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

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 Analyst and Supervisor

By completing:

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

From student to be a Supervisor

Global Training Schedule

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Live Online Training

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	MORE INFO

Online (Europe Time Zone)

Workshop: Change vs. Evolvement

English

April 21 – 23, 2023

Denmark

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	MORE INFO
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	MORE INFO
Hørsholm Mulighed for tilmelding indtil 24/1-22	Practitioner	Danish	Oct 6, 2021 to April 6, 2025	MORE INFO

Germany
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	More Info
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	More Info

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