Body psychotherapy — also known as somatic psychotherapy or body-oriented psychotherapy — is a holistic form of therapy that recognizes and utilizes the relationship between the body and the mind. This therapeutic approach is grounded in the understanding that our bodies hold onto experiences, and these held experiences can affect our mental and emotional health. […]
Understanding How to Move and Manipulate Energy
Alumnus Aimee Falchuk, MPH, M.Ed., ACCEP Aimee was featured in Goop online magazine in the Spring of 2016. In this article Understanding How to Move and Manipulate Energy, Aimee provides perspectives of energy and consciousness and the many ways we can understand this experience in our body, mind and spirit. Here is an excerpt and […]
Emotionally Expressive Techniques: The Most Misunderstood Aspect of Core Energetics
Emotionally expressive techniques are a powerful method that Core Energetics practitioners employ to help clients challenge their somatic and psychological blocks to feelings and consciousness. These energetic techniques, however, are frequently misunderstood. The powerful motion and expression of repressed and suppressed feelings help us to break through and move beyond our mask, our idealized image of ourselves, and into […]
Every Body Needs Some Body
Reprint from- New Therapist, September/October Edition 2012 An Interview with Lisa Loustaunau, Frederick Lowen and Jack Lee Rosenberg Let’s face it: Our most archetypal attachment scripts are predicated upon a fundamental urge to fulfill the longing of every body for some body to love. Our bodies are, whether we like it or not, the vehicle […]
Catharsis vs. Discharge and Release
The following is an excerpt from Out of the Comfort Zone: Overcoming the Blocks to Living and Loving, a book in progress by Lisa Loustaunau. The word release as it is used in Core Energetics, is not the same as acting out. When we act out an emotion, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it implies the expression of an […]