In This Issue:

Bodymind World News is On-Line
Receive and Distribute Publicity Page for Bodymind World News
Bodymind World News as a Work in Process, Add Your News
Send Your Email Address Now!
ICPIT Report
Silke's Chat Room
New P.I. Graduates from South Africa
Postural Integration Calendar of Events for 2002
Jack's International Center's Website In English, Italian and French
Marco and Doris' Book on Postural Integration
Bodywork with Psychotic Patients, Bruno and Jack
New Training of Practitioners in Pelvic-Heart Integration
Pelvic-Heart Certification for Taj Anapol (California), Dirk Marivoet and Ioanna Gkizas (Ghent), Carmine Piroli (Rome), Margot Wieser (Vienna)
Infra Red Healing and Bodywork
International Psychocorporal Confrence in Italy
UIL, University for Integrative Learning
2002 ICPIT Meeting in Gallese, Italy
ICPIT Meeting in Mexico 2003
Welcome Back Claude

Printing and mailing 1600 to 1800 copies of our newsletter is a very expensive undertaking. Now that more and more of our community have access to the web and email, the Council decided to convert for our 13th annual edition, making the newsletter available at www: posturalintegration.info (bookmark it!!!). At this site you will find also other information-- guidelines, articles of association, code of ethics, complaint procedures and other items. Invite your clients, friends, fellow practitioners, and health
oriented centers to visit our site.

To help you let people know about the site, „posturalintegration.info” Bodymind World news will provide a one page introduction to the newsletter and information site. Order this page by email or regular mail. Indicate how many copies of this page you can distribute. jackpainter@compuServe.com or 450 Hillside Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. Fax: 415-383-1139.

Maybe there are workshops, events, books, ideas which you would like to share with the PI community. In the past we have put together our newsletter once a year in print and then we wait for the next edition for new news. But now that we're on line we can make additions as we go. At anytime during the months that come you can add your own news and articles by contacting Jack: jackpainter@compuserve.com.

If you want to receive the newsletter automatically each year send your email address or if you would like friends to receive the newsletter, as well, send along their email address. Also if you want to establish a link send individual names and URL for your site. If several of you work at a center, send not only the center name, but individual names, as well as individual email addresses. jackpainter@compuServe.com or 450 Hillside Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. Fax: 415-383-1139.

The International Center for Release and Integration now has all of its materials -- articles on P.I., E.I., Pelvic-Heart Integration, Rhythmic Fitness and Advanced Somatic Integration Training --available, not only in English, but in Italian and French as well, we hope, that translation into German will soon follow. www. posturalintegration.net or bodymindintegration.net.

Those of you who have been following the World Bulletin the last few years know that Bruno and Jack have been involved in project to bring bodywork into the field of psychiatry. In a recent volume published in Italy, Terapie Integrate in Psichiatria (Gianfranco Buffardi), Bruno presents „Per un Intervento di Integrazione Posturale in Psichiatria: Materiali Metodologico-Clinico" in which he includes ideas and materials from Dirk Marivoet and Jack. He gives a model based on several themes: 1) a neuro-biological model of bodymind as used in P.I., 2) the psycho-sensory-motor system in relation to the therapist and client, 3) the triple brain model (three brains, one body) in treating the psychotic. In working with patients he outlines a process with interlocking steps which help bring the patient to their personal identity: „Sperimentazione - Gesto - Postura - Struttura - Evento - Tendenza - Abitudine - Identita Personale”.

For more information in Italian contact: brunovalente@libero.it.

In November and December Bruno invited Jack to the Caserta Pschiatric Hospital to give a workshop for the staff of the hospital. The participants learned some basic breath and touch methods. But what became all important was the staff realizing how they bring their own body problems to their „crazy” patients. Through bodywork-psychodrama they worked with how their own bodies are not so different from those of their psychotic patients and how awareness of their own body-mind builds a bridge to the patients.

