Core Energetics is a practical and richly rewarding form of therapeutic work that leads to self-discovery and transformation. It takes place in an environment where the client feels supported, nurtured, and free to work and explore at a comfortable pace. Unlike traditional talk therapy, Core brings together feelings and consciousness using your body's energy, through such actions as kicking, punching, holding positions that cause muscles to vibrate and energy to flow, exaggerating postures, making sounds or facial expressions, and connecting statements to movements. Because the Core approach offers a dynamic experience of feeling your issues and conflicts, people often find that they experience real healing and noticeable progress much more quickly than with talk therapy alone. Core work is challenging, creative, fun, surprising, exciting, and never boring.

How does Core Energetics work?
We've all had painful experiences in our past that we learned to defend against in order to survive. For example, you may have discovered at a very early age that when you expressed need, no amount of crying, asking, or clinging led to an adult giving you what you needed. As a survival strategy, you learned to bury or suppress the feeling of need. Many years later, you may still use that same self-defense behavior, often unconsciously, even though it's unnecessary now that you're an adult and gets in the way of your fulfillment. The problem is, you may not remember any other way of being. Such defenses get imbedded in your memory and in your body like frozen blocks of history, which prevent the free flow of energy and keep you from being fully you in the present. Core Energetics is all about finding those hidden defenses and freeing up blocked energy. In Core Energetics, our goal is to achieve harmony using the concepts of movement, consciousness, and experience or feeling.

Movement: Because we are alive, energy constantly moves through us. When blocked energy is freed up and flows unencumbered through the body, we feel charged, balanced, and connected to ourselves and to the world around us. In Core, we are looking for the hidden places in us where the movement of energy has become stuck or frozen. We are also working with movement that is out of harmony - too much movement or discordant movement.

Consciousness: Self-awareness, or consciousness, regulates our actions and responses to our everyday world. When we're unconsciously responding to the present based upon past experience, our life-force energy doesn't flow in harmony with the reality of the moment. Core work informs your consciousness so you can be present - right here, right now - with full awareness and openness to life as it's unfolding.

Experience: Our ability to feel and experience ourselves and others is what supports the harmony between movement and consciousness. If we use past experiences, and our defenses against them, as our key reference points, then we stop ourselves from feeling, taking in, and experiencing what is happening now. The Core approach helps us bring full energy and awareness to each and every moment.