Author: WindlassCreative

Holistic Professional Training Program -- Mindbody, Core Energetics, Core Living Therapy Begins, Friday, October 28 - 30, 2011 Someone recently mentioned The Celestine Prophecy to me. Remembering that book reminded me why this Two Year Professional Training in Holistic Counseling, Core Energetics, and Core Living Therapy is so important to me and to those who… Continue reading Holistic Professional Training Program

This is a question I have been thinking about. I had no plans to change my practice. I loved being a humanistic psychotherapist, basing my interventions on the work of Rogers, Perls, Schutz, Gendlin, Erikson, and even Ellis. Experiences such as empty chair work and Rogerian reflection deepened the therapeutic process, and because I felt… Continue reading Why Become a Holistic Therapist

John was born in a small village in Greece in 1921. He lived there  until he was about age 6  when the entire family moved to Athens. He lived in Athens until he was 18. A story he heard about his first year of life left the impression that he had trouble digesting food, possibly… Continue reading Bio: John C. Pierrakos: The Early Years

"Now, in relation to my splitting off from the Institute: It has happened historically many times, as with Freud and Reich, etc., I believe that the reason for these patterns is unavoidable when those who innovated stay rigidly anchored in what they have found and feel threatened to go further. Whenever there is a standstill,… Continue reading John’s Explanation For Leaving Bioenergetics

"Throughout my twenty years of psychiatric practice, I have come to the conclusion that the old format of doctor-patient relationship is no longer sufficient to fill the needs of an emerging new consciousness in man. My own personal development had led me on a pathway that has enabled me to resolve deep-seated problems that could… Continue reading JOHN C. PIERRAKOS, MD: ANNOUNCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW THERAPEUTIC PROCESS: CORE ENERGETICS

Louise tells the group she hates her body and she has had spinal surgery for scoliosis. KBW “You may have received an early dose of hate in the first 3 months of life. You felt that you were unlovable and unwanted. At times you felt, ‘what’s the use; why even go on,' a sense of… Continue reading Louise’s Body Reading: Squashing Power

Here are several valid reasons for self-monitoring your internal sensations. Some people have physical problems that can be exacerbated by emotional problems or that are caused by the interaction between emotions and the body. People who suffer from psychosomatic illnesses or those whose illnesses lead to more emotional stress need to identify, at the earliest… Continue reading Internal Sensations

The energy flow in your body should make a figure eight. Up one side from the ground, crossing at the solar plexus, traveling up the other side, crossing again at the soft palate in the mouth, and flowing back down. For many of you, your energy doesn't flow in a figure eight. For some of… Continue reading Planet Body

The goal of Core Energetics is to open the heart and experience love. This is accomplished by helping individuals remove the obstacles embedded in their personalities, heal their splits, explore their emotions at the level of truth, experience love throughout their beings, and actively cope with life. Few other body therapies integrate spirituality and the… Continue reading The Core Energetic Therapy Process

Core Energetics focuses upon the life force and considers energy to be the basic building block of human life. To work with energy, Core Energetic therapists employ movement in the session. Like a mosaic in motion, therapist and client move in relationship to each other, often engaged in physical exercises in tandem. Both are on… Continue reading An Energetic Life: How We Can Achieve It