Core Strokes™ Module 1 in Corsica

Core Strokes™ – A Transformational Journey of Body & Mind

More than just a training module, Core Strokes™ offers you a deeply transformative experience that resonates through every layer of your being.

Unlock Your Core Essence

Core Strokes™ is a comprehensive body-mind process designed for self-development within a relational alliance. It helps you reconnect with your Core (Center of Right Energy) Essence—the foundation of vitality, clarity, and deep personal alignment.

A Unique Blend of Experiential & Didactic Learning

Core Strokes™ Module I is designed for those who want to deepen their personal and professional skills through a powerful, holistic deep-bodywork approach. Whether you seek personal growth, professional development, or a new therapeutic perspective, this training offers profound, embodied learning.

Structure of the Training

Core Strokes™ consists of four independent and certifying modules (Levels I, II, III, and IV), each providing a rich integration of theory and hands-on practice.

• Module I can be taken as a standalone course for personal development or as the first step toward certification.
• Completing the full curriculum, along with required practice, leads to the Core Strokes Practitioner/Facilitator Diploma.
• Open to all backgrounds, this module complements other therapeutic modalities.

What You Will Experience in Module I

During this week-long immersive training, you will gain a deep understanding of how blocked energy impacts you emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Through guided experiential and theoretical learning, you will explore:

Restoring the Flow of Life Force

• Energetic, psychological, and relational techniques (“Core Strokes”) to reopen and restore the natural flow of your life force.

The Language of Human Interaction: Strokes

Every interaction involves an exchange of “strokes”—units of recognition that shape our relationships and sense of self. Strokes can be as simple as a smile or a frown, a compliment or a criticism—and may be positive or negative, conditional or unconditional, verbal or non-verbal.

In Core Strokes™, we expand this concept by introducing “myofascial strokes”, which engage the psychosomatic unity of being. This approach integrates verbal and non-verbal strokes simultaneously, offering a profound method for deep body-mind work.

The Neuroscience of Core Strokes™ – Rewiring the Bodymind

The Three Movement Systems & the Brain-Body Connection

In Core Strokes™, we work directly with the three fundamental movement systems that shape human behavior and experience:

• Reflex movement – Automatic, unconscious responses governed by the brainstem and spinal cord (e.g., startle responses, primitive reflexes).
• Emotional movement – Expressive, relational gestures controlled by the limbic system, the seat of emotional processing, attachment, and safety regulation.
• Voluntary movement – Conscious, intentional actions governed by the prefrontal cortex, enabling self-regulation, decision-making, and awareness.

These movement systems are deeply embedded in neurodevelopmental patterns and influence how we adapt, interact, and express ourselves in the world. By engaging with them in Core Strokes™, we unlock embodied memories, repattern stress responses, and facilitate deep integration between past experiences and present awareness.

Regulating the Nervous System – The Role of Polyvagal Theory

Core Strokes™ also incorporates insights from Polyvagal Theory, which explains how the autonomic nervous system (ANS) responds to stress, connection, and safety. Through this lens, we work with:

• The ventral vagal system (Social Engagement System) – The nervous system state associated with connection, openness, and presence.
• The sympathetic nervous system (Fight-or-Flight Response) – The activation state responsible for mobilization and defense.
• The dorsal vagal system (Shutdown/Freeze Response) – The state of collapse, dissociation, and numbing in response to overwhelming experiences.

By working with breath, movement, relational attunement, and hands-on techniques, Core Strokes™ helps regulate the nervous system, guiding participants toward greater resilience, emotional fluidity, and self-regulation.

The Brain’s “Pilot Function” – Developing Self-Leadership

Through Core Strokes™, we cultivate what we call the “pilot function”—the brain’s ability to navigate inner experiences, emotions, and impulses with conscious awareness. This is often described as the “CEO of the United States of Consciousness”, a metaphor for executive functioning and self-regulation.

This function involves multiple brain regions, including:

• The Prefrontal Cortex – The center for self-awareness, decision-making, and emotional regulation.
•  The Insula – The gateway between interoception (internal body awareness) and emotions.
• The Cerebellum & Sensorimotor Cortex – Governing body coordination, movement integration, and emotional embodiment.

By strengthening these brain-body pathways, we enhance self-trust, decision-making, and embodied intelligence—allowing the individual to navigate life with greater confidence and clarity.

Self-Discovery & Personal Transformation

• Identify and release unconscious limitations that block alignment, vitality, and joy.
• Activate stagnant energies, cultivate meaningful interactions, and foster lasting inner validation.
• Let go of outdated psychological maps, which manifest as physical armoring and holding patterns in the body.

