Bodynamic Practitioner Training  2027-2029

January 2027 – October 2029

Step Into the Bodynamic & Marcher Legacy — Become a Certified Bodynamic Body Psychotherapist

Join a groundbreaking professional training designed to elevate your therapeutic skills and bring the depth of Bodynamic’s muscle-based psychological system into your practice.
This program equips you with the precision and insight of the Bodynamic muscle coding system — a powerful tool already enriching approaches in psychotherapy, somatic therapies, bodywork, social work, business consulting, mental health services, and various care professions worldwide.

A Global Training Experience — Now Fully Online

After two years of dedicated development, Bodynamic International is proud to offer a complete Practitioner Training live on Zoom to participants around the world. This online format maintains all the richness of in-person teaching while expanding accessibility and convenience.

To ensure an exceptional learning experience, we provide:

  • A state-of-the-art 3D anatomy cross-platform app — customized to Bodynamic Ego Functions and available to all participants for in-depth study throughout the training.

  • A professional multi-camera studio setup — featuring 5 camera angles, a dedicated production console, and high-quality 1080p Zoom streaming for clarity and precision during demonstrations.

  • Secure access to high-resolution recordings — hosted privately on Vimeo, giving participants the flexibility to review content whenever they need.

Why This Training Stands Out

This program offers more than certification — it immerses you in the legacy and methodology of Bodynamic, giving you practical skills that transform therapeutic outcomes and deepen your professional expertise.

If you want to expand your capacity, refine your interventions, and gain a unique, evidence-based somatic framework, this training is your next step.

Topics covered in the Practitioner training:

  • In depth coverage of all 11 Ego Functions and their sub functions

  • Further deepening of the 21 developmental positions and 7 character structures + Perinatal and Adolescence and Puberty

  • The 5 Ego Aspects and how to work with them

  • The Full Bodyknot and how it facilitates building an Observing Ego

  • Learn to read and analyze the whole Bodymap

    • Identify resources
    • Identify Trauma
    • Formulate a therapy plan
  • The F8 model on Group Dynamics ( the 8 group functions are similar to ego functions)

  • The jukebox layer model of macro to micro issues in society

  • Conflict resolution & negotiation

  • How to do Bodynamic therapy

  • Trans-marginal effects – flipping to extremes under stress

  • Basics in how to touch and sense hypo, and hyper muscles

  • Demo sessions by instructors

  • Practice sessions done in triads

  • Intro to Ditte’s Bodyreading. Learn how to interpret holding patterns, gait, twists and asymmetries in body posture.

  • Learn how to use Body reading in therapy

  • Learn basic understanding around Developmental Trauma, Shock trauma and PTSD/ Complex PTDS

  • Adolescence and puberty as a developmental stage – core decisions, prefrontal cortex conscious identity formation

  • Personal life history and environmental/societal impacts on development

  • Psychopathology from a Bodynamic perspective – Narcissism and Borderline Personality Disorder

  • Lisbeth’s famous Energy Exercises: ex. center line breathing

  • “Hands On” – Bodynamic massage techniques

During this 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
  • stand our ground
  • stay connected
  • develop our cognitive abilities
  • having the ability to step forward with our personality
  • be able to built up and master our energy
  • hold our space
  • sense our gender and bring it forward
  • being able to sense our self-worth, self-esteem and self-confidence and to live from it
  • keep the social balance in contact with others
  • develop the ability to create contact

All these skills are not developed through the mind into the body, but through our body into the mind. We grasp before we understand.

In our development we meet the external world through our senses and our emotions and by mirroring adult people around us and we do that through movement. This is called the “Body Ego” in Bodynamic. While we develop our cognitive skills, our muscles grow with neurofeedback from our experiences.  So depending on our experiences we create a deep coding system in our muscle tissues that can lead to closed or open coding.

In the practitioner training we are teaching functional anatomy combined with the ego functions. We will explore the information of the different psychological and anatomical functions for 125 muscles. All the muscles are supporting specific anatomic functions and are directly connected to our psychological abilities. For example without erector spinae we would not be able to stand as a human being and in the psychological aspect it is a muscle that supports our ability to hold our position in this world. It does the same function both anatomically and psychologically.

Through the ways we are met in our life we learn to defend our dignity and our mutual connection by fighting or giving up, in the hope that we can preserve as much contact as possible and lose our self as little as possible. Also, most of the times, in a family there are ego skills that are never taught to the young members. This creates a unique mosaic in our body of hyper, hypo and neutral response muscles.  In the training you will learn to read full bodymaps. This will give you the ability to meet your clients with more precision and support the specific areas of your clients ego function that needs to be developed, strengthened or become more flexible.

Among other things you will also be taught and experience group dynamics, techniques of conflict resolution, skills of active hearing and mechanisms of creative dialogue

Trainers

Ditte Marcher

Senior Trainer

Ditte is one of the leading figures in Bodynamic worldwide, deeply experienced and known for her clarity, compassion, and high-level clinical teaching.

Henrik Heilmann

Senior Trainer

Henrik brings deep clinical knowledge, strong structure, and decades of experience in the Bodynamic method.

Kristina Vasiljevaite Marcher

Trainer

Kristina offers precise teaching, emotional clarity, and strong competence in developmental psychology and somatic regulation.

Hadi Bahlawan Marcher

CO-Trainer

Hadi will join selected modules as a co-trainer, contributing with his expertise in Bodynamic group processes, teaching presence, and long-term work with international practitioner programs.

To learn more about the Trainers please visit the About section on our website.

Practitioner Training Outline

5 x 5 day modules a year for 3 years
Total = 75 days

Classes are from 10am – 6pm CET every day.

1st Year

2nd Year

3rd Year

Additional Training Details:

Exams:

Module 11: Psychomotoric Exam

Module 14: Test analyzing Exam & Therapy Aquarium Exam

Written Assignments:

End of 1st year: Life Story paper

End of 3rd year: Own Therapy Story (300 Euros)

Before 2 years after Module 15: Client Thesis (400 Euros + 2 x supervision fee for oral exam)

Registration & Payment Details:

Contact Yorgos at info@bodynamic.gr to register for the training or any general questions.

Financial details:
An application must be submitted in order to be accepted into the program. Upon acceptance of your application you have two weeks to pay a non-refundable admission fee of 500€ to reserve your seat in the program.
Payment Options:
  • 1st option: Super Early Bird – Price: 7.999€, Admission fee included – Deadline: 15 April 2026 or until 12 seats are filled (whichever comes first).
  • 2nd option: Early Bird; One-time payment – Price: 9.400€, Admission fee included – Deadline: October 1. 2026.
  • 3rd option: Early Bird Yearly payments – Price: 3.480€ per year, Admission fee 500€, if paid before October 15 2026 / 2027 / 2028.
  • 4th option: Standard Yearly Payments – Price: 3.850 € per year (for 3 years), Admission fee 500€. Applies from 2 October 2026.
  • 5th option: Monthly payment Plan: 390€ per month in 36 installments, Admission fee 500€. Payments begin: December 2026.

The full length Syllabus/Study Outline can be accessed here: https://www.bodynamic.com/training/syllabus/

The requirements for becoming a certified Bodynamic Therapist upon completion of Practitioner training program can be found here:

Bodynamic Therapist Training – Supervision Requirements and guidelines for students

Bodynamic Therapy Hours Requirement

Overview of Bodynamic Practitioner and Bodynamic Therapist