🌕 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 4: Luminous Core

Integrating Soul Texture, Structural Coherence, and Multidimensional Presence

Luminous Core is the culminating gateway of the Core Strokes® spiral — a luminous immersion into the deepest strata of fascia, energy, and soul expression. This module is open to those who have walked at least two prior gateways and are ready to enter the final stage of integration: where the body becomes a vessel of clarity, and presence speaks through the tissues without effort or defense.

Here, we listen beyond the structure — attuning to the Soul Textures that emerge once fragmentation softens and charge has moved. These include Vibratory Clarity, Sacred Resonance, and Transparent Coherence. We track how the fascia communicates in these post-defensive states, allowing the whole system to settle into rhythmic coherence, structural alignment, and spacious awareness.

The touch becomes subtler. The breath rests. The field opens.

🔍 You will explore:

• The final phases of the Energetic Breath Cycle™ — Ecstatic Breath, Surrendering Breath, and Resting Breath

• Post-defensive and transpersonal fascia states through the Fascia Texture Typology™

• Advanced stages of the Neurofascial Transformation Process™ — including imaginal repatterning, symbolic repair, and whole-system entrainment

• Horizontal and vertical integration of fascia, movement, and perception — bridging inner/outer, left/right, front/back, top/bottom, center/periphery

🌀 You’ll learn to:

• Facilitate post-armoring shifts in breath and tissue with minimal intervention and deep precision

• Track symbolic and imaginal resonance in tissue patterns and language

• Work with whole images — embodied metaphors that reorganize structure and restore spiritual direction

• Support the emergence of soul presence in movement, stillness, voice, and gaze

• Integrate ancestral, collective, and spiritual layers of experience within an embodied frame

• Refine your therapeutic presence to meet intensity, subtlety, and silence with non-interference

🧿 Transpersonal Longing, Projection, and the Spiritual Bypass

In Luminous Core, we open to transpersonal and archetypal forces — where idealizing, mystical, or spiritual transferences often arise. Clients may project roles of guru, seer, or “soul twin” onto the practitioner. Simultaneously, themes of cosmic abandonment, existential fear, or spiritual disillusionment may surface. You’ll learn to navigate this terrain with grounded presence — meeting both sacred longing and shadowed idealization without bypassing, collapsing, or grasping. We work with higher transferences, erotic–spiritual merging, and the call to become a vessel of clarity — not the source.

🌌 This module is for practitioners who are ready to:

• Integrate the full arc of fascia, breath, and energy

• Dwell in the subtle realm with precision and attunement

• Welcome the mystery without losing center

• Bring embodied presence to soul contact — in themselves and others

Luminous Core is not about transcendence. It’s about full inclusion — of body, story, energy, and spirit — into a unified, pulsing presence that can hold complexity without effort and guide others without control.

🔗 Want to explore more of the foundations?

• Core Strokes® Overview

• Neurofascial Transformation Process™

• Energetic Breath Cycle™

• Fascia Texture Typology™

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.

The venue in Prague: Centrum Loret — A Space for Embodied Learning

Centrum Loreto offers a quiet, spacious, and grounded setting that supports the depth of Core Strokes® work. Slightly removed from the city’s bustle yet easily accessible, Loreto invites participants to slow down, arrive in their bodies, and settle into presence from the moment they enter.

The venue provides generous, light-filled rooms with a calm atmosphere, well suited for breathwork, movement, touch, and relational exploration. Its contained yet welcoming quality supports nervous system regulation, group coherence, and the subtle listening required for fascia-based and bodymind work.

Practical information

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

Languages used :

English (with translation into Czech)

QUESTIONS?

For any inquiries, please contact Hana, who is in charge of the organization, at:  hana.hlinickova@gmail.com