Description
WATMO
Water meets morphodynamics
Exploring the Fluid Patterns Within the Body
It is essential for every human being to experience themselves fully — to cultivate a deep awareness of their own body.
In recent years, however, our ability to perceive our physical selves — to recognize our bodily needs and sensations — has diminished. We increasingly live in our heads, a trend reflected in the growing number of books and courses on body-oriented therapies.
How many of us still notice when our body is thirsty or needs movement while we sit for hours at a computer or treatment table?
This disconnection affects not only our patients but also us, the therapists.
For an osteopath, understanding and recognizing one’s own physical patterns is as fundamental as supervision is for a psychotherapist. The two cannot be separated, for every form of therapy affects both body and mind.
Each body-centered therapy also engages the psychological realm — and vice versa.
Osteopaths must be aware of their own patterns and, like skilled trackers, learn to recognize and interpret the traces that life has left on their patients.
To do so, they must first understand how the body develops under normal conditions, and the fundamental principles of pattern formation that underlie this development.
This is the foundational knowledge of morphodynamics.
Life on our planet originated in water — the cradle of evolution.
The earliest stages of human development also occur in a fluid environment, long before we rise to stand against gravity after birth.
The practical work in this course — its central focus — is designed to deepen your interoceptive and exteroceptive awareness.
Through movement and water-based exercises, we uncover deeper, more ancient movement patterns within ourselves, as well as areas where disruptions have occurred later in life.
Such disturbances are often resolved or, at least, better compensated through this work.
Alongside practice, there will be theoretical discussions on topics including:
The basic patterns of physical development in evolution and embryology
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