Core Evolution and CoreSoma

1. Introduction

Version followed: Core Evolution® and CoreSoma® as presented by the International Institute for Core Evolution & CoreSoma (directors Siegmar Gerken PhD and Cornelia Gerken) on its own website (coreevolution.de: training, CoreSoma and Energy, Love and Consciousness pages), in its trauma-training module plan (Holistika, Tallinn, 2025–26), in its listing by the German Society for Body Psychotherapy (DGK), and in its programme texts on USABP and EABP, 2019–2026. These institute pages confirm the method's names, areas of work, named tools, training formats and touch principles. They still give no step-by-step procedures. No published treatment manual or book on the method is listed, and the full curriculum is sent only on request. All steps in section 4 therefore remain [synthesis], and the founding date and place remain partly [uncertain].

What it is. Core Evolution describes itself as "a relational, psychodynamic, body-oriented and mindfulness-centered therapy"; its DGK listing calls it an integrative, body-oriented, trauma-sensitive and mindfulness-centred approach to psychotherapy and counselling. It is an integrative training tradition, not a single manualised therapy. The institute names as foundations body-oriented therapy, depth and humanistic psychology, Gestalt, somatic, transpersonal and existential approaches, attachment and trauma theory, family systems, affective and social neuroscience, systems theory, eco-psychology, Eastern and Western teachings, shamanic approaches, psychosomatics, subtle energies, dreams, and the developers' own research on the energetic dynamics of emotional and somatic processes. It works across the physical body, emotions, mind, will, personality limits, life intentions, mindfulness practice and "the field of consciousness". CoreSoma ("CoreSoma® – Healing Touch") is a specialisation developed by Cornelia Gerken. It shares the same theory but focuses on "non-verbal aspects of our being": dialogue with "body consciousness" and "light but intentional, nourishing safe touch", given fully clothed. [source: Core Evolution Trainings page; CoreSoma page; DGK listing; USABP institute page; USABP Spotlight 2021; USABP Tuscany 2019; USABP CoreSoma for Women 2019]

Origins. Siegmar Gerken studied psychology, education and anthropology, worked with the Free Clinic in Heidelberg in 1971/72, and trained with pioneers of body psychotherapy [source: Choka Sangha bio]. He has led body-oriented, heart-centred work since 1976 [source: Holistika trauma training]. He worked with John C. Pierrakos, founder of Core Energetics, for about 20 years until 2001, published within Core Energetics (Gerken 1998), and then developed his own further version, which he calls Core Evolution [source: Choka Sangha bio; USABP Spotlight 2021; Gerken 1998]. A Core Energetics practitioner's page states that the Gerkens led the Institute of Core Energetics in Mendocino, California, and that after Pierrakos's death in 2001 it developed its own style [source: Lovascio, secondary]. Siegmar and Cornelia Gerken co-founded the International Institute for Core Evolution & CoreSoma [source: Holistika trauma training]. Siegmar Gerken co-founded the EABP Scientific Committee, taught at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute (2007–2012) and in JFK University's somatic psychology department (2012–2019), and taught at Esalen and the Behavioural Therapy Training Institute in Hamburg [source: Holistika trauma training; SlidesLive bio]. The institute says the approach has been offered "for over 40 years" (the DGK entry says over 45 years of pioneering work); this counts from the founder's earlier Core Energetics work, not from the Core Evolution name [source: ELC page; DGK listing]. Founding place: no institute source names a founding city. The documented base of the predecessor institute is Mendocino, California. The German link is the founders' training and early work (Heidelberg, Hamburg), the .de domain, and the DGK listing, which offers an in-person introductory intensive at Schloss Buchenau near Fulda [source: DGK listing]. The label "Germany" is therefore only partly supported. [uncertain: founding year and city of the Core Evolution institute itself]

How change happens (as the authors state it). Early development forms "Personality Reaction Patterns™". These are inner working models that shape emotions, body reactions, thinking, behaviour and beliefs, and they may no longer fit current needs. The authors hold that these patterns change when the client observes the body reaction, understands the need beneath it and nourishes that need. Restricted breathing, chronic muscle tension and withheld emotion are said to distort perception and expression of the "pulsation of life". The authors also hold that "Repression of Expression can cause Depression™". Change is framed as restoring pulsation, grounding and coherence of the "body-mind field", and contact with the "Core": the authors' term for a centre of life energy that is the source of healing, creativity and wisdom. Energy, field and Core are the school's own theoretical concepts, not established physiology. [source: USABP Spotlight 2021; USABP institute page]

2. Framework

No clinical phase model or session protocol is published. The institute's own pages describe areas of work, a process arc and training-module sequences, but no session-by-session structure. [source: Core Evolution Trainings page; CoreSoma page; Holistika trauma training] [uncertain]

Areas of work (the authors' map). The authors list eight areas: (1) the physical body, its structure and movement expression; (2) emotions and feelings, and how inner and outer impulses are processed; (3) the mind, meaning understanding, awareness and the structure of thinking; (4) the will, "the faculty that gives energy direction"; (5) personality limits and the choices that open when they expand; (6) life intentions, insight and vision; (7) practice in being, meaning awareness and mindfulness; (8) the field of consciousness (essence, unity). A 2022 text gives a six-area version: body, emotions, mind, will, mindfulness/awareness, and embodied consciousness with global awareness. [source: EABP listing; USABP 2022 training]

Process arc. The authors describe an "existential process": Intention → Manifestation → Life-Processes → Self-Realization. [source: USABP 2022 training]

Work areas in CoreSoma and the intensives. These cover physical health (movement, sleep, energy), psychological life (feelings, thoughts, behaviour, self-esteem), the capacity to act and create, including integrating developmental and other trauma, social connection (supportive contact and touch), and living environment and spiritual freedom. [source: USABP Tuscany 2019]

Formats documented.

Individual therapy, in person or online, worldwide. [source: USABP Tuscany 2019]
Group intensives: 2-day workshops and a 5-day residential summer intensive. [source: USABP Asilomar 2019; USABP Tuscany 2019]
Online training modules: for example, Part 1 of a four-part 2022–24 training ran as three weekends of about 4 hours per evening, 21 teaching hours in all. [source: USABP 2022 training]
CoreSoma units: weekend workshops, with touch given fully clothed. [source: USABP CoreSoma for Women 2019]
Specialised strands: Core Evolution Trauma Trainings™ (developmental, shock, family, generational and collective trauma), Awaken Your Body-Dream-Process™, women's workshops, leadership teaching. [source: USABP Spotlight 2021; USABP Tuscany 2019]

Training formats on the institute's own pages and listings (2025–26).

