Physical & emotional health & aliveness.

Welcome

The Southern California Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis is a non-profit organization affiliated with the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA). We are dedicated to the theory, practice and research of mind-body psychotherapy.

Engaging the wisdom of the body in a safe and caring environment.

 

Bioenergetic therapists respect the dignity, worth, and uniqueness of all individuals. We are committed to furthering and protecting basic human rights and furthering human welfare.

 
 

What is Bioenergetic Analysis?

 

Bioenergetic Analysis basically combines a bodily, analytic and relational therapeutic work, based upon an energetic understanding.

Bioenergetic Analysis helps to release chronic muscular tensions, manage affects, expand the capacity for intimacy, heal sexual difficulties and learn new, more fulfilling ways of relating to others. Tenderness, aggression, assertion – and their confluence in sexuality – are seen as core lifesaving forces. The therapeutic relationship provides a place of safety in which healing begins.

In Bioenergetic Analysis, affect is the core of our work.  Emotional states are the most powerful and pervasive Bioenergetic states of the body.

We recognize the transforming power of positive emotional states and the aliveness and health that these states can bring to our life. In our work, we especially focus on these states as agents of healing, and understand their capacity to help the client reorganize their sense of self.

All of these Bioenergetic states of the self are relational, participatory, and resonant connections to the world.  Sometimes they are rapid and immediate nonverbal responses to people and situations, and sometimes they represent the deep background impact of the environment and energy of our surround. When they are felt and embodied, they change us. We recognize the power of these connections and how important they are as organizers of the self-experience and for our physical and emotional health and aliveness.

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Southern California Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis

The Southern California Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (SCIBA) is a professional association that offers educational programs in the theory, techniques and clinical teaching of Bioenergetic Analysis; provides referrals to bioenergetic therapists; assists in maintaining the professional and ethical standards of its profession; offers ongoing trainings and workshops for licensed therapists, students and the general public for which CEU’s can be earned; and is a recognized affiliate of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis.

 

Integrating Mind, Body and Emotions.

“It integrates a work with the body, with the patient’s interpersonal relationships, and with his mental processes; each of which is correlated and interpreted in terms of the others…. Bioenergetic Analysis starts with the reality of the body and its basic functions of motility and expression.”
– Alexander Lowen, Founder of Bioenergetics

 

“When you have no words for your feelings, for what happened to you, for what is missing in you, we listen to the inner resonance – of your inchoate secrets – as it lives in your body. We help you to sense and amplify this inner resonance until its movement comes close enough to the surface of your being to enter your consciousness. But we also listen carefully to your words and are touched by them when they come from a depth of your being that no one can put a hand on. We invite you to surrender to the spirit of your body and the body of your spirit – and in so doing, to embrace your true self.”

– Robert Lewis, M.D., CBT—

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