You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Mary Oliver
A 5 day Training Workshop in Body-Mind Psychotherapy with Founder Susan
Aposhyan and Irene Tobler , Costa Brava, Spain
July 18-23.2025
We invite you to join our in-person Body-Mind Psychotherapy Training/workshop. This workshop is
designed to give you an in-depth experience of your body’s inner working and capacity to heal. It will
also offer the possibility to work with others from an aware and embodied place.
Body-Mind Psychotherapy (BMP) is unique in the somatic world for training people to work directly
and deeply with their own embodiment, as the foundation for helping others.
In BMP, the ability to observe nonverbal cues and behaviors in others begins with the development
of one’s in-depth body awareness. BMP addresses human development all the way from early
developmental issues to spiritual awakening. BMP integrates environmental and spiritual aspects
with embodiment practices and psychological development.
At the heart of the work, we will embrace the six principles of Body-Mind Integration: respect, full
participation, inclusivity, dialogue, sequencing and development. Through these principles, we will
experience the vitality and wisdom of each aspect of the body-mind, as they manifest moment to
moment through our lives.
We will work with the full range of the BMP curriculum, embodiment practice, the psychology of the
body systems, early motor development, the interaction cycle, circular attunement and embodied
spirituality.
This workshop is experiential and designed to support your next phase of development. We will be
working with our own body-mind, as well as how to support development in the body-mind of
others. We will offer deep embodiment practice, as well as practicum sessions in dyads, triads and in
group settings. We will also offer deeply embodied meditations to activate a core flow and to deepen
our connection to the spiritual self.
Everyone is welcome to this training, from first timers to advanced practitioners. There will be an
opportunity to embrace this works in your own unique way and with your level of skills. The
workshop hours can be used toward certification in BMP and Embodiment Coaching at every level.
This workshop is a unique opportunity to experience Susan’s life’s work directly.
Susan Aposhyan Bio:
Susan began training helping professionals internationally in Body-Mind Psychotherapy
in 1996. In the last few years, the whole BMP curriculum became available in online
recordings. In addition, Susan’s third book, Heart Open, Body Awake: The four steps to
embodied spirituality came out. Since then, she has been looking at the role of
spirituality in psychotherapy. It seems that we are living in a time when the separation
between psychotherapy and spirituality does not really serve. BMP has always been
focused on development and now we are including the development of spirituality as
well.
Irene Tobler Bio:
Irene has been a body-mind oriented therapist for the past 33 years, as well as a
homeopath and healer. Her work has been greatly influenced and shaped by Susan’s
work over the years. Irene has been a teacher and trainer of body-oriented
psychotherapy and healing modalities, as well as a group leader including in wilderness
settings for over 25 years. She has been involved in Buddhist and other spiritual
practices for over 45 years and has lately become an earth activist. She is the founder
of “Trees&Circles Foundation”(www.treesandcircles.org).
PRACTICAL INFORMATION AND REGISTRATIONS
Registrations at:
vero_lassus@nullhotmail.com / Verónica Lassus
Dates:
From Saturday July 19th to Wednesday July 23rd, 2025
Beginning on Saturday at 11.00 hs.
Finishing on Wednesday at 16.00 hs.
Venue:
Hotel Montjoi
Av. Sant Elm, s/n, 17220 Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona
Workshop Fee (*):
620€ for resgitrations until May 26th, 2025
680€ for registration after May 26th, 2025
(*) Food and Lodging at Hotel Montjoi are not included in the workshop fee .
Hotel Montjoi Fees:
Sea View (superior room) – Single occupation: 222,00€
Sea View (superior room) – Double occupation: 133,00€
Mountain View (standard room) – Single occupation: 172,50€
Mountain View (standard room) – Double occupation: 108,50€
• These prices are per person and night.
• Prices are Full Board, including breakfast, lunch and dinner.
• Prices do not include VAT (10%) and Touristic Taxes (0,66€ per person and night).
• Supplement for an extra meal on check-in or check-out day: 27€ without beverages, VAT
included.
• Half Board discount (breakfast + lunch or dinner): 20€ without beverages + VAT per night.
• The supplement for the participants who do not stay at Hotel Montjoi is 33,00€ VAT
included per day.