Online Bodynamic Foundation Training

Creating Your Destiny

Creating your destiny is a powerful and essential part of our life journey. We often find ourselves in a space torn between what we desire and what we already have. Imagine gaining a deeper understanding of yourself that provides clarity about your strengths and weaknesses, as well as insight into the areas in which you lack resources. What more could you accomplish by choosing to add new resources and expanding your possibilities?

Embarking on this courageous journey of self-exploration requires a clear and honest look in the mirror. You will venture into a new realm of self-discovery, which can be immensely helpful in reaching your dreams and potential, as well as assisting others in achieving theirs.

In this foundation training, you will learn a new way to view yourself and others, challenging your previous assumptions. To genuinely help your clients, having a clear vision of yourself and others is crucial for your progress and success. This experience may feel like visiting another planet while simultaneously feeling incredibly familiar. You will discover that the values of mutual connection and dignity remain the same, but you will learn new ways to express, navigate, and understand them.

We hope you will join us on this remarkable journey toward your destiny and acquire many new tools to become your own Jedi!

Why Should I Take Bodynamic Training?

The Bodynamic system has been around for 40 years and has focused on researching and understanding the body and its connection to psychology and development from the beginning. It is one of the first schools to integrate the body, brain, and human behavior comprehensively. This system offers the most extensive tools and techniques for deepening the understanding of oneself and others. It is also unique in its design to make psychological progress “measurable,” providing a new level of practicality for users of this material, whether applied in a work field or personal life.

Bodynamic Core Values

Bodynamic’s core values are Dignity and Mutual Connection. These values are present throughout the entire program and at all levels: in the material taught, the group experience, and the teacher-student relationship.

The Foundation Training

The Foundation Training is a one-year basic training program in the Bodynamic System. During this foundational training, you will learn about character structures, character positions, and the basic concepts to understand contact and communication as presented through the system (mutual connection, dignity, boundaries, centering, and grounding).

The structured description of the different phases of development during childhood, including a central developmental issue and their connection with various developing defense mechanisms, provides a framework for understanding human expression. Through this education, you will enhance your abilities, allowing you to be present and precise in your professional work.

Development of Character Structures

The focus is on the development of character structures by addressing specific needs and challenges in individual phases of development for all human beings (existence, autonomy, etc.). Bodynamic has developed a unique differentiated model of character structures through 25 years of empirical study. This model describes child development in seven phases, from the second trimester in utero to the 13th year of life.

The Role of Developmental Trauma

Developmental trauma plays a crucial role in the development and creation of these structures. Lisbeth Marcher introduced the term into the Bodynamic System and gave it a precise meaning here: what happens when the central needs of a developmental phase go unmet, and how that settles into the body.

Developmental trauma occurs when a child experiences significant and persistent rejection, neglect, etc., from their parents, in the context of the central needs of a developmental phase. As a result, the child may not develop central aspects of their self or may abandon them entirely.

Body Ego

In early childhood, a child experiences their external world primarily through their body (body ego) and its movements. In addition to physical milestones such as crawling, sitting, standing, and walking, the child must learn a variety of movement patterns.

Character Types and Positions

In this training, you will learn how the child moves through individual phases by developing motor skills and voluntarily using muscles and muscle tone to respond to specific external developmental challenges. Consequently, body and character structures are formed, divided into either a more hypotonic (early) or hypertonic (late) type, each requiring a different therapeutic approach.

These structures create a characteristic body posture and corresponding expression, facial expressions, etc. As part of the training curriculum, we explore the ability to recognize and “read” these embodied character structures. This understanding allows you to enter the age-specific “resonance” of your client and optimally integrate these respective resources into the healing process.

Additionally, this training equips you with a variety of specific body exercises and techniques, as well as the knowledge to work more precisely, effectively, and efficiently with your clients’ traumatization.