Introductory workshop Core Strokes™ in Prague

Core Strokes™: Unlock Your Life Force.  A Dynamic and Transformative 3-Day Workshop with Dirk Marivoet

Core Strokes™ offers a creative, dynamic, and deeply fulfilling approach to experiencing the full vitality and joy of your life force. In this 3-day introductory workshop, you will explore a powerful integration of experiential practices and a comprehensive theoretical model, designed to facilitate personal transformation and deeper self-awareness.

Key Elements of the Workshop:

• Energetic Breath Cycle: The Natural Flow of Life Force: Central to the Core Strokes™ approach is the Energetic Breath Cycle, a step-by-step model that mirrors the natural energetic wave within the body. This cycle helps you identify and release blockages that restrict your energy flow, often linked to character structures. By working through these steps, you can systematically open the flow of life force, resulting in greater emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual vitality.
• Consciousness and Personality Maps: You will explore consciousness and personality maps to assess the depth of your inner work. These maps offer insights into the defense mechanisms that obscure your Core, helping you resolve inner conflicts and relationship challenges with yourself and others. By gaining this understanding, you can move toward emotional clarity and meaningful connection.
• Myofascial De-Armoring: Experience hands-on techniques that focus on releasing chronic tension and dissolving emotional armor within the myofascial network. This work frees up your body’s energy pathways, helping to release old holding patterns and facilitate deep relaxation and healing.
• Structured Exercises for Body Awareness: You will engage in practices that heighten your physical sensitivity and body awareness, allowing you to better understand how your body holds and expresses emotions. These exercises will guide you in aligning with your body’s natural flow, supporting your overall well-being.
• Dynamic Body Reading: Through dynamic body reading, you will develop a dialogue between different parts of your body, exploring how they interact with one another and with your environment. This process reveals hidden tensions and energetic imbalances, helping you to restore harmony in your bodymind system.
• Microtracking and Developing the “Pilot”: Learn to cultivate your internal “Pilot”—the guiding aspect of consciousness that observes and directs both your soul and ego processes. Through microtracking, a focused awareness technique, you will refine your ability to observe and navigate your emotional and energetic responses. This practice fosters greater emotional regulation, self-awareness, and a deeper understanding of your internal landscape.
• Gestalt and Creative Exercises: Engage in creative and experiential Gestalt techniques

  designed to help you explore and express your inner world, anchor yourself in the present moment, and reenact significant past experiences. These exercises bring unresolved emotional dynamics to the surface, offering a safe and supportive space for authentic self-expression and deep healing.

• Controlled Role-Play Interactions: Engage in role-play exercises, both in pairs and small groups, to externalize and work through inner emotional “dramas.” These interactions help you navigate your emotional landscape with more clarity and understanding, promoting deeper insight into how you relate to others.
• Integration of Polarities: Explore and integrate key polarities, such as genetic, masculine/feminine, and behavioral opposites. Balancing these polarities supports emotional, mental, and energetic alignment, allowing for greater harmony in your internal and external relationships.

The Three Stages of Transformation:

The Core Strokes™ process emphasizes three transformative stages:

1. Let Be: Cultivate acceptance of your current emotional and physical state without judgment.

2. Let Go: Release old emotional patterns and body tensions that no longer serve you.

3. Let In: Invite new energy, insights, and meaning into your life, allowing you to reconnect with your deeper life force.

What You Will Gain:

• A deep understanding of how blocked energy affects your emotions, body, and mind, and how to release it through the Energetic Breath Cycle.
• Tools to shift outdated psychological and emotional maps, moving from defense patterns to a more open, vibrant life force.
• Increased body awareness and sensitivity, helping you align more deeply with your true self.
• The ability to integrate polarities and resolve inner conflicts, leading to a more balanced and authentic self.Profound personal and professional development, gaining practical techniques to support your ongoing journey of growth and healing.

Participants’ Experience:

Those who have undergone this process report feeling more alive, powerful, connected, and joyful. They also describe a heightened sense of meaning and satisfaction in their personal and professional lives, with greater courage to express their true selves.

For those ready to dive deeper, this workshop is also an introduction to the professional Core Strokes™ training modules, offered in various countries. These modules can be pursued individually, allowing you to continue your journey on a professional level.

The place in Prague

Maitrea Seminare, 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.

What about the facilitator?

Dirk Marivoet, MSc.

is the founder and director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration (IBI). He is an accredited psychotherapist (ECP) and a certified psychomotor therapist, having earned his credentials at the University of Leuven, where he served on the staff of the Psychiatry/Psychoanalytic Clinic for 11 years. Dirk is a Certified Trainer and Supervisor in Postural Integration, Energetic Integration, Reichian Bodywork and Pelvic-Heart Integration (as developed by Jack Painter, PhD), as well as a Core Energetics Teacher and Supervisor (under John Pierrakos, MD).

With 40 years of clinical and teaching experience in both academic and alternative fields of psychotherapy, Dirk developed the Core Strokes approach, which he now teaches internationally. He resides in Ghent, Belgium.

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: hana.hnilickova@gmail.com