Global Core Evolution Training: the fourth cohort began online in January 2025. It combines teaching with personal process. Completing the full training leads to certification in Integrative, Body-Oriented and Mindfulness-Centered Psychotherapy, full EABP membership and eligibility to apply for the ECP. All national and international trainings follow the same curriculum. [source: Core Evolution Trainings page; EABP listing]
Core Evolution Trauma Training: 56 academic hours in three 2-day modules, plus two online sessions of 3¾ hours and a 2-hour online check-in (Tallinn, September 2025 to March 2026). Module 1: effects of trauma on body, psyche and life; stress physiology (fight, flight, freeze); mindfulness and somatic awareness; resources, boundaries and safe space; grounding; preventing retraumatisation; safe release of held energies. Module 2, "the social brain": empathy and attunement; auto-, self- and co-regulation in the therapeutic relationship; implicit and explicit memory; developmental and intergenerational trauma and family patterns; body-oriented processing, polyvagal activation, tracking energy dynamics, processing somatic memories. Module 3, "the Coherent Self": collective trauma and resilience; stabilising a healthy ground; unspecific psychosomatic complaints (burnout, chronic pain) and complex trauma; accidents, surgery, loss, war and disaster; integration of affects, thoughts, images and beliefs. [source: Holistika trauma training]
CoreSoma core programme: three modules of 3 days, extendable to an advanced level, offered in English in Europe and the USA. [source: CoreSoma page]
Energy, Love and Consciousness Program™ (online): three workshops booked together (Trauma; The Social Brain; The Coherent Self), each three 2.5-hour evening meetings 2–3 weeks apart, using mindfulness, body awareness, empathic sharing and listening, personal processing, meditation and short lectures. [source: ELC page]
Intensive introduction to the principles of Core Evolution: a 3-day in-person course at Schloss Buchenau near Fulda; full curriculum on request. [source: DGK listing]

Session count. None is given in any source. [uncertain]

A working phase structure for individual therapy [synthesis]. The stages below arrange the authors' named tools in the order their texts imply: grounding and awareness before expression; pattern understanding before restructuring; intention and self-realization last. The institute's trauma-training sequence supports this order: resources, boundaries, safe space and grounding first; then co-regulation and processing of somatic memories; then stabilising the "Coherent Self" and integration [source: Holistika trauma training]. Session numbers and transition criteria are not given by the institute. Treat this as a scaffold, not the institute's protocol.

Contact, safety and grounding (about sessions 1–4). Goals: build the relationship; take a history that includes the body, trauma levels (individual, family, generational, collective) and touch history; screen for contraindications; establish the Matrix of Grounding and basic somatic awareness; agree on touch or no touch. Move on when the client can notice sensation, return to ground on cue, and stay regulated while talking about mild material.
Awareness and pattern recognition (about sessions 4–12). Goals: track breathing patterns, tension and impulses; separate interoception, exteroception and proprioception; identify Personality Reaction Patterns, meaning the trigger, the body reaction and the underlying need. Move on when the client can name at least one pattern in its body form and the need beneath it.
Expression, nourishment and integration (open-ended). Goals: allow withheld expression in a graded way; tell triggered reactions apart from authentic emotion; meet the underlying needs (nourishing contact, CoreSoma touch if agreed, self-regulation); integrate traumatic material within the window of tolerance. Move on when reactions become more flexible, the client can self-regulate between sessions, and new choices appear in daily life.
Intention and self-realization (closing phase). Goals: clarify life intention (Intention Quest, Will of Your Heart); practise presencing; consolidate; end. Close when the client's goals are met and they have their own grounding and awareness practice.

3. Guiding principles

Principles stated by the authors [source: Core Evolution Trainings page; CoreSoma page; ELC page; USABP institute page; USABP Spotlight 2021; USABP 2022 training; USABP Asilomar 2019; USABP CoreSoma for Women 2019; USABP Tuscany 2019], each followed by its practical meaning [synthesis]:

Wholeness and inherent self-healing. The approach trusts the client's capacity for love, creativity and self-healing. In practice: look for and name resources and healthy impulses, not only defences.
The Core. The authors posit an essential centre of life energy beneath protective patterns. In practice: treat defences as protection and keep addressing the person behind them. (This is the school's concept, not a physiological claim.)
Pulsation of life. The authors hold that life expresses itself in pulsation, and that held breath, chronic tension and withheld emotion restrict it. In practice: watch the rhythm of breath, movement and contact–withdrawal, and work to restore flow rather than force it.
Body-mind field. The authors treat memory and consciousness as functions of the whole body-mind, not only the brain. In practice: treat a body signal (posture, breath shift, gesture) as meaningful material equal to words.
Personality Reaction Patterns™ can change. Patterns formed early can be updated. In practice: the working sequence is observe the body reaction, find the unmet need, then nourish the need. Do not try to break the pattern.
"Repression of Expression can cause Depression™". The authors link withheld expression to depressed states. In practice: with flat or depressed clients, explore gently what is being held back and support graded expression. Do not push for catharsis.
Trigger versus authentic emotion. Reactive, triggered emotion differs from authentic expression. In practice: help the client sense which is which before supporting discharge or acting on a feeling.
Self-regulation first. Self-regulation, vagal toning and emotional independence are explicit aims. In practice: teach regulation skills before deepening, and always end a session regulated.
Grounding as the base (Matrix of Grounding™). In practice: open and close work through grounding, and return to it whenever arousal rises.
Relational and psychodynamic. The approach is relational and works with early developmental history. In practice: attend to transference and to the here-and-now relationship, and link present patterns to early experience.
Mindfulness-centred. Awareness and "practice in being" are core. In practice: slow down, invite present-moment noticing, and favour curiosity over interpretation.
Trauma-informed at several levels. The authors address individual, family, generational and collective trauma. In practice: ask about family and collective history as well as personal events, and pace trauma work.
Will and intention. The will gives energy direction, and clients are seen as co-creators of their lives. In practice: once there is stability, help the client form and embody a clear intention.
"Love is the Resonance with the Flow of Life™". The authors frame love as a state that opens new choices. In practice: the therapist's warmth and presence are part of the method, and moments of openness are worth consolidating.
Touch as a basic need (CoreSoma). Touch is treated as a basic human need that regulates the nervous system and supports trust, attachment and the sense of "I am". It is given light, intentional, safe and fully clothed. In practice: touch is optional, always negotiated, and never the only route.
Spirit and embodiment. Clients are invited to embody their spiritual nature. In practice: respect the client's own worldview, and offer transpersonal framing only if the client welcomes it.
Professional limits [synthesis]. Touch and expressive bodywork need specific training and supervision, and must be allowed by your licence and jurisdiction. The institute's infrared and biophoton "energy field" research is its own claim. Do not use it as a clinical measure or present it to clients as established science.

