The Body-Essence Institute, DK
E-mail: info@body-essence.dk
Phone:  (+45) 24 40 75 88

• To understand the ego-personality and to cooperate with it.
• To discover and explore the true self and dissolve the false, past and life-reducing identities.
• To release energy fixed in traumas and psycho-muscular blockages.
• To promote confidence and the ability to establish contact with the body, the self/ heart /soul/ intuition and higher intelligence
• To achieve spontaneous deep psychological and somatic healing.
• To facilitate the best conditions possible to support the flow of the body, the creative intelligence and the organism’s self-healing forces.
• To make the body a safe, balanced and supporting space in which to feel at home in.
• To increase awareness / consciousness of unconscious processes.
• To discover the essence compensations (“holes”) and reestablish contact with the essence.
• To facilitate a continuous development / maturation at the non-conceptual level.
• To be able to distinguish between mature spiritual openness and the signs of immature severe disorders of the personality.
• To increase the ability to dwell within yourself and relate sincerely and openly to other human beings.

Grown-up persons’ development consist among other things in learning to soften the psycho-physical defense mechanisms to a degree in which we can handle our social life along with becoming more and more open to the multitude opportunities of life.
The inner development is characterized by a liberation of the essence and a rehabilitation of the connection with the true, natural forces, which particular circumstances during childhood and adolescence as well as the formation of the personality have put up limitations for.

The body appears to be a miraculous universe. Not only does it serve as the home for the soul, but every cell is a medium for the creative and self-correcting intelligence of life. The body is a highly advanced instrument which enables us to move in various dimensions of spirituality and essence. It is also through the body we are able to connect with the sources of energy and love, which are beyond ourselves.

The BE facilitator guides in various ways the awareness inwards into the body – to create awareness of senses, feelings, intuitions, images, colours etc. which originate from the essence. The facilitator observes, follows and stimulates the processes within the client. In addition to this, creates via dialogue a space which allows changes to happen. Intensifies the client’s awareness and accept of the belief that the intelligent forces of life work on their terms.

The facilitator is guided by the creative intelligence of the process, facilitates an expanded, conscious awareness and supports the ego’s possibilities of establishing confidence to the essence.

This word is absolutely central in this context. We use the term essence in the meaning present, substantial existence.The sensed presence of life. Our true nature. The force of life as well as qualities of consciousness and being – which are at the foundation of the individual personality – often covered by or repressed by the ego personality. The essence of a human being has various aspects for instance will power, strength, love, joy, consciousness, silence and compassion.

“The possibilities of the essential substance are overwhelming, its creativity unlimited, its depth never-ending and its intelligence without boundaries.” (A.H. Almaas)

One of the very special characteristics of BERT is that the therapist, who in this context is called the Body – Essence facilitator, does not only listen with the mind and does not just guide by using the intellect’s processing of the client’s word and signals.
The BE – facilitator uses the inner and outer body language and in addition communicates to and with the subtle sense organs at a so to speak “purer” level than the intellectual level.

• The ego – personality’s societal qualifications
• The Essence- the true nature / the level of being

To regain your essence means to become a fully existing human being. This means to regain access to your personal depth, creativity and inner freedom. To experience your inner and outer world in colours instead of various shades of grey.
To be aware, present, and vital in body and mind with a refined sensitivity instead of being trapped in defense mechanisms, survival procedures, self-images and habits. To feel and express sincere joy, love or grief.To experience your own genuine will and true courage instead of being controlled by imposed ideas, and unconscious, negative emotions and fear.

Compared with other forms of therapy the body-essence approach transfers the therapeutic focus from the personal history to the awakening and regaining of the lost source of life. From a holistic perspective we aim at incorporating levels of consciousness and developmental processes in the human process of maturation, which are pre-personal or are behind the personal level. BERT activates and supports the organism’s self-healing process which we regard to be just as important as the acquisition of psychological insight and knowledge.

For whom?
BodyEssence Re-sourcing Therapy (shortened to BERT) goes beyond working with the psychological and bodily levels of the personality. It aims to help persons who wish to find a deeper contact with a more real version of themselves than their self-images and adapted personalities. BERT addresses itself to persons with a fairly robust ego and a healthy foundation in the world.

