Training series on psychosomatic osteopathy

Training modules

Aims of the training

The main aim of the course is to teach practice-relevant diagnostic and treatment approaches and new perspectives in the clinical application of osteopathy.

On the one hand, advanced approaches and techniques are offered for osteopathy, which expand the clinical framework and the “toolbox” of practicing osteopaths. On the other hand, new perspectives, principles and models make it possible to identify and link further clinically relevant factors with regard to health and allostasis that were previously not taken into account. This is why we do not speak of a primary somatic dysfunction, but of soma-physiology-experience-context dysfunction patterns, which are taken into account in the diagnosis. We also consider which resources maintain the existing balance and which changes in the patient are possible with which osteopathic approaches at any given time.

The entire Psychosomatic Osteopathy (PSO) course series with Torsten Liem is designed to improve and expand the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to challenges and complaints that arise in practice. This includes cognitive, limbic, neurovegetative, immunological, biochemical, homeostatic and allostatic processes, the consideration of sensorimotor, vital, emotional, mental and spiritual components of consciousness, new and expanded palpatory approaches, the inclusion of the biographical life path and the lines of development for clinically relevant osteopathic approaches, the consideration of multimodal and multidimensional resources that can be activated during treatment, the ability to co-regulate patients in order to accompany them into a dynamic state of balance and flow.

The aim is to comprehensively consider various aspects of health and well-being in order to pursue a holistic approach to osteopathy.

Specific applications are presented, for example, for pain syndromes, post-traumatic stress syndrome, chronic stress, emotional dysregulation, craniocerebral trauma, brain fog and pediatrics.

Contents of the training

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced practitioner, the Psychosomatic Osteopathy training series offers you practical knowledge and specialized techniques to expand your skills in psychosomatic osteopathy. The training consists of six modules that build on each other and enable you to complete the qualification in one and a half years:

Module 1

Psychosomatic Osteopathy Basic 1

  • Diagnostics: soma-physiology-experience-context-dynamics
  • Therapeutic relationship and palpation of the ANS
    Stabilization work in the osteopathic setting
  • Dynamic resource organization and co-regulation
  • Indications and contraindications
  • 15-step Multimodal Bifocal Integration®
  • Right-left balance and bilateral stimulation
  • 3 day workshop
  • German or English
  • Worldwide

Module 2

Psychosomatic Osteopathy Basic 2

  • Resolving dysfunctional soma-physiology-experience-context patterns with breathing techniques
  • Myofascial vibration and reflexes
  • Treatment protocol for chronic pain
  • Emotional fasciae and corticolimbic networks
  • Interoception and regulation of the ANS
  • Treatment of the insula and specific vagus techniques
  • 3 day workshop
  • German or English
  • Worldwide

Module 3

PSO: Emotions & limbic interactions

  • Emotion, behavior and regulation: basic emotions and networks
  • Interoception, proprioception and emotional regulation
  • Treatment of emotional regulation disorders
  • 6-Step Emotional Regulation Reset
  • Osteopathic emotional regulation technique (OER)
  • 3 day workshop
  • German or English
  • Worldwide

Module 4

PSO: Trauma and dissociation

  • Resolving dysfunctional soma-physiology-experience-context patterns with breathing techniques
  • Myofascial vibration and reflexes
  • Treatment protocol for chronic pain
  • Emotional fasciae and corticolimbic networks
  • Interoception and regulation of the ANS
  • Treatment of the insula and specific vagus techniques
  • 3 day workshop
  • German or English
  • Worldwide

Module 5

PSO: Pain, injury, prevention & traumatic brain injury

  • Pathophysiology of pain and basics of craniocerebral trauma
  • 4-step OMT for pain relief
  • Multimodal approaches and integrative myoosteoneuronal methods
  • Lifestyle interventions and emotional reframing
  • 3 day workshop
  • German or English
  • Worldwide

Module 6

PSO: Neuronal integration and treatment of Long COVID & Brain Fog

  • Fundamentals of neuronal integration and plasticity
  • Pathophysiology of sensory and motor dysfunctions
  • Practical approaches: Diagnostics, evaluation and medulla reset
  • Treatment of long COVID, brain fog and fibromyalgia
  • 3 day workshop
  • German or English
  • Worldwide

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Conclusion and prospects

With this training in psychosomatic osteopathy, you will acquire in-depth knowledge and practical skills to diagnose and treat psychosomatic relationships in a targeted manner. You will learn to apply innovative techniques such as the 15-step multimodal Bifocal Integration® and specific vagus techniques to sustainably improve your patients’ quality of life.

After completing the training series, you will receive a certificate confirming your specialization in psychosomatic osteopathy. This certificate documents your comprehensive qualification and enables you to use your expertise both nationally and internationally.

