Bodynamics was originally founded in Denmark by Lisbeth Marcher and twelve of her colleagues. Bodynamic International is currently offering training’s globally.
Mind Body Resourcing is a California public-benefit educational nonprofit organization, under Section 501(c)(3) of the revenue code and is exempt from state and federal taxes.
The Institute has a number of projects under consideration in support of its goal to promote healthy relations by helping people to remove mental and physical blocks so they can reach out to others to enhance mutual connection.
“Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy, and relationships. Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.”
– Dean Ornish, M.D. in LOVE & SURVIVAL, 8 Pathways to Intimacy and Health, Harper Collins, New York 1998
Meet the Lead Trainers:
ANNE ISAACS, MSW, LCSW
Bodynamic Training: Certified Bodynamic Analyst and Trainer, PTSD Trauma Training
Specialty: Working with adults and groups – dealing with developmental issues.
Other Skills: Leads long term therapy groups, including incest survivors
ANNE SPECIALIZES IN:
Helping you to recognize and become the best of yourself by:
- Healing early developmental and attachment disruptions that impact your adult life and relationships
- Using your body to support, change and solidify new resources
- Being fully present with you so you can be fully present with yourself
Anne feels it’s a privilege to be moved by the depth in her students and clients. She is very skilled in perceiving how your body holds patterns of protection and limitation. She will help you find new ways to function with more vitality. She is touched by the wonder of what happens when both she and her clients and students surrender to the process of contact and change.
Anne has been a therapist and teacher for 35 years. She is grateful to her many teachers, including, Lisbeth Marcher, Mariana Bentzen, Merete Branbtjerg, Mary Main, Eric Hesse, Diana Fosha, Julie Henderson, Tony Richardson, Bairo Tulku, for the profound wisdom they have shared with her. She is thankful for her smart and loving husband, Joel, daughter, Vida, and the many friends who are such a rich part of her life.
Address: 11847 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300,
West Los Angeles,CA. 90025
Phone: 310-914-9414
e-mail: aisaacs@bodynamicusa.com
JOEL ISAACS, PHD
Bodynamic Training: Certified Bodynamic Analyst and Trainer, PTSD Trauma Training
Specialty: Individuals and couples, especially relationships & career issues
Other Skills: Leads groups and consults to progressive activist groups
JOEL SPECIALIZES IN:
Helping you towards the life you want by using:
- Your body to sense yourself deeply and build resources.
- Your mind to uncover purpose and bring it to life.
- Your spirit to animate your life and create fulfillment.
Joel is deeply moved by being able to help people explore who they really are and how they can be truly fulfilled in their lives. He enjoys using the body to ease people into connection with themselves. And from this space the building of a mutual connection opens new possibilities for both people.
Joel particularly likes working with adults and couples on life changing and career changing issues. He enjoys helping clients to build the skills they need to move past their historical patterns more rapidly. His own experiences of joy, struggle and growth as a mate and father have sensitized him to the wonders of intimacy. He has helped many clients to let go of limiting behavior in relationships and find the intimacy they have sought. He enjoys working with spiritual issues as they present themselves in therapy, and sees this as a natural extension of unifying mind and body. Joel is also skilled at helping people to clarify their goals and organize their lives. His intuitive ability can often help a client sense what their next steps might be.
JOEL’S BACKGROUND
Joel began his professional life as a Ph.D. physicist doing research on magnetism at ultra-low temperatures. His last position was at UC Berkeley. That was a hot time! After publishing six articles, Joel decided to follow the beat of his own drum and went on to study Clinical Psychology at Yale University, and then to work with some colleagues at Harvard University’s innovative program of Clinical Psychology and Public Practice. Concurrently he was also interested in Alternative Education and the free-school movement. More recently, Joel has become active in progressive politics, working on the Marcy Winograd campaign for congress, helping to lead the Activist Support Circle in Santa Monica, and consulting to progressive groups about running better meetings. Along with educating and empowering people he wants to see our society become more participatory and more egalitarian. He has been with Anne Isaacs for over thirty years, and they have a daughter, Vida, who is now 25.
CREDENTIALS AND EXPERIENCE
In the late ‘70s Joel moved to Los Angeles to follow his interest in Wilhelm Reich and body oriented psychotherapy. His first major training was with the Radix Institute, where he earned a certification. Joel began to develop new ways to work with fear held in the body, and published several articles about this. During this time he worked with actors, helping some to increase their expressive range. While continuing his work with individuals and groups, Joel and his wife Anne did the first Firewalk with Tony Robbins and found it very inspiring, Joel realized he wanted to have clients sense themselves more deeply, and be able to bring that openness out into the world. He went on to develop his own training program, and together with his first training group chose the name Core Contact. Four groups were certified in this new approach to working with body and mind.
In the 80s and early 90s Joel and Anne led trainings in Europe, South America, and Australia, and they also taught 5-day workshops on intimacy at Esalen Institute. During this period he met and developed a friendship and colleagueship with the Danish founders of Bodynamic Analysis. In 1990 he began his formal training in Bodynamic Analysis, a body-oriented developmental psychotherapy. He became a certified Bodynamic Analyst, and then a Trainer. Joel has also written about and yoga and given workshops to yoga teachers and practitioners to help them grow psychologically from their practice. Together with colleagues, Joel has published a number of articles about Bodynamic Analysis, including The Bodymap: A Precise Diagnostic Tool for Psychotherapy. He is presently Director of Bodynamic Institute USA, and an Adjunct Faculty member at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. Over the years Joel has helped hundreds of people lead more fulfilled lives, and has himself continued to grow personally and develop his work. More recently, he has restructured the Bodynamic Foundation training so that people can more easily bring the work into their own private practice. Joel has a private practice in West Los Angeles and trains professionals around the country.
Address: 11847 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300,
West Los Angeles,CA. 90025
Phone: 310-914-9414
e-mail: jisaacs@bodynamicusa.com
Meet the Support Team:
Jonathan Zerbin
Jonathan resides in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and spends half his time running a startup company doing Alternative Energy research based off of the works of Nikola Tesla and Wilhelm Reich. A few years ago he became passionate about Bodynamic therapy having experienced it’s transformative power first hand and has now dedicated his life to bringing it to the world. He also has an avid interest in SCT, ISTDP and ISP and integrating that knowledge with Bodynamics.
He is currently responsible for leading the design of this website as well as implementing social media platforms for educating and marketing purposes for the Bodynamic institute. He is also a team member of Bodynamic International where he fulfills similar roles. He is also passionate about writing and much of his work can be found on his personal website at: http://www.gestaltreality.com/
Coquelicot Gilland
Coquelicot (“co-cle-co”) is a Personal Coach and Life Skills Trainer, Bodynamic Analyst, Bodynamic Foundation and Skills Trainer, Somatic and Presencing Skills Trainer, Restorative Touchworker and Certified Massage Therapist, Yoga Mentor, Pastoral Counselor, and Minister with the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person. Her personal website can be found at: http://www.body-dynamics.net/
If you would like to help the Institute spread the benefits of Bodynamic Analysis to others by providing tax deductible funding for a project, please contact Anne Isaacs to discuss your interests and the Institute’s needs. If you would like to make a contribution to the Institute’s general fund to enable us to expand our training and publish our data, please send your check to Mind Body Resourcing at the address below.
Mind Body Resourcing
P.O. Box 1708
Novato, CA
94948, USA
Phone: 1 (510) 570-8061
Email: jonathan@bodynamic.com