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Trilotherapy · InspirationWhen people ask me what Trilotherapy is, I try to answer differently every time. To be that river which you always cross at the same point — and so it's never the same river.
It's a meeting between two people, and there is conversation. But not only: there's also an unconventional experiential practice, and there's touch work.
It's maybe similar to psychological therapy, because two people talk. And it's not similar — because instead of talking about the Head, we talk with the Head. Instead of talking about the Heart, we talk with the Heart.
It's similar to regular therapy, because there's a guide, a client and a tissue box. And it's not — because we sit close to the floor, on a futon with cushions, and always begin with meditation and relaxation.
It resembles Western therapy, because we touch old wounds that never healed, we grieve and we cry. And it's different — because instead of treading water in those wounds for years, we empty the storerooms of pain with countless stirring experiential techniques, and receive tools for a new, happier way of living.
It reminds you of psychotherapy, because you come to a clinic and sit across from someone. And it's not really similar — because part of every session is a "lesson": you learn something new (about yourself), and as you learn it, it becomes a self-healing tool you take home.
There's a time frame, and a moment arrives when I say "okay, we're wrapping up soon." But the session runs an hour and a half to two hours, there's no false hierarchy of an "all-knowing therapist" over a client in a position of weakness, no second when the clock stops everything, and no forced distance rules.
Mid-session we might suddenly step out to the sea. We might walk with eyes closed. We might read a line of Lao Tzu or a Zen poem, maybe dance in the living room. And we're not afraid of touch: when the inner child rises, they receive a hug, cradling, warm physical love. Sometimes we use refined Gestalt techniques, and sometimes we just sit quietly together and look into each other's eyes, into the soul.
Osho once said that true healing happens only when the healer and the healed, the teacher and the student, sit down to meditate and become one.
That is Trilotherapy. That's what I went through with Nissim Amon, my teacher. And that's what I do.
A passage from a less conscious, suffering-filled life into "the underground of happy people." The journey's purpose: to climb down the ladder of suffering, to meet our Head and our Heart as two beings with existence and voices of their own, and to wake the Middle — the true owner of the house.
To take hold of the reins. To connect to inner leadership. And to lead the rest of life from the Middle, instead of being led forever by our capricious, domineering Head or Heart.
It's a wondrous, unique union of Western psychotherapy and Zen — and it works like magic. How do I know? Because I went through it myself, in my body and in my soul — and now I pass this trembling, sparkling diamond onward.