"Touch your perfect body with your mind" - deepening course in BBAT

Presentation of Beat Streuli, BBAT teacher

Beat Streuli is a physiotherapist with qualifications in body psychotherapy and osteopathy as well as a certified adult educator from Winterthur, Switzerland. He first came into contact with Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT) in 2000. In 2003, together with Inger Wulf, he founded the Institute for Basic Body Awareness Therapy Switzerland [http://(www.ibbat.ch](www.ibbat.ch), which offers courses in Switzerland and Austria.

In addition to his practice, Beat is involved in teaching and further training in BBAT, psychosomatics and body psychotherapy.

In spring 2024, Beat fulfilled another of his heart's desires and completed certification in canine osteopathy and can now offer treatments not only to people but also to our four-legged friends.

He writes this about the course:

"BBAT practice combined with theories about body perception and how it connects to our feelings.

The in-depth workshop offer you the opportunity to engage intensively with your own experience, the exercises, the theories and the pedagogical aspects. The focus is on your personal process and forms the basis for your therapeutic competence in BBAT.

The course is aimed at BBAT teachers, BBAT therapists and BBAT trainees.

In the theoretical input, I would like to present the latest neuroscientific findings on interoceptive perception – i.e. the ability to consciously feel internal bodily states such as heartbeat, breathing or tension. These processes are closely related to the subjective experience of feelings and awareness of one's own self.

Current studies show that interoception is not only the basis of our emotional experience, but also central to our ability to self-regulate. Especially in cases of psychosomatic complaints, anxiety, depression, chronic pain or post-traumatic stress disorder, the perception of one's own body signals can be altered or disturbed.

What does this mean for physical therapy approaches? And how can a more refined, targeted promotion of interoception help to stabilise, clarify or reshape inner experiences?

We want to explore these questions in our workshop. Together, we will consider what this means for our physical therapy practice – and how we can apply this knowledge in our practical work.”

The course will be held in English.

To register: do it here on this page or send a mail to kurs@nibk.org

Number of participants: 16

Register before: Still possible to sign up

Price: NOK 5500