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BODY WORK INTERVENTIONS--Excerpted from the IIBA Ethics Committee

To facilitate psychological work on a body level, Bioenergetic Therapy includes four major types of body work interventions. Certified Bioenergetic Therapists have been trained to utilize procedures in the4se areas. The purpose of these somatic interventions or movement experiences should be clearly explained, to your satisfaction, by the therapist and at no time should your choice (of whether or not to participate in the experiences) be compromised.

The four areas of intervention include: • AWARENESS EXPERIENCES
• PHYSICAL INTERVENTIONS
• DIRECTED EXPRESSION
• TOUCH

Awareness Experiences:  Body awareness interventions are designed to assist you in attending to your experience of your body. The focus is on areas of muscular tension, posture, breathing patterns and the ways in which physical and emotional tensions, behavioral patterns and mental states are related. Methods of increasing body awareness may be suggested and encouraged.

Physical Interventions:  Physical interventions are used to help bring more aliveness and movement to your body. These movement experiences may focus on areas of your body that have chronic muscular tension, poor circulation, low levels of awareness or restricted ability for movement. They may include stretching exercises to enhance the tone of your muscles, breathing skills to charge the body or create states of relaxation or tools for stress reduction in order to expand the range of emotional states you are able to experience. The purpose of these interventions is to increase energy, charge and feeling by reducing chronic muscular tension and increasing the capacity for movement and self-expression.

Directed Expression:  Difficult or traumatic material from your past is sometimes the focus of therapeutic work. The release, understanding and integration of these feelings through procedures that facilitate emotional expression can be a therapeutic goal. To assist you in moving toward this goal, your therapist may suggest directed experiences in emotional expression. You may be asked to participate in body movements, exercises and experiences that can deepen emotional expression and help you clarify your feelings. In turn, these experiences are designed to support and expand the range of feelings and a deepening emotional awareness.

Touch:  In Bioenergetic Therapy, touch is sometimes used to help you bring awareness to your body, to release the tension in chronically held muscle groups, to support you during the release of past traumatic material or to assist you in making new movements outside your usual restricted range of motion. The guidelines for the use of touch include: asking your permission when touch is involved, respecting your personal boundaries and preferences in the use of touch and staying within the guidelines for the use of touch designated by your therapist's licensing board and professional association. Under no circumstances will the use of touch in therapy involve sexual areas of the body.

 
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