Further principles on the institute's own pages, each with its practical meaning [synthesis]:

Trauma is a whole-system experience. The trauma training states that "a trauma is not just held in the brain". In practice: track body, relationship and life context, not only memories and thoughts. [source: Holistika trauma training]
Stabilise first; release only safely. Grounding, resources, boundaries, a safe space and prevention of retraumatisation come before processing and the "safe release" of held energies. In practice: no processing until the client can ground and set a boundary in session. [source: Holistika trauma training]
Co-regulation. Empathic interaction is framed as part of psychological first aid, alongside auto- and self-regulation. In practice: your own regulated presence is an intervention; regulate with the client before asking them to regulate alone. [source: Holistika trauma training]
The roots of the psyche are somatic (CoreSoma). Much of what is attributed to the mind is said to come from the sensing and feeling "Body-Mind Field". In practice: give non-verbal experience time of its own, not only as a lead-in to talk. [source: CoreSoma page]
Acknowledgement can be enough (CoreSoma). Early non-verbal experiences are said to need contact, communication and presence, and acknowledgement through mindfulness and awareness alone can help the body unwind past fixations. In practice: witness and name what the body does before trying to change it. [source: CoreSoma page]

4. Intervention inventory

How to read this section. Every intervention below is named in the institute's own texts: its website training, CoreSoma and programme pages, its trauma-training module plan, and its USABP and EABP programme texts [source: Core Evolution Trainings page; CoreSoma page; ELC page; Holistika trauma training; USABP institute page; USABP Spotlight 2021; USABP 2022 training; USABP Asilomar 2019; USABP Tuscany 2019; USABP CoreSoma for Women 2019]. Those texts give names, purposes and aims. None gives step-by-step procedures, durations or scripts (rechecked on the institute's site in 2026). All steps, timings and example language below are therefore [synthesis]: standard body-psychotherapy operationalisations of the named practice, not the Gerkens' own protocol. All example language is illustrative. For the institute's exact procedures, attend its training or request the curriculum. [uncertain]

Screening before any bodywork [synthesis]. Screen for:

pregnancy;
cardiovascular or respiratory illness, including asthma;
epilepsy;
recent injury or surgery;
psychosis;
severe dissociation;
active suicidality;
recent trauma without stabilisation;
substance intoxication;
a history of boundary violation or abuse that makes touch or intense arousal risky.

If any of these apply, adapt or drop the intensifying elements (deep breathing, vigorous movement, expression). The sources name no contraindications.

A. Core Evolution: awareness, grounding and regulation

4.1 Somatic awareness and mindful tracking of energy patterns

Purpose / when. The authors name mindfulness and somatic awareness as tools for "sensing and tracking energy patterns". This is the foundation for everything else: use it in every session, from session 1.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. The client sits or stands and lets the eyes soften or close (open eyes if closing them feels unsafe).
2. Invite 1–2 minutes of noticing the breath without changing it.
3. Guide a slow scan: feet, legs, pelvis, belly, chest, shoulders, arms, throat, jaw, face. At each area the client names one quality, such as warm or cold, tight or loose, still or moving, numb or vivid.
4. Ask where the client feels most alive or flowing, and where most held or absent.
5. Track in session: whenever a topic comes up, ask what is happening in the body now.
6. Close by asking what the client noticed, and link it to the theme of the session.
Example language (illustrative). "As you say that, what happens in your chest?" "Where does the energy feel stuck, and where does it move?"
Watch for. Rising dissociation (glazed eyes, numbness everywhere, losing track): open the eyes, orient to the room, ground. It is working when the client starts to report sensation on their own and links it to feelings.

4.2 Differentiating interoception, exteroception and proprioception

Purpose / when. A named learning objective. It teaches the client to tell three channels apart: inner sensation, the senses directed outward, and the sense of body position and movement. Use it early, and with clients who are flooded by inner sensation or cut off from it.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Exteroception (about 1 minute). Name five things seen, then three heard, then the texture under the hands.
2. Proprioception (about 1 minute). With eyes closed, sense where the feet are, then the angle of the spine; then slowly raise one arm and sense it moving.
3. Interoception (about 1 minute). Sense heartbeat, breath, stomach and temperature inside.
4. Ask which channel is easiest, which hardest, and which calms.
5. Teach the client to shift to the outer or position channel when inner sensation overwhelms.
Example language (illustrative). "Now leave the inside for a moment. What can you hear in the room?"
Watch for. Interoception can trigger panic in anxious or traumatised clients, so keep it brief and anchored by the other two channels. It is working when the client can switch channels on purpose to regulate.

4.3 The Matrix of Grounding™

Purpose / when. The authors describe it as "standing on the ground and feeling connected to the universe", meant to sustain coherent energy, strengthen life force and give "an inner ground for knowing yourself" [source: USABP Spotlight 2021]. "Matrix of Grounding" is a named topic of the CoreSoma modules, and grounding (anchoring) exercises are a first-module stabilisation tool in the trauma training, alongside resources and safe space [source: CoreSoma page; Holistika trauma training]. Gerken's earlier Core Energetics writing uses the image "Your body is a tree" for rooting in the body [source: Gerken 1998]. Use it at the start and end of sessions, and whenever arousal or dissociation rises.
Steps [synthesis; the institute's exact form was not found]:
1. The client stands, feet hip-width apart and parallel, knees soft (not locked), weight spread over the whole foot. A seated version: feet flat, sitting bones on the chair.
2. Attention goes to the soles: the pressure, the floor pushing back.
3. Slowly rock the weight from heels to toes, then side to side, about 30 seconds, and settle in the centre.
4. Let the breath drop toward the belly without forcing it.
5. Sense the length of the spine upward from the pelvis: grounded below, open above (the "connected to the universe" element, framed in the client's own terms).
6. Add relationship: make eye contact with the therapist while staying aware of the feet, and notice what changes.
7. Hold for 2–5 minutes. Close by asking what the client felt and where they feel most stable.
Example language (illustrative). "Let the floor take your weight. Can you stay with your feet and look at me at the same time?"
Watch for. Locked knees, held breath, leaning back or forward, or eyes that lose contact. It is working when the client reports steadiness and calmer breath and can find the stance alone.
Note. Standing with knees soft for long periods can produce trembling. The sources do not say whether vibration is invited, as it is in Bioenergetics. Do not intensify it into stress positions without training and screening. [uncertain]

