BodyPsychoTherapy
in System.Körper.Raum in Leipzig/Connewitz
& YOGA
in the west of Leipzig
or online
Who am I?
Helene Könau
Healing Practitioner (Psychotherapy)
- body psychotherapy -
& yoga teacher
I'm Helene Könau and my path of movement began with yoga, which I've been practicing since my youth.
I passionately dedicated my studies to cultural studies and thought and wrote a lot. After that I made my way into more practical work, did a Hatha yoga training in India and have been a yoga teacher since 2013. That's why this site is also called Yogalabor (or yogalab) : For me, research into movement and body perception began in this context.
My great interest in understanding embodied humanity more thoroughly accompanied me on my way through my physiotherapy training (2013-2016).
This work brings me into contact with all kinds of human bodies. I am grateful for that and also happy about all the experiences that I can gain in this way.
I'm interested in aliveness and how it expresses itself physically and where it falters. I am interested in the body as a living space and our possibilities to get to know ourselves by sensing. With my training in transformative body psychotherapy in Berlin, I have been immersing myself more and more in this perspective since 2017. I have been a psychotherapeutic healing practitioner since 2020 and have been accompanying people with body psychotherapy ever since. In order to join the ethical standards and to maintain the exchange with colleagues, I have also been a candidate member of the German Society for Body Psychotherapy (DGK) since 2021.
body psychotherapy
Body psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy that sees people as embodied from the start: our body is present in all our experiences.
To explore our immediate bodily experience,
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brings us in contact with ourselves and our aliveness
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helps us to make contact with others in a more authentic way
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supports us in decisions
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and can help us on our way through crises
- especially when this happens in the protected space of an appreciative therapeutic relationship.
Body psychotherapy offers a variety of methods and techniques that are used individually: e.g. body awareness, breathing, movement, pausing and also touch.
In the tradition of humanistic psychotherapy, it is less about giving people a label with diagnoses, but about supporting the whole person on their own path. I suggest procedures in the individual process in the way that I find helpful - and you as a client see what feels right, what you would like to try and what not. For me, this is about working together at eye level - I bring my therapeutic knowledge and experience with me and you are the expert of yourself and have space to get to know and experience yourself more and more.
"The more we hold, the less we move; the less we move, the less we feel and the less we learn from moving experience. If we don't sense and feel, we have to make up who we are ." Wolf Buntig
"By being anchored in one's own body, a feeling of vitality, joie de vivre and connection with oneself can arise, which forms a good basis -
also for difficult life situations and times.” Bettina Schroeter
procedure and costs
If you are interested, please contact koerperpsychotherapieleipzig@posteo.de to arrange an introductory meeting.
In Germany, body psychotherapy is not financed by statutory health insurance companies. Some private insurance companies cover part of the cost. If you are privately insured, it is best to ask whether this is the case with me as a psychotherapeutic healing practitioner (Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie).
If you would like to start therapy after an introductory meeting (45 minutes at € 50), we will first arrange 5 sessions.
A session lasts about 60 minutes and costs 80 € - if it is not financially possible for you, talk to me and we will discuss what is possible .
Especially at the beginning of therapy, a meeting every 1-2 weeks makes sense. Depending on the topic, process and financial resources, larger distances are also possible. Depending on the issue, the therapy process can last from a few sessions to a continuous process over a long period of time. We take the time to see what is right for you.
Pandemic:
Due to the current situation in Saxony, I work with 3G - for people without vaccination with a daily test, for vaccinated and recovered people it is enough if the test is up to 48 hours ago.
If required, online sessions or via phone are also possible .
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Yoga courses: when, where, how much?
yoga classes
yoga classes
I give open hours in which I like to do regular research with people and open up space for relaxation, strengthening and observation. At the beginning I ask what the participants want, so the lessons are designed differently each time according to their needs.
Mondays 19:00 - 20:30 in the palm garden
in case of rain 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. in the physiotherapy Asana, Könneritzstraße 38
(New) registrations at:
015120630016
Prices:
8-card 88 € (valid for 11 weeks: is cheaper & needs more commitment) *
12-ticket 162 € (valid for 7 months: costs a little more, but you have plenty of time to shop around) *
Single lesson €15
Trial lesson €10
* the tickets are extended by one week if the course is canceled or there is no space left although you wanted to register
Yoga classes: background
Yoga has accompanied me on my way for many years and since 2013 I have been passing on what grounds, inspires, fascinates, calms, strengthens me... Experience from many areas flows in here: in general from physiotherapy, yoga therapy, breathing therapy, from dance, from other forms of movement, from various meditation formats and also from body psychotherapy.