Your advantages at a glance

Here you will find the most important advantages and key points of this unique training series.

Practice-oriented content

Benefit from practical exercises and real-life case studies.

Duration of training

The training lasts one and a half years and offers in-depth knowledge and practical experience.

Flexible start to training

Start your training from fall 2025 in Hamburg, Berlin or Munich.

Course locations

Our modules are offered at central locations in Germany and worldwide.

Number of participants

Small groups of a maximum of 20-30 people guarantee intensive support.

Weekend workshops

All modules take place at weekends so as not to interrupt your daily routine.

Multilingual

The training is offered in German and English for international participants.

Individual support

Personal support throughout your training guarantees your success.

Costs

The entire training course costs EUR 4,050 (€675/module), with a flexible payment option.

Reasons for the training

A well-founded and future-oriented education that makes it possible to support patients comprehensively and individually with new approaches.

  • Proactivity: Novel approaches to actively integrate the patient in the healing process
  • Diversity: Not only for chronic pain patients, but also for somatoform symptoms, chronic functional disorders and stress-associated clinical pictures, past stressful experiences, memories and much more
  • Coregulation: You learn to accompany the patient into a resource-rich dynamic flow state in which allostatic stresses are reduced and homeostatic healing approaches are opened up.
  • Speed: You often achieve rapid progress because you treat more comprehensively and recognize top-down and bottom-up dynamics in patients and integrate them into the treatment.
  • Effectiveness: Novel models, methods, approaches and techniques for treating the indications of osteopathic treatment and beyond.
  • Innovation: Psychosomatic osteopathy teaches completely new osteopathic treatment approaches and techniques and combines elements of different therapeutic approaches.
  • Improved perception: You learn to perceive immediate reactions, e.g. in the neurovegetative, in order to adapt your treatment approaches to the patient
  • Diagnostics: You will learn a more comprehensive diagnosis of soma-physiology-experience-context patterns (SPEK)
  • Therapeutic relationship: You will learn to establish a stable, transparent and healing-supportive therapeutic relationship with the patient as the basis for all further measures.
  • Stabilization phase: This includes a variety of skills, e.g. for verbal support of palpatory approaches, and in particular osteopathic manual procedures for stabilization and co-regulation
  • Integration/confrontation phase: Resources are activated, etiological and risk factors are eliminated, unresolved dynamics are resolved and dysfunctional mechanisms of action are inhibited. SPEK dysfunctional patterns are worked through.
  • Integration in everyday life: The osteopathic consultation is like a therapeutic uterus. You learn how therapeutic impulses work into everyday life.

What our participants say

Our training courses inspire and transform. Read what others have to say about their experiences with Torsten Liem and psychosomatic osteopathy.

Torsten Liem puts together in a clear and meaningful way many of the observations and conditions that many osteopathic physicians have seen and treated but not fully described, and expands them to include entirely new perspectives and clinical approaches, e.g. in the consideration of soma-physiology-experience-context-dysfunction patterns and new diagnostic and treatment approaches.

Some of the basic concepts that A.T. Still, MD. DO described and taught as to applied physiology and functional anatomy along with the mind body relationships are explained and are supplemented, for example, with holarchic bottom-up and top-down dynamics, person-context interactions, adaptivity, proactivity, and concepts of energy, energy provision and energy distribution.

William H. Devine, DO

Clinical Professor Osteopathic Medicine (USA)

The course with Torsten was transformative. It was a dream came thruth and now all that acknowlegment are present in my life and certainly improving the lives of many patients.

The way the Professor captivates people is magical, he is an exemple of Osteopath, a complete professional, and it was such an honor to learn from a world reference like him.

Dr. Rodrigo Sanchez

Osteopath (Brazil)

Torsten’s workshop about clinical approaches in Psychosomatic Ostheopathy was mind opening and definitely inspiring. His presentation was extremely useful for me and my work in the future. It opened up new perspectives and gave me the insight about ostheopathy in ways I didn’t consider before.

Vlasta Gregurić Karabegović

Osteopath D.O. (Croatia)

Torsten emphasizes the significance of adopting a holistic approach while maintaining critical thinking to adapt to each patient’s unique needs.

Sébastien Arcand-Tourigny

Osteopath D.O. (Québec)

In the workshop “Psychosomatic Osteopathy” Torsten shared his massive knowledge of osteopathy with his scientific background and adapts osteopathic medicine in the 21st century with the new biomedical findings. Torsten has understood that osteopathic medicine as the other medical sciences have to evolve and not to stuck only at the time of their founder.

