Nederlands Instituut voor Bio-release en Biodynamische Psychologie NIBB

Dutch Institute for Biorelease and Biodynamic Psychology

Director: Menno de Lange

Brouwersgracht 266            

NL-1013 HG Amsterdam    

Netherlands         

Tel: +31-20-617-6992           

mdelange@xs4all.nl

www.biorelease.net/           

 

School history

The Nederlands Instituut voor Bio-release en Biodynamische Psychologie celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2003. The Institute, under the direction of Menno de Lange and Cora Slieker, has been organising courses and trainings since 1977. It is established in the former warehouse De Kleine Swaen on Brouwersgracht in Amsterdam.

 

Basic theory and concepts

Biodynamic Psychology investigates the way in which life energy can stagnate, and uses different methods to free the system from stagnation. This way of working was originally developed by Gerda Boyesen and is rooted in the work of Freud, Reich and Jung. Biodynamic Psychology is characterised by the attention paid to the digestive system. This has to do with the discovery of psychoperistalsis by Gerda Boyesen. The sounds produced by the peristaltic activities of the intestines provide an indication of the internal life of the person. Peristalsis is the echo of the psyche. Emotions, physical sensations, images and thoughts bring about an equivalent psychoperistaltic reaction. This makes the language of the unconscious audible. If the unconscious of the client is allowed to speak, we are then enabled to follow his or her organic needs, such as the need to be touched, to express wishes verbally, to imagine, to regress or to have a trans-personal experience.

 

In massage therapy, different forms of massage are used for different parts of the body: bones, bone membranes, muscles, muscular membranes, connective tissue, skin and aura. Touching frees stagnated energy, allowing it to flow once more. Patterns of stress build-up and locations of tensions are discovered, recognised and cleared. Peristalsis is the audible guide to the effectiveness of the intention with which a massage is done: supportive, affirmative, vitalising or mobilising. Biodynamic vegetotherapy is a method offering the client the chance to contact withheld impulses and then express them in movements, feelings, sounds, memories or images. Insights can arise. Its aim is to free what is unfinished and withheld and to appropriate it for use in one's daily life.

 

Training description

The training programmes on offer are: Biodynamic Massage Therapist and Biodynamic Vegetotherapist. The institute also offers a broad spectrum of advanced trainings.

 

The training courses for prospective Biodynamic Massage Therapists and Biodynamic Vegeto therapists each last three years. Practical training is given in the first two years. The third year focuses on supervised work with clients and the student's own learning therapy. At the end of the third year, students receive their diploma. In addition the Institute offers a variety of further training and refresher courses.

 

The Institute offers open courses in biorelease as well. These give people more insight into the subtlety of interactions between body and mind. Work is done with a series of exercises and massages that each time act more profoundly on the body, through which energy flows more freely. This is a course with a therapeutic character, but not a therapy group.

 

Trainers

The teachers’ team comprises five Dutch trainers

Guest teachers

International Guest teachers

 

 

 

 

 

From Left: Menno de Lange, Charlotte van der Molen, Nicky Smout, Harry Visser

 

State of recognition

The Dutch Institute for Biorelease and Biodynamic Psychology was accredited as a Body-Psychotherapy Training Institute by EABP FORUM in September 1999. The Biodynamic method was scientifically validated by the European Association for Psychotherap (EAP), in July 2001.

 

EABP Members

Cora Slieker, Menno de Lange