Hakomi Institute

11/06/2025

Experience the power of Hakomi with an Introductory Workshop

Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

Faculty: Rupesh Chhagan, M.S.O.M., L.Ac., Certified Hakomi Practitioner

Target Audience
This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

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11/04/2025

Hakomi Glossary: Barriers

Beliefs that block the normal organic process of attaining sensitivity and satisfaction.

Insight barriers block clarity about what is needed.

Response barriers block effective action to obtain what is needed.

Nourishment barriers block the experience of satisfaction when something is obtained.

Completion barriers block the relaxation that functions to savor the need satisfied, release tensions, and give further clarity about what other need the organism is now ready to reorient toward.

More generally, barriers are those parts of us that come into play after some sort of wounding that attempts to protect us from the hurt ever happening again.

Excerpted from Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy; Glossary of Hakomi Therapy Terms, by Cedar Barstow and Greg Johanson.

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10/29/2025

Experience the power of Hakomi with an Introductory Workshop

Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

Faculty: Julia Corley, MA, LCHMC, SEP, Certified Hakomi Trainer

Target Audience

This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

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10/27/2025

Hakomi Glossary: Accessing

The process of transitioning from ordinary consciousness through turning a person’s awareness inward toward felt present experience in a mindful or witnessing state of consciousness.

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10/23/2025

Experience the transformative power of Hakomi – Are you curious about Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy?
This unique workshop offers a rare opportunity to explore the foundational principles of Hakomi while deepening your understanding of embodied intimacy and mindful s*xuality.

You’ll engage in practices that reveal how Hakomi’s core skills and principles—such as tracking, making contact, and cultivating the internal observer—can support a deeper felt sense of self and greater relational attounement. These approaches offer a powerful pathway for healing and personal growth and can significantly enrich both erotic and emotional intimacy.

This workshop is designed to provide an introduction of experiential learning in Hakomi, and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

Faculty: Maci Daye, LPC, is a co-founder of the Hakomi Institute of Mallorca, a senior Hakomi Trainer and AASECT-certified s*x therapist.

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10/15/2025

09/25/2025

"In a socially intelligent model of power, heart and strength work together, and the focus is on collaboration and inclusivity, resolving conflict peacefully, and treating all
with respect and dignity.

Right Use Of Power is the use of personal and role power to prevent harm, heal harm, repair harm, and most importantly to promote well-being. Right use of power behaviors and. sensitivities are the essence of the field of ethics. Ethics is a set of values, attitudes and skills intended to have benevolent effects when applied through professional. behavioral guidelines, decision-making processes, and the practice of compassion." ~Dr. Cedar Barstow, the founder of the Right Use of Power and Hakomi trainer emeritus

Join us for an exploration of:
Ethics and the Power of the Space Between Us
October 24 from 9am to 5:30pm (CST)

In this course, you will have the opportunity to learn and explore the nuances of boundaries that provide the foundation for safe and successful therapeutic relationships.

With ample experiential exercises, you’ll learn about healthy, healthy, responsive, and flexible boundary setting through exploring your own relationship to interpersonal boundaries.

This process will deepen your self-awareness and enhance your ability to recognize and enhance your own boundary setting patterns, fostering profound healing for both you and your clients.

Learning Objectives:

*Identify the impact of emotions on our ability to set a health boundary

*Explore power dynamics in therapeutic relationships

*List the characteristics of healthy boundaries in a clinical setting

*Develop mindfulness as the foundation of ethical practice

*Develop a felt sense of a healthy, safe, and effective boundary with yourself and clients in a clinical setting

*Understand self-care as an ethical responsibility

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09/23/2025

Think about it for a moment.

Which would be more satisfying: discussing the chocolate cake you ate sometime during the last week, or sinking your teeth into a piece of rich, moist, chocolate cake with swirls of butter cream frosting?

There is obviously a world of difference between reporting about an experience and having one.

There is also a significant difference between polite conversation and psychotherapy, yet much of contemporary therapy relies on the former, while neglecting the power and aliveness of direct experience.

By taking therapy from the realm of second hand reports about events that have occurred in the lives of your clients to the realm of actual experience, you will increase your therapeutic power and depth exponentially.
..By using the body and present time experience, therapy takes on a visceral quality that transcends the cognitive.

By staying with live experience clients are able to more deeply and easily access core material.

They have a sense of connection with themselves and their internal worlds that begins to permit them to reorganize how they participate in intimate relationships.

Excerpted from Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples: A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist by Robert M. Fisher, M. A., M.F.T. in the Hakomi Forum – Issue 18, Summer 2007

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09/18/2025

Loving presence is a way of being and of relating that offers a particular quality of therapeutic relationship, one that is safe, accepting, and appreciative. All by itself, loving presence can be transformational and healing. As the basis for psychotherapy, it increases effectiveness immeasurably.

~ Donna Martin

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09/16/2025

This introductory workshop offers participants the opportunity to experience how Hakomi identifies and works with clients’ subtle, deeply ingrained, and largely automatic patterns.

It does so by engaging these patterns safely, accessing their deeper emotional roots, and ultimately helping clients re-negotiate them.

This whole process supports states of enhanced self-coherence, fostering more profound and more lasting change.

Participants will learn how to use the body as a source of insight and inspiration in therapy: a doorway into a richer, more complete understanding of their clients’ humanity, and, ultimately, into their transformation.

Participation in this workshop counts as a prerequisite for admission to the Hakomi Comprehensive Foundation Module.

Faculty:

Valentina Iadeluca: Licensed Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist, Certified Hakomi Teacher, Full Member of European Association of Body Psychotherapy, AISC and CBT Italia.
Shai Lavie: M.A., M.F.T, is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer Certified Hakomi Trainer, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Massage and Bodywork Therapist.

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09/10/2025

Hakomi is a unique form of psychotherapy that combines mindfulness, somatic techniques, neuroscience, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and compassionate exploration resulting in profound healing and self-discovery.

For over 40 years, Hakomi has pioneered the psychodynamic use of mindfulness in the therapeutic process, using mindfulness to access unconscious psychological material that’s not easily accessible by conversation alone.

People are often surprised at how quickly they can access deeply unconscious material using the mindfulness-based methods that infuse every phase of our work.

Hakomi practitioners use the body as a doorway to the psyche.

Hakomi is grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience.

Hakomi helps to develop the practitioner’s inner state.

Hakomi works with expanded states of consciousness.

Join a community of worldwide practitioners dedicated to creating a more conscious, compassionate and connected humankind.

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09/08/2025

Experience the power of the Hakomi Method with an Introductory Workshop.

Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

Faculty: Hiromi Willingham, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Certified Hakomi Trainer

Target Audience

This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

Learn more at hakomiinstitute.com