Pelvic-Heart Integration® is practiced by certified practitioners* and helps you to consciously integrate the energies of the pelvis with the emergent qualities of the heart ( "hence pelvic-heart"). Since we "wear our heart on our face" and express it through our voice and gestures, we are looking for ways to create safety around the issues of love, eros and sexuality within relationships. In Pelvic-Heart Integration, we consider the flow of energy from your heart (which qualities are being expressed in our face and in the prosody of our voice) to your genitals and from your genitals to your heart (including the expression in the face and the voice) are seen as expressions of your feminine and masculine inner poles respectively. 

In this journey we deal with common survival patterns that you develop at a young age, in response to inadequate sexual mirroring by parents or educators. We explore - applying the underlying theories - how we can become socially engaged and safe again in our sexual and loving capacities. In many peoples' lives a range of sexual traumatization, misuse or abuse has occurred. These traumas may have been contracted in childhood or later in life as well as through problems or complications encountered in therapeutic and other intimate relationships. In PHI we make use of an experiential, playful and yet sophisticated and elaborate therapy model that has been clinically tested. Central in the model is what is known as the "Energetic Cycle” (consisting of nine stages well defined stages). This map offers a stepwise learning and therapeutic process around the different sexual stages of childhood development and into maturity and it's blockages. In this natural energy cycle, the Oedipal phase (occurring around the age 3.5 to 4 years of age) is an important period, but in PHI we also explore and look at the things that have happened to you as a teenager, adolescent, adult, and elder. PHI has the potential to improve the love and sexual life of people of all ages. 

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. 

Concretely we look at the level of cleavage that is present between the body, the heart and pelvis (also extended to the striated expressive muscles of the face, the limbs, and core of the body), the characterogical dynamics as a result of inadequate mirroring, and the survival strategies that keep us in frustration, compulsions, obsessions, rigidity, frigidity, manic states, perfectionism, loss of passion and meaning, etc ...

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.  The genital relational development from the age of four onwards is divided into eight phases. In each phase, there is a different relationship structure which creates certain attachment styles, another relationship-content and there are other functions for parents, children and other members of the family system. This relationship-contents are deeply elaborated in PHI and in each stage "bodymind drama" setups are being used (such as father-mother-child configurations and ancestral male and female lines) in order to give a healthier place to curiosity, excitement and innocence, as well as to allow for a healing physiological regulation, with effects on the subjective and objective well-being.

Pelvic-Heart Integration® (PHI) is the last method (in time), which was developed by Jack Painter, PhD (1933-2010). He was a pioneer of the "Human Potential Movement" and developed this methodology. PHI is practiced by certified ICPIT practitioners.  PHI has influences from Postural Integration® & Energetic Integration® the first two bodymind integration methods, Jack created in his lifetime to help people get back in touch with their beauty, their purity, their primary innocence, their conciseness, their sexual curiosity and their "peaceful agitation" which can be experienced every stage of your life provided insight adequate support and reflection and feedback from others.