to be determined

Spirituality Workshop

English only

Apr 30 – May 4, 2025

Contact Irena Anastasova
irena.anastasova@abv.bg
for more info

 Canada

Edmonton

Foundation

English

Sept 17 – 21, 2025
Nov 19 – 23, 2025
Mar 25 – 29, 2026
Jun 3 – 8, 2026

 Denmark
Hørsholm Chok Traume
5 x 6 dage
Danish Ingen planlagt start pt.
Hørsholm
Åbent for tilmelding
Foundation  4 x 5 dage Danish 16-20 oktober 2024
11-15 december   2024
29. jan-2. febr. 2025
26. febr.- 2. marts. 2025
Hørsholm Practitioner Danish Start: 26. marts 2025.
 Germany

Trier

Foundation

German Only

1: 13.09.2024 – 15.09.2024
2: 08.11.2024 – 10.11.2024
3: 21.02.2025 – 23.02.2025
4: 04.04.2025 – 06.04.2025
5: 30.05.2025 – 01.06.2025
6: 22.08.2025 – 24.08.2025
7: 24.10.2025 – 26.10.2025

Langenfeld

Foundation

German Only

Starting Nov 1, 2024

Munich

Practitioner

German Only

Starting Nov 13, 2024

Langenfeld

Shock Trauma

German primarily

Starting Sept 3, 2025

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Shock Trauma

English

Starting Mar 19, 2025

Poland

Morawa

Foundation

English with translation into Polish

Mar 11 – 16, 2025
May 27 – Jun 1, 2025
Sep 23 – 28, 2025

Portugal

Lisbon

Practitioner

Portuguese & English

Starting Apr 8, 2025

Lisbon

Foundation

Portuguese

Jul 2 – 6, 2025
Sep 10 – 14, 2025
Nov 26 – 30, 2025
Feb 4 – 8, 2026

Lisbon

Reorienting Birth

English

Jul 16 – 20, 2025
Oct 9 – 12, 2025

Lisbon

Foundation

Portuguese

Mar 4 – 8, 2026
May 20 – 24, 2026
Jul 15 – 19, 2026
Sep 2 – 6, 2026

 Spain

Location to be determined

Foundation

Portuguese with Spanish translation

Oct 22 – 26, 2025
Jan 28 – Feb 1, 2026
Mar 18 – 22, 2026
May 13 – 17, 2026

Location to be determined

Foundation

Portuguese with Spanish translation

Mar 25 – 29, 2026
May 6 – 10, 2026
Jul 8 – 12, 2026
Sep 23 – 27, 2026

Location to be determined

Practitioner

Portuguese & English with Spanish translation

Starting Nov 17, 2026

Contact
info@somatic.pt
for more info

Switzerland

Luzern

Foundation

German Only

Begins Oct 25, 2024

Luzern

Shock Trauma

German Only

Begins Oct 1, 2025

 Turkey

Istanbul

Workshop – Bonding

English with translation into Turkish

Feb 6 – 9, 2025

Istanbul

Practitioner

English with translation into Turkish

Starting Feb 12, 2025

Online

Foundation

English with translation into Turkish

Starting Apr 4, 2025

Istanbul

Foundation

English with translation into Turkish

Mar 5 – 9, 2025
Jun 11 – 15, 2025
Nov 26 – 30, 2025
Jan 22 – 26, 2026

Istanbul

Shock Trauma

English with translation into Turkish

Starting July 3, 2024

 Ukraine

Kyiv

Foundation

Ukrainian

Starting September 13, 2024

Online

Foundation

Ukrainian

Starting October 25, 2024

Kyiv

Practitioner

Ukrainian

Starting September 4, 2024

 

United Kingdom

London/Online

Foundation

English

Module 1 (online): Sept 18 – 22, 2024
Module 2 (in person): Nov 6 – 10, 2024
Module 3 (in person): Jan 15 – 19, 2025
Module 4 (online): Apr 9 – 13, 2025

 United States of America

Orlando, Florida

Foundation

English

Apr 7 – 11, 2025
Jun 2 – 6, 2025
Sept 8 – 12, 2025
Nov 3 – 7, 2025

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  Shiital Mehta connect@sowilosoul.com