Welcome to
HAKOMI CASCADIA INTERNATIONAL
Relational mindfulness for open-hearted lives
Activity Calendar
We are building a
community...
for exploring the habits that separate us from ourselves and others; recover our innate healing power; and create lives that are more fully alive, joyful and connected.
We draw on the Hakomi Method developed by Ron Kurtz (1934-2011), a pioneer in secularizing spiritual embodied practices bringing together mindfulness with humanistic psychotherapeutic traditions. We do not seek quick-fixes nor forceful change, but rather, to slow down, listen more deeply and connect with ourselves and others in an embodied trusting, resourced and committed way creating home in our similarities and differences.
We believe it is from this space that healing and thriving emerge, and also the potential for collective change.
"The important thing...[is] to become a gateway,
through which the love which is present
can welcome the love that has been waiting."
Ron Kurtz
Who can benefit from
Hakomi?
Are you a therapist?
Surface unconscious core material and co-create healing experiences with your clients through deepening somatic tracking skills and attunement beyond the verbal. This gentle but profound method cultivates particular states of mind to find inspiration and nourishment in your clients, for authentic connections and as an antidote to burnout.
Are you a teacher or helping professional?
Relationships are at the heart of your work and with Hakomi you learn to listen beyond words, cultivate an authentic, safe, resourced and attuned presence, and how to stay engaged, curious and learning, even in the most challenging of situations.
Are you a bodyworker?
Learn to support your students or clients ethically and safely by providing the proper container for their experience, beyond movement and touch. Heighten your awareness of their processes and develop resources to refine your ability to co-regulate and prevent dis-regulation.
We do offer trainings that fulfill the requirements for certification as a Hakomi Practitioner and a Hakomi Teacher or Trainer with the Hakomi Education Network. We do not offer psychotherapy trainings nor do we offer licenses for therapeutic practice.
"Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond
the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs
that linger unexamined in the mind and body [...]
This work is a part of that heroic labor,
a cousin to sitting meditation, to singing bowls and chanting monks."
Ron Kurtz
Our Activities
"To notice what arises inside, without judgement,
is the essence of Hakomi and a pathway
to deep and abiding healing."
Ron Kurtz