Beginning Hakomi Training: Bringing Attention to the Body and Inner Experience

My vision: Homeopathy and Hakomi

I am currently in the first year of a two-year training program, with each year running about ten months. I’m still in the beginning stages (about three months in), so I don’t yet know exactly how this work will weave into my homeopathic practice. But I already feel how deeply it aligns with the kind of healing work I care about: helping people slow down, listen more carefully to themselves, and understand the deeper patterns that shape their inner world.

I can imagine this becoming helpful in two related ways: first, by giving me an even clearer window into the deeper themes and patterns that guide remedy selection; and second, by giving clients a grounded way to be with and process some of the emotional material that naturally arises during consultations.

Hakomi: Slowing down & making contact

In homeopathic consultations, clients often share emotional experiences, physical sensations, stress patterns, memories, fears, and repeating behaviors. Much of the time, we talk about these experiences as part of the story of their life and health. What Hakomi is helping me explore is how, at certain moments, we might pause the story and gently bring attention to what is happening right now.

That might look like asking a client, during a consultation, if we can slow down for a few minutes and notice what is arising right now – in the body and the feelings. For example: Where do you feel that? What happens when you stay with that sensation for a few breaths? Is there an image, emotion, impulse, or belief connected to it? The aim is to deepen the experience to better understand ourselves and what makes us tick.

This is not about forcing anything or analyzing the mind from the outside. It is more about creating space for the client to make contact with their own inner experience. Sometimes, when we slow down in this way, we begin to see the beliefs, protective strategies, and old patterns that have been operating beneath the surface.

We may also begin to sense what was missing earlier in life — perhaps safety, support, recognition, tenderness, or permission to be oneself — and how that missing experience may still be asking to be met.

Taking it slow: we know as we go

For now, I am approaching this slowly and respectfully. I’m not changing the foundation of my work, and I’m not trying to turn every consultation into something different.

At times during a consultation, I may check in and ask if you’d like to slow down and engage in a specific practice or inquiry that is in line with Hakomi, especially when we are exploring emotional or body-based experiences. And if this is a way of working that feels supportive to you, you are also welcome to ask me directly if we can spend some time with your experience in this way.

Homeopathy remains at the center of my practice. But I am excited to begin integrating small moments of deeper present-moment awareness where it feels natural and supportive.

My hope is that this training will help me serve clients with even more presence, and sensitivity — not only by listening to their symptoms and stories, but by helping them listen more deeply to the wisdom of their own body and inner landscape. This supports both the homeopathic process itself and the deeper emotional healing that often unfolds alongside it.

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If you’re curious to learn more, I invite you to explore working together or schedule a free discovery call to see if this approach aligns with your needs.