As Jack has given Pelvic-Heart Integration workshops, in Mill Valley, Belgium and Italy he has been helped by excellent assistants. They have worked with the groups and individuals and deepened their knowledge of the basic principles of PH-I during these last few years. Jack is about to begin the training of PH-I practitioners, but these assistants have already
completed the requirements. Certification goes to: Taj Anapol (California), Dirk Marivoet and Ioanna Gkizas (Ghent), Carmine Piroli (Rome) and Margot Wieser (Vienna).

Taj Anapol who has here own network-- taj@lovewithoutlimits.com -- has been very effective in organizing and supporting Jack's workshops in Pelvic-Heart Integration in Marina County. There have been almost three years of busy and exciting introductory and advanced workshops. Now Jack and Taj are planning a program for becoming a practitioner of P-HI. Thos who have had introductory and advanced work can enter into the study of how to give sessions to clients. The program will include not only new themes, but will also give participants a chance to assistant in introductory workshops.

Under the guidance of Martyne Viens and Beverly Wilkinson two students, Leonie Mare and Hammelore Kunze, have completed their P.I. requirements and are beginning their practices in Pretoria and Johannesberg. Stephne Cohen was assistant. This was Martyne's first training as a P.I. Trainer -- she entered into a high energy and passion filled group. In the last eight years Beverly has, with great enthusiasm, spread the message about P.I. throughout South Africa and is well on her way to becoming a PI Trainer, herself. Hats off to both the ladies for making this training happen in a country filled with uncertainty but great hope.

About 15 years ago I had an attack on my nervous system, some strange paralyzing neuropathy from which I quickly recovered. However in the last five years a numbness has been returning to my toes and feet. Earlier this year the numbness and immobility became more severe.

As I went from nuerologist to neurologists, the verdict was always the same: we don't have any treatment. But in the spring I learned of the Bales Photonic Stimulator, an infra red device, for treatment of pain and swelling. But this machine does more, it somehow encourages an improved synaptic functioning. I found a former student of mine (twenty years earlier), Marc Weil, who now is an advanced Rolfer working in San Francisco and who uses this device. His initial treatments to me gave amazing results. I recovered mobility in legs, feet and toes and some return of sensation. www.balesscientific.com

Now I have my own machine and besides working on myself, regularly, I’ve helped friends with all kinds of aches and pains. I see this infra red treatment supplementing bodywork. If the tissues can’t respond fully, our deep tissue work is less effective, but if the nervous action is improved there is also improved circulation to the tissues and more complete re-organization of the tissues as we soften them.

In September of 2002 the Council met at an old Flemish inn near theMakkegem Forest of Merelbeke (outside Ghent). We -- Marco Guidon, Dirk Marivoet, Niall O’Siochain, Jack Painter, Marie-Louise Simich and Silke Ziehl -- were in the countryside next to sheep, dogs, ponies, and green corn.
The beer at the inn was dark, strong and very good. Bruno Valente, who had planned to attend, had to cancel at the last minute due to the illness of one of his children. Several other paid members -- Achim Eckert, Anton Eckert, Martyne Painter, Claude Vaux and Donald VanHowten -- were unable to attend.
Before drawing up an agenda we each talked about what was happening in our respective countries.

Dirk has been busy with his family, with individual sessions, weekly groups,
some weekends and second year PI students of bodywork in Bodymind in Holland,
as well as with his own P.I. training which Jack visited. He is planning a new format
which as in some other countries includes Energetic Integration. He longs for more
time to write articles and to connect with other countries. Be sure to visit his
website: www.bodymindintegration.com.

Marco has met many obstacles the past couple of years -- the break up
of the Swiss PI Association (Swiss German), the unviability of his and Doris'
castle in Italy, and the absence of a PI training group. Yet he and Doris
thoroughly enjoyed writing, Postural Integration, Harmonie von Koerper, Geist and Seele, ISBN 3-431-04008-X, Verlagsgruppe Luebbe GmbH & Co. www.ehrenwirth.de ( see the review in this issue). Also he has had positive contacts with EABP which asked him to write about body psychotherapy.
He reports that Sepp, a member of ICPIT, is still active in PI in Switzerland.

