The simplest answer is that we have learned to inhibit ourselves. Through the challenges of growing up in an imperfect family and in an imperfect world, we learn to build protective defensive walls. The result is that we limit our own life force, that we cut ourselves off from our essence, our core, and soul.

According to Core Energetics®, the effects of our personal life history are retained in our body as an emotional or energetic blockage. Core Energetics® is a highly effective system of intervention in both individual and group sessions, created to support the client in overcoming the past. By working directly with the body and especially with emotions, Core Energetics® helps clients move more quickly through the conflicts and struggles that hold them back in life. In contrast to conventional psychotherapy, where we predominantly work on a verbal level, Core Energetics® is a deeply experiential journey into personal healing and self-discovery. Under the careful guidance and support of a highly trained therapist, clients have the opportunity to reclaim alienated truth and discover core qualities with the help of which they can achieve personal fulfillment. The therapist achieves these effects by encouraging the client to move their body in a special way that allows for deeper self-awareness and release of frozen emotions, such as anger, fear, sadness, need, sensuality, and love. Through the experience with Core Energetics®, clients learn greater embodiment, presence in the body, and to live life with a more open heart.

Walid P. Daw – my teacher, mentor, and supervisor – is a recognized psychotherapist and founder of the Swiss Institute for Core Energetics, where over 70 therapists have already studied with him. He also teaches and leads workshops internationally. He has more than 30 years of experience and practice in psychotherapy. His knowledge and areas of expertise include Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics, Rolfing, Biodynamics, and Core Energetics.

“We can never completely heal our wounds. But we can change the condition around our wounds and integrate them into our being so that our true self can unfold.”