Yoga as a word comes from Sanskrit and means "connecting" - one's own mind with one's body, one's self with the world. For me, here - in the western world, which has produced individual ways of life that did not exist in ancient India - it also means connecting with other people in the room and with the world around us. The yoga laboratory is an invitation to experiment, to try things out, to take a close look and listen. What are the thousands of years old movements, breathing exercises and philosophical perspectives doing to us here and now?
Physio & mehr
Dem Körper Gutes tun - Physiotherapie und mehr
Die Physiotherapie bietet hier verschiedene Möglichkeiten - von Haltungs- und Bewegungsanalyse, Bewegungs- und Wahrnehmungsübungen und Berührungselementen, also Massage und andere Techniken.
In einer Behandlung nehmen wir uns eine Stunde Zeit und schauen, wo die Beschwerden liegen und was die Bedürfnisse sind. Dementsprechend lasse ich dann Techniken und Behandlungsmöglichkeiten aus meinem Erfahrungsschatz (siehe Weiterbildungen) dann einfließen, die hilfreich sein können.
Die Reflektorische Atemtherapie ist eine ganzheitliche Anwendung, die intensive Massagegriffe beinhaltet, wodurch der Körper angeregt wird, wieder in einen tieferen Atem zu finden - ohne, dass wir das "machen." Dazu gehören außerdem Anwendungen mit warmen nassen Tüchern und Bewegungs- / Dehungsübungen.
Sie kann eingesetzt werden bei Erkrankungen, die mit einer Verminderung der Atmung im Zusammenhang stehen, aber auch bei Verspannungen, Rücken-, Schulter- und Kopfschmerzen, stressbedingten Beschwerden und vielem mehr.
Massagen können einfach gut tun oder auch eingesetzt werden, um Beschwerden zu lindern.
Melden Sie sich gern, wenn Sie Fragen haben oder einen Termin vereinbaren wollen.
Angebot:
1h kostet 90€
3x 1h 255€
5x 1h 400€
Weiterbildungen:
4/2025 Die Psychologie des Bindegewebes: Faszien, Stress & Emotionen
Leipzig Tobias Lange, Scī Seminare
04/2025 Faszie & Beckenboden: aktive Faszienübungen zur Beckenbodengesundheit
Leipzig Kirsten Hogrefe, Scī Seminare
04/2025 Women’s health: Frauengesundheit in den reproduktiven Jahren
Leipzig Kirsten Hogrefe, Scī Seminare
08/2025 Massage der 4 Elemente: Feuer & Wasser
Aachen Schamanin Andiara Leão, Basilien
10/2024 Innere Organe: Behandlung und Eigenübungen
Leipzig Marvin Arnold, Scī Leipzig
08/2024 Massage der 4 Elemente: Erde & Luft
Aachen Schamanin Andiara Leão, Brasilien
01/2024 Die 5 Elemente und ihre Bedeutung in der integrativen Medizin – Das Erdelement,
online Carsten Fischer, MFZ Leipzig
05/2019 Qigong in der Physiotherapie
Leipzig Cornelius Hennings, MFZ Leipzig
03/2018 – 03/2019 Reflektorische Atemtherapie
Leipzig Ines Lehmann, Heimerer Schule
10/2017 CMD – Craniomandibuläre Dysfunktion
Leipzig Olaf Lippek, Dr.med.dent Müller, MFZ Leipzig
10/2017 Osteopathische Techniken für Physios: Fuß und untere Extremität
Leipzig Carsten Fischer, MFZ Leipzig
10/2017 Osteopathische Techniken für Physios: LWS und Becken
Leipzig Carsten Fischer, MFZ Leipzig
08/2017 Osteopathische Techniken für Physios: HWS & Schädel
Leipzig Carsten Fischer, MFZ Leipzig
05/2017 Osteopathische Techniken für Physios: BWS und Rippen
Leipzig Carsten Fischer, MFZ Leipzig
09/2016 Lymphdrainage- und Ödemtherapeutin
Leipzig Dr. Hauptmann, Hr. Hermuth, Heimerer Schule
2013 - 2016. Ausbildung zur Physiotherapeutin an der Medizinischen Berufsfachschule der Universitätsklinik
Leipzig
10/2014 ( - 11/2016) 2jährige Yogatherapie-Ausbildung mit Elementen des spiraligen Verschraubens
Leipzig Harald Wittig
10/2012 – 11/2012 Ausbildung zur Yogalehrerin - Hatha Yoga
Netala (Indien) Yoga Academy, Abschluss: Internationales Sivananda Yoga-Zertifikat
Contact
CONTACT
Place of body psychotherapy
System.Body.Space
Hildebrandstrasse 36,
Leipzig Connewitz
Location for yoga classes: Skype/Palm Garden