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PELVIC-HEART INTEGRATION® (PHI)

Pelvic-Heart Integration®* (also known as Heart in Sexuality) offers a comprehensive theory and techniques that can be practiced both in the context of psychotherapy as well as in an environment of personal growth. PHI emphasizes the necessity to connect and to integrate the power of instinctual sexual drives with our social engagement functions and heart to heart communication. Seen the many ways in which our culture has distorted the natural flow of sexual, ecstatic and orgasmic emotional expressions, it provides a valuable framework for integration, growth and for healing. Primordial in the practice is the necessity to create a context of safety in which the forces of love, eros and sexuality can be unified, and dysfunctions or traumas can safely be unraveled and healed. Another goal of the work involves the developent of trust, dialogue and growing harmony between the masculine and the feminine, men and women, as well as healty mirroring of these forces for children. At the level of our neurophysiology, it aims at connecting our genitals, heart, face and voice. 

Masculine and feminine are non stereotypical nor are there strict rules that apply to gender. We could also refer to them as the "active principle" and the "receptive principle" as polarities. Or we could liken these polarities to Earth as associated with the feminine (Mother Earth), and Sun as associated with the masculine (Father Sun), but it's fine to turn it around as well, as some do and consider a Sun Goddess and a Father Moon.... The importance is that we bring consciousness and transformation to the internalised outdated inner models of the masculine and the feminine. Difficulties to develop intimate relationships, energy blockages, bodymind splits, and thought distortions of all kinds, may be signs of a lack of  integration of  pelvic-heart integration.

PHI emphasizes the possibility and desirability to connect and integrate the powers of instinctual sexual drives with our social engagement functions and heart to heart communication. Seen the many ways in which our culture has distorted the natural flow of sexual, excited, ecstatic and orgasmic emotional expressions, it provides a valuable framework for integration, growth and healing. Primordial in the practice is the necessity to create a context of safety in which the forces of love, eros and sexuality can be uncovered, known and unified, and dysfunctions/traumas can safely be unraveled and healed. Another goal of the work involves the developent of trust, dialogue and growing harmony between the masculine and the feminine, men and women, as well as healty mirroring of these forces for children.

In this journey we deal with common survival patterns that we develop at a young age, in response to inadequate sexual mirroring by parents or educators. We explore the "genital-heart-relational development" from the age of four onwards, but we also explore and look at the developmental stages of the teenager, adolescent, adult, and elder. PHI has the potential to improve the love and sexual life of people of all ages. We go back in history and feel into what happened there, embodying each phase of sexual development. We explore how different relationship structures create different attachment styles, different perspectives and relationship-content. These relationship-contents in father-mother-child triangle configurations as well as ancestral male and female information lines, are "emotionally-corrected" by creating "new virtual memories" with "ideal figures". In doing so we cultivate a re-emerging curiosity, excitement and innocence, and offer support for the healing physiological regulation, with effects on the subjective and objective well-being.

Central to the PHI-model is also what is known as the "Energetic Breath Cycle” (consisting of nine well defined stages). This map offers a stepwise learning and facilitates a therapeutic process addressing the different sexual stages of childhood development and into maturity. 

Group or Individual

Pelvic-Heart Integration® can take the form of a Group modality, or a series of Individual sessions. Group work may not appropriate for everyone but it often has many advantages over individual work. Therefore, we offer both individual and group facilitation.

Intellectual Property

The name and the method Pelvic-Heart Integration are the intellectual property and legally protected by trademarks/service rights). The name can only be used by certified practitioners who took the full 3-year program at our institute. If you are in search of a certified practitioner, please contact the IBI secretariat.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF PELVIC-HEART INTEGRATION® (PHI)

PHI was developed by Jack Painter, Ph.D.(1933-2010), whose life’s work has been to create “bodymind integration” ways (methods, protocols, strategies). Jack was a pioneer of the Human Potential Movement and a professor of philosophy at the University of Miami and initially developed a body based process-oriented therapy, Postural Integration in the 1960s and 70s. He then developed Energetic Integration (EI) a breath-oriented life energy therapy in the 1980s and 90s. Finally in the 1990s and 2000s he developed Pelvic-Heart Integration which  focusses on the various dimensions of sexuality and love, and the pelvis-heart axis. Together, these three approaches are valuable and effective systems that help individuals and humanity by and large embrace and successfully develop their deepest potential on many levels.

A playful, safe, socially engaged and refreshing methodology

Thanks to the refreshing and playful methodology common to all forms of "Bodymind Integration," Pelvic-Heart integration® lowers the barriers to heal deep pains around love and sexuality. Traditionally in our shared cultural history, love and sexuality have been fraught with taboos and perversions. The therapy is an alternative to traditional psychotherapy and applies to anyone who is struggling with confusion around the perceived sexual identity, the erotic and the sexual experience and loving relational expressions. 

Typical of Jack Painter's classes were the use of play, music (singing), drama, and off course all kinds of bodywork, neural exercises and psychotherapeutic techniques. In PHI we are using all that, plus the most recent insights coming from current neurobiological and trauma theories (Polyvagal Theory, etc.).  So the traditional Reichian techniques (after Wilhelm Reich, MD, the grandfather and mastermind of "body-oriented psychotherapy" see www.EABP.org), the breath work, bodymind drama, Gestalt, therapeutic touch (possible deep tissue work if the therapist is trained in it) will always support the regulation of our system in the areas of sexuality and love, leading us to the potentialisation of our higher emerging qualities like finding pleasure, satisfaction, orgasm, ecstasy, connectedness, compassion, etc.

Pelvic-Heart integration® lowers the barriers to heal deep pains around love and sexuality. Traditionally in our shared cultural history, love and sexuality have been fraught with taboos and perversions. The therapy is an alternative to traditional psychotherapy and applies to anyone who is struggling with confusion around the perceived sexual identity, the erotic and the sexual experience and loving relational expressions. 

Like all other Bodymind Methods (PI, PPI and EI), trainings for Pelvic-Heart Integration practitioners can only be offered by certified Trainers. For a full list of all certified trainers in Bodymind Integration, please contact the IBI-secretariat

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