The Institute for Bodymind Integration

19/09/2025

Something essential emerges as people begin to feel their breath again, rather than controlling or manipulating it. Dirk Marivoet’s “The Energetic Breath Cycle™: Phenomenological Layers of Respiratory Experience” moves beyond static techniques, offering a pathway of being, of deep listening, of attunement.

SPT Magazine is pleased to share Dirk’s work with the Energetic Breath Cycle™. This article builds upon his earlier work on the Fascia Texture Typology™ (2025), where tissue qualities were described as diagnostic and therapeutic signposts. In a similar spirit, the Energetic Breath Cycle™ expands Reich’s or**sm formula into a more differentiated map of respiratory phases, each linked with developmental tasks, character adaptations, and relational dynamics. While empirical research in respiratory psychophysiology, polyvagal theory (Porges, 2011), and affect regulation (Schore, 2012) provides critical foundations, the clinical dimension presented in this article emphasizes what therapists directly observe and engage with in real-time.

19/09/2025

Learn more about "What Sustains" Dirk Marivoet on our website. This conversation is part of Serge Prengel's Proactive Mindfulness Podcast Series, which explores the process of mindful change. The podcast features stimulating discussions with therapists, mindfulness practitioners, and other thoughtful people.

19/09/2025

Dirk Marivoet, MSc, PT, PMT, ECP, CCEP, founder of Core Strokes and director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration in Belgium, introduces a clinically derived fascial texture typology—a tactile language that captures the unseen but deeply felt states of the living body. Rooted in somatic psychotherapy and trauma-informed bodywork, the typology identifies distinct patterns in fascial tone, responsiveness, and energetic presence that reflect character defenses, developmental wounds, and healing potentials.
Textures such as Streaming Silk, Sticky Honey, Cold Wax, and Wilted Leaf offer therapists a new lens for reading and responding to the emotional landscape encoded in connective tissue. By integrating contemporary fascia science, polyvagal theory, and Reichian breathwork, this approach bridges the gap between structure and story, anatomy and attachment. It is a call for a new embodied science—one that honors presence, resonance, and the relational field as valid tools of diagnosis and transformation.

To read Dirk’s article, please visit www.SomaticPsychotherapyToday.com

07/07/2025

Dear friends,

I’m happy (and a little proud) to share that my new article has just been published in Somatic Psychotherapy Today (SPT)!

In this piece, I explore the Fascial Texture Typology™ and how it integrates with character structures, breathing patterns, and somatic psychotherapy practice. I also introduce elements from Neurofascial Encoding™, the Neurofascial Transformation Process™, and other frameworks I’ve been developing over the years.

My intention is to offer a nuanced, embodied perspective on how fascia acts as a living, expressive matrix — deeply connected to our emotional, developmental, and relational patterns.

👉 You can read the article here: Somatic Psychotherapy Today

Beyond this publication, I’m also excited to invite you to upcoming workshops and trainings:
✨ Introductory workshops in France (early September) and Prague (November)
✨ Core Strokes™ Modules in Normandy (September), Corsica (October), and more modules next year

All details and registration info can be found on bodymind-integration.com.

I hope the article sparks new reflections and offers inspiration — whether in your professional practice, your personal journey, or your own embodied exploration of life. I warmly welcome your thoughts, comments, and questions. And if you feel curious or called, you are warmly invited to join one of the workshops or Core Strokes™ modules — perhaps this is the perfect moment to deepen your connection with yourself and others.

With warm regards,
Dirk

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03/10/2022

SUMMIT TRAUMA & HET LICHAAM - 1, 2 & 3 december 2022
👉 Inschrijven doe je hier : www.traumainbeeld.com
Twee jaar geleden ging de wereld dicht en tegelijk ging voor mij een heel nieuwe wereld open. Want met de komst van de lockdown, kwamen ook de internationale Trauma Summits via het scherm mijn woonkamer en leven binnen.
Dat ik té veel summits verorberd heb op korte tijd is waar - ik voel nog steeds een lichte indigestie😋. Dat ik me voor het eerst verbonden voelde met trauma hulpverleners van over de hele wereld, is al even waar 💚. Dat ik toen meteen al de diepe wens had om iets dergelijks te mogen organiseren voor het Nederlandstalig veld, maakt deze dag des te specialer.
Het is dan ook met een warm ontroerd en zo enthousiast hart dat ik jullie - samen met Heleen Debaenst - vandaag onze allereerste trauma summit mag voorstellen met 5 toppers van sprekers die 6 heel relevante webinars verzorgen voor ons.
🥁🥁🥁Tromgeroffel 🥁🥁🥁
Het programma
🔸De rol van voeding, slaap, gezondheid, stress management in het herstel van trauma - Eva Verween - Elpida
🔹Trauma en seksualiteit - Minne Marlo
🔸Waar slaat trauma zich op in het lichaam? - Sophie Van de Put
🔹Neuro-affectieve meditatie en ademhalingstechnieken - Jasmine Verspeet - lichaamsgericht psychotherapeut
🔸Het lichaam van de therapeut in traumabehandeling - Dirk Marivoet
🔹Polygaaltherapie en trauma - Eva Verween
👉Het hele programma lees je hier: www.traumainbeeld.com
Donderdag 1, vrijdag 2 en zaterdag 3 december
De opname blijft 12 weken beschikbaar
189 € exclusief BTW (!) - factuur mogelijk
De summit gaat door vanaf 50 deelnemers
👉 Inschrijven doe je hier : www.traumainbeeld.com

28/04/2019

What we see and don't see meeting another culture: Edward T. Hall’s Cultural Iceberg Model

19/02/2019

I am offering a Core-Energetics Workshop for Men in Greece. Booking is open. Unfolding the Core Consciousness & Energy...I invite all the guys who are willing to travel this journey with me and other men. Welcome!

Men today are searching for a higher sense of identity and purpose that will nourish their life with passion and embolden integrity.

15/01/2019

During the weekend you will be introduced to the Postural and Energetic Integration® Therapy Model. During these two days we work with a synthesis of Reichian Breathwork, Gestalt, connective tissue manipulation, bodymind drama and character analysis.

01/06/2017

Bodymind Integration is....this...

The Embodied Self: How your history affects your body and your mind.A simple introduction to somatic psychology and the theory of Reichian body armour.

31/05/2017

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