About Core Energetics

Developed by John Pierrakos, MD, Core Energetics combines body psychotherapy with spiritual development. The work brings awareness to how we block our energy and recreate childhood defense patterns that can leave us feeling limited and disempowered.
Through the Core process, we begin to see how blocked energy patterns shape our worldview and repeat frustrating situations and relationship dynamics. Awareness alone is not enough; we also learn to mobilize our life-force differently so lasting change can take place in our inner world and daily life.
Because defenses, beliefs, coping mechanisms, and emotional responses are held in the body as well as the mind, bodywork is central to changing our experience of embodiment. Targeted techniques bring suppressed feelings into awareness and help us move beyond our comfort zone, integrate blocked energy, and feel more fully connected to our creativity, sexuality, and relationships.
Core Energetics can support people working with concerns such as anxiety, depression, personality patterns, and sexual challenges. The work goes beyond symptom relief, helping transform deeply rooted patterns of behavior.
At its heart, Core Energetics is life-changing work. It opens us to our life-force, strengthens our connection with ourselves and others, and supports us in bringing our unique gifts into the world.