Location: Pearl Center, Thymena
Hours: 70
Study Load/Credits: 4.5
Instructors: Vedanta Aspioti, Nikolaos Athanassakis
Course Description:
In the third part of the training, we reach a deep experiential understanding of the defensive structures within the personality. We uncover the way in which our conditioning appears on a physical level, as powerful armoring which encases our body and keeps us imprisoned in a cage of tension. As we are enclosed in our ego shell, our life energy shrinks, our senses and emotions are deadened and we are cut off from our Essence. During this training, we experience the five body types of defense of Alexander Lowen and their psychic and psychological dimensions. We acquire contemporary and applicable knowledge about the different types, for ourselves and for working with people therapeutically. We also learn body reading as a tool for channeling.
Course Goal:
The course aims at teaching the student about the Bioenergetic Body types of Alexander Lowen in order to reach an understanding of how character structure is expressed in the body and restricts the life energy.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course the students will be able to:
1. Name Alexander Lowen’s body types, the physical and behavioral characteristics of each type and corresponding developmental phase in childhood
2. Apply specific bioenergetic exercises and psychic surgery for each body type in order to release the tension and charge held in the body and enhance the capacity to let go
3. Assess their own predominant body type
4. Recognize each body type of defense in themselves
5. Indicate what is the essential resource beneath the defenses of each body type
6. Create a basic treatment plan for each body type
Education Method: Lecture/Theory, Exercise, Meditation, Group therapy process,Practice
Required Literature:
Aspioti, Vedanta, The Five Body Types of Defense According to Alexander Lowen, Unpublished, 2000
94 pages, 5 pages per hour pace, 19 hours
Lowen, Alexander and Leslie, The Way to Vibrant Health, The Alexander Lowen Foundation, 2012
180 pages, 6 pages per hour pace, 30 hours
Optional Literature:
Lowen, Alexander, Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind, Penguin/Arkana, 1994
Reich, Wilhelm, Character Analysis, Third Edition, Enlarged, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980