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The touch is always done with clothes on.
5-day intensive (Monday to Friday)
Approx. 25 hours of guided training
Dual/Hybrid delivery:
🌍 Join in-person in Austria
💻 Or online via full studio livestream ( you have to bring a study-partner and a massage table for the online participation)
🗓 Dates: May 24-28, 2027 3pm - 9pm CET
This module is a core part of the PME Basic Somatic Training curriculum,
To participate online, you'll need a study partner to work with throughout the module.
✅ Your study-partner joins for free
✅ No prior experience or registration needed for your study-partner
✅ Your study-partner must be available and present for all 5 days
This partner-based model ensures that even from home, your experience remains deeply interactive and embodied.
Somatic Touch is a cornerstone of our healing development
Somatic touch can trigger a development, physically, mentally, and emotionally. As the tactile sense is the first to establish contact with the outside world, touch becomes the foundation of our communication, defining our being and self-awareness. This profound connection through touch lays the groundwork for treatments that foster healing and growth on multiple levels.
Learning the Art of Somatic Touch
The PME method leverages this intrinsic power of touch through a structured approach that includes anatomical understanding, embodiment, and healing touch. The method emphasizes mindful and compassionate touch quality, integrating anatomical-systemic touch techniques, and fostering a healing attitude of the mind. Treatments involve work on the massage table, practical grips, passive movement, and complete therapeutic sessions. Easy Hands-On techniques, somatic dialogue, feedback rounds, and supervision ensure that the touch qualities are continuously refined and effective, providing a holistic and supportive healing experience.
Rather than teaching a collection of bodywork techniques, this module develops the qualities of perception that shape the quality of touch. You will discover how attention, mindfulness, compassion, and deep listening influence the way touch is experienced and how a mindful and compassionate touch can invite a helpful and healing response from the body. In PME, the quality of touch arises from the quality of perception.
Many approaches to bodywork focus primarily on what to do with the hands. In PME, we begin with a different question:
How do you perceive the person you are touching?
Before learning techniques, you learn to listen. Through the cultivation of attention, mindfulness, compassion, and embodied presence, touch becomes a form of dialogue rather than a mechanical intervention. As the quality of perception changes, the quality of touch changes. This creates the conditions in which the body can discover its own possibilities for self-regulation and helpful and healing development.
Rather than attempting to change the body from the outside, PME Somatic Touch invites a response from within. Gentle, listening touch can help ease physical pain, reduce unnecessary muscular tension, support more effortless movement, and encourage the body's own capacity for regulation, learning, and healing.
Setting the Stage for Healing
Integration Through Movement
Intentional Touch for Healing
Somatic Dialogue and Co-regulation
Building a Touch Practice
This course is for you if you're:
People who would like to experience touch as a mindful, respectful, and embodied form of communication.
Anyone interested in developing greater sensitivity, presence, and confidence through touch.
People seeking a deeper understanding of how touch can support self-regulation, learning, and helpful and healing development.
Looking for a safe, ethical, and trauma-informed way to engage with bodywork
Individuals interested in the principles of the PME Somatic Dialogue and the role of touch within the PME approach.
By the end of this workshop, you'll gain:
A solid foundation in safe, healing somatic touch
Deeper understanding of body-mind integration
Tools to support co-regulation, emotional flow, and presence
A stronger connection to your own felt sense and intuition
Skills you can apply immediately in personal or professional settings
Tired of just watching videos or sitting in large groups where your questions go unanswered?
At The Somatic Training, your presence truly matters.
You’ll both give and receive valuable feedback in a supportive environment.
Our teachers, assistants, and peer group are here to encourage your growth every step of the way.
Be heard. Be seen. Be individually supported.
This workshop is credited to the Basic PME Somatic Training, after admission and registration.
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THE PME SOMATIC TRAINING is internationally recognised and accredited
