Hakomi Institute

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Passion & Presence® Mindful Relationship S*x Therapy Certificate:Join us for an informal “Meet and Greet” about the prog...
12/19/2025

Passion & Presence® Mindful Relationship S*x Therapy Certificate:

Join us for an informal “Meet and Greet” about the program on January 9 from 12:00–1:00 p.m. (Eastern, U.S.)

Visit HakomiInstitute.com/community-offerings for more information and to register

Are you a helping professional who works with intimate partners—or wants to?

Do you sometimes feel uneasy or underprepared to address s*xual issues?

The Mindful Relationship S*x Therapy Certificate is a 16-month, 136-hour live online training that equips you to confidently address the intimate, complex, and sacred terrain of partner s*xuality. Rooted in the Passion & Presence® method—a mindful, experiential, somatic approach—this Hakomi-informed program honors the erotic as a pathway to healing, intimacy, and personal evolution.

You’ll learn how to skillfully support partners through challenges like low or mismatched desire, shame, performance anxiety, and infidelity—while helping them explore pleasure, connection, and creativity beyond “functioning.” Along the way, you’ll grow as both a practitioner and a human being, supported by a heart-full, embodied learning community.

What you’ll gain:

80+ ready-to-use experiential activities for sessions and homework
Mindfulness practices to open deeper explorations about s*x
Expert presenters on marginalized s*xualities, somatic trauma healing, and non-monogamy
Lifetime access to a rich learning portal with recordings, worksheets, and resources
136 AASECT CE credits that may be used for licensure renewal in multiple modalities, with a pathway to certification as a S*x Therapist (if eligible).

Faculty:
Maci Daye, LPC, Senior Hakomi Trainer, Certified S*x Therapist, plus guests

Join this introductory Hakomi workshop to get a taste of the Hakomi method and experience first-hand the therapeutic pow...
12/15/2025

Join this introductory Hakomi workshop to get a taste of the Hakomi method and experience first-hand the therapeutic power of the loving presence of the Hakomi therapist, their mindful attunement to the present moment, and their client’s body-mind universe. You will gain initial skills to support people in exploring their bodies, emotional wounds, and protective strategies, as well as befriending them with kindness, the latter representing all and in itself a potent healing therapeutic tool.

Participation in this workshop counts as a prerequisite for admission to the Hakomi Comprehensive Foundation Module.

Faculty:
Valentina Iadeluca – Licensed Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist, Certified Hakomi Teacher, Full Member of European Association of Body Psychotherapy, AISC and CBT Italia.
Pia Charpentier – Psychologist, certfified Hakomi Therapist, certified Hakomi Teacher

WHERE: Rome / Italy

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Character: In a positive sense, a person’s stable way of making meaning of life through organizing multiple dispositions...
12/12/2025

Character: In a positive sense, a person’s stable way of making meaning of life through organizing multiple dispositions from metabolic, psychosocial, and structural factors so that the person displays consistent, predicable behavior. In a therapeutic sense, a way of experiencing and expressing oneself in a rigid way, unaware of or unable to make use of a wider range of realistically available choices.

character process: Any one of a number of characterological ways of being in the world that have been delineated in Hakomi and general psychological literature as having identifiable, predictable components (see character above).

character strategy: The patterns, habits, approaches to the world a person has developed to achieve pleasure and satisfaction while avoiding perceived painful situations, given the nature of the person’s particular core organizing beliefs about the world.

Excerpted from Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy; Glossary of Hakomi Therapy Terms, by Cedar Barstow and Greg Johanson.

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Hakomi Comprehensive Training (Level 1)Brisbane Australia - In PersonThe aim of Level 1 Fundamentals is to train psychot...
12/11/2025

Hakomi Comprehensive Training (Level 1)

Brisbane Australia - In Person

The aim of Level 1 Fundamentals is to train psychotherapists and allied health professionals in the fundamental building blocks of the Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy method. Emphasis is on the development of the self in connection. Hakomi tools can be applied to therapy, allied health, business settings, coaching, education, and other healing modalities.

Faculty:
Pernilla Siebenfreund, Hakomi Trainer, Brisbane, Deb Algar, Certified Hakomi Teacher, Sydney, Judy Robinson, Certified Hakomi Teacher, Brisbane

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Experience the transformative power of Hakomi – Are you curious about Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy?This unique w...
12/05/2025

Experience the transformative power of Hakomi –

Are you curious about Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy?

This unique workshop offers a rare opportunity to explore the foundational principles of Hakomi while deepening your understanding of embodied intimacy and mindful s*xuality.

You’ll engage in practices that reveal how Hakomi’s core skills and principles—such as tracking, making contact, and cultivating the internal observer—can support a deeper felt sense of self and greater relational attounement. These approaches offer a powerful pathway for healing and personal growth and can significantly enrich both erotic and emotional intimacy.

This workshop is designed to provide an introduction of experiential learning in Hakomi, and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

Faculty: Maci Daye, LPC, is a co-founder of the Hakomi Institute of Mallorca, a senior Hakomi Trainer and AASECT-certified s*x therapist.

