Postural Integration® (P.I.) can be practiced in the field of body oriented psychotherapy by those psychotherapists who include a major part of PI- “hands-on bodywork”. P.I. is practiced in individual sessions only. Your physical posture, as well as your mental and emotional attitudes are cornerstones of the therapy. The aim is to bring you as a client in contact with your natural authenticity and embodied potential for being. In the course of the therapy, you as a client are helped to contact your blocked feelings and convictions that are literally held in your posture and in your bodies tissues. Therapeutic work is done to to liberate this armoring and the cramping that disturbs energy flow in your bodymind. These blockages are related to character dynamics that you developed during your childhood and later. These “character structures” are transformed in the bodymind most effectively when you also do deep bodywork, in particular by freeing your connective tissue (fasciae) in combination with emotional release and integration, breath exercises, movement, gestalt work and expression. The application of soft and deeper therapeutic touches, is thus interwoven with insightful interpretations and process guidance coming from Western psychology as well as from the ideas of oriental traditions. It is this integrated psychotherapeutic guidance that transforms your “old patterns” up to the body level and fosters lasting results in the transformation process and ultimately leads to enhanced vitality, self-knowledge, authenticity and well-being on a deeper level. Postural Integration requires an active participation from you as a client. Your willingness to examine yourself and to push your boundaries is needed. It definitely requires some courage to do this therapy, but the results will speak for themselves. The work is also exciting, but we always take care of sufficient safety in order for all to be doable. In the beginning of a PI session, after a first contact and introduction, the bodymind is prepared and made accessible by means of charging and discharging exercises, several touch-techniques as well as amplified breathing in order to liberate the myofascial network. In the deeper phase of this work with the connective tissue, it becomes clear where your accumulated tension is hiding. Usually we don’t feel anymore where it is stuck, but we do experience where the symptoms elsewhere in the body manifest; like in the lower back, in the shoulders, or in the knees, etc. A successful therapy leads you primarily to a place where your initial goal for therapy has become ultimately less important. Instead a whole new set of perceptions opens up for you in which you free yourself from your old limitations, and in which you can move freely able to enjoy life deeper. This is the actual integration: The coming home in your authentic, alive and embodied self. Clients who experienced the P.I. process experience themselves als more whole, feel themselves also more balanced, more integrated, more energetic, clearer, and have more pleasure and find more meaning in life as before. P.I. treatments an also indirectly influence all kinds of healing processes of even long standing chronic ailments that you carry in you. More info about our organization and this work can be found on: www.icpit.org