🌕 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?
The place in Calenzana
This training module is hosted in the magnificent island of Corsica. Springtime is a wonderful time to spend on the Island.
What about the facilitators?

Dirk Marivoet, MSc.
is the facilitator of this training. He is a certified and accredited psychotherapist (BVP, EABP, EAP) and a licensed psychomotor therapist and physiotherapist (University of Leuven), director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration. He is also a certified advanced trainer and supervisor for all methods of Bodymind Integration (Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration® and Pelvic-Heart Integration®) and a senior teacher and supervisor of Core Energetics®, a Body Oriented Psychotherapy modality .After more than 35 years of working and teaching, both in the academic, alternative and complementary fields of psychotherapy, he created the Core Strokes® ® approach, which he offers worldwide.
Practical information
Date and place:
Date: from October 20th, 2026 from 10.00 am until October 26th, 2026, 4.00pm
Venue:
Sophie ANQUETIL – 3 Villa les Elfes, 20214 Calenzana, France
www.usoffiu.com
Accomodation:
Shared room: 30 € per person, per day
Individual room: 50 € per person, per day
Meals:
Full board (42 € per day): includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
Meals are vegetarian, prepared with fresh, organic, and locally sourced ingredients.
If you have any special dietary requirements, please let us know in advance.
Participation Fees for the workshop:
- NORMAL rate: € 950 (after 1 august 2026)
- EARLY BIRD rate: € 890 (before 1 august 2026)
- Special reduced rate – 820 € per module is granted under the following conditions:
The participant commits to completing Modules 2, 3, and 4 in Corsica,
or
The participant brings one additional new participant to Module 2.
Conditions:
This reduced rate applies to all three remaining modules (Modules 2, 3, and 4).
The commitment must be confirmed in writing and is subject to the same financial and cancellation conditions as the standard contract.
In case of partial participation, the standard rate (950 €/890 €) will apply to non-attended modules.