Bodynamic International — Somatic Developmental Psychology
Certification

Practitioner Certification

A three-year professional training following Foundation, leading to the Bodynamic Practitioner designation and forming the core training toward the Bodynamic Therapist Diploma.

Practitioner Certification

Duration

75 days over 3 years

Format

Hybrid

Upcoming Sessions

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  • Starts 17 November 2026

    Spain

    Practitioner

    Location to be determined Portuguese & English with Spanish translation

    • Starting November 17, 2026
  • Starts 13 January 2027

    Live Online Training

    Bodynamic Practitioner Training — 2027 – 2029

    Online (Europe Time Zone) English

    • January 2027 – October 2029
  • Started 29 October 2025

    Bulgaria

    Practitioner

    Sofia English with translation into Bulgarian

    • October 29, 2025 – January 14, 2029
  • Started 26 March 2025

    Denmark

    Practitioner Training

    Hørsholm Primarily Danish; two modules taught in English

    • March 26, 2025 – November 7, 2027
  • Started 12 February 2025

    Live Online Training

    Live International Online Practitioner Training — 2025–2027

    Online (Europe Time Zone) English

    • February 12, 2025 – November 21, 2027
  • Started 13 November 2024

    Germany

    Bodynamic Practitioner Training — Munich 2024–2027

    Munich German

    • November 13, 2024 – September 26, 2027
  • Started 4 September 2024

    Ukraine

    Practitioner

    Kyiv Ukrainian

    • Started September 4, 2024 · ongoing through 2027

Practitioner Training

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.

During the 3-year Bodynamic’s Practitioner training you will be taught and experience through bodywork the way we function in our ego skills through our body and which muscles in our body are:

  • supporting us in our ability to hold our position
  • develop our cognitive abilities
  • having the ability to step forward with our personality
  • be able to built up and master our energy
  • sense our gender and bring it forward
  • being able to sense our self-worth, self-esteem and self-confidence and to live from it

Curriculum

Five 5-day modules a year for three years — 75 days in total. Every course contains demo therapy and training with supervision.

1st Year

Module 15 days
  • Bodynamics’ vision on humans and theory and who we affiliate with.
  • Bodynamics history
  • Walking through Bodynamics most important work models.
  • Bodyknot
  • Basic exercises on learning how to be oneself as a therapist with clients:
    • 1: centering
    • 2: mirroring
    • 3: active sensing
  • Forming study groups
Module 25 days
  • Life forms.
  • Life styles and life history. Students tell their life-story according to given scheme.
Module 35 days
  • Process Module
  • Basic Anatomy
  • Basic test & hands on
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
    • Ego Function 2: Positioning
  • How to combine character structure and ego functions
Module 45 days
  • How to do Bodynamic Therapy
  • Transference and Counter Transference
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
    • Ego Function 3: Centering
  • Bodymap reading introduction
Module 55 days
  • Hand in Life Story Paper
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
    • Ego Function 4: Boundaries
    • Ego Function 8: Energy Management
  • Supervised therapy training and demo session
  • Self evaluation

2nd Year

Module 65 days
  • Group Process
  • Ethics
  • Contract Work
Module 75 days
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
    • Ego Function 5: Grounding and Reality Testing
    • Ego Function 1: Connectedness
  • Mirroring and imitating
  • Bodymap reading
  • Aquarium
Module 85 days
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
    • Ego Function 6: Social Balance
    • Ego Function 9: Self Assertion
  • Bodymap reading – Test Training
  • Aquarium
Module 95 days
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
    • Ego Function 7: Cognitive Skills
    • Ego Function 10: Patterns of interpersonal skills
  • Therapy training and demo-therapy
Module 105 days
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
    • Ego Function 11: Gender Skills
  • Integration of Ego-Functions, Ego Aspects and Character Structures
  • Bodymap Analysis

3rd Year

Module 115 days
  • Exam in Psychomotor Anatomy
  • Group Process 1 day
  • Hands on
Module 125 days
  • Psycho pathology and evidence-based research
  • Puberty
  • Negotiation exercise
  • Bodyknot + F8
  • Therapy training with Supervision
Module 135 days
  • Bodymap Analysis
  • Demo-therapy
  • Aquarium
Module 145 days
  • Exam in Bodymap Analysis
  • Exam in Aquarium
Module 155 days
  • Preparing for the role of Therapist
  • Finishing tasks and evaluation
  • Good-bye to Groups
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