Myofascial Release for Quadratus Lumborum by Dr. Joeri Calsius

Experiential Bodywork (EBW) offers scientific and trans-disciplinary underpinnings for an integration of hands-on bodywork, intuitive movement, phenomenology and psychodynamics in body psychotherapy. Through deep myofascial bodywork and intuitive movement the client learns in EBW to explore and experience his/her body from within. This embodied awareness helps to understand more soundly how the client is participating at the world he/she lives in from a bodily perspective. The client learns to use his/her being-a-body in a more evocative and intuitive way to move, listen and express his/herself in relation to others and the world. In this way EBW offers a therapeutic integration of bodywork, psychotherapy and phenomenological analysis for the spectrum of psychosomatic complaints, tension based symptoms and emotional pain. On a scientifical level EBW tries to link insights and research from different paradigms such as body-psychotherapy, fascia-research, myo-fascial therapy and osteopathy, psychosomatic research, psychodynamic theories and psychoanalysis, phenomenology and integral philosophy. In this way EBW bridges between groundbreaking theories from the first hayday of bodypsychotherapy and recent academic research. EBW distiguishes itself as it is not claiming to be a new or exclusive therapy but wants to build on pre- existing concepts, paradigms and techniques while promoting an including philosophy towards the strenghts of all modalities in bodypsychotherapy. In this way EBW can easily be implemented in ones own daily practise.