An integrated body-based approach to human aliveness

Is this really

all life has to offer?

From a young age, this question would not leave us.

We are Omni and Ron, partners in life and in our work, parents of two children, and for more than two decades explorers of what makes human beings truly come alive.

Something about the way many adults were living never felt quite right to us. Even the successful ones often did not seem fully alive.

Present, yet not truly present. Making choices without understanding what was driving them.

Without awareness of the inner world, people unknowingly create pain. For themselves. For those they love. And for the world around them.

Neither of us was willing to settle for that.

When we met, the search each of us had been carrying alone became a shared journey.

Together we began to see that the meeting point between the inner and outer worlds is the body. The body that holds memory and feeling. The body that meets reality and acts within it.

We wanted to understand what creates aliveness, and what blocks it.

That question eventually became our work.

Where Change is Felt in the Body

Our relationship became a living laboratory

 Patterns surfaced in real time.Sadness. Fear. Longing for connection. Retreating. Shutting down. Nothing stayed theoretical.

When we met, we were already therapists. Years of study were behind us. Books, workshops, and remarkable teachers, including from the worlds of energy work and spiritual practice.

We began bringing cases from our clinics into conversation. Exploring what worked and what didn’t, challenging assumptions and testing new directions in practice.

Slowly, the knowledge and essence each of us carried began to integrate.

Masculine and feminine, structure and intuition, direction held by presence.

It wasn’t always easy. There were real challenges.

Out of that tension and cooperation, a clear way of working began to take shape. Not as an idea, but as lived practice.

Body. Emotion. Thought. Action.

Real change does not happen in insight alone.

It happens when thought, emotion, action and body are brought into the same conversation.
When the body is included, change stops being conceptual. It becomes lived. Felt.

Patterns are not flaws.

They are intelligent strategies that once protected us.
What looks like anger may be strength without direction.
What looks like withdrawal may be sensitivity without safety.
When met with attention and structure, patterns return to their original qualities.
Not by fighting them , but by understanding what they were trying to protect.

3 Ways to Meet our Work

Professional Development


Enrichment programs for professionals who work with people in processes of change, talk therapists, bodyworkers, group facilitators, and body–mind practitioners who wish to deepen their work and expand their professional tools.

The trainings take place in different formats, from intensive weekends to week-long retreats and month-long courses, and combine learning, practice, and direct experience of working through the body.

Learn more about our upcoming
training program
in Iceland
Personal Development


Workshops for people who wish to understand themselves more deeply and gain practical tools for navigating life’s challenges in a healthier way. These gatherings take place as a long weekend or a week‑long retreat, combining personal inquiry, body‑based work, and group dialogue.

Private Sessions


Personal or couples sessions in the clinic, offering a tailored process of deeper work. Sessions may take the form of a single meeting or a short three-session process. The sessions combine conversation, touch, voice, movement, and breath, listening to the body in order to recognize patterns, meet early vulnerabilities, and create new movement in life and relationships.

Invite Us to Teach - We’d Love to Come!


In the coming years we will be traveling and teaching in different places around the world.

If you have a community, center, or group of people interested in emotional work through the body, it is possible to invite us to lead a workshop, retreat, or training.

We work in collaboration with local hosts, and the format and content can be shaped together according to the nature of the group, the place, and the needs of the participants.

If this feels relevant for you, we would be happy to hear from you.

