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Core Strokes™: Fascia, Feeling, and Relating Transformative 3-Day Workshop

November 14–16, 2025 – Prague

About Core Strokes™

Core Strokes™ invites you on a vibrant and fulfilling journey to awaken the full vitality and joy of your life force. During this 3-day introductory workshop, you’ll engage in a rich blend of experiential practices and a solid theoretical framework—designed to ignite personal transformation and deepen self-awareness.

The Core Strokes™ process emphasizes three transformative stages:

Let Be – Cultivate acceptance of your current emotional and physical state without
judgment.
Let Go – Release old emotional patterns and body tensions that no longer serve you.
Let In – Invite new energy, insights, and meaning into your life, allowing you to
reconnect with your deeper life force.

Participants’ Experience

Those who have gone through this process report feeling:

More alive, powerful, connected, and joyful
Greater meaning and satisfaction in personal and professional life
Increased courage to express their authentic self

Core Strokes™ professional training program in Prague

This workshop also serves as an introduction to the Core Strokes™ professional training program, to be held in Prague in 2026 and 2027.

Module 1: February 21–27, 2026

Module 2: November 14–20, 2026

(Each module runs from Saturday to Friday; 4 modules total for Level I)

About the Facilitator

Dirk Marivoet, MSc

Founder and Director of the International Institute for Bodymind Integration (IBI)

Dirk Marivoet is an accredited psychotherapist (ECP), physiotherapist, and psychomotor therapist. He trained at the University of Leuven, where he worked for 11 years as both a therapist and educator in the Psychiatry and Psychoanalytic Clinics.

He is a Certified Trainer and Supervisor in Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration®, Reichian Bodywork, and Pelvic-Heart Integration® (as developed by Jack Painter, PhD), and a senior teacher and supervisor in Core Energetics (under John Pierrakos, MD).

With more than 40 years of clinical and teaching experience across both academic and alternative psychotherapeutic fields, Dirk developed the Core Strokes™ approach—a synthesis of deep bodywork, character analysis, and energy work—which he now teaches internationally.

Practical information

Time: November 14-16, 2025, Friday 10:00-19:00, Saturday 9:30-13:30 & 15:00-19:00, Sunday 9:30-13 & 14:00-17:00

Location: POHLED Pracoviště, Letohradská 16, Prague 7

Cost: CZK 8.500 / EUR 340, early bird price CZK 7.500 / EUR 300 (until September 15, 2025)

Program: Non-residential. Lunch breaks will be given, allowing participants to explore local dining options or bring their own lunch.

Budget accommodation in Prague will be offered at Slunná 27, Therapy center (few tram stops from the venue, good connection from Václav Havel airport Prague).

For registration and to answer your questions contact us at info@coretherapy.cz or through our contact form.

Max number of participants: 18

News

OPEN HOUSE in Slunná 27 - visit our small therapeutic festival on April 12, 2025

Join us in small therapeutic festival, where you can meet many practitioners and teachers, who offer their services at Slunná 27, Therapy center. You can take part in activities as well as enjoy relaxed atmosphere in beautiful premises of old Prague villa.

Program:
13:30 We open our doors for you

14:00 Movement workshop with Dana Hernández

14:45 How Core Energetics integrates body, mind and spirit? short workshop with Hana Hniličková

15:45 Arte-therapeutic workshop with Marga Omedes

16:30 Active meditation with Klara Spáčilová

17:15 - Alexander Neuman about his translation of The Tibetan Book of Dead

Entrance free

Morning body work every WEDNESDAY from 8 to 9 AM at Slunná 27

OPEN YOUR BODY TO FEEL MORE

These enjoyable sessions are a chance to focus on yourself. We start with grounding exercises and pay attention to the different parts of our bodies. We apply pressure to the places where tension builds up over time: the shoulders, the legs and the diaphragm. By adopting special positions, we release this tension. These exercises will help you feel more alive and sensitive. We combine them with yoga postures and relaxation.

You can join us every Wednesday from 8-9 AM at Slunná 27, Therapy center

Led by Hana Hniličková (Core Therapy) and Radka Falge (Koa).

The maximum number of participants is 6. We speak Czech and English. Please apply by using the form in the Contact section.

Core Therapy in Slunná 27, Therapy center

We are operating in the beautiful space of Slunná 27, Therapy centre in Prague 6, Ořechovka (www.slunna27.cz). We look forward to welcoming you in this newly renovated therapy centre. In addition to our therapies, workshops and body work classes, you can also find here classical physiotherapy, massage and music therapy.

