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	Life is first and foremost a somatic experience. For psychotherapy to be effective, each intellectual insight must have an "inside" awakening, an interior somatic awareness. To embody life's knowledge we must know how to listen to our somatic intelligence. Without essential somatic intelligence, emotional and behavioral patterns do not change appreciably. Psychotherapy becomes endless statements of disembodied intellectual explanations of the "whys" of life. The why's of life will remain only intellectual until a sound foundation of somatic identity, a core experience of self, has been established in the body; effective psychological mental health skills have been mastered; and contemplative tools for exploring the existential-transpersonal aspects of life have been acquired. IBP offers the therapist and client a unique way of tracking body-mind interruptions to the somatic core sense of self, life's most basic guidance system. Psychological interruptions include emotional patterns and beliefs developed in early childhood that habitually distort present experiences (Primary Scenario), our protective defenses (Character Style) and how we abandon our core selves for love and approval (Agency). Without knowing the difference between psychological interruptions and core self, we cannot trust our intuition, our inner voice. Your inner voice is essential in exploring an equally important aspect of life's journey, the human existential dilemma -- the issues of existence. We all must face life's unanswerable questions: aloneness, death, life, impermanence, aging, authenticity, creativity, integrity, infinity and more. In other words, all sorts of things happen in life. It is not what happens to you, but how you deal internally with what happens that determines your well being and quality of life. IBP teaches you how to come from the wisdom of your core with heightened aliveness in every aspect of your life. IBP provides practical skills for: Sustaining heightened core self experience and well being in the body. Elevating the capacity for love, trust, hope and mutual fulfillment in intimate relationships. Reaching new levels of sexual satisfaction by using our unique energetic-psychological system for relationships. Finding depth and inner comfort through our existential-transpersonal model, especially with aging. How IBP Works As an established, in depth psychotherapy, IBP is accessible, practical, well grounded and effective. Verbal and cognitive methods are integrated with a somatic body orientation and breath work. The unique IBP breathing, movement, boundary and presence work helps heighten the experience of self and being alive. Together they open energetic holding patterns in the body and intensify and clarify interior and exterior experiences. To have a direct experience of self, you must also be able to identify your disruptive psychological patterns and see them as separate from your core self. IBP synthesizes these patterns into three layered arenas. The arenas reveal the parts of one's emotional life that can cause interior, relationship and work related repetitive problems. Consistently felt and acted out as behaviors, the arenas do not represent who you are. Echoes of the past, they are what happened to you. Yet, on a somatic level, they perpetuate pervasive feelings in the body and behaviors. If one confuses these arena patterns with their true identity, they remain automatic. For an experience of self, one must take charge of the unfolding of their life. Working with the arenas, the underlying universal aspects of human nature, one doesn't have to solve every wrinkle in their past or in their relationship. People who understand and take charge of their arena themes are better able to stabilize their sense of self, and tolerate intense intimate and sexual experiences. Along life's journey, there are periods when we feel "off" and our emotions and responses are distorted, fragile and predominately negative. When this happens, judgments are poor. We can turn negative and hopeless and defensive patterns become exaggerated. We call this disturbing state "fragmentation." Fragmentation is not an idea that you can talk yourself out of; it is a body-mind-emotional experience, one that can last for long periods of time. IBP offers body-mind "steps out of fragmentation" that will quickly and effectively restore your sense of well being and inner stability. If one deals only with the current emotional trigger and not the underlying arena patterns, the "blues" hang on. Fragmentation occurs when something in the present triggers personal themes within the four arenas. It is seldom the obvious human miseries that fragment us. The underlying themes cause the deep, debilitating symptoms. IBP Provides Important Contributions to the Process of Psychotherapy We teach mental health skills that provide the means for sustaining a sense of well being. These skills also help separate psychological issues from those that are existentially based. This keeps people from fruitlessly falling again and again into a psychological abyss or empty void. We have a somatic approach. This means that we believe that emotional injuries and theirs lessons, especially those sustained in early childhood, are held in the body. These holding patterns must be released for full function and underlying authenticity. In therapy, for every insight there must be an inside felt somatic experience in the body. Very much like learning to tie your shoelaces, you must have a sensory, kinesthetic experience. Words are not enough. Mental health cannot be maintained without the immediate experience of emotional and energetic presence, an ability to witness who we are. We work with the psychological and developmental (object relations based) issues of early childhood. Because people commonly confuse psychological-relationship issues for those that are existential-transpersonal, we help clients sort and clarify these areas of emotional concern. This establishes a foundation for spiritual practice &endash; especially later in life. Rather than physically touch our clients or patients, we use methods that are non-invasive to release somatic holding patterns. In addition to awareness, breath and movement, we use self-release techniques to empower the patient rather than foster dependence on the therapist for mental and physical well being. IBP is an in depth, well integrated effective system that includes skills for personal development and well being, a system for deepening the love, trust and mutuality in intimate relationship and an energetic-relationship model for making sex better. IBP teaches that, on the inner journey there are two very separate yet, intertwined tasks to which one must attend. The nature of one is developmental, psychological and emotional; the other is existential and spiritual. Both are experienced in the body. IBP reveals a clear somatic understanding of how childhood injuries are affecting us now, and how we keep these patterns going through our defenses. IBP initiates a reawakening of aliveness and the authentic self in which body, mind, and spirit interact in concert. IBP teaches effective mental health skills like the steps out of fragmentation and somatic practices including breath, movement and somatic self-release techniques. IBP helps therapists become compassionate guides with professional competence and tolerance for intense experiences. IBP has a firm theoretical base and effective methods of implementation, yet is a flexible system in which the individuality of each practitioner is given full support for expression. IBP teaches the somatic, psychological and existential means to self-integration and sense of well being. IBP provides the therapist with a highly workable map leading directly to the underlying authentic self as it is experienced in the body. IBP trains therapists to implement their therapeutic skills and philosophy in a most direct and practical manner . . . to include the body, self and soul. IBP ignites an intimate familiarity with the unanswerable existential questions and spiritual depths encountered on life's journey. The effectiveness of IBP therapy has brought worldwide popularity and sustained growth. IBP now has eleven international institutes for training professional mental health practitioners. The IBP Central Institute is licensed by the State of California to provide Post Secondary Education and accredited to provide continuing education credit. The IBP International Association is an independent professional non-profit membership organization dedicated to service, education, and the advancement of Integrative Body Psychotherapy. The members of the IBP International Association and its regional chapters compose a local and international IBP community
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