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Hakomi Glossary: bottom-up processingA concept from sensorimotor psychotherapy that contrasts the mindful processing of ...
12/03/2025

Hakomi Glossary: bottom-up processing

A concept from sensorimotor psychotherapy that contrasts the mindful processing of sensations, tensions, and such generated by lower brain functions as a result of traumatic activation (bottom) with that of the more common mindful processing of thoughts, emotions, and memories available to the cerebral cortex (top-down processing). Premature top-down processing can evoke a harmful trauma vortex, if bottom-up processing of sensations as sensations has not empowered the body to titrate and metabolize such material without being overwhelmed by their normally instantaneous eruptions.

Excerpted from Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy; Glossary of Hakomi Therapy Terms, by Cedar Barstow and Greg Johanson.

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Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: Comprehensive Training (Level 1) Colorado/Northeast, U.S.ALevel One offers a thoro...
12/02/2025

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: Comprehensive Training (Level 1)
Colorado/Northeast, U.S.A

Level One offers a thorough grounding in the theories and techniques of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. Level One includes in-depth coverage of the Hakomi principles, Hakomi theories, maps and models as well as specific techniques. Training weekends include a mix of didactic material, experiential exercises, discussion, movement/embodiment exercises, group maintenance time and supervised practice times.

This training is for professional therapists, clinical social workers, and counselors, students and interns of clinical social work, counseling, and psychotherapy, licensed healing arts practitioners, and people transitioning into the field of somatic psychotherapy who want to learn the method in its entirety.

The goals of the Training are to provide students with: first, a deep understanding of the principles of the Hakomi Method and the ability to work within them in an attitude of loving presence. Second, an understanding of the techniques of the Hakomi therapeutic process and the ability to use these precisely and appropriately. Third, an understanding of the organization of personality and character into patterns that reveal developmental and cultural wounding, and the ability to use this understanding discriminatingly. Fourth, an understanding of one’s own inner organization and the process of using self as an instrument for therapy.

The Colorado/Northeast Hakomi team has a deep history in Colorado and the Northeast that spans the last 30 years. We’ve trained over 750 students in our Comprehensive Trainings, and close to 2000 people in Intro Workshops. We aim to continuously develop and refine our training approach, in collaboration with our Hakomi colleagues around the world.

Faculty:
Melissa Grace, MA, Lead Trainer; Jaci Hull, MA, LMFT; Julia Corley, MA, LCMHC

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Experience the power of Hakomi with an Introductory WorkshopHakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is vi...
11/06/2025

Experience the power of Hakomi with an Introductory Workshop

Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

Faculty: Rupesh Chhagan, M.S.O.M., L.Ac., Certified Hakomi Practitioner

Target Audience
This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

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Hakomi Glossary:  BarriersBeliefs that block the normal organic process of attaining sensitivity and satisfaction. Insig...
11/04/2025

Hakomi Glossary: Barriers

Beliefs that block the normal organic process of attaining sensitivity and satisfaction.

Insight barriers block clarity about what is needed.

Response barriers block effective action to obtain what is needed.

Nourishment barriers block the experience of satisfaction when something is obtained.

Completion barriers block the relaxation that functions to savor the need satisfied, release tensions, and give further clarity about what other need the organism is now ready to reorient toward.

More generally, barriers are those parts of us that come into play after some sort of wounding that attempts to protect us from the hurt ever happening again.

Excerpted from Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy; Glossary of Hakomi Therapy Terms, by Cedar Barstow and Greg Johanson.

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Experience the power of Hakomi with an Introductory WorkshopHakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is vi...
10/29/2025

Experience the power of Hakomi with an Introductory Workshop

Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

Faculty: Julia Corley, MA, LCHMC, SEP, Certified Hakomi Trainer

Target Audience

This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

Learn more at hakomiinstitute.com

Hakomi Glossary: AccessingThe process of transitioning from ordinary consciousness through turning a person’s awareness ...
10/27/2025

Hakomi Glossary: Accessing

The process of transitioning from ordinary consciousness through turning a person’s awareness inward toward felt present experience in a mindful or witnessing state of consciousness.

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Experience the transformative power of Hakomi – Are you curious about Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy?This unique w...
10/23/2025

Experience the transformative power of Hakomi – Are you curious about Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy?
This unique workshop offers a rare opportunity to explore the foundational principles of Hakomi while deepening your understanding of embodied intimacy and mindful s*xuality.

You’ll engage in practices that reveal how Hakomi’s core skills and principles—such as tracking, making contact, and cultivating the internal observer—can support a deeper felt sense of self and greater relational attounement. These approaches offer a powerful pathway for healing and personal growth and can significantly enrich both erotic and emotional intimacy.

This workshop is designed to provide an introduction of experiential learning in Hakomi, and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

Faculty: Maci Daye, LPC, is a co-founder of the Hakomi Institute of Mallorca, a senior Hakomi Trainer and AASECT-certified s*x therapist.

Learn more at hakomiinstitute.com

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865 Albion Street STE #250
Denver, CO
80220

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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