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Core Energetics: Pathwork

Process for life and healing built on the foundation of the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich.

Date: 5/8/2005 8:43:30 AM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 1854 times

Holistic Healing

Core Energetics - Evolutionary Process

The Institute of Core Energetics
Founded 20 years ago by John Pierrakos, M.D., the Institute of Core Energetics is a worldwide organization with therapy and training centers in New York, California, Mexico, South American and Europe. The Institute's training program is offered to mental health professionals, psychotherapy trainees, and those in the healing arts who wish to enhance the depth of their professional practice and personal evolution.

Your guide's personal experience of a core intensive weekend

Part 1: What is Core Energetics
by Phylameana lila Desy

Core Energetics is a process for life and healing based on a powerful evolutionary therapeutic approach that seeks the integration of all aspects of our humanity -- the emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual. This process is built on the foundation of the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich. As part of this, gestalt, The Core Energetic approach incorporates the spiritual aspect through the transmissions of Eva Pierrakos.

Core Energetics is based on a deep understanding of the ways in which energy and consciousness work together in the transformative process of healing. The vision of the work is to invite a deeper experience and identification with one's core energy and feelings, releasing the individual to create his or her life from this personal yet universal center. This is achieved gradually by bringing consciousness, movement and , ultimately, transformation to the core's overlying defensive structures.

The result is the release of a vast amount of energy, creating vitality, greater life fulfillment, joy and pleasure.
About Pathwork
What is the Path? I'm enrolled in a Pathwork class and I have found them to be so helpful in developing a deeper understanding of my own motivations/intentions. I discovered a website for the Pathwork Center in Phoencia, New York that has one of the lectures up on the website. The site URL is: http://www.pathwork.org and the site of the Lecture titled What is the Path. If you read the lecture it will give you a clearer idea of what is involved in studying the lectures. On the homepage, it gives you links to explain who Eva Pierrakos was (originator of the channeled lecture material), who The Guide was, and what her mission was for earth. I always find it hard to describe what the pathwork lectures are all about......they are so profound and insightful for me personally, it's often hard to put into words. What I do notice is my perception of myself & others changes and I feel as though I receive a deeper knowing of all things as I study these lectures. They are truly a wonderful gift and I encourage all of you to take the time to read them.

Love,
Lydea

Part 2: My Personal Experience of Core Energetics Intensive
by Phylameana lila Desy

A Core weekend might best be described as a weekend of HELL. Okay....so I may be a little harsh in saying this, but the concept of facing your issues straight on during a Core workshop is a bit scary. It's a nail-biter kind of event.
Spring of 1996 - Introduction to Core

I attended my first Core intensive in Iowa City with Sigmar Gerken. I was attending healing classes to learn how to do chakra chelations at the Empowerment Center at this time. It was suggested by my class instructors and few of my fellow classmates that Core would be a good experience for me. I understood very little about Core work - only that it involved body movement and shouting. Doing this work is about making energetic shifts in our bodies. By experiencing particular physical exercises and postures we bring about the charging and discharging of our energy fields. In doing so, we recognize blocks that have formed in us during our lives from our distorted views, emotions, and fears. The work is moving through these distortions and enlivening our whole being (soul). The steps taken in doing this process is not easy...... it can barely be described. After my introduction week-end to Core, I was pretty much in a space of numbness. I wasn't prepared for this process. I watched the body language of the other people in attendance. Most of them appeared nervous in anticipation of doing this work. I could see terror in some of their faces, I didn't understand why. By the end of the week-end I had a better understanding of Core, I told myself I would probably never attend another Core weekend. I was starting to get what Core was all about....and I was more than willing to shrug it off, but in truth I was terrified.

April 3-5, 1998 -The Pathwork of Chicago along with Cheri Bianco and Tom Carbone presented a Core Energetic Intensive weekend near Chicago, Illinois at Camp Algonquin.. This intensive was entitled Eros, Love & Sexuality and was led by John Pierrakos, M.D. , founder of the Institute of Core Energetics.

I think it only dawned on me as I found myself sitting in a car headed for Camp Algonquin near Chicago, Illinois, on Friday afternoon that I was ready to face some difficult issues in my life. Shadows of unspoken fears and self-torment were floating about in my mind. My brain wanted to puke. Core processing had began and we had not even arrived yet. I found myself feeling agitated and my chatty voice was spitting out words with a hint of grumpiness attached to them as I conversed with my two traveling companions. I wasn't alone in feeling this agitation. As we were being assigned our bed quarters in our cabin more than a few of the workshop attendees were vocalizing discomfort at discovering we would be sleeping on bunk beds, also one toilet and shower was to be shared by eight of us. My comfortable boundaries of privacy and separateness were gone. No where to hide!

The group of us (about 40 people ) gathered together at the main lodge on Friday evening and awaited John's arrival. The room was full of healers and mainstreamers who had traveled across the continent from California to New York to do this work. I sat on the floor with a pillow underneath me to soften the hardness of the floor as my eyes wandered from person to person in the room. Everyone appeared nervous and excited in anticipation of meeting John Pierrakos and beginning the Core process. Because this particular workshop's dynamics or focus was on love and sexuality, how we relate to our lovers/ partners was certain to be addressed. There were several couples in attendance that were given the opportunity to process relationship blocks. This work was beneficial to me as an individual as the couples' work touched on some of my own personal issues.

For me personally, doing Core wasn't a process where I was figuring out why I do the things I do.... but coming to the realization that I DO certain things that I wasn't even aware of doing. Awareness is the first step. Perhaps the reason those patterns play out the way they do in my life is not as important as "What now?" My issues that were being targeted during my Core weekend were boldly sitting on the bulls eye - glaringly daring me to take notice. Oh...BOY... did I ever notice. My choices are not as clean cut as I'd like to have them. I learned that my nature is to "reject" first, before I get "rejected". I also like to be in control, so perhaps when I experience not being in control I'll understand myself better, or not. Pretty much..... I understand that I prefer to avoid difficult situations.If I'm not able to physically remove myself from these situations, I'll do it energetically. Maybe I need to find out why I'm so scared to stick around during these times. I've got lots of more work ahead of me. I certainly don't know all the answers.

I met a lot of really brave individuals at Core who faced some pretty tough issues. On Sunday afternoon as we all were packing up our belongings and making moves to return to our homes I knew the processing I experienced over the weekend was just a tip of the iceberg. My homeward journey would lead me to much more than a house with a roof. It would be a journey leading to my Core-self.