Silke has enjoyed not being rushed, but is now ready again to jet-set between trainings in England and Germany. In the format which she and her co-trainer Niall use, students get a one year ‘Foundation in Reichian bodywork’ in the first year, then go on to specialize in either Energetic Integration or Postural Integration. There are 20 students in the PI specialization in England, and 12 in the PI specialization in Germany. Doing an intensive year of Reichian work first prepares the students much better to get into the deep tissue work with a whole person perspective.

Niall wants to make clear that his focus is on bodywork but he wants also to emphasize that herbs and nutrition are an indispensable prerequisite for effective bodywork. In his work as co-trainer with Silke he sees thorough supervision of the third and fourth year students as very important. This ties into his belief that our reptilian brain exerts such a strong influence on our lives that the students, in fact, all of us, need lots of help to apply the learning to our everyday lives. Niall also reports that Rosa Maria in Mexico is as busy as ever with PI and EI and is inviting us all to Mexico for the next meeting.

Marie-Louise has been recovering from cancer of the bladder and is now much better. For a while her recovery through radiation treatments required her to go easy in trainings and private practice. But now she is enjoying the training in Toronto with her assistant Graig Stott. She has felt herself an integral part of the training and has worked on herself. She’s happy to be back with her fellow trainers at the Council.

Jack is now living in Gallese, a fortified medieval mountain village, north of Rome, Italy. He continues with work in PI and EI in the U.S. and Europe, but there has been a remarkable growth in the demand for Pelvic-Heart Integration. In the U.S. Taj Anapol, through her network, has organized introductory and advanced P-HI and will help in the near future organize a training for P-HI practitioners. In Europe Pelvic-Heart work has continued with Dirk in Belgium, in Italy with Carmine Piroli, in France with Jacques Schima at Trimurti and now in Austria with Elisabeth Renner. Advanced EI work continues in Holland through Rashma and Elly Hohe. The past year Anton Eckert, who is becoming an EI Trainer, set up with Jack the first steps in an EI training in Germany. Bruno Valente and Jack have continued their work to bring bodywork into the field of psychiatry for psychotic patients (see enclosed article) by giving a workshop in the psychiatric hospital in Caserta, Italy. They hope to establish a training for the staff in several hospitals.

We drew up an agenda which included: 1) cataloguing of all the past ICPIT information: guidelines, procedures, etc.; 2) ICPIT webpage; 3) glossary; 4) report of officers. Most of our energy during these days went to reviewing and editing all the past information. Silke dutifully and with great discipline entered all of our revisions in her computer and gave us pages on which to make corrections. All this information will be on the website we plan for ICPIT (separte from the ICPIT section on the International Center’s website). There are a total of more than 23 pages covering the following:

1. Articles of Association of ICPIT
2. Guidelines for the Training of PI Practitioners
3. The Training of Helpers, Assistants and Trainers
4. Agreement for Students
5. Student Application for Certification as PI Practitioner Form
6. Trainer Agreement Form
7. Trainer Candidate Demonstration Form
8. Code of Ethics
9. Complaint Procedure

We agreed that all Trainers should carefully read all this material into which we have put a great deal of effort. Realizing the need for this material to be available not only in English, Marco volunteered to investigate the possibility of translation into German, French, and Italian.
After three days of thorough work in reviewing this information we
dealt briefly and efficiently with the remaining issues.

Our Secretary-Treasurer, Dirk, reported 15 paying members (Trainers) of ICPIT for 2001 compared with 14 in 2002. This is from a total of 26 diplomed Trainers, but many are inactive or retired. It was decided that the newsletter would be available on line, which
would give us a considerable saving in printing and mailing costs. The challenge is to let people know that it is available on the web. Jack will be sending one page publicity sheets (informing people of the World Bulleting on Line) to trainers and others for hand distribution. Dirk agreed to set up a website specifically for ICPIT where all the collated information and the newsletter could be posted.
Silke has established a chat room icpit@yahoogroups.com where all PI people are welcome to voice their opinions and needs. See article, „Silke's Chat Room.”
It was agreed that the glossary of PI terms could be built from a chain letter to be sent to every trainer.
We set our ICPIT meeting for next year on Oct. 23-26, 2002 at Jack's place in Gallese Italy. We also accepted Rosa Maria Sevilla's invitation to meet in Mexico in 2003.
We acknowledged the tremendous job Silke has done, noting that this frees us for future meetings with less organizational work and more sharing of our ways of doing bodywork.