Therapy

Body work

We offer exercises based on Core Energetics, which enable us to develop a deeper connection with our bodies and the sensations that flow through them. You will explore impact of expressive and energising movements as well as of slow slow and subtile movements. In pauses that we make you will have a chance to concentrate on the nuanced processes happening within. These sessions will help you become more attuned to your body and sensitive to what it’s telling you.

What you can expect during exercise sessions:

Different breathing techniques and a general focus on breathwork
Energising and energy release exercises to help you feel more alive
Stretching exercises that prompt muscle vibrations for deeper stress release
Grounding exercises to find greater peace and security within your body
Voice work and loud breathing for calmness and balance

For more information and our exercise sessions, visit our News.

Group sessions and workshops

Group sessions give you an opportunity to explore your internal world and reach a deeper level of self-awareness. Groups create many interactions that can teach us what belongs to us and what belongs to others. We gain self-understanding and are enriched by the experiences of those around us. Warm-up exercises, which awaken our bodies to a more intense state of feeling, are followed by group exercises that uncover our ingrained behaviours. We can then try to step outside our comfort zones and respond in a different way than usual. These sessions will help you direct attention inwards so you can better recognise and understand your emotions.

We offer group sessions in two formats. We work with closed groups up to 15 participants over an extended period (generally several months of weekly meetings). Alternatively, we can deliver open workshops that last an evening, a day or an entire weekend. These workshops are open to anyone interested in meeting the therapists and trying out self-awareness exercises and the Core Energetics method. Group work is based on clear rules that are explained in advance to ensure the session is a safe space for everyone.

For more information about our group sessions, check out the schedule in our News section or on our Facebook page.

Therapy for Individuals

Each one-on-one session lasts 55 minutes. Therapy is generally a process in which clients open themselves up to their emotions and explore their relationship to ingrained beliefs or images from the past. In this way, they bring their inner experience up from the unconscious level to the conscious one. This self-discovery process and the new perspective it brings are important for therapeutic progress. Individual therapy usually requires a long-term commitment but clients may also request a limited number of sessions focused on a specific topic.

Individual therapy sessions are preceded by an introductory interview. This generally takes 1.5 hours.

Core Energetics

What is Core Energetics?

„Connecting to our inner truth is the way towards the creation of a unified life, pleasure and abundance for all.“
— John Pierrakos, founder of Core Energetics

Core Energetics is a body-oriented psychotherapy that connects and integrates the body, mind and soul. It works with our energy, movement, breath, emotions and interpersonal relationships. This therapeutic method draws partly on the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, who studied energy flows and blockages in the human body and emotions and developed a theory of character types. Core Energetics builds directly on Bio-Energetics, a technique developed by two of Reich’s pupils – the groundbreaking American psychiatrists Alexander Lowen and John Pierrakos.

Self-knowledge

Core Energetics can be seen as a process of self-discovery and transformation. This process helps us understand why certain patterns keep repeating in our lives even when we want things to be totally different. We uncover the defence mechanisms we formed in early childhood to get through situations that were unmanageable. And we come to understand why we still turn to those behaviours even when they harm us in our adult lives way more than they help us. As a next step, we learn to separate our true adult behaviour from those old defences. When we can distinguish one type of behaviour from the other, we’re on the path to greater freedom in our lives.

Bodywork and tension release

Our defence mechanisms shaped our development and left their mark on our bodies. We can see this in our postures and our breathing as well as in chronic muscle tension and the parts of our bodies we ignore and neglect. To avoid feeling unpleasant sensations, we may restrict certain muscle groups so those feelings can’t reach us. Those muscles then freeze in spasms just outside our perception. What remains is the pain of chronic tension and the stiffening or numbing of areas of our bodies.

Bodywork and physical exercise are at the heart of Core Energetics. By releasing the tension in chronically constricted areas, we unblock the body so that energy may flow through and reach the numbed parts. When we let ourselves sense and acknowledge the experiences stored in our bodies, we boost our ability to feel and be open to the world.

Grounding and reality perception

You often hear about “grounding” in Core Energetics. Grounding gives us a firm place to stand as we feel the intensity of life coursing through our bodies. This means that we can connect with this underlying reality even as we experience all we’re feeling, whether it’s joy and excitement or sorrow and pain. When we reject certain feelings – for example, sadness, anger, boredom – because we don’t want to have them, we also suppress the ones we long for: joy, love and excitement.

Working with emotions

Working with emotions is central to therapy. During therapy, we come to recognise and understand our emotions better. The goal is to increase the body’s capacity to bear those feelings so we can experience them without being controlled by them.

