Flowing Core: Module 2 Core Strokes® — near Reims (FR)

🌬️ Core Strokes® Module 2: Flowing Core

Expanding Breath, Voice, and Somatic Confidence

Flowing Core is the second gateway in the Core Strokes® Spiral — a spacious immersion into breath wave expansion, relational contact, and the subtle intelligence of the upper body and core.

Whether this is your entry point or a return to the spiral, Flowing Core welcomes you into renewed intimacy with your breath, your voice, and the subtle messages held in your chest, shoulders, face, and the often-overlooked transition zones that bridge upper and lower segments.

We explore the intermediate layer of fascia — especially where vigilance, tension, and inhibition quietly settle: the jaw, neck, mouth, throat, shoulders, arms, flanks and diaphragm. We also engage the ribs-to-pelvis bridge, opening fascial space between the first and twelfth ribs, and addressing intermediate restrictions in the buttocks and iliac crest — restoring the vertical continuity of the breath wave and the body’s natural buoyancy.

Through the Energetic Breath Cycle™, we engage the phases of Free Breath and Excited Breath, while honoring earlier stages as living resources within the breath field. We meet the energetic expressions of this phase — Streaming Silk, Springy Moss, Radiant Silk — as well as the protective textures that may veil them, such as Cold Wax or Mud.

As the breath reclaims its full arc, we encounter how expression, boundaries, and the social mask are shaped and stored in fascia. The upper body becomes a living map of learned adaptation — where smiles conceal anger, voices strain to please, and shoulders brace against overwhelm. In Flowing Core, we offer space to unmask: to rediscover the authentic voice, the true gesture, and the natural spontaneity of emotional expression.

You’ll learn to:

• Open fascial space between ribs and pelvis, restoring fluid diaphragmatic transitions

• Release holding in the intermediate fascia of the shoulders, arms, flanks, and buttocks

• Soften the jaw, face, and throat — deconstructing patterns of vigilance and suppression

• Use breath and sound to access stored emotion and awaken energetic continuity

• Apply touch that supports polyvagal regulation, relational safety, and vocal integration

• Track real-time shifts in emotional tone, energetic wave, and expressive readiness

We also begin to recognize protective strategies around the heart and voice — postural masks, rehearsed behaviors, or withdrawal. These once helped us survive: over-compliance, control, or collapse. In Flowing Core, we meet them with compassion and offer the body new rhythms of voice, contact, and expressive freedom.

We cultivate microtracking — an inner witnessing that sharpens awareness of subtle shifts in breath, tone, and tension. This supports both personal transformation and professional clarity, especially in working with social holding, masked emotion, and developmental repair.

Whether you are a therapist, healer, or sincere explorer of embodiment, Flowing Core offers a profound gateway into voice, presence, and structural coherence — equipping you to soften armor, restore expressive capacity, and support others in reclaiming the upper body’s natural aliveness.

🔗 Want to go deeper into the foundations?

• Core Strokes® Overview

• Neurofascial Transformation Process™

• Energetic Breath Cycle™

• Fascia Texture Typology™

What You Will Take Away

• A deepened connection to your Core Self
• Greater capacity for emotional regulation and resilience
• Release of deep-seated tensions and outdated defense patterns
• Revitalized embodiment of joy, sensuality, and spaciousness
• Enhanced skills in body reading, relational presence, and therapeutic touc

Facilitated with care by…

Dirk Marivoet, MSc.

is founder and director of the IBI (The International Institute for Bodymind Integration). He is a registered accredited psychotherapist (ECP), a certified psychomotor therapist and physiotherapist in mental health (University of Louvain) and an internationally recognized trauma expert. He is also a Certified ICRI Advanced Trainer and Supervisor for Postural Integration, Energetic Integration, Reichian Bodywork and Pelvic-Heart Integration (Jack Painter, PhD) and a Senior Core Energetics Teacher and Supervisor (John Pierrakos, MD). After more than 35 years of clinical and teaching experience, both in the academic, alternative and complementary fields of psychotherapy, he created the Core Strokes® approach, which he shares around the world. He lives in Ghent (Belgium).

The place in Villers-en-Prayères

This workshop is hosted in Villers-en-Prayères at 2h from Paris, in the “Domaine des 7 Vallons”. Built on 43 hectares of land with lakes, forests and meadows, the Domaine des 7 Vallons enjoys a natural setting conducive to healing, while being accessible by public transport. It is situated in the Champagne region in the heart of nature,  a wonderful place with a large hosting capacity. For more details, see HERE.

Practical information

Participation costs:

• Early Bird: 890 € (before May 15th, 2027)
• Standard Tarif: 950 € (after May 15th, 2027)

Languages used :

English (with possible translation into French and Dutch by Dirk Marivoet)

QUESTIONS?

Write to Solène, who is responsible for the organization : solenegarreau@posteo.net