4.4 Breathing-pattern differentiation

Purpose / when. Named objective: "differentiate breathing patterns and their effects on the body and expression". The authors hold that restricted breath limits pulsation and expression. Use it once the client is grounded.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. The client first observes their natural breath: where it moves (chest, belly, back), its rhythm, any pause or holding.
2. Try contrasting patterns for 4–6 breaths each, at gentle volume:
  - chest-only breathing;
  - belly breathing;
  - a longer exhale than inhale;
  - breath held at the top;
  - a sighing out-breath, with or without a soft sound.
3. After each, compare its effect on mood, energy and the urge to speak or move.
4. Identify the client's habitual pattern and the situations that trigger it.
5. End with a slow, exhale-weighted breath and grounding.
Example language (illustrative). "Notice what happens to your feeling when you hold the breath in like that. Is it familiar?"
Watch for. Dizziness or tingling (signs of over-breathing): stop and let the breath return to normal. Do not use breath intensification with the contraindications listed above. It is working when the client recognises their holding pattern and can choose a freer breath.

4.5 Mindfulness for vagal tone and tension release

Purpose / when. Named objective: "use mindfulness principles to affect vagal tone and release tension", and the aims of "self-regulation, vagal toning and emotional independence". Use it for high arousal, anxiety, and at the end of intense work.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Ground (4.3).
2. Slow the breath, with the exhale longer than the inhale, for 2–3 minutes.
3. Soften the jaw, eyes, shoulders and belly in turn.
4. Rest attention on a pleasant or neutral body area.
5. Notice signs of settling: a spontaneous sigh, a swallow, warm hands.
6. Teach a 1-minute home version.
Example language (illustrative). "Let the out-breath be a little longer, as if letting the shoulders melt down."
Watch for. Trying too hard can raise tension. It is working when the client shows a settling response and can reproduce it between sessions.

4.6 Personality Reaction Patterns™: observe, understand the need, nourish

Purpose / when. This is the central change sequence the authors state. An early inner working model changes by "observing the body reactions, understanding underlying needs, and nourishing them". Use it whenever a recurring reaction appears in the client's life or in the session.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Recall. The client recalls a recent instance of the reaction (for example, shutting down when criticised) at low intensity, about 3 out of 10.
2. Observe. The client tracks the body reaction: posture, breath, tension, impulses to move toward, away or freeze.
3. Exaggerate or slow down. The client exaggerates the reaction slightly, or slows it, to sense it more clearly.
4. Explore. Ask what the reaction protects, and when it was first needed. Let early memories or images come without pressing for them.
5. Name the need. Name the need underneath, such as safety, recognition, space, support or permission.
6. Nourish. Meet the need in the session: a supportive phrase, a change of posture, the therapist's attuned presence, self-touch (hand on chest), or CoreSoma touch if agreed (4.18).
7. Notice the shift. The client notices what changes in the body.
8. Plan. Agree how the client will meet this need in daily life.
Example language (illustrative). "Your shoulders came up as you said that. What are they protecting you from?" "What would that younger you have needed right then?"
Watch for. Rushing to insight without the body shift, or treating the pattern as an enemy. It is working when the reaction softens on recall and the client reports new responses outside sessions.

4.7 Distinguishing triggers from authentic emotional expression

Purpose / when. Named tool. It separates reactive, triggered emotion (old patterns firing) from authentic present-moment feeling. Use it before supporting expression, and when a client's emotions repeat without resolution.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. When a strong emotion arises, pause and ground.
2. Ask the client to rate how much of it belongs to the present situation and how much feels old or familiar.
3. Explore the body difference. Clients often describe triggered states as tight, urgent or narrowing, and authentic feeling as fuller, slower and more breathing. This description is a clinical observation, not a source claim.
4. For triggered material, return to 4.6. For authentic feeling, support its expression (4.8).
Example language (illustrative). "Is this anger about today, or does it feel older than today?"
Watch for. The client using "it's just a trigger" to dismiss legitimate feelings. It is working when the client can catch triggers earlier and express present feelings cleanly.

4.8 Releasing repressed expression (graded expression)

Purpose / when. This addresses the authors' tenet "Repression of Expression can cause Depression™". The Asilomar workshop lists movement, touch and breathing to "release protective patterns" [source: USABP Asilomar 2019]. The training page lists "shifting protective withholding into creative expression", and the trauma training names breathing and movement to activate and harmonise body and feelings and the safe release and integration of energies held in traumatic experience, placed after grounding and with prevention of retraumatisation [source: Core Evolution Trainings page; Holistika trauma training]. Use it for clients who are flat or depressed, or who hold back emotion, once grounding and regulation are in place. No source describes cathartic techniques. Do not import hitting, kicking or screaming routines from other schools without their training and screening. [uncertain]
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Identify what is being held: words not said, a movement not made, a sound held back.
2. Ground.
3. Invite the smallest form of it first: a word, a breath with sound, a gesture of the hand.
4. Increase step by step, checking arousal at each step.
5. Pair the expression with a clear statement, such as "No", "I want" or "Stop".
6. Stop well before exhaustion or loss of control.
7. Return to grounding and regulation (4.5).
8. Talk it through: what was expressed, and what was felt after.
Example language (illustrative). "Let just a little of that sound out. See what it is like to let it be heard."
Watch for. Escalation without integration, re-traumatisation, or shame afterwards. It is working when the client reports aliveness or relief and the mood lifts across sessions.

