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Overview

Format:

  • 5-day intensive (Monday to Friday)

  • Approx. 40 hours of guided training

  • Dual/Hybrid delivery:

    • 🌍 Join in-person at Zentrum Paradies, Forchtenstein (Austria)

    • 💻 Or online via full studio livestream ( you have to bring a study-partner and a massage table for the online participation)

    • 🗓 Dates: October 13–17, 2025

  • This module is a core part of the Somatic Training curriculum, and also open as a standalone workshop for professionals and curious individuals alike.


👥 Online Participation: Bring a Study Partner

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.

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Course curriculum

    1. Setting the Stage for Healing

    1. Integration Through Movement

    1. Intentional Touch for Healing

    1. Somatic Dialogue and Co-regulation

    1. Building a Touch Practice

Somatic Touch & Bodywork

  • €498,00
  • 5-day intensive (Monday to Friday)
  • Dates: October 13–17, 2025
  • fully online with study-partner

Who Is this for

This course is for you if you're:

  • A somatic practitioner, therapist, bodyworker, or healer

  • A coach, yoga teacher, movement educator, or dance artist

  • Exploring embodiment, touch, and relational healing in your life or work

  • Looking for a safe, ethical, and trauma-informed way to engage with bodywork

  • Interested in the PME (Physio-Mentale Entwicklung) framework

  • Interested in THE BASIC PME SOMATIC TRAINING

What You’ll Walk Away With

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

Where Your Presence Truly Matters

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.

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 .

Workshop Recognition

This workshop is credited to the Basic PME Somatic Training, after admission and registration.

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ACCREDITION

THE PME SOMATIC TRAINING is internationally recognised and accredited

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