Hakomi: Body-Centred Therapy

Hakomi is a body-centred form of somatic psychotherapy. Both Richard and Yogita began their study and practice of therapy in the late 1990’s within the Hakomi Method. Central to Hakomi is the cultivation and use of a particular kind of noticing called mindful awareness. When this self awareness is cultivated and turned inward, clients develop the ability to more clearly observe what is happening inside themselves. Hakomi invites us to become curious about the way we organize our experience structured around often hidden self limiting core-beliefs that are the product of early life experience. Hakomi creates a therapeutic environment in which these beliefs can be revised and updated, In the words of Hakomi founder Ron Kurtz,

“Therapy is first about discovering. It’s about who you are and about what your deepest emotional attitudes are. It’s not just about who you think you are. It’s not opinion. It’s not something you can know with the intellect. It’s about who you are in the very heart of yourself. That’s the flavor of psychotherapy, discovering yourself, discovering your real attitudes toward the most important pieces of your life.”

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