Sometimes people feel completely cut off from their emotions. In those cases, therapy can help them reconnect with this part of themselves by using expressive tools and other techniques. Reconnecting with our emotions brings us back to the core truths of our lives. It also restores a vital energy source that would otherwise be missing for us.

About me

Hana Hniličková +420 608 355 069

therapist

Based in Prague, I studied Core Energetics psychotherapy at the Netherlands Institute of Core Energetics. For the past three years, I have been conducting individual therapy sessions, organising group workshops and leading exercise sessions based on this method. I love sharing the joy of movement and the satisfaction of discovering one’s true self with others.

In my practice, I offer my clients a safe space to explore their needs and so get to know themselves better. I help them realise that they often respond to situations automatically with deep-rooted defence mechanisms that do not express their true or natural needs. The obstacle usually lies in the fear of trying something new and unknown, or of hurting someone or being hurt. I guide my clients to befriend, accept and work with their fears and try that new step or approach all the same. I accompany them on their path to self-acceptance and self-love.

In 2022 I opened Slunná 27, Therapy center. A place, where more therapists offer their services to clients. Together we create space where clients can come closer to themselves and feel better.

I lead sessions in Czech and English. I also understand Russian and German well.

Where do we work?

I offer my sessions at the beautiful premises of Slunná 27, Therapy center

Core Therapy
Slunná 27, Praha 6
info@coretherapy.cz
tel.: +420 608 355 069

Therapy for Individuals 1.500,- Kč / 60 min.

Session with a therapist

Group therapy 1,- Kč / 150 min.

Group exercise sessions 300,- Kč / 60 min.

Ethical rules

As a proffesional entitled to provide Core Energeics process work I commit to practice the following standards of ethical behavior and attitude in all my interactions with clients.

1. Prior to beginning a professional relationship with a client, I will inform him/her of the following: A description of my training and competencies and how I integrate each into the professional work the client will experience; what a client can generally experience during a session or workshop including the degrees of emotional intensity that may arise; my confidentiality policy; expected length of sessions; session fee, emergency and/or after-session availability; cancellation policy and process by which clients will be informed of changes to any policies or procedures; client responsibility for safety, self-authority and determination of the benefit of this work; and this Ethical Standards statement.

2. I will receive a written statement from the client prior to the beginning of the professional engagement that the client has been informed of the abovementioned information and consents to receive the services I provide.

3. If I have any question about the ability of a client to undertake or continue this work, I will immediately seek professional supervision before beginning or continuing sessions.

4. I do not provide services to individuals under the age of 18 years or to individuals who, in my best judgment, may not be physically, mentally or emotionally able to undertake this work.

5. I will keep all client information as confidential, including client name and identifying information and client confidences, within the limits of the law. I will archive the client information and keep it as long as the law in my country requires.

6. However, I will share client information, without naming the client, with my professional or peer supervisors solely for the purpose of enhancing my ability to benefit the client and for professional development. I will share and/or exchange pertinent client information with any other professional or individual only upon the written request and/or authorization of the client.

7. I respect the emotional, physical, mental and spiritual autonomy of my clients. I do not pressure or coerce clients into any action or belief. I enable and encourage them to choose freely with respect to participating in Core Energetic work, following suggestions and accepting interventions of any sort.

8. I will not initiate, invite, respond to, project, fantasize about or allow any romantic or sexual contact with my clients. I will not engage in a romantic or sexual relationship with a former client for at least two years after the end of the client relationship, and then only if it can be determined through adequate professional supervision and good faith that such a relationship will not be harmful to the former client.

9. I am respectful of all individuals regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation, disability and socioeconomic status. I have been trained in and continually desire to be aware of cultural, individual and role differences.

10. I agree to avoid and refrain from dual relationships that may be exploitative sexually, emotionally, spiritually, economically, hierarchically or ideologically.

11. I continue to expand my competence in the provision of these services through continuing education and peer and professional supervision.

12. I engage in a minimum of one professional supervision session per month with an authorized Core Energetic supervisor to receive assistance for any personal issues or conflicts that could impair my work performance or professional judgment. This for at least one year after finishing the training.

13. I will refer the client to other professional practitioners in this or other fields of service when appropriate or necessary; and always if my professional competence is not sufficient to adequately meet the needs of the client.

14. I will maintain clear and honest business practices, including making agreements regarding appointments, session and workshop times and fees. I will keep accurate records of client sessions and financial obligations. According to the rules of my country.

15. I will not photograph or record or allow the photographing or recording of client work without the written permission of the client.

We make these commitments for the benefit of our clients and the professionality of Core Energetics.

psychoterapie zaměřená na tělo — body-oriented psychotherapy