Somatic Training Academy

Core areas

What is somatics?

Somatics is understood as first-person inquiry into embodied experience. It enables the differentiation and reorganisation of experience from within.

Heritage and Lineage of PME

PME integrates somatic, dance, philosohical, psychotherapeutic, contemplative, massage, and systems-theoretical traditions into a coherent, process-oriented framework.

Buddhist Psychology & The Mind

The mind is understood as a continuous process of perception—defined as that which knows its object. Both the content and the quality of perception shape action and development.

Cognitive-Experiential Self Theory (CEST)

Human functioning is organised through the interaction of an experiential (embodied, fast) and a rational (reflective, conceptual) system.
PME engages and integrates both.

PME Somatic Dialogue

The core process of PME: a cyclic interaction of sensing, movement, and reflection.
This recursive process enables differentiation, integration, and transformation through self-organisation.

Key theoretical principles

Self-Organisation from Within

PME understands development as an emergent process of self-organisation. Transformation is not imposed externally but unfolds from within the organism through structured engagement with embodied experience.
The Somatic Dialogue creates the conditions under which the system reorganizes itself toward more coherent, adaptive, and viable patterns.

The Role of Movement as Transformation

Movement is not only expression but the central medium of transformation.
It reveals existing organisation, refines perception, generates variation and fluctuation, and enables the emergence of new patterns of coordination, affect, and behaviour. Through movement, the system actively reorganizes itself.

The Grid of Attention — The Polyphonic, Multidimensional Field

Experience unfolds within a multi-dimensional and polyphonic field in which sensation, emotion, cognition, and movement interact simultaneously.
This field includes temporal dimensions (past, present, future) and spatial dimensions (internal/external, proximal/distal, body orientations).
The “grid of attention” refers to the capacity to differentiate and navigate this complex, co-present field, allowing processes to be perceived, related, and reorganized.

The Quality of Perception

Perception is an active and qualitative process. The way experience is sensed—e.g. with mindfulness and compassion—functions as a regulatory parameter that shapes the emergence and direction of self-organisation and development.

Clientcenteredness & Resource Orientation

PME works with the organism’s inherent capacities. The process supports autonomy, self-regulation, and resource activation rather than external control.

Predictive Processing & Constructivism

Experience is actively constructed through recursive feedback loops of sensing and action. Change occurs through ongoing reorganisation toward more viable forms of functioning.

Reflection & Idiolectics

Reflection integrates embodied processes into language and meaning. Idiolectic approaches support precise, experience-near articulation without imposing external interpretation.

Traditions of Healing

PME is situated within broader traditions that emphasize awareness, self-regulation, and the unfolding of inherent capacities.

Somatics & First-Person Research

Subjective experience is approached as a systematic source of knowledge, accessible through structured sensing, movement, and reflection.