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Body-oriented Counseling for Wellness and Awareness



The individuals’ psychological and existential discomfort shows in many different ways, but at the root there is often a loss of connection with our deepest feelings and our truth. Imposed conditionings, life traumas and pressure from our competitive society alienate us more and more from our true inner resources, forcing us to play roles that undermine our strength, clarity, vitality, creativity, and ability to give and receive love.

Non-acceptance of us, inner judgments, shame and guilty feelings are all factors destroying our self-confidence and capacity to expand naturally in our love relationships and working life. Awareness of these judgments and their overcoming through deep awareness and the activation of bodily energies, are essential factors in the counseling path I offer.

Often we realize our disconnection from our deep nature only when discomfort is such that becomes suffering. This suffering can take the form of various psychological disorders, such as anguish, depression, frustration, alienation, or somatization. At the same time we get oblivious to our true essential qualities, those that give us joy, strength, creativity, love, and consciousness.

A counseling path through the body reconnects us with our feelings and our truth, re-activating those inner resources that make our most authentic qualities alive again. These newly rediscovered qualities lead us to inner and exterior choices in tune with our true essence.

The counseling path I offer joins psychophysical methods such as Breathwork (an evolution of Rebirthing) and body contact in order to bring awareness into our tensions, and to release them.
Those, combined to verbal sharing are aimed to learn to listen to ourselves deeply, and to integrate our emotions in daily life.

Through both an accurate inquiry of ourselves and work on body energy it’s possible to go through the layers of our conditionings and sufferings in a soft and accepting way, reaching that deep layer made of consciousness and love.
Counseling may be scheduled in group or individual sessions.

Toshan Ivo Quartiroli, Milan, Italy