B. Core Evolution: history, trauma, self and intention

4.9 Exploring personal history as it appears in the body

Purpose / when. A named workshop element, under the theme "The Body is the Temple of the Soul": how personal history is held in posture, tension and movement. Use it in phases 2–3 to link present patterns to development.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Ask the client to take their habitual posture when they feel a certain way, for example small, braced or collapsed.
2. Ask how old they feel in this posture, and what they see or remember.
3. Explore the life circumstances in which this posture made sense.
4. Try a slightly different posture and compare how it feels.
5. Talk it through and link it to a current situation.
Example language (illustrative). "If this posture could tell your story, what would it say?"
Watch for. Sudden traumatic recall: titrate, ground and move to the resource (4.3, 4.5). It is working when meaning emerges and the posture loosens.

4.10 Exploring and restructuring aspects of the Self

Purpose / when. A named tool, with aims such as "relate to others from your authentic self" and "turn protective withholding into creativity". Use it when protective parts or roles dominate.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Name the aspect, for example "the one who never needs anyone".
2. Let the client embody it: its posture, gesture and voice.
3. Ask what it protects and what it fears.
4. Find the quality underneath it, such as strength or sensitivity.
5. Embody a new form that keeps the protection but lets the quality through, for example firm boundaries with open contact.
6. Rehearse it in the relationship with the therapist.
Example language (illustrative). "Let that part stand up in you. How does it hold your body?"
Watch for. Shaming the protective part. It is working when the client gains choice between old and new responses.

4.10a Resources, boundaries and safe space (trauma stabilisation)

Purpose / when. Named first-module tools of the institute's trauma training: accessing resources, setting boundaries and creating a safe space, together with grounding and prevention of retraumatisation [source: Holistika trauma training]. Use it before any trauma processing (4.11) and whenever a client destabilises.
Steps [synthesis; the institute's procedure is not published]:
1. Resources: ask for people, places, activities, memories or body areas that bring ease. The client senses one of them for 1–2 minutes and names where it registers in the body.
2. Boundaries: the client finds a comfortable distance by asking the therapist to move nearer or further, or marks personal space with a cord or cushions. Practise a clear "stop" with hand and voice, and notice the body response.
3. Safe space: the client imagines or recalls a safe place, adds sensory detail, notes the body response, and anchors it with a gesture or word.
4. Ground (4.3). Close by naming which resource the client will use this week.
Example language (illustrative). "Show me with your hand where my chair should be so that it feels right for you."
Watch for. Safe-place imagery turning unsafe: switch to an external resource and orient to the room. Clients who cannot say stop: practise at very low intensity. It is working when the client can call up a resource and set a boundary under mild stress.

4.11 Multi-level trauma integration (Core Evolution Trauma Trainings™)

Purpose / when. The authors work with developmental, shock, family, generational and collective trauma, and aim to "integrate traumatic experiences". The institute's 56-hour trauma training sets the order: stress physiology (fight, flight, freeze), resources, boundaries, safe space and grounding; then co-regulation in the relationship, implicit and explicit memory, polyvagal activation, tracking energy dynamics and resourced processing of somatic memories; then collective trauma, stabilising the "Coherent Self" and integrating affects, thoughts, images and beliefs (see section 2) [source: Holistika trauma training]. Use it in phase 3, only after stabilisation (4.10a).
Steps [synthesis; trauma protocols were not found in the sources]:
1. Map the levels: personal events, family patterns, what was passed down through generations, and collective history such as war, migration or persecution.
2. Establish resources and grounding.
3. Approach the material in small doses, tracking body signs of arousal and shutdown.
4. Alternate between the trauma material and a resource.
5. Support completion of impulses that were held back at the time (for example pushing away, or turning toward), slowly and with permission.
6. Close regulated.
Example language (illustrative). "We'll touch this only briefly, then come back to your feet."
Watch for. Flooding, dissociation, or anniversary reactions. It is working when material can be held with less arousal and the client's sense of self widens beyond the trauma.

4.12 The Intention Quest

Purpose / when. A named workshop practice. It reconnects participants with their "original pulsation in life" and helps them redirect the intention of their life journey, "supported by the heartbeat". Use it in the late phase, for life direction and transitions.
Steps [synthesis; the institute's procedure is not published]:
1. Ground (4.3).
2. The client places a hand over the heart and senses the heartbeat or pulse (at the wrist if the heartbeat cannot be felt), for 2–3 minutes.
3. Ask: what moves me, and what has always wanted to live through me?
4. Let words, images or impulses arise.
5. Shape them into one short intention statement in the present tense.
6. Say it aloud while grounded, and notice the body's response: does it expand or contract?
7. Refine the statement until it feels congruent.
8. Plan one concrete step.
Example language (illustrative). "Stay with your heartbeat. If your life had a direction from here, what would it be?"
Watch for. Intentions that are imposed rather than felt (the body tightens as they are said). Attention to the heartbeat can trigger health anxiety, so offer the breath as an alternative. It is working when the statement brings a felt sense of rightness and leads to action.

4.13 Aligning with the Will of Your Heart™

Purpose / when. The authors speak of aligning intention with the "Will of Your Heart". Will is "the faculty that gives energy direction". Use it where a client is split between should and want, or is stuck in passivity.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Contrast two phrases spoken aloud while standing, for example "I should…" and "I want…".
2. Notice posture, breath and voice with each.
3. Identify the heart-felt wish.
4. Practise a grounded, directed movement that expresses it, such as stepping forward or reaching.
5. Commit to a matching action.
Example language (illustrative). "Say 'I want' and let your feet feel it."
Watch for. Will used to override feeling. It is working when the client's action and feeling line up.

4.14 The Wild Heart Meditation (Dance of Energy and Consciousness)

Purpose / when. A named practice of inner and outer movement: dance, authentic movement, communication and centering, ranging from free-flowing dance to subtle stillness. It was described in a group workshop context. Use it to mobilise energy and expression, and to end in centred stillness.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Ground.
2. Free movement to music, with eyes open and attention on internal impulses (5–10 minutes in a group format).
3. Optional: movement in contact with others, without touch unless agreed.
4. Gradually slow down to small movements.
5. Come to stillness, standing or sitting, for several minutes.
6. Share the experience.
Example language (illustrative). "Let the movement come from inside. Follow it, then let it get smaller until you are still."
Watch for. Clients who perform for others rather than following inner impulses; physical limitations (offer a seated version); and the cardiovascular contraindications listed above. It is working when the client reports aliveness and a centred calm afterwards.

