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My path toward self-discovery
Some years ago, I was on a dramatically different life path, that was closer to my parent’s dream about me. I graduated with a Power Engineering bachelor’s degree and spent 2.5 years working in Business Development in a very corporate environment while living in Belgium. That was for me a vastly unhappy chapter of life, and at that point already for around 5 years topics of psychology, spirituality, and the nature of reality were nudging me and inviting into the unknown. But I needed still to take one more turn, before the final shift. I moved to Denmark and started my master’s degree in Wind Energy at DTU. After a year I finally felt ready to fully follow my deeper calling. The deeper calling toward presence, self-understanding, and healing.
Since then, exploring the nature of the human psyche, body, and awareness is my deepest and most truthful passion. Particularly when it happens in a relationship with another human, group of people, or nature. I feel a strong pull toward a more conscious life, connected to qualities of Presence, and Truth. That yearning manifests in my professional life, as a somatic therapist and group facilitator, and also in my private life, in which I am excited to explore my friendships, communities, relationships, and access to Essence.
The Work
Somatic Therapy and Developmental Trauma Integration
On my path toward healing, the tools and modalities that gave me the most also became tools that I apply to work with others. I have explored over years teachings of breathwork, bodywork, psychotherapy approaches, mindfulness, and shamanic traditions. Nowadays I am maturing my skills, and the directions that excite me the most are related to developmental trauma, presence-based, somatic inquiry, alternated states of consciousness, and spirituality.
In my work, I enjoy most supporting people who are longing to make a bigger change in their lives. When a client can commit their time, resources, and focus to the Work, it becomes transformative, deep, and nourishing. That gives me excitement, gratitude, and joy.
MY BACKGROUND
For many years I have been exploring the longing to integrate areas of my education, work, passion, and social life. From the moment, when I fully committed to it, I have focused on practices that put another human in the center of attention and allow exploring the presence, aliveness, and authenticity.
Before I entered that path I got an education as a Power Engineer, worked in sales and business development, and also started my master's studies in Wind Energy at DTU.
EDUCATION
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Psychotherapeutic approach: Compassionate Inquiry by Gabor Mate (380h, 1.5 years practitioner training + 1 year internship) & ongoing supervision
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Somatic psychology: Bodynamics (150h, 1-year foundation training)
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Breathwork: Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System (400h, 2 years practitioner training)
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Circling 'Transformational Connection': Leadership Training (120h, 6 months leadership training), Leader Assistant (12 months, 240h training), 60 h Surrendered Leadership training
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Bodywork: Myofascial Energetic Release (385h, 2 years practitioner training)
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The Inquiry Facilitator Training (10 weeks course), The Art of Being Human
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The Diamond Approach, psychologically informed spiritual discovery by A. H. Almaas online group & private supervision (1.5 years)
My educations and affiliations
TESTIMONIALS
Marco
After the series of sessions, I realised some very useful insights and tools to accept and mitigate my experience of restlessness in my legs and continue to integrate these lessons into different aspects of personal development and discovery. Very valuable experience, thank you, Mateusz
Emma Garðarsdóttir
Violinist
I came to Mateusz for help to find peace in my body, after being abused. I had already been many times to psychologists and found peace in my mind and heart, but the fear and sadness were still in my body. Already after the first session, I felt a big emotional and physical relief. I always feel safe during sessions and leave them happier, and more centered.
Ernest Holm Svendsen
best-seller author, coach
Sessions with Mateusz allowed me to sink into the body and tune into its needs and natural impulses. While the process was organically unfolding I could release physical tensions, and feel into their emotional component which allowed for more complete integration. It left me with a deep sense of calmness and grounding.
Julie Reindl
Cultural Researcher
Mateusz's practice truly supports me in my journey of finding back to my body and restoring deep gratification for it. His touch, presence, and emotional sensitivity are without a doubt healing energy. Whatever arises during a session, Mateusz holds space for it. His practice and his calming energy are in many ways touching.
Zuzanna Gruszczynska
Health Care Proffesional
I would recommend Mateusz without any reservations. His holistic methods, and compassionate approach are working very well for me.
