Theme of this year: Treatment Of The Belly

This year, the full focus will be on the different ways of working with and treating the abdominal region.

As always, the principles of Alchemy of Bodywork form the foundation, with the post- and prenatal application of the Five Elements as the central framework. This time, the emphasis is not so much on the individual layers of the 8 layers of the body, but rather on a deep and powerful exploration of the abdominal region, where these 8 layers naturally converge.

During this 5-day training, we will:

• Work deeply with organ tissue and its corresponding energy
• Refine and correct organ movement, relationships, and positioning
• Learn to open, cleanse, and energize the energetic network of the abdominal region
• Treat the energy centers within the abdomen
• · Restore the connection between the abdomen and the extremities

In short, a unique 5-day Alchemy of Bodywork immersion that will have a profound impact on participants — both as receivers of the work and as a powerful enhancement of the impact of their own treatments.

Please note: since this training has different content every year, the repeat discount does not apply to this course.

“With ‘Alchemy of Bodywork’ we intent to bring bodywork, and the art of natural touch, back to its original power and simplicity. We do this by starting from the core and the darkness of the body itself. Hardly paying any attention to technique, skill, and theoretical knowledge. In this way students easily have their own experience of what the body truly is. This is something that even most professional bodyworkers are lacking. By adding the 5 elements and learning the 5 different ways nature is touching us, students get enough sensitivity and depth to give a deep bodywork treatment. The ‘Full Body Treatment’ is a bodywork treatment that brings all this together in a practical form.

But of course, this doesn’t mean that great bodywork arts like shiatsu, osteopathy, fascia therapy and many other bodywork and healing arts have no value or are not useful. In my opinion these arts are ways to look at and treat the body and energy field on the 8 main layers of the body: the bones, glands, organs, muscles/tendons, fascia, meridians, chakras, and aura. Although there are many great masters in these disciplines, very few have mastered all these 8 layers and even less of them realize that it is also possible to approach these layers from the ‘body core’ and the unity of the elements. When doing so, it allows us to keep the simplicity and at the same time approach the infinite sea of possibilities to touch the different energy bodies, for ourselves and others.

Many ‘Alchemy of Bodywork’ students shared with us about their hunger on how to approach the different layers of the bodies more specifically. How to use the alchemical approach to treat for example the meridians, the organs or the bones,… Not by doing the years of in depth study that is required for each of these methods, but by applying the ‘Alchemy of Bodywork parameters’ to tune in to each of these layers specifically. I have the experience that when I am in the depth of the body intelligence there is no need for extensive knowledge and complicated technique. I just need to be very precise in my depth, rhythm, energetic quality, listening, virtuousness, connectedness. And I need the skill to touch and enter each of the 8 body layers.

This way I immediately get a personal experience of what that specific layer is and which way it needs to be treated to let it rebalance itself. This requires training and guidance, but with Alchemy of Bodywork as a foundation, it is not hard work and studying, but rather a natural progression (like in the picture above).As an example, there are many different ways to approach the meridians, but they are all talking about the same thing: the typical meridian quality. That’s what we need to learn, to connect with this as pure and direct as possible. The interest to study and learn the theory comes naturally from there.” Dirk

It takes a long time and hard work to become a master in one of the bodywork arts.
It is impossible to learn all that is needed in one lifetime to master all layers of the being that we are.
But a bodywork alchemist has a simple, constant presence as the center of Life.
Following the way and witnessing how the miracle unfolds.