4.15 Dreamwork and Awaken Your Body-Dream-Process™

Purpose / when. Dreamwork is listed among the workshop methods, "dreams" are among the training's stated foundations, and "Awaken Your Body-Dream-Process™" is a named programme [source: USABP Tuscany 2019; USABP Spotlight 2021; Core Evolution Trainings page]. Its content is not described on the institute's own pages, USABP or EABP. [uncertain] Use it when the client brings dreams.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. The client tells the dream in the present tense.
2. Choose the most charged image.
3. The client senses where it lives in the body.
4. The client embodies an element of the image (its posture, movement or sound).
5. Explore what that element wants or needs.
6. Link it to the client's waking life.
Example language (illustrative). "Become the dark water in the dream for a moment. How does your body want to move?"
Watch for. Nightmares tied to trauma: approach them as in 4.11. It is working when the dream yields a felt meaning or a new impulse.

4.16 Presencing (mindful presence) and life-situation review

Purpose / when. The authors list "presencing" (meeting events with openness and mindful presence), and they invite participants to review their "current life situation and state of being". Use it at the start of a course of therapy, at intervals during it, and at closure.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Ground and arrive in the present (2 minutes).
2. Review each life area in turn, using the authors' list: physical health (movement, sleep, energy), psychological life, capacity to act and create, social connection and touch, environment, and spiritual life.
3. For each area the client notes their body response to it.
4. Choose one area to focus on.
Example language (illustrative). "As you think of your work, how does your body respond?"
Watch for. Turning the review into a judgment of oneself. It is working when priorities become clear and the client feels them as their own.

4.17 Group methods: empathic listening, heartfelt sharing, experiential vignettes, group coherence, the Earth Run

Purpose / when. These are named group elements:
- empathic listening and heartfelt sharing;
- individual work within the group, and group processing;
- "experiential vignettes with personal feedback": short demonstration pieces of individual work in front of the group;
- creating group coherence so new solutions can emerge;
- the Earth Run, a closing ritual held outdoors when weather allows, "to celebrate power and gratitude".
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Sharing. In pairs or rounds, one person speaks for a set time while the others listen without commenting, then reflect back what they heard and how it touched them.
2. Vignettes. With consent, the facilitator works briefly with one person while others witness. Afterwards the witnesses give feedback from their own experience, not as analysis.
3. Coherence. A shared grounding or breathing practice opens and closes each group session.
4. Earth Run. The procedure was not found. The institute's own pages do not mention it, so only the USABP description of an outdoor closing ritual is available. Do not run it with participants who have mobility or cardiac limits, and make participation optional. [uncertain]
Example language (illustrative). "Share what moved in you as you watched, not advice."
Watch for. Pressure to share, or exposure in vignettes. Protect the right to pass. It is working when the group feels safe and resonant.

C. CoreSoma (Cornelia Gerken): non-verbal and touch work

Touch safeguards for all CoreSoma work [source: USABP CoreSoma for Women 2019; USABP institute page]:

Touch is given fully clothed.
It is described as "light but intentional, nourishing safe touch", used as contact, communication and presence, with attention to depth and duration [source: CoreSoma page].
It is taught under the headings of its therapeutic, practical and technical aspects.
Neither the USABP texts nor the institute's CoreSoma page spell out a consent procedure, touch positions or contraindications. The consent steps below are [synthesis] following standard body-psychotherapy ethics.
Touch requires specific training and supervision. Check what your licence, professional code and jurisdiction allow.
Never touch the breasts, genitals, buttocks or inner thighs. Sexual touch is never therapeutic.
Document consent each time.

4.18 Direct, nourishing and healing touch

Purpose / when. Touch is treated as a basic human need that regulates the nervous system and supports trust, attachment and the sense of "I am". It is used as contact, communication, presence and social expression of relationship. Use it in phase 3 when needs from early non-verbal development emerge, and only when the client wants it.
Consent steps [synthesis]:
1. Explain what touch you suggest, where, and why.
2. Ask for consent explicitly, and make clear that "no" is fully acceptable.
3. Offer a no-touch alternative, such as the client's own hand or a cushion.
4. Agree a stop signal, a word or a raised hand.
5. Approach slowly and announce the touch before making contact.
6. Check in during the touch ("Is this still OK?").
7. Remove your hand slowly.
8. Talk it through afterwards, and ask again at the next session how it felt.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. The client sits or lies on a mat, clothed.
2. The therapist positions themselves at the side, not looming over the client.
3. Typical neutral contact areas: one flat hand between the shoulder blades, on the upper back, on the shoulder or outer upper arm, on the soles of the feet, or the client's hand held.
4. Light, still contact, with no pressure or massage, for 1–5 minutes.
5. The client tracks breath, warmth and emotions.
6. Withdraw slowly.
7. Talk it through.
Example language (illustrative). "I'd like to place my hand lightly on your upper back, to offer support while you stay with this. Would that be OK? You can say stop at any time."
Watch for. Freeze or compliance (the client says yes but the body braces); a change in dissociation; transference intensification, such as longing or erotisation. Any of these means stop and discuss. It is working when the breath deepens, the client feels held and safe, and can later reproduce the comfort themselves.

4.19 Verbal and non-verbal body dialogue (dialogue with body consciousness)

Purpose / when. A core CoreSoma practice: to "dialogue with body consciousness, listening to its messages", verbally and non-verbally. Use it when the body carries material the client cannot put into words.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. The client attends to a body area that stands out.
2. Verbal. The client "asks" the area what it needs or wants to say, and waits for an image, word, impulse or memory without forcing.
3. Non-verbal. The client lets the area move or rest in the way it wants. The therapist mirrors the movement or, with consent, offers light contact that responds to the client's impulses.
4. Talk through what was received.
Example language (illustrative). "Let your attention rest on that tight place, as if listening to it. Don't answer for it."
Watch for. The client making up answers from their head (it feels "thought" rather than sensed). Slow down. It is working when surprising or emotionally congruent material emerges.

4.20 Interaction of impulses, energy and movement

Purpose / when. A named CoreSoma objective: to notice small impulses and allow them to complete as movement. Use it with clients who are frozen, collapsed or over-controlled.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. In stillness, track micro-impulses: to turn, reach, curl or push.
2. Follow one impulse very slowly to completion.
3. Notice its quality and its emotional tone.
4. Optional: the therapist gives light resistance with the hands or a cushion (with consent, as in 4.18) so the client can feel the impulse meet something.
5. Rest and talk it through.
Example language (illustrative). "Your hand moved slightly. Let it continue, as slowly as it wants."
Watch for. Defensive impulses (pushing away, fleeing) linked to trauma. Pace them as in 4.11. It is working when movement becomes more fluid and the client feels agency.