The Three Stages of Change in Core Strokes™

1. Let Be – Recognizing and acknowledging what is present
2. Let Go – Releasing outdated patterns and emotional blockages
3. Let In – Integrating new, meaningful experiences and personal insights

Why Join?

• ✨ Experience greater vitality, pleasure, and satisfaction

• ✨ Develop a deeper sense of connection and meaning

• ✨ Gain clarity and alignment with your life purpose

• ✨ Transform personal and professional relationships

Global Availability

Core Strokes™ Module I is offered in multiple countries, allowing you to join the training in a location of your choice.

If you’re ready to experience transformation not just as a concept, but as an embodied reality, we invite you to take the first step into Core Strokes™.

 Program of the Training Module I in Core Strokes in Corsica

Core Strokes™ is a creative, dynamic, and deeply transformative approach that allows you to fully experience the vitality, creativity, and joy of your own life force.

In Module I, we integrate a variety of powerful methods and concepts that support personal and relational transformation. Through structured exercises, hands-on work, dynamic interactions, and deep process exploration, you will enhance your body awareness, emotional intelligence, and energetic flow.

Key Components of Module I

1. The Natural Energetic Wave & Character Structure
   • We explore a step-by-step model of the natural energetic wave, identifying blockages that correspond to character structures. This framework helps you understand where energy is restricted or interrupted and how to restore its natural movement.
2. A Consciousness & Personality Map
   • This map of consciousness and personality serves as an orientation tool, helping assess the depth of the work and uncover the defense mechanisms that obscure the Core. By working through these layers, you will be able to:
     • Resolve inner conflicts
     • Improve relationships with yourself and others
     • Gain clarity in personal and professional dynamics
3. Increasing Physical Sensitivity & Awareness
   • Structured exercises will help enhance bodily sensitivity, develop awareness, and refine perception of inner sensations and movement.
4. Dynamic Body Reading – Developing an Inner Dialogue
   • By practicing dynamic body reading, you will cultivate a dialogue between different body parts and their energetic expression in relation to:
     • Your own internal landscape
     • Other people
     • The environment
5. Understanding & Working with Strokes
   • We explore the profile and economy of strokes—the fundamental units of recognition that shape interactions. You will examine:
     • Conditional vs. Unconditional Strokes
     • Negative vs. Positive Strokes
     • Verbal vs. Non-Verbal Strokes
     • Being vs. Doing StrokesAdditionally, we introduce “myofascial strokes,” which deeply affect the psychosomatic unity of being, working directly with the emotional and structural defenses in the body.
6. Microtracking & Developing the Pilot Function
   • Using microtracking, we refine your ability to perceive subtle physical, emotional, and energetic shifts. This supports the development of the prefrontal lobe “pilot” and the witness function, strengthening:
     • Self-awareness
     • Emotional regulation
     • Conscious choice-making
7. Gestalt Exercises
   • Gestalt-based practices bring awareness to the present moment, supporting integration of unprocessed emotions and experiences.
8. Interactive Role-Play & Constellation Work
   • Through controlled interactions, we explore inner and relational dynamics using:
     • Role-play in pairs, triangles, or larger constellations
     • Placeholders for the exteriorization of inner “bodymind drama”
     • Embodied relational practice for deeper emotional and energetic awareness
9. Hands-On & Process Work to Release the Myofascial Network
   • The myofascial network is an integral part of our emotional defense system. In Core Strokes™, we use hands-on techniques, movement, and energy work to:
     • Release deep-seated physical tension
     • Unwind emotional blockages
     • Restore fluidity in movement and expression

A Transformational Experience

Through a blend of individual and group practices, you will experience profound shifts in body, energy, emotions, and attitude. Many participants report feeling:

• ✨ More alive and powerful
• ✨ More deeply connected to themselves and others
• ✨ More satisfied, joyful, and courageous

If you are ready to activate your full potential and embody true transformation, join us in Corsica for Core Strokes™ Module I.

The place in Corsica

This workshop is hosted in Corsica – “l’Isle de Beauté”. This place is a wonderful place with a warm hosting.

What about the facilitators?

Dirk Marivoet, MSc.

is the facilitator of this workshop. He is an accredited psychotherapist (ECP) and a licensed psychomotor therapist (University of Leuven), director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration. He is also a certified trainer and supervisor for all methods of Bodymind Integration (Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration® and Pelvic-Heart Integration®) and a 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

Accomodation:

• €30 per day for a shared room

• €50 per day for a single room

• €20 per day for futon accommodation in a group room

Meals:

vegetarian, fresh ingredients, organic and local: package 42 € per day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks)