What it is
A Psychology of Presence: here, now, and all around.Shamanism, Mindfulness, Spirituality & Psychotherapy.
This workshop will cover both the theory and practices of Biotransenergetics (BTE) including the Passage from the Zero, Persistency of the Contact and Mastery of the Transe.
According to BTE, the transe is that state or field that allows one to have direct contact with the Self through the felt sense, that is, our true nature and its spiritual dimension. The word transe describes a non-ordinary state of consciousness, which from a psychological perspective can be seen as an integral state of being on each of the five levels of experience: physical, energetic, emotional, mental and spiritual.
By persisting with contact and letting it flow, our mind is emptied and false needs disappear. At the same time, different roles and masks we have built for ourselves vanish and, finally, we find ourselves again. The light appears at the end of the tunnel, just as the darkest night is always followed by the dawn.
By persisting with contact and letting go, chronic tensions in our body, depository of past traumas and current conflicts of the Ego, dissolve and life starts pulsating again in our body so that biological pulsation and healing occur.
By mastering the transe, we can "make one from two", namely, we become the other instead of working with the other, and we become the problem instead of working on it. Becoming the other creates the conditions to overcome any conflict - which is just the contraposition of two opposite forces. When we master the transe, we develop the capacity for transforming any enemy into an ally, any symptom into a message, any force into our own force.
Moreover, we can access Transpersonal Consciousness, as well as experience archetypal forces such as earth, water, air and fire, and finally harmonize with them. When we master the transe, we can find our place within the forests and the ocean, with the animals and stones, waterfalls and the moon, and experience everything as a manifestation of Unity, of God, the Big One, The Great Spirit, the Supreme Consciousness, the Matrix, The Field – however one wants to call it.
Each day of the seminar will include lectures, group discussions, in-depth experiential practices and supervised work with Biotransenergetic methods. All of these will help you learn how to effectively incorporate the use of BTE as Self-Mastery Soft Skills in your daily life or within your psychotherapy or counseling practices.
The workshop will provide:
- Lectures on the theory, development, and practice of Biotransenergetics, maps of consciousness, non-ordinary states of consciousness, the five levels of experience, and theoretical models of psychotherapy
- Lectures and group discussions on the Dreaming Body – a sequence of corporal practices the client performs guided by the psychotherapist, the theory of the transe state, the beneficial use of psicotranse in psychotherapy, captation (a modality of listening into the field), auto-captation, emphatic identification, and the structure and process of verbal and non-verbal communication in the practice of Biotransenergetics
- Experiential practice of archetypal movements to improve personal awareness of proprioceptive, visceral, and kinesthetic signals, and symbolic, archetypal, and imaginal processes accompanied with drumming and breathing to intensify sensorial experience
- Passage from the Zero, Persistency of the Contact, Mastery of the Transe, Freedom from the Known.
- Integration through group sharing of the weekend insights, experiences, and learnings
Suggested Program
Retreat Daily Schedule10 October
from 14.00 Arrival and check-in
15.30 -18.30 Biotransenergetics - Maps and theoretical models
19.00 - 20.00 Dinner
11 October
08.00 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.30 -12.30 Dreaming Body
Archetypal movements to improve awareness of proprioceptive, visceral and kinesthetic signals
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.30 – 18.30 Medicine circle: Persistency of Contact
Passing from the Zero, not doing, Self-healing
19.00 - 20.00 Dinner
12 October
08.00 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.30 - 12.30 Freedom from the known
Deep breathing and drumming
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.30 - 18.30 Shamanic Journey
Archetypal, symbolic, imaginal process with drumming and breathing
19.00 - 20.00 Dinner
13 October
08.00 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.30 - 12.30 Medicine circle: Self-healing practices
Mindfulness, sound work, deep listening
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.30 - 18.30 Mastery of the Transe
Captation, Auto-captation: Emphatic identification
19.00 - 20.00 Dinner
14 October
08.00 - 09.00 Breakfast
by 09.30 Rooms Check-out
09.30 - 12.30 Psicotranse:
Disappearing, flowing, harmonizing, integrating
Sharing - Contest, test, structure, process of verbal and non-verbal communication in BTE
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
Departure after lunch