Fasciatherapy – – SomatoPsychoPédagogie – Méthode Danis Bois
Somato – Related to the body
Somato-Psycho – Connection between body and mind
SomatoPsychoPedagogy – Using what emerges to re-educate and offer new possibilities applicable to one’s life.
Danis Bois is a physiotherapist and osteopath who discovered an innate internal movement independent of any other movement in the body, with a rhythm of two cycles per minute, or fifteen seconds per direction. This movement, called Internal or Sensory Movement, is interrupted or completely ceases when a part of the body suffers trauma or injury, leading to a loss of sensitivity, perceptivity, and mobility. Essentially, the person has lost their connection with themselves.
Danis explored this movement deeply and developed a method to reconnect the client with themselves by working with the fascia—a thin membrane that covers, among other things, the tissues of muscles and organs and holds the memory of all the trauma the body has experienced. The practitioner, in the presence of the client, induces slow, directional movements with periodic interruptions on different parts of the body. This restores the movement and the biorhythm, as well as coherence within the body.
The result is a re-education of the body’s systems to regain sensitivity, mobility, and the ability to perceive. It has a profound impact on the connection with oneself. The client reconnects with their body, becomes curious about the origins of disconnections, and perhaps the reasons behind them. With the therapist’s help, they can begin to apply what emerges to create new possibilities in their life. This approach takes into account the relationship between the body, thoughts, movement, and action.
The method uses the following five tools:
- Sensory introspection – body-centered meditation
- Manual therapy
- Sensory gestures
- The verbal interview
- Writing
The method is useful for anyone suffering from pain or reduced mobility in the body, or feels that they have lost connection with themselves, and for anyone else who wants to get back in touch with their body.
Books
Drink, Danis. The renewed self: Introduction to somato-psychopedagogy. (2006) Bois, Danis, and M. C. Josso, Humpich, Marc. Sensitive subject and renewal of the self: the contributions of fasciatherapy and somato-psychopedagogy. Ivry: Support point, 2009
Websites
Center for applied research in perceptual educational psychology