This beautiful paperback is filled with color pictures, images and charts. Doris and Marco cover Postural Integration as part of modern body therapy and body psychotherapy. In the context of the four elements they talk about fascia, breathwork, the therapuetic process and character structure. A beautiful edition! Here's the German summary: "Zivilisationsprobleme zeigen sich immer haeufiger auch koerperlich. Da der Mensch in Allgemeinen das Gefuehl fuer die Botschaften seines Koerpers and fuer oekonomische Bewegung verloren hat, sitzt, steht, geht und bewegt er sich haeufig auf eine Weise, die langfristig koerperlich shaedgend sein kann. Ruekenschmerzen, Hexenshuss, Nacken-und Schulterverspannungen, Krampfadern, aber auch Kopfschmerzen, Migraene und Depressionen koennen die Folge sein.

Hier bietet die ganzheitliche Methode Postural Integration, kurz PI, di Chance der Linderung oder Heilung. Die in erster Linie durch falsche Schonhaltung des Koerpers hervorgerufenen Schmerzen (von der Verstaerkung des Bindegewebes un damit verbundener Verklebung benachbarter Muskelschichten verursacht) werden bei der PI durch Bindegewebsarbeit aufghoben. Vollere Atmung und parallel auf psychischer Ebene Befreiung von emotionalem Druck durch Gespraeche, sind ein wesentlicher Faktor der Therapie. Mit gezielten Uebungen fuer den Patienten zur Behandlungsvertiefung."

Marco is a PI Trainer. Doris is a PI practitioner. They have their practice and trainings in Herrliberg on Zurich Sea.

Claude Vaux, who was one of our earliest P.I. trainers has rejoined ICPIT. He and Eliane Jung, his partner, are directors of the School of Creative Communication in Strasbourg, wish to help P.I. become recognized in Europe as a body psychocorpal method. They are key officers in EAP, European Association of Psychotherapy. PI and EI trainers and students who so elect can, if the project is successful, recieve the European Certificate of Psychotherapy. Let's give Claude and Eliane all the help we can.

Our Council President, Silke Ziehl, made a proposal at our Council meeting and has immediatly carried through with it (Silke’s efficient style). She has opened a chat room, ICPIT@Yahoogroups.com, with this comment, "we invite you to join the ICPIT information exchange group by sending an email to ICPIT-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Once you have joined, you can post information to all the members of this group simultaneously by emailing it to ICPIT@Yahoogroups.com. To make it safer and virus free, please always mail information in plain text only in the email, with no attachments and no HTML. We hope this group will become a lively exhcange for all of us! If you later want to unsubscribe, simply mail to ICPIT-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com and you will be taken off the group mailings.

One of Jack's old friends, Mel Sudh, who founded Summit University, has now founded another University in the same spirit of independent learning. At the University for Integrative Learning (UIL)you can earn Bachelor's, Master's and Doctor of Philosohy (Ph.D.) degrees while studying in your own community and home. Credit is given for previous experience, work and learning. Jack is available as a provost (counsellor) for those interested. He has already guided several individuals in the P.I. community to Ph.D. degrees. Contact UIL at 6182 Country Club Drive, Rohnert Part, CA 94928, Phone: 707-586-9484, Fax: 707-586-9014, E-mail: U4lifelearninghq@aol.com.

The Council accepted Jack's proposal to meet near his place in Gallese, Italy at the Agritourismo Center, Oct. 22-25, 2002. This center is a blend of an ancient chapel with a splendid outdoor court and modern living and dining accomodations. Nearby Gallese (40 minutes from Rome) is an ancient medieval village, surrounded by fortifying walls and steep cliffs. If you are attending the Psychocorporal Conference to be held in Naples, right after the ICPIT meeting then by flying into Rome you'll be on your way with easy rapid train connections to Naples.

Rosa Maria Sevilla has continued her work in P.I. and E.I. in Mexico along with the help of other Mexicans. She has graciously invited ICPIT to Mexico in 2003. Dates: october 23-26 2003 Start making your plans now!

