Your Entry Point into PME

PME foundations, theoretical roots, and your pathway into Basic and Advanced Training.

Step into a deeper way of knowing. This foundation workshop invites you to feel and embody the core principles of PME — where body and mind meet, awareness awakens, and insight arises naturally through movement, sensation, and reflective presence. Designed to open your perception, expand your somatic confidence, and spark the beginning of a transformative journey into greater clarity, resilience, and wholeness.

Rooted in a rich lineage of somatic education, body psychotherapy, and contemplative traditions, PME (Physio-Mental Development) integrates embodied movement inquiry with client-centered principles, self-regulation, and the wisdom of first-person experience. Its foundations draw from modern somatics, trauma-informed approaches, Buddhist psychology, and the art of somatic dialogue — supporting a practice that is both deeply practical and philosophically grounded.

This workshop is also the gateway into the full PME training path. It introduces the essential groundwork of the Basic Training, where you establish a personal practice and learn the key methods of perception, movement, and reflection. From there, the journey can continue into the Advanced Training, expanding into professional applications in teaching, coaching, and somatic movement therapy — a structured, progressive development toward embodied competence and sustainable professional practice.

Start the PME Somatic Training today

Open the Door to Professional Somatic Practice

Course curriculum

    1. Somatic Movement

    2. Anatomical Embodiment

    3. Self-Coaching

    4. Healing Dance

    1. Principles and Keystones of PME

    1. The Roots and Influences of PME

    2. The somatic Lineage of PME

    1. The Journey Ahead - Basic & Advanced Training

    1. Creating Your Practice

    2. ISMETA & USABP

About this course

  • €149,00
  • 11 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

Instructor

Director of THE SOMATIC TRAINING Dieter Rehberg

Dieter Rehberg, MA, BA, MSMT/E, is Performance Artist, Psychological Counselor (LSB), Master of Somatic Movement Therapy and Education (ISMETA), Somatic Practitioner (USABP), Somatic Dance Educator and Massage Therapist. He 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 PME integrating these different dance, bodywork and counseling techniques from his 35 years of professional experience as somatic therapist and performance artist and combined 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. He 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 30 years he worked in his private practice in Vienna / Austria and teaches nationally, internationally and online. His main concern in his workshops and seminars is a clear and coherent communication of the content in a mindful atmosphere and to never leave any questions open .

Join the PME Foundations Workshop

Open the Door to Professional Somatic Practice