What is Pulsation?

Osho Pulsation is a method of self-exploration and personal growth which works through the body and the life energy system, to re-claim our natural aliveness and expressiveness.

It is one of the foundations of Osho Therapy, and provides the awareness and the tools to ground this personal growth process in the body, using breathing, movement, and sound to explore the full range of sensations, feelings and emotions that we carry inside.

Pulsation's body-based approach to personal growth is deeply rooted in the revolutionary work of Wilhelm Reich, and is guided by some of the ‘maps’ of body-energy flow which he discovered. Techniques using breathing, body movements, and expressive sounds form a framework to explore the tensions and blocks which have formed in the body over many years of conditioning and repression.

Muscular Armoring in the Body

Whenever we block a sexual feeling, stuff down our rage, or swallow our tears, we activate a powerful regulatory system in the body which Reich called ‘muscular armor’. The effort to control emotional expression creates a tension in the musculature which blocks the flow of feeling through the body. Through the unconscious tension of muscular armoring we become ‘cut off’ emotionally, psychologically fragmented,  and energetically divided against ourselves.

Pulsation restores a sense of wholeness by reclaiming the rejected and disowned feelings which we have pushed down into the unconscious, the ‘basement’ of our being. Through deep neo-Reichian breathing and direct ‘hands-on’ work to loosen the muscular armor, we tap into biological and instinctual layers which connect us with the life force itself. Once the inner pressure of unexpressed energies is released, a profound relaxation follows, deep into the core. We are able to settle into ourselves more easily in silence and meditation.

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