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Testimonials

"Omnitherapy is more than just a therapeutic method; it also carries an approach to life and to beneficial relationships with others and with oneself. Omni and Ron are gifted therapists and teachers. I feel that I received a clear and precise map, a way of thinking and a working approach to support people in creating more freedom of choice and positive change in their lives."
Eyal Roz
Eyal RozBA in Psychology and Economics, MA in Mental Health. Contact Improvisation and Hatha Yoga teacher. Group facilitator in an integrative approach
"Before Omnitherapy, I worked with the body-but without a clear therapeutic direction.The training gave me a concrete system to work directly through the body in a therapeutic way.It changed both my work and my personal life. I gained access to deeper layers and emotions I couldn’t reach before, and today it’s something I use both with my clients and for myself.It’s a powerful way to access what’s held in the body, process it, and find the answers that are right for you."
Frederik Damgaard
Frederik DamgaardBody-SDS body therapist, breath therapist, psychology student
"Omnitherapy has changed my life-at least my inner life. It has become richer, lighter and more diverse, and I understand myself from within in a more peaceful and mature way.The education gave me a deep understanding of how body and psyche influence each other, and showed me that the body has a language we can learn.This is not only something you understand with the mind, but something you experience through your own body and feelings.Today, Omnitherapy is a fundamental part of my work, and the foundation of how I meet people in the therapeutic space."
Suzi Sofia Schleizner
Suzi Sofia Schleizner
"Omnitherapy has changed my self-insight and increased my self-awareness, especially in understanding my childhood trauma and how it influences my actions and choices in my adult life.I have come into contact with everything vulnerable, and through Omnitherapy I have been able to work with myself in a safe and supportive space.The education is a life journey that never really ends. You cannot go back and ‘not know.’It makes so much sense to recognize that the body holds trauma, and that it also needs to be part of the process.Today I run my own clinic, working with people who want to reconnect with themselves, their body and their soul, in order to move forward in life."Still confused-but on a higher level."With love, Marie"
Marie Kiil
Marie Kiil
"You have developed a method that, in my eyes, holds within it a hidden treasure, a remedy, a light. I wish for all people, wherever they are, to experience a touch of it. It is a touch that, like a magic wand, changed my life and made it exciting, full, rich, and close… You are blessed in your mission.
Muriel Haftel Shukrun
Muriel Haftel ShukrunHealer, Theta Healing and body-mind work
"In the past two years, I have been both a client and a student of Omnitherapy. It has moved me through profound emotional processes and has deeply improved my relationships. It softened layers and patterns, and connected awareness with the body, creating changes in my life that, for me, truly feel like a miracle."
Hadas Ofek
Hadas Ofekyoga therapy facilitator and BMC – Body-Mind Centering
"I have always worked with the body, but mainly through guiding it. Omnitherapy has given me a framework and a way to reach the people I work with in a dimension beyond words. Already from the first training sessions, something opened. I returned to touch. The hands-on work of Omni is not massage or shiatsu. It is something completely different."
Roy Shacham
Roy Shachamfacilitator of personal and group development processes in sexuality, masculinity and consciousness
"I began my path in Omnitherapy as a client, and very quickly understood that I had found a compass that would guide me to the treasures hidden within me. A focused, experiential and effective therapy that allowed me to understand myself in new ways and to heal the knots within me and in my life. Omni, Ron and Gilly teach this piece of wisdom they have developed over the years with passion and generosity, and today I am practicing the method in a thriving clinic, with deep and meaningful processes for me and for my clients. Deep gratitude."
Ze’ev-Kalati Ninove
Ze’ev-Kalati Ninovecertified Omnitherapy therapist, graduate of TAT method and integrative psychotherapy

 Join us to a

6‑Day Residential Training | Iceland | 2–8 September 2026

Omnitherapy®  Psychotherapy Through the Body
In samskara retreat center iceland

6‑Day Residential Training | Iceland | 2–8 September 2026

We invite mental health professionals and body‑oriented therapists to an immersive residential training exploring psychotherapy conducted through the body.

Omnitherapy® is an integrative therapeutic approach that combines dialogue, bodywork, breath, and awareness within a structured therapeutic framework. The method is based on the understanding that life experience – especially emotionally significant experiences – is not held only in narrative memory, but is also expressed through the body: in posture, muscular patterns, breath, and nervous‑system responses.

Through the integration of psychotherapy and bodywork, Omnitherapy offers a practical pathway for accessing embodied experience, understanding emotional patterns, and supporting meaningful psychological change.

What the Training Includes

During this six‑day residential program, participants will explore both the theoretical foundations and the experiential practice of the Omnitherapy approach.

This 68 hours training program is the essence of a full 500 hours OmniTherapy certification professional training program.

 

Participants will learn:

  • The core clinical model of Omnitherapy
  • Body‑oriented approaches to emotional and trauma‑related processes
  • Somatic listening and assessment
  • Consent‑based therapeutic touch within professional therapeutic practice
  • Working with embodied memories and emotional patterns
  • Integrating dialogue, bodywork, and reflective processing
  • Nervous‑system regulation and deep relaxation states
  • Therapist presence, intuition, and attunement

The program combines teaching, demonstrations, guided exercises, and supervised practice. Participants will both receive and give sessions in order to develop embodied understanding alongside clinical skills.

The Therapeutic Structure

Omnitherapy sessions integrate three core phases:

  1. Opening therapeutic dialogue
  2. Guided bodywork and deep relaxation
  3. Integrative reflective processing

This structure creates a coherent and supportive framework for emotional processing while encouraging psychological insight and embodied integration.

Who This Training Is For

This retreat is designed for trained professionals working in therapeutic or health‑care settings, including:

Psychotherapists
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Occupational therapists
Physiotherapists
Nurses
Social workers
Somatic and body‑oriented therapists
Trauma practitioners

Participants are expected to have formal training and experience in working with people in therapeutic or clinical contexts.

Teachers

Omni Gal and Ron Freund
Founders of the Omnitherapy method and teachers of body‑based psychotherapy for more than 25 years.

Location and Dates

The training will take place at:

Samskara Retreat Center – South Iceland
2–8 September 2026

Arrival: Wednesday 2 September at 17:00
Closing: Tuesday 8 September at 17:00

Full Program Details

For the complete curriculum, schedule, and practical information, you can download the full program description.

organizer:

Thorny Johannsdottir nurse and omnitherapist.

For further information and registration:

email: [email protected] 
telephone number:00-45-51916689
https://www.facebook.com/thorny.johannsdottir/

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