A special note to…
Bodywork Practitioners and Therapists …
With over 40 years of experience in bodywork (Grinberg Method since 1991), and many years running my own school in Barcelona alongside my private practice, I understand both what it takes to build a practice and how demanding it can be.
It can also be a path that feels so on purpose, yet surprisingly lonely at times.
For this reason, I strongly recommend taking time out (two or three times a year) to step out of your usual routine and receive a bodywork intensive yourself… as a way to tend to your needs, goals, wishes and desires.
It does not have to be with me. What matters most is that it is with someone you trust, who is outside your everyday life, your business, and your usual environment.
Working with someone who is not already part of your world can bring a fresh perspective, greater confidentiality, and the kind of space that allows you to focus more honestly and fully on your own process.
Reasons to Receive a Bodywork Intensive as a Practitioner
To receive, not only give
As practitioners, we spend so much time holding space, paying attention, and working with others that it can be easy to forget the importance of being on the receiving end ourselves.
An intensive gives you the chance to stop being the one who is “there for everyone else” and return to your own body, process, and needs.
To work on what you cannot always see in yourself
No matter how experienced we are, there are always places where we become blind to our own patterns.
When you are inside your own life, business, habits, and relationships every day, it can be difficult to see clearly what is repeating or what is asking for attention.
Working with someone outside your usual environment can bring the fresh perspective needed for something important to shift.
To care for the body you work through
As bodyworkers, our own body is one of our main tools.
Tension, fatigue, accumulated stress, over-giving, or simply the wear and tear of life can gradually affect how present, clear, and available we are in our work.
Receiving bodywork is one way of caring for the instrument through which you listen, perceive, and work.
To prevent your work from becoming mechanical
When we do the same work for many years, it can sometimes become more habitual and less alive.
Receiving bodywork helps you return to the direct experience of the work in your own body, rather than only understanding it intellectually or professionally.
It can reconnect you with the depth, simplicity, and aliveness that first drew you to this work.
To strengthen your capacity, not only recover from difficulty
You do not need to be in crisis to benefit from an intensive.
Sometimes the work is not about fixing a problem, but about deepening your capacity, refining your attention, and developing more range, precision, and freedom in yourself.
This can support both your personal life and the quality of your work with clients.
To remember that your own process matters too
Practitioners can easily postpone their own work while focusing on everyone else’s.
An intensive is a way of saying:
my own process also matters.
Taking time for your own learning, integration, and renewal is not separate from your work. In many ways, it is part of what allows you to keep doing it with honesty, care, and depth.