The Hakomi Method is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Ron Kurtz in the 1970s that integrates mindfulness and somatic techniques to address psychological and emotional issues.
[3] Hakomi combines Western psychology, systems theory, and body-centered techniques with the principles of mindfulness and nonviolence drawn from Eastern philosophy.
The Hakomi Method follows this general outline: [5][6] Other components of the Hakomi Method include the sensitivity cycle, techniques such as "contact and tracking", "prompts", "taking over", "embracing resistance", and developing a greater sensitivity to clients and how to work with their individual issues based on the character typology introduced by Alexander Lowen.
Its faculty are mainly professional psychotherapists who base their teaching of the Hakomi Method on current discoveries in neuroscience and on their own clinical insights.
Both versions of the Hakomi Method are based on loving presence, mindfulness, somatics, and the other principles described above, and fall within the definition of body psychotherapy.