🌕 Experience the Core Strokes™ Spiral

Four Gateways to Embodied Transformation

A Path of Touch, Breath, and Soulful Embodiment

Core Strokes™ is a multidimensional path of healing, embodiment, and inner transformation — developed by Dirk Marivoet, integrative body psychotherapist and founder of the Neurofascial Transformation Process™.

At the heart of this approach lies a living spiral of four gateways:

Rooting Core, Flowing Core, Radiant Core, and Luminous Core — each immersing you in the body’s wisdom through breath cycles, fascia textures, developmental energies, and soulful touch.

Rather than fixed stages, these gateways form a pulsating path. You may begin wherever you feel called. Each module stands on its own, yet together they form a richly layered journey into presence, relational healing, and structural coherence.

Whether you are a somatic therapist, movement guide, healer, or sincere explorer of embodiment, Core Strokes™ offers a grounded yet luminous invitation:

To listen with your breath, to touch with presence, and to meet the soul that lives in the tissues of your body.

🌱 Core Strokes™ Module 1: Rooting Core

Awakening Safety, Contact, and Ground Through the Body

Rooting Core is the first immersive gateway in the Core Strokes™ spiral — and the foundational entry into this professional training path. It invites you to deepen your somatic intelligence, therapeutic presence, and capacity to support others through conscious touch and breath.

Whether you are new to this method or bring years of experience in bodywork or therapy, this module equips you with essential tools to work at the intersection of fascia, breath, emotion, and energy — while learning to attune to the subtle currents of transference, countertransference, and early relational echo that arise through somatic contact.

🔍 You’ll explore:

• The first four phases of the Energetic Breath Cycle™ — including Secure, Nurturing, Exploring, and Free Breath, along with their blocked expressions: Fragmented, Needy, Inflated, and Conflicted Breath
• The language of fascia through the Fascia Texture Typology™ — with hands-on work focused on the superficial layer (just beneath the skin)
  
  

  and textures such as Wet Earth, Warm Honey, and Springy Moss

• The Neurofascial Transformation Process™ — a structured and intuitive approach to read and shift patterns of armoring, energetic disruption, and emotional defense

💠 Throughout the module, you’ll also learn to recognize early attachment transferences as they show up in the body: longings to be held, fear of abandonment, idealization of the practitioner, or push–pull patterns around dependency. You’ll develop the capacity to hold a grounded, attuned field in the presence of these dynamics — cultivating trust, clarity, and differentiation through your presence, touch, and timing.

✨ From Wet Earth to Warm Honey, from Secure Breath to Free Breath, this module lays the groundwork for:

• Deep nervous system regulation
• Restored relational trust
• The rediscovery of the body’s innate rhythm

You’ll learn to:

• Assess breath and fascial patterns in real time
• Use hands-on strokes to soften defenses and invite energy flow
• Apply relational touch that supports co-regulation and embodied safety
• Guide others through the shift from blocked to flowing energetic states
• Understand the developmental meaning of texture, breath, and structure

• Stay clear and responsive within transferential fields and somatic projection

Whether you join for personal insight or professional growth, Rooting Core offers a powerful initiation into the spiral of embodied transformation — and is the first step for those wishing to become certified Core Strokes™ practitioners.

🔗 Want to go deeper into the foundations?

• Core Strokes™ Overview

• Neurofascial Transformation Process™

• Energetic Breath Cycle™

• Fascia Texture Typology™

The place in Prague

Pohled, located in the historic and inspiring city of Prague. Known for its serene atmosphere and commitment to personal growth, Maitrea offers the perfect environment to dive deep into a journey of self-discovery, healing, and transformation.

Facilitated with care by…

Dirk Marivoet, MSc.

Founder and Director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration (IBI)

Dirk Marivoet is an accredited psychotherapist (ECP), physiotherapist, and psychomotor therapist. He trained at the University of Leuven, where he worked for 11 years as both a therapist and educator in the Psychiatry and Psychoanalytic Clinics.

He is a Certified Trainer and Supervisor in Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration®, Reichian Bodywork, and Pelvic-Heart Integration® (as developed by Jack Painter, PhD), and a senior teacher and supervisor in Core Energetics (under John Pierrakos, MD).

With more than 40 years of clinical and teaching experience across both academic and alternative psychotherapeutic fields, Dirk developed the Core Strokes™ approach—a synthesis of deep bodywork, character analysis, and energy work—which he now teaches internationally.

Practical information

Languages:

English

Accomodation and Meals:

The program is organized as non-residential. Lunch breaks will be given, allowing participants to explore local dining options or bring their own lunch.  

Budget accommodation in Prague will be offered at Slunná 27, Therapy center (few tram stops from the venue, good connection from Vaclav Havel Airport Prague). 

For all inquiries, please contact Hana Hniličková, in charge of the organisation at info@slunna27.cz