A Holistic Body-Psychotherapy Method developed by Ute Arnold

THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT in the Unergi training is an experiential, non-linear educational process. It has many facets: intensity, lightness and fun; reaching deep and reaching out; growing up and growing more child-like. In this rich and diverse educational community teachers become students, and students become teachers. This training encourages the individual and the professional to expand their awareness while facilitating others, adding a variety of new skills to their present repertoire.

UNERGI SKILLS INCLUDE:

• Mindful Movement: greater freedom through body/mind movement sequences based on Moshe Feldenkrais’ work, connecting to our innate body wisdom.
• Listening Touch: intentional, safe and healing touch facilitated by the Alexander Technique.
• Experiential Anatomy: studying, sensing and visualizing the inter-connecting energy pathways between bones, muscles, and nervous system.
• The Chakras: attuning to, energizing and connecting the 7 major body energy centers.
• Dream Work: processing dreams through enactment, Gestalt Therapy and creative process.
• Creative Expression: by drawing, painting, writing, doodling, scratching, sounding, playing or dancing, the wisdom and woundedness of the inner child is accessed and transformed; the inner artist discovers and celebrates new choices.
• Healing Forces of Nature: communing with nature will guide us to the natural rhythms within ourselves and the needs of the earth.
• Healing Community: building inner safety and trust in relationships as natural healing opportunities.
• Mystery and Silence: honoring spirit and nurturing our well being through guided visualization and meditation, realizing our creative divinity.

IN A UNERGI SESSION, the therapist assists student or client in releasing habitual physical and emotional patterns through intentional ‘listening touch’ and movement inviting a dialogue between body and mind. In this way we access memories and feelings.
	THE KINDS OF THEMES that may surface during a Unergi session are: Emotional and physical burnout, chronic pain, abusive touch, relationships and trust, self-confidence and abundance, inner-child issues, creativity and spirituality.

THE UNERGI SESSION AND TRAINING COMBINES THE FOLLOWING TOOLS:

WITH FRITZ PERLS’ GESTALT THERAPY we sense the many aspects of self and how the body expresses these disparate parts through ease, dis--ease, and disease. The process encourages the client to feel his or her physical and emotional responses, clarifying issues and bringing them into the present.

THE UNERGI BODY - PSYCHOTHERAPIST then invites these voices of the body to speak their truths and be heard. This honors all that the client has been, is now, and is in the process of becoming.

IN MOSHE FELDENKRAIS' concepts of Awareness Through Movement® the Unergi therapist uses specific psychophysical movement sequences to stimulate neuro-muscular memory. The client discovers new body-mind connections, allowing the possibility for making different physical and emotional choices. Body and mind are given the opportunity to heal together and reclaim ease of movement, sensing, thinking and responding.

THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE inspires an expansive lengthening, widening and deepening of the muscular/skeletal energetic components of the body. The Unergi therapist uses the Alexander technique sensing her own body to inform her quality of touch, passing on that sensibility to the client.

THE HEALING FORCES OF NATURE guide our eyes to easily slide down a blade grass. Our bodies respond as cells, muscles, bones and blood slurp up the exquisiteness of remembering the many soft moveable shapes of cloudness; remembering rockness, hard and composed, compressed, layered, shaped by centuries; remembering wren-ness, blue, flitting, dancing with windy feathers; remembering dragonfly, eyes in all directions, seeing in the round, up, down, sideways.

OUR COLORFUL EXPRESSIONS with brush on paper, hands on clay, dance, poetry or sound reveal what has been hidden. What emerges from these activities often surprises the student or client. An example of this might be a simple line contrasting a huge black shape which partially covers a small figure reaching for a sunflower. We begin to dialogue with these shapes using Gestalt therapy. The pictorial images encourage us to identify the emotional energy stored in the psyche and body. As we give them a voice, listen to them, dance or sound them, the healing process is initiated.

IN UNERGI, touch, talk, movement, sound, creativity and nature become our allies. They open our receptive field and create the intention of Unergi, which is for us to meet in a unified field of energy that includes all of life.

We are encouraged to feel the range of all our emotions leading us to empathy and compassion for ourselves and everyone in our life’s journey.

We learn to appreciate our fine mind and intuition beyond our intellect. We use our body as a tool to expand awareness and find a delicate balance between what is, was, and always has been.