Landing in the Body. Listening to the Core. Awakening the Flow of Being.
By the Founder: Dirk Marivoet, MSc.
An Introduction
Before we can dive, we must land.
Rooting Core™ is an invitation to come home to your body.
Not as something to fix, but as a living field—where history, protection, and vitality meet.
This first module in the Core Strokes® journey begins gently.
We listen to what is most accessible: breath, sensation, and the superficial layers of the body—where our earliest patterns of contact, safety, and adaptation are held.
Through presence, touch, and guided awareness, we begin to soften the outer shell—the places where we learned to hold ourselves together when we had no other choice.
We awaken what has gone quiet.
We begin to sense what it means to be here—and to be met.
What is Core Strokes®?
The Core Strokes® approach is an integrative approach to body-oriented psychotherapy that works with fascia, breath, and relational presence.
It is not a technique to apply, but a process to enter.
At its heart lies a simple yet profound principle:
that the body carries not only tension, but intelligence—patterns shaped by experience, waiting to be felt, understood, and transformed.
Rooting Core™ offers both:
- a standalone personal journey, and
- the first step toward professional training and certification
The Three Movements of Transformation
At the core of this work lies a living process:
Let Be — Let Go — Let In
These are not steps to follow, but movements to inhabit.
- Let Be — We meet what is present, without judgment.
- Let Go — We release what no longer serves.
- Let In — We open to new experience, connection, and vitality.
This cycle unfolds through the body, breath, and relational field—again and again.
What You Will Experience
Rooting Core™ is deeply experiential. You will engage in:
- Myofascial work and therapeutic touch
- Breath exploration and regulation
- Guided movement and somatic awareness
- Emotional expression and integration
- Relational exercises in pairs and small groups
- Moments of stillness, reflection, and embodied presence
This is not about pushing or catharsis.
It is about restoring the body’s natural rhythm of flow.
Reclaiming the Body’s Natural Rhythm
In Core Strokes®, we understand that vitality moves in waves.
When this natural rhythm is interrupted—through stress, trauma, or relational misattunement—the body adapts. It tightens, disconnects, compresses, or overextends.
These adaptations are not problems.
They are intelligent responses that once helped us survive.
Through breath, touch, and relational attunement, we begin to soften these patterns—allowing sensation to return, movement to re-emerge, and energy to flow again.
This process is guided by the Energetic Breath Cycle™, a map of how life energy naturally moves through phases of activation, expression, release, and integration.
The Language of Contact
In Core Strokes®, transformation happens through contact.
We work with “strokes”—the ways we give and receive recognition:
through touch, presence, gaze, tone, and attention.
These are not just techniques.
They are the building blocks of how we experience ourselves in relation to others.
Through attuned touch and presence, we begin to reconnect with something deeper:
a sense of being met—not for what we do, but for who we are.
Relational Presence and Co-Regulation
Healing does not happen in isolation.
Before we can regulate ourselves, we often need to be regulated with another.
In this work, the practitioner becomes a grounded, attuned presence—offering a relational field where the nervous system can begin to shift from protection to connection.
Through this process:
- breath deepens
- tension softens
- awareness expands
- trust begins to grow
We move from survival toward embodied safety and contact.
Who Is This Module For?
Rooting Core™ is open to:
- Psychotherapists and body-oriented practitioners
- Coaches and facilitators
- Movement and touch professionals
- Anyone seeking a deeper connection with their body and emotional life
No prior experience is required—only a willingness to explore.
A Living Lineage
Core Strokes® stands within a living lineage of somatic psychotherapy, drawing from pioneers such as Wilhelm Reich, John Pierrakos, Jack Painter, and Albert Pesso—integrated through decades of clinical practice and teaching.
This lineage is not something to preserve—it is something to continue.
The First Step of a Deeper Return
Rooting Core™ is more than an introduction.
It is a beginning.
A return to the body.
A return to feeling.
A return to presence.
For some, it is the start of a professional path.
For others, a deeply personal journey.
In both cases, it opens a door:
Not toward becoming someone new,
but toward remembering what has always been there.