🌕 Experience the Core Strokes® Spiral

Four Gateways to Embodied Transformation

A Path of Touch, Breath, and Soulful Embodiment

Core Strokes® is an integrative approach within somatic psychotherapy, working through breath, fascia, and relational presence — developed by Dirk Marivoet, integrative body psychotherapist and founder of the Neurofascial Transformation Process™.

It emerges from a direct lineage within somatic psychotherapy, shaped through training with Jack W. Painter, John Pierrakos, and Al Pesso — and through these lineages connected to the work of Ida Rolf, Fritz Perls, and Wilhelm Reich.

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

Rooting Core, Flowing Core, Radiant Core, and Luminous Core — each inviting you in the body’s intelligence through breath, fascia, developmental dynamics, and relational touch.

These gateways are not fixed stages, but form a dynamic, pulsating path. You may enter wherever you feel drawn. Each module stands on its own, while together they create a coherent and progressively deepening training process.

Whether you are a somatic therapist, movement practitioner, bodyworker, or someone engaged in embodied self-development, Core Strokes® ® offers a grounded and precise invitation:
to listen through breath, to touch with presence, and to recognize how experience lives and transforms within the 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.

Held in Vienna, this module offers a focused and immersive environment for deep somatic learning and professional development.

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 breath, fascia, emotional process, and relational dynamics — while learning to attune to the subtle currents of transference, countertransference, and early relational patterns that emerge through somatic contact.

🔍 You’ll explore:

• The first four phases of the Energetic Breath Cycle™ — 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), including textures such as Wet Earth, Warm Honey, and Springy Moss
• The Neurofascial Transformation Process™ — a structured and intuitive approach to reading and transforming patterns of armoring, energetic disruption, and emotional defense

💠 Relational Field & Clinical Sensitivity

Throughout the module, you’ll also learn to recognize early attachment dynamics and transferential processes as they emerge up through the body —including longings for contact, fear of abandonment, idealization, and push–pull dynamics around dependency.

You will develop the capacity to hold a grounded, attuned field in the presence of these dynamics — cultivating, differentiation, and trust through your presence, touch, and timing.

✨ Foundations of Embodied Regulation

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 re-emergetnce of the body’s intrinsic rhythm and coherence

👐 You’ll learn to:

• Assess breath and fascial patterns in real time
• Apply hands-on strokes to soften defenses and support energetic flow
• Use relational touch to facilitate co-regulation and embodied safety
• Guide shifts from blocked to more integrated energetic states
• Understand the developmental meaning of breath, texture, and structure
• Remain clear and responsive within transferential and relational fields

Whether you join for personal development or professional training, Rooting Core offers a grounded and transformative entry into the Core Strokes® spiral — and forms the foundation for those wishing to train as certified practitioners.

🔗 Want to go deeper into the foundations?

• Core Strokes® Overview

• Neurofascial Transformation Process™

• Energetic Breath Cycle™

• Fascia Texture Typology™

Venue: Seminarhaus AHOM

Seminarhaus AHOM is situated in a peaceful, natural setting on the edge of Vienna. Surrounded by greenery and away from urban intensity, the space supports grounding, presence, and focused inner work — an ideal environment for the Rooting Core module.

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:

• AHOM Seminarhaus: limited to 3 rooms either as double or single occupancy
• Schlosspark Mauerbach – Herzog Friedrich-Platz 1, A-3001 Mauerbach – https://www.schlosspark.at/
• Haus Iris Mauerbach – Vacationhaus  Steinbachstraße 19, 3001 Mauerbach – http://www.haus-iris-mauerbach.at/

For all inquiries, please contact Daniela Zambrana, in charge of the organisation at info@danielazambrana.com