Training
Closer to the heart, deeper into being, living life with vigor.
The Training
The Heart Space training spans three years and consists of three modules, all of which take place in person, on site, and in direct personal contact.
Module 1 can be booked separately, without Modules 2 and 3. However, only the complete training qualifies you to work with clients using the Heart Space Method.
Who Is This Training For?
The training is designed for coaches, therapists and women who are interested in personal and spiritual development. It supports both personal growth and work with clients in areas such as:ur …
- Deepening self reflection
- Processing traumatic experiences
- Burnout prevention
- Inner and outer reorientation
Start: Weekend of September 5 and 6, 2026
Module 1 – Building a Strong Foundation: Reconnecting with Your Heart
The first year focuses on your personal process of growth and development.
Only through genuinely lived personal experience can a sound body based psychotherapeutic approach emerge. Self awareness and self reflection form the foundation for accompanying others therapeutically. The warmth of the heart creates connection and compassion.
Body awareness, embodied experience and bodywork, together with the calming of the mind through meditation, create a solid foundation within yourself and help develop a healthy sense of self. Throughout the process, we practise keeping our awareness anchored in an open and empathetic heart.
A trauma sensitive exploration of your life story, the patterns and structures that developed from it, and the unconscious repetitions that continue to play out in everyday life can open the way to making different choices about how you want to live and to developing new ways of being.
The distinction between developmental trauma and shock trauma is taken into account. We meet what is difficult within ourselves and in others with compassion.
The training introduces the foundations of depth psychology, as well as psychotherapeutic models such as character structures, theories of neurosis and personality fixations, and the psychology of the Inner Child.
As this is a women only group, particular attention will be given to experiences of female wounding, ranging from everyday humiliation to sexual abuse.
Start: Weekend of September 5 and 6, 2026
Methods
- Body awareness and self regulation exercises – the art of finding greater harmony within yourself
- Practices of relaxation, deep relaxation, meditation and taking pauses support prevention and stabilisation
- Creative therapy approaches, such as spontaneous painting, writing and rituals, help bring inner impulses outward and give them expression
- Essential Movement, free movement and dance invite the body into a state of flow
- Guided conversation and an introduction to the practice of Inquiry encourage self exploration and greater awareness of your own life story
- Guided imagery and inner journeys help open up new possibilities and ways of being
- Mindful touch and Biodynamic massage offer supportive and regulating experiences through the body
The group is body based and process oriented. Therefore, the content and structure of the training may vary depending on the interests and composition of the group.
In the first year, the focus is on three central elements: theory, personal experience and the development of practical skills.
Time Commitment and Fees
Introduction and Getting to Know the Method
Three weekends of 15 hours each in the second half of 2026:
September 5 and 6, October 17 and 18
Start of the training program: November 14 and 15 2026
Six weekends in 2027 and one intensive phase
- Practice sequences for home
- Peer practice sessions
- Recommended: 15 hours of individual work per year alongside the training, to support and deepen the process
- Location: Tango Veritas, Am Sande 52, in the courtyard, 21335 Lüneburg
Seminar fee: EUR 220 per weekend
Intensive phase with Renate Abel on Biodynamic Birth Trauma Therapy, held at a seminar house in the Wendland region (Wednesday to Sunday)
Location: A retreat and seminar centre in the Wendland region
Seminar fee: EUR 450 plus accommodation and catering costs
Module 2 – Understanding the Connections Between Body, Psyche and Mind
The focus of the second year is on individual therapeutic self exploration. Working in dyads and triads within the group, under supervision, deepens understanding through direct experience in the body.
Trust is given space to grow.
Methods and Content
- The startle response – fight, flight, freeze and adaptation
- The vasomotor cycle – the natural process of integrating a startle response
- When this process is interrupted, protective and defensive mechanisms develop, which can often become the unhealthy foundation of relationships
- Foundations of Object Relations Theory
- Primary and secondary personality – a woman’s true nature and the “veils” that emerge through adaptation to her personal history, established patterns and the world around her
- Foundations of Developmental Psychology
- Deeper personal process work serves to deepen and embody the theoretical understanding
- Introduction to Vegetotherapy in dyads and triads
- Jellyfish and Orgonomy – exercises for energetic activation and deep relaxation
- Orgonomy Massage
- Working in the “open space” supports presence, ego strength and self esteem
Time Commitment and Fees
Seven weekends in 2028 and one intensive phase
- Practice sequences for home
- Peer practice sessions
- 15 hours of individual work alongside the training, to support and deepen the process, are recommended
Seminar fee: EUR 220 per weekend
Ort: In Tango Veritas, Am Sande 52 , im Hinterhof, 21335 Lüneburg
Intensive Phase in Trauma Therapy
Module 3 – Further Opening of the Heart
Working under supervision within the group, exploring dreams and inner images.
Methods and Content
- The therapeutic relationship and therapeutic attitude
- Introduction to Biodynamic Massage with a stethoscope – an introduction to psychoperistalsis
- Introduction to holding work – bonding helps soften and release bodily armouring
- Transference and countertransference – learning to take responsibility for our own emotional charge, so that space becomes available for sensing and knowing what emerges from the field
- Body psychotherapy interventions
- Female specific symptom formation as a result of female socialisation and life circumstances, ranging from everyday adaptation and the suppression of innate feminine qualities to more pronounced symptoms such as eating disorders, addiction and sexualised violence
- Massage on different levels, incorporating intention
- Deepening awareness of the breath and its effects, particularly on the heart, and developing heart intelligence
- Deepening body-based and energetic personal process work
Methods and Content
- The therapeutic relationship and therapeutic attitude
- Introduction to Biodynamic Massage with a stethoscope – an introduction to psychoperistalsis
- Introduction to holding work – bonding helps soften and release bodily armouring
- Transference and countertransference – learning to take responsibility for our own emotional charge, creating space for sensing and for knowing through the field
- Body psychotherapy interventions
- Frauenspezifische Symptombildung als Folge weiblicher Sozialisation und Lebensumstände:
- From everyday adaptation and the suppression of innate feminine qualities to
- More pronounced symptoms such as eating disorders, addiction and sexualised violence
- Massage on different levels, incorporating intention
- Deepening awareness of the breath and its effects, particularly on the heart, and developing
- …heart intelligence
- Deepening body-based and energetic personal process work
Time Commitment and Fees
Eight weekends and one intensive phase in 2029
- Practice sequences for home
- Peer practice sessions
- 15 hours of individual work alongside the training, to support and deepen the process, are recommended
Seminar fee: EUR 220 per weekend
Intensive Phase: Female Sexuality
Location: Tango Veritas, Am Sande 52, in the courtyard, 21335 Lüneburg / seminar house in the Wendland region