Tatyana Koloshina – Body-oriented therapy

Tatyana Koloshina – Body-oriented therapy

Body-oriented therapy helps therapists understand the body’s language and gain insight into a person beyond words alone.

A patient’s body can reveal their problems and character more quickly and fully than verbal communication.

Body-oriented psychotherapy allows the therapist to approach a client’s inner experiences gently while bypassing psychological resistance.

The body is the shortest path to the unconscious and to the roots of many problems.

Bodywork is used not only for resolving psychological difficulties and treating mental disorders, but also for improving overall health and well-being.

Because body-oriented therapy is not subject to conscious censorship, it often works more quickly and effectively than purely verbal techniques.

Tatyana Koloshina

Clinical psychologist, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, and Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

She specializes in body-oriented therapy, biosynthesis, art therapy, and psychosynthesis.

Her professional interests include art therapy, body-oriented psychotherapy, crisis intervention, psychosynthesis, and group therapy.

Contents of Disc 1

What Is Body-Oriented Therapy?

Core Issues Manifested in the Body:

Overcontrol — head

Relationships and contact with others — shoulders, arms

Sexuality — pelvis

Grounding and support — legs

A possible framework for describing a client’s existential situation

Wilhelm Reich’s vegetotherapy

Working with the throat and hands

Contents of Disc 2

Three principles of body-oriented work

Working with overcontrol

Warm-up

The “Theater of Touch” exercise

Working with boundaries

Games and exercises for developing body awareness

“Attraction and Repulsion”

Reading nonverbal information

Working with bodily tension and blockages

Developing body awareness

“Tension and Relaxation”

Nonverbal interaction

Alexander Lowen’s bioenergetics

Contents of Disc 3

An exercise for working with auto-aggression

Awareness through movement according to Moshe Feldenkrais

An exercise for working with fears and trauma

Working with the heart

The concept of breathing patterns

Four stages of a person’s interaction with the world:

Tactile phase

Oral phase

Anal phase

Genital phase

Description of four key problems and their corresponding symptoms

Working with breathing patterns

Working with overcontrol, blockages, and fears

The process of becoming aware of one’s existential situation through the body

A group exercise for relaxation, trust, and interaction

Contents of Disc 4

The nature of muscular tension according to Wilhelm Reich

The impact of body-oriented therapy on the layers of personality

Breathing as a way a person interacts with the world

Exercises

Three levels of expressing problems

Voice work

Applications

An exercise for the lower jaw

The exercise “Pushing the Voice Upward Like a Ball”

Working with symptoms according to Zuev

Purpose

An exercise for the arms: “The Main Channel of Free Energy”

The “Playing the Fool” exercise

The exercise “Shaking and Stretching the Arms”

A shoulder exercise: “The Cross”

An exercise for the arms and legs

Contents of Disc 5

Working with symptoms

A head exercise: “Oscillation”

The exercise “Professor Dowell’s Head”

A neck exercise

Exercises for the forehead and eyebrows

The exercise “Washing the Head”

An exercise for the ears

An exercise promoting the integration of head and body

The connection between the abdomen and feelings

Vector theory

Group voice work

A BEST technique for depression

Parent-child relationships

How to work with children

Seven techniques for working with the abdomen

Contents of Disc 6

Working with the legs and pelvis

Stereometric massage

Neurosis as a split between the “head” and the “heart”

The difference between feelings and emotions

Structural work in the heart area

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

Exercise 6