What it's about
Embryo Touch is a training in embryological touch with Jörg Schürpf at the Shen Touch Academy. It starts from the idea that human behaviour is initiated by ontogenesis: many gestures we need as humans are already lived as movements in early development, and the energetic forces that formed us as embryos remain active in the body, continually re-creating us and keeping us alive.
The course explores the first four weeks of embryological development, safety as an embodied feeling, the midline as a reference for growth and differentiation, orientation, compaction, expansion, centring around the heart and verticality between brain, heart and hara. The eight embryological metabolic fields serve as a way to perceive how body regions form. Further topics include true breathing, the reciprocal tension membrane, prenatal work at the foot and the inner dance with the embryo.
The workshops are for health practitioners, yoga teachers, bodywork therapists and anyone interested in the processes of human life. They take place in two three-day modules, 27–29 November 2026 and 22–24 January 2027, at the Swiss Dojo in Saillon, 42 hours in total. After the early-bird period the fee is CHF 1,210 for the whole training (CHF 605 per module).