Dr. Sergio Marcucci

Osteopath DO, Doctor of Health Sciences (Luxembourg)

Torsten teaches to take into account the whole human aspects, such as the circulatory and endocrine systems, biopsychosocial aspects or chronic stress in an integrated approach.

Tomofumi Morita 森田智史

D.O. PT (Japan)

To approach the specific reason for the patient’s consultation, bearing in mind the multiple causes that may accompany that discomfort or dysfunction, incorporating a look at the patient in his or her totality (soma, physiology, context, life experience) and in his or her dynamic continuum. Life is movement. I am very satisfied and grateful for what I have learned, and I am now realizing my own experience in this new field of amplified consciousness.

Dr. Laura Dzwonik

Medica Osteopata D.O Argentina

Torsten inspires me with his extensive knowledge and passion for this subject. Through my own experiences, it is now possible for me to also accompany my patients in their personal development process. I am very grateful for this.

Nancy Protze Leao

B.Sc. East (Germany)

Torsten’s approach to the treatment of nose, ear, throat, eye and other complaints such as headaches is uniquely multi-layered. He integrates not only vessels, cranial nerves, hormones, the neurovegetative, brain chemistry, but also life contexts of the patient, as well as morphodynamic and evolutionary viewpoints. He explained the complex anatomy and the relationships between the individual anatomical structures in an easily accessible way. (…) He also recommended many scientific articles for us to read. Torsten Liem is an outstanding osteopath and teacher. Can’t wait to participate in further courses with Torsten.

Zofia Budkiewicz

MSc. Physiotherapy, Osteopathy (Poland)

The seminar on Fascia in the Osteopathic Field was very creative, clear and interesting, in order to be able to evaluate and then approach to a patient in different ways. I really appreciated the simplicity in conveying how important it is to carry out simple but effective tests and treatments that give fast results.

Domenico Montepaone

Osteopath DO (Italy)

Torsten Liem’s scope of knowledge is extraordinary. He has the rare gift of being able to explain complex systems and their interrelationships within an individual patient. No matter your nutritional knowledge, this man has something to teach you.

Danielle Woods

Dip OMP, RMT, BAH (Canada)

Excellent pediatric seminar by Torsten Liem in Madrid, one of the highlights of the year. The rich and thorough explanations about how anatomy, physiology, metabolism and psychology are interwoven were outstanding, as for the relationship between mother and child, all supported by the most cutting-edge science based studies. The hands on work is extremely precise and effective, while the evaluation protocol is a must-have reference of all interested in the pediatric approach in osteopathy.

Carlos González

Osteopath DO, Bsc (Hons), CST-D, CVMP (Spain)

I want to deeply thank Professor Torsten Liem for dedicating himself to the art and mission of teaching. He has an immense heart capable of serving and helping! The spirit of seeking within him encouraged me to want to understand more, to learn more, to be able to make the right connections on the path to understanding the, for now, mysteries of the human body. I left the course feeling a deep gratitude for everything he taught and for his willingness to come here to Brazil. It certainly turned a key in all of us! Without a doubt, he is not only an osteopath but also a mentor who nurtures the soul of his students to the best of his ability; time, presence, knowledge, availability, readiness… and most importantly love. I hope this was the first step on a greater path for all of us.

Simone Steigleder

DO (Brazil)

Frequently asked questions about training

Do you have questions about our training courses? Here you will find the answers to the most frequently asked questions about participation, registration and the content of our courses. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.

The training series is aimed at osteopaths who wish to expand their knowledge of psychosomatic relationships. Both beginners and experienced practitioners benefit from the practical content.

The training is offered at various locations in Germany, including Hamburg, Berlin and Munich. Further locations are being planned.

The training series comprises six modules and lasts one and a half years. The modules take place at weekends to offer you maximum flexibility.

Yes, the modules can also be booked individually depending on availability. However, all six modules must be completed in order to receive the certificate.

The training is conducted in German and English in order to appeal to international participants.

Yes, the training places great emphasis on practice-oriented content. You will carry out practical exercises and case studies to apply what you have learned directly.

The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 30 people per module in order to guarantee personal support.

The total cost of the training series is EUR 4,050 (EUR 675 per module). It is possible to pay module by module or in one lump sum.

The next training series will start in fall 2025 in Hamburg. Further dates and locations will be announced in good time.

Yes, after completing all six modules you will receive a certificate documenting your specialization in psychosomatic osteopathy.

Yes, the training series works together with renowned osteopathy schools in Europe, South America and Asia. This means you benefit from international expertise.

Our training courses combine theoretical lectures, practical exercises and case studies to ensure a comprehensive understanding.

Torsten Liem has conducted workshops and seminars for numerous renowned institutions worldwide, inspiring and empowering participants on their transformative journey.

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