Body-oriented therapy
Fear is another side of courage
About body-oriented therapy
Body-oriented therapy or somatic psychotherapy is a holistic form of psychotherapy that naturally includes the body in the psychotherapy process.
Body-oriented therapy uses various techniques that increase awareness of our body and through it, our thoughts and feelings. It enhances personal growth and helps overcome psychological weaknesses, symptoms and mental problems when they are present.
Many were taught to suppress the expression of feelings that were forbidden in their family/environment. Some tend to collapse or withdraw or avoid challenges because they have been discouraged in the past.
For example, a woman who was discouraged from speaking in her family environment might explore how she learned to clench her throat, shoulders, and jaw to keep quiet. As she works through her emotions toward her family, she could learn how to bring more energy into her upper body to have the strength to speak up for herself.
This working principle evokes the client's own intelligence and wisdom. It is not an authoritative model where I know what is best for the client. All I do is follow his body, breath and sensations, align with them and encourage adaptive action.
Dok oni sami, u tijelu već imaju taj akcijski potencijal. –Pat Ogden
Fokus na funkcionalnom odnosu tijela i uma
Tjelesno orijentirani psihoterapeut usredotočuje se na funkcionalni odnos i jedinstvo uma i tijela. Uzima u obzir složenost odjeljaka i međusobnu interakciju među njima, uz zajedničko uvjerenje da tijelo odražava cijelu osobnost. “Tijelo” se u ovom kontekstu ne poistovjećuje s čistom fiziološkom dimenzijom, niti postoji hijerarhijski odnos između uma i tijela. Oboje su funkcionalni i međusobno ovisni aspekti cijelog čovjeka. Iako se u drugim psihoterapijskim pristupima ova perspektiva gotovo ne spominje, Tjelesno orijentirana terapija to smatra temeljnim.
Conceptual framework
Body-oriented therapy includes a developmental model, a theory of personality, hypotheses about the roots of pathogenic symptoms and dysfunction, along with a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques used in the context of the psychotherapeutic relationship. These techniques involve the body by observing, touching and moving, and breathing.
Art
Body-oriented therapy can also be called a collaborative creative art (although it is based on science and knowledge). Therapists and clients can be considered creators of a "healing culture". How they do this is partly a mystery. Most likely, as with any art form, it takes a certain talent, specific skills, and life experience to be an effective body-oriented therapist. The science of body psychotherapy is absolutely important, but it is always complemented by a degree of craftsmanship and artistry.
Basic concepts of body-oriented therapy
Bodymind: Perhaps the most fundamental concept of body psychotherapy is the embodied integration of thoughts, feelings and bodily experiences and sensations. The concept "Bodymind" claims that our body is a "living memory" and carries within it signs and traces of our personal life experience as well as our family heritage. All kinds of traumatic experiences and learned fears impregnate our character and affect our maintenance, which is a tangible entrance to the entire Bodymind.
Armor and character
Oklopništvo je koncept koji je razvio Reich. Vjerovao je da su ljudi razvili sustave tjelesnog “oklopa”, odnosno napetosti / krutosti mišića, kako bi se zaštitili od emocionalne i fizičke boli. Ovi kompleti oklopa pridonose razvoju čovjekova “karaktera”, prema Reichu i njegovim sljedbenicima, koji su razvili pet osnovnih tipova karakternih obrana te se one koriste tijekom procjene i terapijskog procesa.
Energy
The concept of energy is crucial for the application of body-oriented therapy. Energy metabolism, storage and release from the body play an important role in how people cope, hold, experience and heal from pain and interact with the world. Things like the flow and release of energy, pulsation, expansion and contraction (eg in tissues and organs) and the charge and discharge of energy are all things that body-oriented therapists pay attention to during therapy.
Body memory
This is the controversial premise that memories can actually be stored in the body. Body psychotherapists believe that because of this, some memories cannot be processed through talk therapy, but that these traumatic memories and problematic tension can often be released by releasing protective armor and other physical techniques.
Trauma
The trauma concept of body-oriented therapy coincides with the concept of body memory, suggesting that traumatic experiences can create a build-up of energy or blockages, leading to physical and mental problems.
I believe that all patterns of the mind are expressed in the movement of the body. And that all moving physical forms have a mind.- Bonnie Bainbridge
Who opts for body-oriented therapy?
