In a treatment room in Sursee stands a simple chair. Sévérine Bächtold-Sidler sits down across from the woman who has come for the first time, and she does not begin with a question about her story but with a question about her body. Where, she wants to know, does it sit right now. Exactly where. This shift from why to where is the movement her work is built on. For years she has run live courses in which women go through this sequence with her. The results, says Bächtold-Sidler, would not let go of her at some point. Female Intimacy (German original: Lebendige Weiblichkeit) grew out of the wish to make them accessible to those who cannot or do not want to come to a practice.
The course is released this week at fivemoves.org/en/female-intimacy. It consists of ten lessons, one virtual FIVE MOVES session and an app that weaves the experience into everyday life over forty days. The content author is Sévérine Bächtold-Sidler. She wrote and recorded all lessons. They are spoken in Swiss German, with High German subtitles. Methodically, the course works on the basis of FIVE MOVES, a sequence developed in Switzerland for the body-based resolution of emotional blockages.
It addresses women who want to feel alive in their femininity again, without turning to the tantra wave, the therapy couch or the relationship guidebook. The course demands no backstory, no diagnosis, no willingness to unroll the past. It works with what the method calls the heart space. A location the woman seeks in her own chest area, where she places a feeling she wants to reach. Only then does the blockage come in, the one that stands in between. It, too, is not analysed but addressed.
"I have seen women resolve something in one session that they had worked on for years. At some point it was clear that this should not only happen in one room in Sursee." Sévérine Bächtold-Sidler, trainer and author of the course
The voice in the course
Bächtold-Sidler is responsible for all content. She runs her own practice in Sursee under the name Mondschoen. She describes her own stance as navigating.
"I do not heal. I navigate. The body does the rest." Sévérine Bächtold-Sidler
The sentences are short, almost formulaic, and they repeat. That is intentional: what the body is meant to keep needs repetition, not explanation.
The architecture behind the course
For a live format to become a digital programme that works repeatably and carries itself, it needed its own learning architecture. It comes from Andy Dittrich, the founder of FIVE MOVES. Dittrich has worked in learning and development for twenty-five years and in that time has built learning formats for leadership teams in thirty countries. For Female Intimacy he designed the course structure, the order of the lessons, the interplay between app, live session and self-study.
What makes the method different
With this programme, FIVE MOVES enters a market in which female coaches, tantra teachers and trauma therapists have competed for years for the attention of women who wrestle with their own sexuality, their relationship to their own body, or experienced boundary violations. What separates the course from many competitors is its explicit refusal to make a promise. And its concentration on two coordinates: a feeling the woman seeks in her own chest area. And a blockage that stands in her way there.
In a market that advertises with transformation promises, seven-day solutions and life upgrades, FIVE MOVES deliberately positions itself with more restraint. so deep. so safe. is the claim the brand keeps in English in every market.
Availability
The FIVE MOVES session takes place virtually and lasts 45 minutes. Anyone who needs personal support after the course can book a 1:1 session with Sévérine Bächtold-Sidler in Sursee. The forty-day app guidance is included in the price. The course costs CHF 149, one-time, with one year of access. Booking at fivemoves.org/en/female-intimacy. The course content is currently in German.