WHAT IS CORE ENERGETICS?

John Pierrakos, MD, founder and creator of Core Energetics often said that the purpose of life is for each of us to fulfill our potential as human beings. But what stops us from becoming what we are capable of? The simplest answer is that we learn to inhibit ourselves. Through the challenges of growing up in imperfect families and an imperfect world, we all learn to build walls of protection. As a result, we constrain our life force and cut off from our essential nature, our spirit.

According to Core Energetics, the effects of our personal life histories are held in the body as emotional or energetic blocks. The Core Energetics model is a highly effective system of intervention, offered primarily through individual or group sessions, designed to support clients in overcoming the effects of the past. By working directly with the body, and particularly the emotions, Core Energetics helps clients to move more quickly and deeply through the conflicts and struggles that hold them back in life.

In contrast to conventional talk therapy, Core Energetics is a profoundly experiential journey into personal healing and self discovery. Under the supportive guidance of highly trained Core Energetics practitioners, clients will have the opportunity to reclaim disowned emotional truths and to uncover the Core qualities that will allow them to find personal fulfillment. This is accomplished by supporting clients to move their bodies in specific ways that allow for deeper self awareness and release of frozen emotions such as anger, fear, sadness, need, sensuality and ultimately love. Through the Core Energetics experience, clients learn to inhabit their bodies more fully and to live from their hearts more openly.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT AS A CLIENT?

By choosing to work with a Core Energetics practitioner, you are embarking on a profoundly personal journey of self discovery. When certain emotions have been disowned because of early life prohibitions against feeling, the energy gets “trapped” in your body. In your Core Energetics work you will be supported in first “charging” these trapped feelings, often through physical activities involving movement and breathing. The charging allows you to claim your power, vitality, autonomy, and life-affirming emotions. Afterwards, you will move into “discharging.” This means releasing into the more tender, softer places where your body may vibrate and feel energy streaming through it. This release will open you to “connecting” with feelings such as desire, pleasure, love and appreciation.

By working with energy, you will find yourself becoming more spontaneous, self aware and conscious. You will uncover all the ways that you hide or “mask” yourself in order to remain safe. In the Core Energetics experience, you will learn that is it natural and human to have negative thoughts and feelings and that by identifying and releasing them you can truly discover your Core. In a very real sense, the aim of your work is to reclaim the wonder, passion and spontaneity a child possesses so naturally, while also evolving as a creative, empathic and self-responsible adult.