4.21 Perceiving levels of consciousness (body perception, feeling, thinking, being)

Purpose / when. A named CoreSoma objective: tune into four levels of consciousness (body perception, feeling, thinking, being) in oneself and perceive them in others. It integrates fixations through mindfulness. Use it for self-awareness and for training therapists' attunement.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. In one experience, the client names in turn what they sense, what they feel, what they think, and what remains when just being.
2. Note which level is overused or avoided.
3. For training: in pairs, the observer notices the partner's levels and checks their perceptions with the partner.
Example language (illustrative). "You've told me what you think. What do you sense in your body right now?"
Watch for. Clients who stay at the thinking level. It is working when movement between levels becomes fluid.

4.22 Work with the subtle energy field

Purpose / when. The CoreSoma modules list working with subtle energy fields, attunement to levels of consciousness including "non-local consciousness", and exploring subtle energy "in a safe and grounded way"; the trauma training lists "tracking energy dynamics" [source: CoreSoma page; Holistika trauma training]. In Gerken's earlier Core Energetics writing the body is "the field on a denser vibratory level", and emotional charges are said to organise the field [source: Gerken 1998]. No procedure is described in any source. "Energy field" is the school's theoretical concept, and the institute's infrared and biophoton research is its own unreplicated claim. [uncertain] Do not offer energy-field work as a treatment for any physical illness.
Guidance [synthesis]:
- If you use non-contact hand positions or attention to the space around the body, present them to the client as an awareness exercise.
- Obtain consent as in 4.18.
- Stay grounded and attend to what the client reports feeling.

4.23 Movement to reach, invite and receive

Purpose / when. A named CoreSoma module topic: movement as an expression of the "language" of the body-mind field, including movement to reach, invite and receive [source: CoreSoma page]. Use it with clients who cannot ask for or take in contact, support or care.
Steps [synthesis; the institute's procedure is not published]:
1. Ground, seated or standing (4.3).
2. Reach: the client slowly extends one or both arms toward a point in the room or toward the therapist (who stays at the distance the client chose), noticing the impulse, any hesitation, and where the movement stops.
3. Invite: the palms turn up and the arms draw slowly back toward the body, as if inviting something in.
4. Receive: the hands rest on the chest or belly, and the client notes what it is like to take something in.
5. Repeat 3–5 times slowly. Talk it through, linking stops or hesitations to the client's patterns and history (4.6, 4.9).
Example language (illustrative). "Let your arm reach only as far as it truly wants. Where does it stop?"
Watch for. Grief or shame when reaching meets an old absence; the arm collapsing or the movement ending abruptly. Slow down and use 4.6. It is working when reaching and receiving become fuller and the client can ask for support in daily life.

4.24 Hands-on work with deep holdings and inner space

Purpose / when. The CoreSoma modules list touch to open deep physical and emotional holdings and hands-on techniques to expand inner space [source: CoreSoma page]. The page gives no technique, pressure, position or contraindication. [uncertain] Use it only after specific training and under supervision, in a later phase, with a client who has already tolerated light contact (4.18).
Steps [synthesis; a conservative version, not the institute's technique]:
1. Screen (screening list at the start of section 4). Also do not use it with recent injury or surgery, bleeding or clotting disorders, osteoporosis, inflammation, pregnancy, or pain not medically assessed; with a history of abuse, only when the client leads and is stable [synthesis].
2. Obtain consent as in 4.18, naming the area and the kind of contact.
3. The client is clothed, seated or lying. The therapist places a still, flat hand over a held area the client names (upper back, shoulder, outer upper arm or soles of the feet), with steady, light-to-moderate pressure; no kneading or pressing into tissue.
4. The client breathes toward the hand and tracks sensation, feelings and images for 1–3 minutes.
5. For "inner space": on each out-breath the client imagines the area widening under the hand.
6. Remove the hand slowly. Ground and talk it through.
Example language (illustrative). "Breathe toward my hand, and let this area take as much room as it wants."
Watch for. Pain, bracing, sudden emotion or dissociation: stop. Touch to the trunk can intensify transference. Deep-tissue techniques are outside this guide and need their own training. It is working when the held area softens and the client reports more room to breathe or feel.

4.25 Inviting qualities of love and light into the body-mind field

Purpose / when. A named CoreSoma module topic: inviting qualities of love and light into the body-mind field [source: CoreSoma page]. It fits the tenet "Love is the Resonance with the Flow of Life™". Use it as a resourcing or closing practice, only with clients who welcome contemplative or spiritual imagery.
Steps [synthesis]:
1. Ground and settle the breath (4.3, 4.5).
2. The client recalls a moment of warmth, love or kindness and lets its quality form as an image, colour or felt sense.
3. On each in-breath the client imagines this quality reaching a body area that needs it; on each out-breath it spreads.
4. Stay 3–5 minutes. Return attention to the feet and the room, and talk it through.
Example language (illustrative). "Let that warmth find the place in you that needs it most."
Watch for. Clients for whom "love" or "light" is triggering or foreign (use neutral words such as warmth or ease), and use of the practice to avoid painful feeling (spiritual bypass, section 5). It is working when the client can return to this quality on their own.

Lineage note: Core Energetics techniques

Siegmar Gerken worked with John Pierrakos for about 20 years and published within Core Energetics: his 1998 article in Energy & Consciousness, the Institute of Core Energetics journal, uses Core Energetics concepts (Higher and Lower Self, energy fields, pulsation, grounding, the "Intention of Being") and describes a guided regression to the time before conception [source: Gerken 1998; USABP Spotlight 2021]. A Core Energetics practitioner's page says the Gerkens led the Institute of Core Energetics in Mendocino, which developed its own style after Pierrakos died in 2001, and lists grounding, breathing, dance and movement, Bioenergetics exercises, role-play, touch and charge-and-discharge work [source: Lovascio, secondary]. Core Energetics, as described by a Core Energetics trainer, works with the "mask" and the "lower self" and energises negativity with spoken phrases and expressive tools such as a tennis racket [source: Weigand 2014]. The institute's current pages (trainings, CoreSoma, trauma training, Energy, Love and Consciousness programme) do not use the mask and lower-self vocabulary and do not describe racket or other cathartic work. They speak instead of grounding, breathing and movement, mindfulness, regulation and the "safe release" of held energies. Whether Core Energetics expressive techniques are still taught in Core Evolution is not stated, so they are not listed as Core Evolution interventions. The pre-conception regression is not listed either: it appears only in the 1998 article, without safeguards, and guided regression to unverifiable early events carries a risk of suggestion; do not use it without the institute's training [synthesis]. [uncertain]

5. Handling problems

The Core Evolution sources found do not discuss problem-handling. Apart from the principles cited in section 3, everything below is [synthesis]: standard body-psychotherapy practice applied to this method's tools.

