Somatic Escola de Psicoterapias Corporais

REORIENTING BIRTH

MASTER CLASS 2025

by Lisbeth Marcher

What is it the Reorienting Birth about?

Birth is a beautiful and complicated time that can make a deep imprint in a person and his or her development that influences daily life. In this training, you will learn about the different kinds of imprints and in what stage of birth that kind of imprint would be most visible.

We see imprint as a behaviour, emotional and a thought pattern that a person has and experiences as if he or she has no control over. Some imprints are constructive and some are not constructive. In this training, we will focus on both, how it should be and what happens when things go wrong in different birth stages and how to change it.

Some examples of imprint are having the sense of:

  • I can never come through,
  • I never have enough time,
  • When things happen, it’s never on the right time,
  • When I’m in high stress, I work a lot, but then I get a flue, cannot do more and  I end up with not completing the task.

The 6 stages of birth are:

  • Start – the time before (a week before)
  • Soft Birth – first stage labour; the stage of expansion.
  • Transition Stage – transition between first-stage labour pains and second labours pains, which moves the uterus in different ways.
  • Hard Labour – second labour pains
  • Delivery
  • The First Days After – just after the delivery and days after birth.

General Information

In these 2 modules you will learn what part of birth it is connected to and how to change it.

  • The teacher will make demonstrations of every stage and the students will practice on each other, supervised by the teachers.
  • As well there will be time to exchange the experience and get more insight about the practicalities in reorienting birth (or parts of it).
  • And last but not least, in this training you will get information about how to work with pregnant clients and about pregnancy.

For Whom:

  • Therapists with practice or working with clients
  • Physical therapists that work with psychosomatic issues
  • Psychiatrists or psychologists
  • Nurses, midwives nurses or doulas
  • Bodynamic therapists and professional psychotherapists
  • Language: English (only)
  • Schedule: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Module 1

(5 days)

16th to 20th of July 2025

Module 2

(4 days)

9th to 12th of Octobre 2025

Meet the Faculty Team

Anna Wolter

(Co-teacher)

Studied art history and pedagogy, trained as a relaxation therapist, in Jin Shin Jyutsu, humanistic therapy, Family constellations, Gestalt, Inner Child, Rogers, SE, HPpsch.

Bodynamic Teacher for Foundation-, Shocktrauma-, Bodymaptrainings and Coteacher for Reorienting Birth, Bodynamic Therapist for Shock, Developmental and Birth Trauma, Bodynamic Supervisor and Bodymapper, happily married and mother of 4 adult children and a grandchild.

She has been working in her own practice for 24 years and has been accompanying numerous Bodynamic trainings as a Teacher and Coteacher.

Lisbeth Marcher

(Teacher)

She is the founder of the Bodynamic System and of Bodynamic International in collaboration with various colleagues.

She is the former director of the Bodynamic System, while now she is the international supervisor for all educational issues. Lisbeth Marcher is the former president of EABP.

Today Lisbeth is part of the Bodynamic international teaching team, and travels to Greece, Brazil, Germany, Holland, Portugal and Denmark.

Mar Barroso

Mar Barroso

(Assistant)

Founder of the Somatic School, Degree in Psychology and Human Resources Management, Post-Graduate in Management and Organization of Training and master’s in clinical psychology.

She is the Coordinator of Somatic Experiencing® in Portugal and Bodynamic® in Portugal and Spain. She is Somatic Experiencing® SEP, Senior Assistant in Therapist Training and leads pedagogical monitoring and study groups in Portugal.

She is trained in Bodynamics’ Character Structures and a Bodynamic® Foundation and Practitioner teacher in Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, India, etc.

Complementary training in Body Structures and Developmental Trauma with Dr. Peter Levine, assistant during Trauma through the eyes of children, with Maggie Kline, course of Spirituality with Lisbeth Marcher, course of Personal Process of Shock Trauma. He also attended the workshop of aquarium sessions with Peter Levine and Stephen Porges.

Investment Plans

We know that each person has their own reality, which is why we make the following investment plans available to our students in this training:

Monthly Fee

Registration payment (€150)

+

6 monthly payments of

€ 475

Paid from:

May to Oct 2025

Total: 3.000€

Regular Fee

Registration payment (€150)

+

1 single payment of

€ 2.550

Paid after:

April 16th 2025

Total: 2.700€

This plan allows you to save 10%

Early Bird Fee

Registration payment (€150)

+

1 single payment of

€ 1.800

Paid until:

April 16th 2025

Total: 1.950€

This plan allows you to save 35%

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Location & Access

Somatic School

Rua Sousa Lopes
Edificio Tridente Lt. MNO - loja 3
1600-207 Lisbon, Portugal

Somatic Google Map Location

Airport Humberto Delgado (LIS)

Alameda das Comunidades Portuguesas, 1700-111 Lisbon, Portugal