- people who notice that talking by itself does not solve problems
- people who tend to approach everything mentally
- people who are unable to fully feel and/or express feelings or their own needs (depression, fatigue, eating disorder, anxiety)
- they express their psychological problems physically, through unconscious complaints and pain
- people who have problems in relationships (inability to bond or excessive attachment, inability to let go, initiate change)
- people who have lived through traumatic experiences
- people who struggle with setting or accepting boundaries
- people with autonomy problems; independence and independence of the individual in his behavior and opinion in relation to authorities and his wider and cultural environment
- people who simply want to become aware of their internal patterns, limitations, talents and work on themselves with the intention of improving their own quality of life
Jasmina Trampetić
The beauty and intelligence of the human body is an inexhaustible source of inspiration and eternal curiosity for me.
The most important realization in my life was the moment when I saw that a healthy body and a healthy mind without processed feelings are like a captain of a ship without a compass.
I started my movement research as a 3-year-old girl when I started ballet. From then until today, my journey of research continues and I hope that it will be so for the rest of my life.
Timeline:
Up to 18 years: ballet, jazz dance, rhythmic and contemporary dance, Ana Maletić School
U 18oj godini se prvi put susrećem s Hatha Jogom kod jednog od naših prvih učitelja u Hrvatskoj; Tin-a Pavlin-a te ju nastavlajm koristiti kao bazu svih početaka pokretnih procesa do dana današnjeg.
https://www.yoga-in-daily-life.hr/
At the age of 20, I went to Amsterdam, where I lived, worked and studied for the next 6 years.
At the SNDO (School for New Dance Development)
https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/dance-programmes/sndo/
I'm finishing a master class for choreography and for the next 6 years I'm passing through the halls of wonderful teachers and gathering my impressions and building a vision of the breadth and possibilities of research through movement, and I realize that it is one branch that intertwines its functions not only as a performing art, but also as a science behind a backdrop that explores the human body and its connection with everything around us and within us.
The teachers I was lucky enough to work with.
Keren Levi– interdisciplinarna koreografija (ples, živa glazba, živi video), suvremeni ples
Laura Moro– metodologija “Vizualni Glas”, vokalna kompozicija kao metafora pokreta, suvremeni ples
Katrina Brown– interdisciplinarna koreografija, Laban tehnika
Susanne Link– prisutnost na sceni, abdomen kao pokretač, dramska koreografija
Miloš Sofrenović– master class, company work
Jordis Jakubczick– Body and Mind Centering (BMC)- somatizacijski pokret
Rifkah Sasch– umjetnost i energetski rad
Art is the result of inspiration, and inspiration has a spiritual nature.
Therefore, art is fundamentally a spiritual activity.
Tri godine volontiram u Maitreya Institute; Amsterdam, gdje učim filozofiju Budizma, nauke o umu i tehnike meditacija.
After six years spent in Amsterdam, I return to Zagreb, where I open the Multimedia Center Kopriva (https://www.facebook.com/mmckopriva/a center for culture and spirituality where for the next 10 years I lead dance and yoga and organize numerous cultural events (festivals, concerts, exhibitions, lectures, workshops).
I encountered body-oriented therapy in 2007, when I started a 4-year education in integrative therapy at the then Snowlion, today's CIR (www.cir.hr).
Today I am in the second year of postgraduate studies, and since 2010 I have been working with clients individually and I use in my work; BMC- Body and Mind Centering based on the teachings of Bonnie Cambridge, body-oriented therapy and energy work.
Over the years, I have established my approach and constantly research and develop it in my work with people who come to me for therapy or dance.
Kreativni sam direktor Studia Mix, te kroz isti radim za N1 televiziju i Novu Tv, kao i na samostalnim projektima u vidu video produkcije.
Majka sam petogodišnjeg prekrasnog dječaka i supruga glasnog i stasnog glazbenika.
I am grateful for my rich life experience, dance and work, and most of all for my family, which is my fundamental driving force, my highest achievement and the gift I received from life.
On mail:
studio.mix.zg@gmail.com
or number:
092 2155 358
you can book your individual therapy for:
– Tjelesno orijentirani proces
– Energetski rad
– BMC, body work
– Individualni sat terapije Jogom i vođenom meditacijom
– Terapeutski proces za parove
– Za majke s malom djecom popust na sve programe za 20%
Price: EUR 50.00/h
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