Author: Dr. Karyne Wilner

Your body tells your story. It holds your entire history within it; it can even remind you of parts of your life you don't consciously remember because you were too young or too traumatized. My goal is to help you understand what your body is telling you about your past -- in order to support… Continue reading Doctor Body Reader

Aylee Walsh found this article I wrote a while back comparing Core Energetics with other Approaches, The first part of this article is excerpted from an article by Karyne Wilner https://www.coreenergetics.org/about-core-energetics/articles/a-therapy-of-bodily-energy-and-consciousness/   “Differences exist between Core Energetics® and other schools of body psychotherapy, and between Core Energetics® and other spiritual schools of counseling. Examples include… Continue reading A Look at Core Energetics and other Somatic Therapy Approaches

I love this poem by Rami, it reminds me of why we are all here, the lessons to be learned on planet earth. We learn them when we are humble, not when we are special. Picture of Rami receiving his two year diploma from the Core Energetics Academy. Life is not Mundane By Rami Nagel… Continue reading To Do A Common Thing Uncommonly Well

      Life is not Mundane By Rami Nagel   Doing the laundry, Washing the dishes, Taking out the trash, Driving your kids to school. You hope that one day you will be recognized for what you do. And you pray for the day when you finally will be seen for the song that… Continue reading Life Is Not Mundane

This work comes from a long history in psychology. It started with Freud. His student Wilhelm Reich showed that you could understand and analyze the personality by looking at the body. My mentor, Dr. John Pierrakos, a student of Reich, passed on the technology of reading the body to me. You can look at a… Continue reading What Is Body Reading?

Why did I leave talk therapy to do something different.  I was a humanistic therapist applying the work of Rogers, Perls, Gendlin, Erikson, even Ellis, in my practice. The experiential nature of the work invited me to be myself versus wearing the pro forma blank mask. Then I met John Pierrakos, MD. at a Humanistic… Continue reading Why I Became a Holistic, Body Therapist

Love is the ultimate goal. Relationships can  be difficult if partners develop weapons to use against each other. Sometime stereotypes prevail. Men are supposed to be strong and women are seen as emotional and sensitive. Disappointment follows if men appear weak or emotional and women powerful and distant. People enter relationships burdened with issues: distrust,… Continue reading Rid Your Relationship of Cruelty

We parked the car in the Munich airport this morning. After an 11-hour car trip through the Alps and four hours sleep in a German Pension, we boarded the plane for Berlin. (They will pick up the car after the training when they return to their summer home by the sea). Heidi told me the… Continue reading The Silence Of Forgiveness

After I make several phone calls to say goodbye, I board the plane. The aisle seat reserved for me on British Air does not exist. Instead I draw the second seat of four in the middle section of the Boeing 747. Sandwiched between two gentlemen, one American (who asks why I did not reserve an… Continue reading Journey to Berlin to Teach Core Energetics, the 1990’s

His big firm hand folded around my tiny, delicate hand. We walked together to the corner ice cream store. I felt so safe. My hand melted into his and I felt the protection of his bulk. I didn't want this walk to end. "This is ecstacy," I thought. The counter in the store stretched from… Continue reading First Love