• Therapeutic dance and body-awareness
• SE-Training / Chock Trauma therapy
• Intro to The Diamond Logos Teaching
• Healing
• Trance, hypnotherapy, visualization
• Bio-energetic
• Awareness and understanding of energy

The continuing education in Body-essence integrating psychotherapy and process-work is based on a number of modules. At the centre of each module we have a main-course with a key-teacher. The main course is surrounded by preparation, integration, supervision. During the 1½-2 year training-period the students have to participate in on-going supervision and personal therapy by psychologists, doctors and some of the key teachers. In addition to that, we have an international body-essence-support-team of therapists, teachers and other professionals located all over the world.

The main idea is to start out the BE- educational program with sensing and exploring the non-conceptual, innocent, original inner field. Here we get a kick-off by our therapeutic danceworkshops in which we enter that inner room through dance, body-awareness, kinestetics, love and laughter etc. Followed by training in presence, sensing, being in the body, reading the body and soul, meditation, going with the flow.

This 2 years continuing training has a special focus on how to facilitate deep psychological and spiritual processes in a safe, respectful and ethical way. By the end of the training the participant has the opportunity to be certified as a BodyEssence Therapist.

The core of this work is: Body & Essence Integrating Psychotherapy and Process-work. Through the work with body and psyche we aim to open up and integrate the essence of the individual human being.

For professional Therapist           
The target group is professional helpers who already have a formal education from universities and certified institutes: Psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and some type of medical doctors.

To understand the human body and psyche is trying to understand a miracle: the worlds most simple and still the most complex and advanced system. It’s about trying to understand life and the universe itself. This means that ordinary professional facilitators often works blindly while they think they are seeing and knowing. Some of those helpers ask for a helping hand to get out of being trapped in the academic way of thinking and experiencing their clients. They need to open up their competences to see/ sense/ feel – be aware of, dare to and able to enter into spiritual levels and the subtle dimensions of the body. They feel a strong wish to improve their opportunities to meet the clients where the clients are.

People educated and authorized by traditional universities are coded to be loyal to the teaching they have stored in their unconsciousnes. Their major thinking and sensing are based on conceptualized mindpatterns, scientifical documented theories and tecnics.

One important goal for The Body-Essence Institute is to raise the therapist’s personal and professional background for understanding, matching and cooperating with their clients spiritual experiences, needs and quests. Which also implies that one can communicate precise therapeutically on body-energetic-psychological and spiritual levels. The training program is not a “spiritual education”, but as the work as a BE-facilitator requires the ability to perceive and work on absolute subtle levels of consciousness, the training also involves a deep personal process for the student.

WHAT IS THE BODY ESSENCE INSTITUTES SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION PROGRAM ABOUT? continued

The other major goal for the BE-training is related to the goal just mentioned. That a essential blend to can happen between the teacher and the student. That part of the student’s development happens when essence is activated due to the meeting with and presence of the teacher’s essence.

We also aim to support a continuing proces in which you improve your skills in working with people from a not knowing position, where the facilitator has the openess, clarity and sensitivity to be guided by a higher creative intelligence of the universe, which, of course, also exist in the human organism. The art is to set our conceptual mind on  “stand by” in between.

Authorized psychologist, specialist within psychotherapy and supervision.
Founder and owner of the BodyEssence Institute,  Conscious Leaders and seniorpartner in Ki (=Creative Intelligence) Human Resource Institute.

My work primarily takes place with in 3 key areas:

1. Therapy, process work and personal development
2. Leadership and organizational development
3. Supplementary education and supervision

Many years of experience with human development, therapy and process leadership has manifested itself in the Body and Essence psychotherapy.
Apart from my education as psychologist I have received inspiration and acquired knowledge and experience from various directions.
Gestalt therapy, Reich/Lowen bio-energy, stress research, bio-feed back, psychosomatic, health psychology, psycho-neuro immunology, various forms of body and energy work, meditation, consciousness training and Diamond Work are some of the sources of inspiration.

I have received guidance from Natasha Mann, the father of bio-energy, Alexander Lowen, David Boadella (the founder of bio-synthesis) the healer Bob Moore, the dancer Navanita Harris, Eckhart Tolle, A.H. Almaas as well as Faisal Muquaddam, who have created the Diamond Approach of liberation in cooperation with A.H. Almaas.

In addition to this, I feel enriched by the great human and professional depth I have encountered in my supervisor since 1982 Asta Fink mag. art. of philosophy and former lector at the Institute of Psychology at University of Århus.
Since 1997 I have received training by Faisal in Diamond Logos Teaching and have certified as a teacher.