Jonas Ingerslev
Engineer
A completely unique and liberating treatment. Mateusz is very present and creates a very special space where traumas can be acknowledged and released. My highest recommendations from here 😊
Melany
Mateusz helped me to release feelings that I had held on to for a long time. I used to be fearful or angry most of the time. After a few sessions, I was able to release these feelings. I now have a wider range of more subtle emotions. I am also more relaxed and am able to stay calm in stressful situations.
Tina Kretschel
Data Analyst
I came here not sure what I was looking for, but felt in the right place immediately. My world felt too heavy and my feelings too big. My hardest fight was between me and my own thoughts.Mateusz helped me to get out of my head and feel my feelings instead.It's making me vulnerable in front of another person. It's breathing with me when I don't know how. It's helping me listen to what my body's been trying to tell me for years. Mateusz offered a safe space for all of that, for which I'm truly grateful.
Anna Greenberg
Military instructor
Before the session I felt the urge to connect to my body and my heart, it’s like I felt detached instead of whole. This is also what I wanted to work on and I came in with the wanting to understand and explore myself and my body-mind connection.
The session was everything I had hoped for and more, it helped me to let go and feel comfortable in my own skin and with myself, something that I’ve been feeling lately was missing.
It created a space for my mind and my heart to breathe.
PURPOSE
Embodied Release means to me bringing the potential for a lasting change, in my own, and another person's life. Change happens by connecting with sensations of the body and releasing the emotional charge of the past. That process is held in the space of safety, compassion, and awareness, which allows for a deep release of tensions, and behavioral patterns.
I am committed to being a compassionate witness to the processes of my clients, trusting everyone's capacity for healing and intelligence of the body. My goal is to support people in discovering their own truth, and sometimes for the first time since childhood getting in touch with their authenticity and freedom.
During sessions, I invite you into a space where everything is welcome. The full range of your emotions, from sadness to joy, anger and love, terror and peacefulness. I desire to be in a therapeutic relationship, with no plan of how someone's healing should look like but being guided by the present moment.
May All Beings Be Happy,
May All Beings Be Free,
May All Beings Live in Peace,
Mateusz
TESTIMONIALS
Natacha Withøft
I've been to several breathwork and dance events and I leave feeling present and full of life. Mateusz creates a safe space that I deeply appreciate.
Estrid Mortensen
I had a really good experience with body therapy at Embodied Release. Mateusz is a skilled practitioner with great empathy. After the treatment, I felt more comfortable in my body, a higher level of body awareness, and more in touch with my emotions. Particularly the latter was something I desired but wasn't sure if I could expect. I highly recommend Embodied Release to anyone interested in the connection between body and mind, or who simply wants to release tension in the body.
Liv Linea Holm
Agriculturist
I've had regular individual sessions with Mateusz for the past three years and have been really happy with it. It has always been a safe space for me. In the beginning, it was mostly physical release, but later on, there was more emotionally therapeutic work, which opened up new doors for me. I highly recommend Mateusz as a practitioner.
Sara Hyldegaard Lystbæk
Yoga teacher
I received a breath therapy session by Mateusz, and I felt so safe and seen. He was beautifully holding space for my emotional vulnerability with big empathy. I felt a deep dedication and passion from Mateusz - he is a body therapist by heart
Sarah Warny Berg
Anthropologist, Group Facilitator
Mateusz met me with a very comforting and warming presence, which made me feel very safe and taken care of already from the beginning.
I felt he was very respectful and genuinely curious in understanding my body during the treatments, and at the same time as he was very gentle, he also managed to give me that firm squeeze in sore spots of my muscles, that no massage therapist has ever managed to treat so satisfyingly.
Belinda Neuhauser
Yoga teacher
Mateusz radiates a very deep and truthful presence that encourages the entire system to trust and allow for the release of long-held patterns of control. After the session, I felt very much grounded in my natural flow of life, trustful to breathe deeper and enjoy more. I highly recommend working with him.
Benjamin Hugo
Experience Designer
Mateusz is perceptive, he reads my body and applies measured and consistent force with serenity and care. I trust his hands and heart and I can let go with him in a brotherly way.
Zuzanna Gruszczynska
Health Care Proffesional