Gestalt Workshop: In-Depth Body Work in Psychosomatic Therapy—A Bridge Between Experience and Meaning. The Depths of the Body, Spaces of Contact — Issue 2
An event for anyone interested in learning to listen even more fully to their body—as a gateway to emotions, memory, and presence. Over the course of this five-day workshop, we’ll explore the map of the body—from head to toe—as well as the map of approaches that teach us how to be close to a person and their body. This is an encounter with modern understandings of psychosomatic therapy within the traditions of Gestalt, bioenergetics, neurobiology, and nervous system regulation. It is also a journey through the ancient paths of the East: yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and an understanding of the flow of life within the body.
The West meets the East. Thought meets the body. Psychotherapy meets silence.
Movement, word, presence. Lecture and experience.
East and West—intertwined in theory and in the body.
The body as common ground.
It is the body that remembers. It is the body that knows.
It is the body that can become a bridge—between the sensitive and the conscious.
Between what once was—and what is now.
Gestalt Workshop: In-Depth Body Work – Session 2
Agenda for each day:
8:00–9:00 a.m. – yoga, bioenergetic exercises
9:00–9:30 — breakfast break
9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – theoretical portion
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. – lunch break
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Gestalt experience
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. – closing yoga nidra with a themed visualization.
Gestalt Workshop: In-Depth Body-Oriented Work in Psychosomatic Therapy – Danuta Brzezicka:
I am a psychologist and a certified Gestalt psychotherapist (EAGT) with many years of experience in clinical work and professional development.
For years, I have been exploring issues related to body-oriented work—both in psychotherapy and in approaches that support psychosomatic balance. Yoga and meditation are part of my daily life—they help me listen more quietly, feel more deeply, and be closer to myself and others.
My professional background has been enriched by two postgraduate programs in neuropsychology and body-oriented therapy, as well as yoga instructor training courses.
I am particularly interested in the psychotherapy of psychosomatic disorders, where the body and emotions together form a more complete picture of a person’s experience.