Jack's old friend, Raffaele Estrada Villa, who died several years ago, started this Reichian oriented congress in the 80's. Since that time we've met in Mexico, Montreal, Barcelona and Boston. Now with the organizational help of Luciano Rispoli and Paola Bovo we're meeting again in Italy.
6th International Congress of BodyPsychotherapy.
The Psychotherapy of the Future. From Healing to Life.
Naples-Ischia, 27-31 October 2002.

websites: sif-international.it eabp.org

e-mail: reich.na@iol.it

This calandar has been drawn up by the ICPIT Secretariat, Dirk Marivoet for PI related events and trainings and is based on responses he received from Trainers and others. Those not answering earlier inquiries about their activities have not been included. Trainers and PI practitioners giving workshops are invited to send information for inclusion to Dirk Marivoet, Toekomststraat 99, Ghent Amandsberg, Belgium. Phone/fax: 0032/o92284911. ICPIT@posturalintegration.info

Austria

*Achim Eckert: individual sessions, workshops, acupunture, trainings. ++43/01 405 2338. achim.eckert@1012surfnet.at

Belgium

*Dirk Marivoet: four year training in P.I. and E.I. Jack Painter as visiting Trainer. Workshop in Pelvic-Heart Integration, Introductory and Advanced. Phone/fax: ++32/092284911. Also Firewalks, Leadership Seminars, Methods of Physio-Relaxation, e-mail: dirk.marivoet@pandora.be

England

*Silke Ziehl: offers a 1- year Foundation in Reichian Bodywork, as well as 3- year trainings in Postural Integration and Energetic Integration.

Unique opportunity: beginning end November 2002, one year PI-training refresher,  including five intensive days of integration with Jack, open to all practitioners or any PI student wishing to complete certification.
Entelia Institute at The Open Centre, phone: 0762 693 1866, fax: 020 7681 1992, email: info@entelia.de

*Niall O’Siochain: co-trainer with Silke: email: bodywise@t-online.de

France

*Claude Vaux (with Eliane Jung): trainings in PI and Creative Communication ++33/0388604484.

Germany

*Silke Ziehl: offers a 1- year Foundation in Reichian Bodywork, as well as 3- year trainings in Postural Integration and Energetic Integration. Entelia Institut , München. Phone 089 44 71 84 83, fax: 089 44 900 224, email: info@entelia.de

*Niall O’Siochain: co-trainer with Silke: email: bodywise@t-online.de

*Anton Eckert (with Imtraud) offers a four year training in Psychodynamic Body and Energetic Work, including Postural Integration and Energetic Integration. dyade.eckert@t-online.de

Holland

*Rashma Schaeffer-Buss: 4 year training in EI, special training in PI. Advanced workshops with Jack. Contact Elly ++31/055505269765.

Italy

*Jack Painter: near Rome, workshops in Pelvic-Heart Integration (organized with Carmine ), groups in Bodymind Integration and EI Trainings. Jack at 0039/0761405820.

*Bruno Valente: sessions, trainings with Jack in Psychiatric Bodywork. Caserta 0039/3397249651.brunovalente@libero.it

Mexico

Rosa Maria Sevilla: sessions, workshops and trainings in PI and EI, Mexico City and Guadalajara, ++52/33.3.122.2153. seprm@hotmail.com

Switzerland

*Marco and Doris Guidon: sessions and Trainings in PI, Zurich, ++41/19150704. mdguidon@koerpertherapie.ch

*Sepp Zihlmann: sessions and workshops, Bern, 045513593

USA & Canada

*Donald Van Howten: sessions, workshops, trainings, Sante Fe, 505-986-2627.vanhowten@aol.com

*Jack Painter: Pelvic-Heart workshops, sessions, trainings, California, 415-383-4017. jackpainter@compuserve.com

*Marie-Louise Simich, sessions, trainings, Toronto, 416-368-4971. mlsimich@iprimus.ca

*Martyne Viens, sessions and trainings, California, 415-721-7509. martynev@aol.com

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