In the last phase of their training, the soon to be certified practitioners give a series of sessions at a very reduced fee.
DFA sessions approach the overall work with a person from three angles:
At the
beginning of each session we see how the different parts of the body relate to
each other as well as to the body’s gravitational axis. Then, with the person
fully dressed and lying down on a padded table, we work with these shapes with
a gentle hands-on intervention which allow us to
At the end
of the session we dedicate some time to integrating the new options we found
while lying down, into the actions of standing and walking. This makes it
possible to apply them to different situations in our everyday lives.
Private DFA
sessions typically are of one hour duration at a weekly rhythm. In a limited
time frame, for exemple for people who come from far away, it is possible to do
up to five sessions per week.
The habitual holding pattern makes up the shape in which you occupy space and move with your body. It is typically yours, and determines your particular way of behaving.
You created
it in order to adapt to the initial conditions of your life. In order to gain a
margin of freedom from old habits, it is essential to know the pattern both on
the sensory and cognitive level.
Habitual
tension tends to restrict your freedom of movement, your ability to respond to
the requirements of life, your freedom of expression; it keeps you anchored in
the past, in continual reaction to unresolved childhood issues; it causes pain,
both physical and emotional; it is at the root of depression, anxiety and
numerous chronical and degenerative ailments.
Private DFA
sessions help you to recognize your habitual holding pattern, both on the
sensory and cognitive level. Like this you can learn to perceive the shape in
which you tend to hold yourself and move in relationship with your environment.
The coordinates of the gravitational field of Earth offer an objective frame of
reference. As you are becoming aware of the relationship between your body and
your environment, in which you hold yourself by means of the habitual tension
of the pattern, your discover ways to move more freely, to calm your anxiety,
to come out of depression and enjoy life; pain diminishes and sometimes even
disappears altogether. You learn to delay reactive behaviors and develop ways
to respond to what is really going on in the present moment. You can recover
your health and protect it. You speak your heart and know how to be silent when
it is better to not say anything. Your creativity allows you to find solutions
that before used to elude you.
A poor relationship with the gravitational field of Earth may be the cause of many health issues, or it may be a consequence of ailments that follow an illness, an accident, an unrecognized emotional charge, an overload due to repetitive movements, bad posture, personal or multigenerational traumas, etc.
In all
these cases, becoming aware of how we move and occupy space with our body in
relationship with this greater force field of the planet allows us to modulate
our habitual way of doing it. The most important tool in this task is our
sensory perception which sheds light into the areas of our experience that are
held in the dark of the unconscious but the tension of our holding
patterns.
The workshops and private sessions in DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition offer a
safe space to access these areas, which we tend to hold outside our awareness
by means of habitual holding. Like this, a person can find ways to rescue the
part of their experience that are held captive by unconscious patterns,
possessed by autonomous complexes that steer their behavior in automatic forms
beyond their own will. One can find ways to move in accordance with the
gravitational force so that joints, muscles and connective tissues become free
of excessive involuntary holding that interferes with the physiological
functions of the body on all levels: breathing, digestion, circulation, the
flow of information in the nervous system, good working order in the
muscular-skeletal system, hormone balance, acid/base balance, etc.
For social beings who are deeply relational, like we human being are, an
essential part of taking care of our health is to
... manage one's emotions
Very early in life we discover that we can use the tension of our muscles
to interrupt the flow of sensations we do not like. These, then, accumulate
underneath the threshold of consciousness and the very tension increases their
intensity even more. When we can no longer hold them back, the break out in a
measure that is incommensurate in relationship with the event that set them
off. Sensory perception is an essential factor in being able to orient the flow
of emotions instead of being carried away by their intensity.
... communicate efficiently
Literally, the habitual holding of our muscles holds us away from the
ground and it distances us from the person we are speaking with. This way of
occupying space communicates fear in an attitude of menace of submission, which
thwarts the wish and the possibilities of communication and relationship
inherent in our nature. Becoming aware of the shapes in which we occupy space
and we move in relationship with our environment allows us to adopt
postures that facilitate communication and a good understanding.
...
create good relationships of cooperation and mutual help
Communicating, relating and helping each other is deeply rooted in our nature.
For us human beings it is indispensable to learn how to use our abilities for
sensory perception in order to cultivate relationships of communication and
cooperation instead of the individual and collective violence that dominates
the lives of so many people in the world.
...
resolve posttraumatic stress due to personal or multigenerational trauma
The mechanisms that
help us survive traumatic experiences may keep body and psyche stuck in the
moment just before the impact of the worst. If they are not processed
adequately, life may organize around the effort to avoid the impact of what
happened and the patterns resulting from that effort may be transmitted from
generation to generation, leading to repetition and reiteration of traumatizing
circumstances.
.... orient when we want to change the course of our lives
The starting point for change has to be the place where one is. Only from there
can we explore the possible perspectives within our reach.
In the online work we follow the same principles as in the face-to-face sessions. Although the hand-on intervention is impossible to carry out at a distance, we approach the body following the proven sequence of steps that facilitates access to unconscious content and the development of new options for more support, freedom of movement and responsiveness.
Here you find the tuition for sessions with Brigitte Hansmann. In order to find out what the other practitioners are charging, please, contact them directly.
Hands-on
sessions
90€ for
weekly sessions, to be paid monthly, at the beginning of the month, or in sets
of 2, 3, 5, or 5 sessions grouped together in a week, to be paid when scheduled.
100€ in
case of biweekly o sporadic sessions
Online work:
70€ for
weekly sessions, to be paid monthly, at the beginning of the month, or when
scheduled.
80€ in case
of biweekly o sporadic sessions