Stuck client: no sensation, "I feel nothing".
- Shift to the outer channels: exteroception and proprioception (4.2).
- Use movement rather than stillness (4.20, gentle 4.14).
- Ask about contrasts ("Is your left hand any different from your right?").
- Accept numbness as information about a protective pattern and work with it through 4.6.
Stuck client: talks but never drops into the body.
- Use 4.21 to name the level the client is on.
- Ask one short body question after each story.
- Slow the pace.
- Use the relationship: notice aloud what happens between you.
Resistance to body work or exercises.
- Treat it as a Personality Reaction Pattern with a need behind it, such as control, privacy or safety (4.6).
- Ask what would make the exercise feel safer. Offer a smaller version, eyes open, seated, or talk only.
- Never insist. The client's "no" is an act of will (4.13) to be respected.
Overwhelm, flooding or dissociation in session.
- Stop the exercise.
- Open the eyes and orient to the room (4.2).
- Ground through the feet and press the hands together (4.3).
- Lengthen the exhale (4.5).
- Name the date and place.
- Do not add touch unless it was agreed earlier and the client asks for it.
- Before the client leaves, check that they are oriented and safe to travel.
- Next session: work at a lower intensity and build more resources.
Over-breathing symptoms (dizziness, tingling, cramping hands).
- Stop breath work.
- Have the client breathe normally and slowly, seated, and ground.
- Re-screen before using breath work again.
Too much expression: escalating anger or grief without integration.
- Slow down and lower the volume.
- Return to grounding.
- Separate trigger from authentic feeling (4.7).
- Make sure there is time for talking it through.
- The source tenet about repression and depression does not mean that more catharsis is always better. Integration is the aim.
Non-adherence to home practice.
- Reduce practices to 1–2 minutes (grounding stance, longer exhale).
- Attach them to existing routines.
- Explore the meaning of not practising: often the same pattern, such as "my needs don't count".
Ruptures.
- Name the rupture early and own your part.
- Track your own body response.
- Invite the client to say what didn't fit.
- Repair openly; the authors call the approach relational.
- Watch for ruptures caused by touch, or by an exercise that felt imposed.
Touch-specific difficulties.
- Compliant yes. Re-check consent through body signals as well as words. If unsure, stop.
- Erotic or romantic transference. Stop touch. Discuss it within clear boundaries. Get supervision.
- Touch triggers abuse memories. Remove contact slowly. Ground. Return to no-touch work.
- Client requests more or longer touch. Explore the need (4.6). Keep within agreed limits.
- Records. Document each touch intervention and its consent.
Spiritual or energy framing that does not fit the client.
- Translate concepts ("Core", "energy", "field") into experiential language, such as aliveness, sense of self, tension and flow.
- Do not impose transpersonal beliefs.
- Correct any expectation that energy work treats physical disease, and refer to medical care.
Spiritual bypass: using transcendence to avoid pain.
- Gently bring the client back to concrete feelings and life situations before working on intention (4.12–4.13).
Suicidality or severe depression.
- Do a standard risk assessment and safety planning, including lethal-means counselling (secure storage or removal).
- Coordinate with psychiatric care.
- Use only gentle grounding and regulation. Postpone expressive and intensifying work.
Psychosis, mania, or severe dissociative disorders.
- Avoid intensifying breath, movement and energy work.
- Keep to grounding, orientation and reality-based relational work, alongside specialist care.
Group-specific problems (4.17).
- Over-exposure in vignettes. Agree limits beforehand and offer a pass.
- Contagion of emotion. Pause the group and ground everyone.
- Pressure to join the Earth Run or dance. Make every element optional.
Scope.
- Use touch and intensive bodywork only after specific training and under supervision.
- Check your licence and jurisdiction.
- The Core Evolution certification is a training credential. It does not by itself license psychotherapy practice.

Sources

Sources:

International Institute for Core Evolution® and CoreSoma® – USABP training directory ("USABP institute page")
USABP Spotlight Series and the International Institute of Core Evolution present (2021) ("USABP Spotlight 2021")
Embodiment-Focused • Trauma-Informed • Mindfulness-Centered – Core Evolution training Part 1, 2022 ("USABP 2022 training")
Core Evolution Intensive: The Power of Life and the Will of Your Heart, Asilomar 2019 ("USABP Asilomar 2019")
The Power and Mindfulness of Relating – Core Evolution Summer Intensive, Tuscany 2019 ("USABP Tuscany 2019")
CoreSoma for Women, Unit I, Mendocino 2019 ("USABP CoreSoma for Women 2019")
USABP training programs listing
EABP Accredited Training in Core Evolution® ("EABP listing")
Siegmar Gerken – SlidesLive speaker profile ("SlidesLive bio")
Weigand, O. (2014). A Core Energetics Approach to Negativity. Bioenergetic Analysis 24(1), Psychosozial-Verlag ("Weigand 2014"; lineage only)

Sources:

Core Evolution® Trainings – CoreEvolution® ("Core Evolution Trainings page")
CoreSoma® – CoreEvolution® ("CoreSoma page")
The Energy, Love and Consciousness Program – CoreEvolution® ("ELC page")
Continuing Education: Dr. Siegmar Gerken, Core Evolution® Trauma Training – Holistika, Tallinn ("Holistika trauma training")
Aus-, Fort-, Weiterbildung – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Körperpsychotherapie (DGK) ("DGK listing")
Siegmar Gerken – Choka Sangha ("Choka Sangha bio", German)
Gerken, S. (1998). Reflections on the Nature of Reality and the Intention of Being. Energy & Consciousness 6(1), Institute of Core Energetics ("Gerken 1998")
About Core Energetics – JoAnn Lovascio ("Lovascio"; secondary, lineage only)