Somatic Training is your opportunity for health, freedom and happiness

Somatic Training uses somatic movement, dance, bodywork and coaching mindfuly and compassionately to develop your body and mind in a helpful and healing way. This mindful perception starts the somatic dialog that leads to the expression of self-regulation and balance of your whole self.

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"The teacher is brilliant! :) Very passionate and knowledgeable on the topic, conveying precise and easy to understand knowledge, experience  and enthusiasm along the course. Very friendly, approachable and generous in his support and feedback."

"Absolutely excellent and very unique. The training offers real insight into movement. Beyond categorized terms – and is also a space for personal growth and development. Very recommendable to all kinds of movement teachers."

"With its simplicity this training really enables one to focus and understand what "mindful" realy means. And by constantly emphasizing and explaining its importance it creates the safe space for it to be embodied."

"Personally, this has been an amazing and rich journey, connecting more to my body, physically and sensory, becoming curious and explorative, being more friendly and compassionate with my body and its processes. This course offered the space to go through a wide range of sensing, feelings, thoughts- from I feel nothing, I am not sure what is there... to overwhelming, humbling realizations about my self (mind, body, spirit)"

"Fun, collaborative, awe-inducing, educational, challenging, focused, and transformative. This is what comes to mind when I remember this module. I’m writing this feedback nearly 12 months after I tool the module. This week planted the seed for an awakening process for my awareness. The only thing that exists is right here right now and that’s true for everything everywhere."

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Physio-Mentale Entwicklung (PME)

Physio-Mentale Entwicklung (PME) is a holistic, sustainable somatic method designed to enhance human health through the integrated development of both body and mind. Utilizing tools such as touch, movement, language, and perception training, PME fosters a mindful, compassionate 'Somatic Dialogue' that triggers and supports the process of physical and mental self-organization and self-development. The 'Somatic Dialogue' promotes self-regulation by cultivating trust in the body's inherent wisdom, creating a healing process through mindful and compassionate self-perception.

In the 'Somatic Dialogue' therapists and coaches initiate healing effects and helpful developments through mindful and compassionate listening, movement education and touch. They guide the individual process of the clients into their resources in slow and describable steps. This structured yet flexible approach provides a clear framework for intention and action and ensures the method's safety, efficacy, sustainability, and ease of use.

PME addresses comprehensive health by alleviating physical pain, providing relaxation, and enhancing coordination, while also resolving mental and social issues using the moving body as a resource and anchor for mental changes. It is effective in overcoming emotional conflicts, coping with crises, relieving emotional stress, and supporting positive behavioral development.

This immersive, client-centered, and process-oriented approach to somatic therapy is designed for personal and professional growth, enabling individuals to live their full potential, discover their physical wisdom and creativity, ease physical pain, and transcend suffering, especially if talking alone is insufficient for their development.

PME is practiced in individual sessions, group settings, and through 'Healing Dance', integrating Buddhist psychology to define perceptual qualities .

PME was developed by Dieter Rehberg, who synthesized his training, practical experience as a movement educator and therapist, insights into Buddhist psychology, and subsequent creative developments.

The Somatic Training

The comprehensive 500-hour, two-year professional training program rooted in the PME method prepares participants to become certified Somatic Movement Therapists and Educators (certified by ISMETA), or Somatic Practitioners / Body-Psychotherapists (certified by USABP).

Ideal for professionals seeking to expand their approach in helping others, and for those who love movement, bodywork, dance, yoga, or martial arts, the training program is accessible worldwide through a fully hybrid/online format. It offers flexibility and convenience through its modular form, enabling participants to start at any time. The training is conducted in small live groups to ensure individual attention and support, crucial for personal and professional development.

Year One: Basic Somatic Training (250 hours)

The first year focuses on experiencing and embodying the principles of PME across various disciplines, guiding personal development towards a healing process. Disciplines covered include Somatic Movement, Anatomical Embodiment, Somatic Coaching, Healing Dance, and Somatic Touch, supplemented by theory, group sharing, homework, and individual coaching. Highlights of the curriculum include understanding basic anatomical structures and physiological entities, exploring the principles of PME in theory and practice, studying the mind and its qualities, engaging in and practicing the 'Somatic Dialogue', and learning about self-regulation, self-organization, and co-regulation.

Year Two: Advanced Somatic Training (250 hours)

The second year of the Somatic Training, the 250 hours Advanced Somatic Training, covers the disciplines Somatic Movement Education, Anatomical Embodiment Education, Somatic Coaching and Somatic Movement Therapy. The Advanced Somatic Training is designed for dedicated individuals with strong time management skills and a solid understanding and practice of PME. Its aims include developing professional educators, coaches, and therapists in PME; fostering safe and responsible professional practices in teaching, coaching, and therapy; enhancing the ability to reflect, discuss, and write about PME; and creating ethical and sustainable PME-based businesses. Learning outcomes for students encompass gaining a deeper somatic and cognitive grasp of PME, acquiring skills to design and maintain personal somatic practices, understanding the importance of personal practice as the foundation for professional work, and developing self-regulation and balance. Additionally, students will learn the professional use of language in teaching, coaching, and therapy, and gain knowledge in designing, conducting, and reflecting on somatic movement and anatomical embodiment sessions. They will also be equipped to conduct professional PME coaching and therapy, understand the theory of PME and related fields such as Idiolectics, Body-Psychotherapy, Trauma, Health, and Salutogenesis, and contextualize PME theory and practice within broader fields. Practical business skills for education, coaching, and therapy are also included, along with integrating somatic movement therapy and education into their work and life.

Dieter Rehberg, MA, BA, MSMT/E

Dieter Rehberg is Psychological Counselor (LSB), Master of Somatic Movement Therapy and Education(ISMETA), Somatic Dance Educator , Massage Therapist and Performance Artist. Rehberg is Trager-Practitioner and certified in Idiolektics and has extensive experience and knowledge in Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Creative Dance, Alexander Technique and Body-Mind Centering. He developed his method integrating these different dance, bodywork and counseling techniques from his 35 years of professional experience as somatic therapist and performance artist combining it with his insights into buddhist theory and practice. He is the director of the "Institut und Akademie für Physio-Mentale Entwicklung" and founder of THE SOMATIC TRAINING. Rehberg holds a Bachelor of Arts from the European Dance Development Center / NL, the Trauma Certificate from Laurier University / CAN and a Master of Arts in Somatic Studies from Middlesex University / UK. For 25 years he worked in his private practice in Vienna / Austria and teaches nationally, internationally and online.

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