Bodynamic International — Somatic Developmental Psychology

Training / practitioner certification

Certification · Live Online

Bodynamic Practitioner Training

2027 – 2029

January 2027 – October 2029

Bodynamic Practitioner Training

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 — now offered live on Zoom to participants around the world.

Inside the Online Training

We have the latest equipment to provide a crystal-clear visual and audio experience using Zoom. Multiple camera angles and sensitive microphones contribute to an outstanding Zoom training, and the instructors are highly experienced in this method of teaching — they have run Zoom workshops, trainings and webinars since April 2020.

Why This Training Stands Out

  • A state-of-the-art 3D anatomy app customized to Bodynamic Ego Functions, available throughout the training
  • A professional multi-camera studio setup — 5 angles, dedicated production console, 1080p Zoom streaming
  • Secure, high-resolution recordings hosted privately on Vimeo for flexible review
  • Direct teaching from four generations of Bodynamic's own trainers, including the Marcher family

What You'll Cover

  • In-depth coverage of all 11 Ego Functions and their sub-functions
  • The 21 developmental positions and 7 character structures, plus perinatal, adolescence and puberty
  • The 5 Ego Aspects and the Full Bodyknot
  • Reading and analyzing the whole Bodymap — identifying resources, trauma, and a therapy plan
  • Developmental trauma, shock trauma, and PTSD / complex PTSD fundamentals
  • Bodyreading: holding patterns, gait, twists and asymmetries in posture
  • Group dynamics (the F8 model), conflict resolution and negotiation
  • The jukebox layer model of macro to micro issues in society
  • Trans-marginal effects — flipping to extremes under stress
  • Psychopathology from a Bodynamic perspective — narcissism and borderline personality disorder
  • Personal life history and environmental and societal impacts on development
  • Demo sessions by the instructors and practice sessions in triads
  • Hands-on Bodynamic massage technique and energy exercises

A Global Training Experience — Now Fully Online

Step into the Bodynamic and Marcher legacy and become a certified Bodynamic body psychotherapist. 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.

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.

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.

What You Will Work With in Your Own Body

During this 3-year 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 build 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

We Grasp Before We Understand

All these skills are not developed through the mind into the body, but through our body into the mind. 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 teach 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 support 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 time, 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 client’s ego function that need to be developed, strengthened or become more flexible.

Schedule

1st Year

Module 1Jan 13 – 17, 2027 · Ditte Marcher
  • Bodynamics’ vision on humans and theory and affiliations.
  • 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 2Mar 3 – 7, 2027 · Ditte Marcher
  • Life forms.
  • Life styles and life history. Students tell their life-story according to given scheme.
Module 3May 12 – 16, 2027 · Henrik Heilmann
  • 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 4Jun 30 – Jul 4, 2027 · Ditte Marcher & Kristina Marcher
  • How to do Bodynamic Therapy
  • Transference and Counter Transference
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
  • Ego Function 3: Centering
  • Bodymap Reading Introduction
Module 5Oct 13 – 17, 2027 · Ditte Marcher
  • 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
  • Bodymap reading
  • Self evaluation
Module 6Dec 8 – 12, 2027 · Henrik Heilmann
  • Group Process
  • Ethics
  • Contract Work
  • 2nd Year

2nd Year

Module 7Feb 9 – 13, 2028 · Ditte Marcher & Kristina Marcher
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
  • Ego function 5: Grounding and Reality Testing
  • Ego function 1: Connectedness
  • Mirroring and imitating
  • Bodymap reading
  • Aquarium
Module 8Apr 19 – 23, 2028 · Ditte Marcher & Kristina Marcher
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
  • Ego Function 6: Social Balance
  • Ego Function 9: Self Assertion
  • Bodymap reading – Test Training
  • Aquarium
Module 9Jun 28 – Jul 2, 2028 · Ditte Marcher
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
  • Ego Function 7: Cognitive Skills
  • Ego Function 10: Patterns of interpersonal skills
  • Therapy training and demo-therapy
Module 10Oct 4 – 8, 2028 · Ditte Marcher & Kristina Marcher
  • Psychological ego development and functional anatomy:
  • Ego Function 11: Gender Skills
  • Integration of Ego-Functions, Ego Aspects and Character Structures
  • Bodymap Analysis
Module 11Dec 6 – 10, 2028 · Ditte Marcher + Sensor
  • Exam in Pyschomotor Anatomy
  • Hands on
  • 3rd Year

3rd Year

Module 12Feb 7 – 11, 2029 · Henrik Heilmann
  • Psycho pathology and evidence-based research
  • Puberty
  • Negotiation Exercise
  • Bodyknot & F8
  • Therapy training w. supervision
  • Aquarium
Module 13Apr 25 – 29, 2029 · Ditte Marcher & Kristina Marcher
  • Analyzing Bodynamaps
  • Therapy training with supervision
  • Aquarium
Module 14Jun 20 – 24, 2029 · Ditte Marcher + Sensor
  • Aquarium – Therapy Exam
  • Test reading/ Analyzing Exam
Module 15Oct 3 – 7, 2029 · Ditte Marcher
  • Finishing tasks and evaluation
  • 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 to be accepted into the program. Upon acceptance, you have two weeks to pay a non-refundable admission fee of 500€ to reserve your seat in the program (unless included in your selected payment option).
  • Payment Options:
  • 1st option: Early Bird; One-time payment – Price: 9.400€, Admission fee included – Deadline: October 1. 2026.
  • 2nd option: Early Bird Yearly payments – Price: 3.480€ per year (for 3 years), Admission fee 500€, if paid before October 15 2026 / 2027 / 2028.
  • 3rd option: Standard Yearly Payments – Price: 3.850 € per year (for 3 years), Admission fee 500€. Applies from 2 October 2026.
  • 4th option: Monthly payment Plan: 390€ per month in 36 installments, Admission fee 500€. Payments begin: December 2026.
  • The full length Syllabus/Study Outline is on the Study outline page of this site.
  • 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

Trainers

Ditte Marcher

Senior Trainer

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

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

Kristina Vasiljevaite Marcher

Trainer

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

Hadi Bahlawan Marcher

Co-Trainer

Joins selected modules as a co-trainer, contributing expertise in Bodynamic group processes and long-term work with international practitioner programs.

Quick Facts

Format
Live Online (Zoom)
Duration
3 years · 75 days
Class hours
10am – 6pm CET
Language
English
Prerequisite
Bodynamic Foundation Training

Investment

Early Bird — One-time payment

€9,400

Admission fee included · deadline Oct 1, 2026

Early Bird — Yearly

€3,480 / yr

For 3 years · +€500 admission fee, if paid before Oct 15

Standard — Yearly

€3,850 / yr

For 3 years · +€500 admission fee · applies from Oct 2, 2026

Monthly Plan

€390 / mo

36 installments · +€500 admission fee · begins Dec 2026

Register via Email

An application must be submitted to be accepted into the program. Contact Yorgos to register or ask any questions.

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