There are a few things that do not happen in a FIVE MOVES session. There is no digging. No visit to childhood. No limiting belief is formulated. What does happen can be reduced to two movements. One goes into the chest area. The other goes to the blockage. The path lies in between.
FIVE MOVES is a method developed in Switzerland for the body-based resolution of emotional blockages. Its founder is the entrepreneur Andy Dittrich, a man with an Executive MBA, twenty-five years of business consulting and a career that took him to thirty countries before it took him into a treatment room. The method he has built since then works in five consecutive Moves and in a single session.
Two coordinates
At the centre are two addresses. The first is a feeling. The method calls it the desired feeling (German: Wunschgefühl). It is not described but located. The woman, or the man, looks for it in the chest area, where the method places the heart space. The desired feeling is not a goal in the psychological sense. It is a bodily reference. A place the body should be able to return to.
The second address is the blockage. It, too, is not described but located. It sits somewhere in the body, and every person finds it in a different place. The method never gives the position. It asks where, never why or what. Whoever comes does not have to tell their story.
"Most methods ask what happened. We ask where it sits right now. That is a different approach. It spares the person the repetition." Andy Dittrich, founder of FIVE MOVES
Five Moves, one session
The method carries its name for a reason. Five Moves are made in a defined order. They begin with finding the desired feeling and end with anchoring what changed in the session. In between lies a sequence that is not improvised but repeatable. That is exactly what separates it from the coaching anecdote: it is not charismatic, it is documentable.
A session usually takes two hours. It is guided by a certified Guide. More than forty Guides are currently certified in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. The training runs at each person's own pace through an Online Academy with simulations in the app, plus practice days on site. Certification requires further practice days and fifteen documented sessions.
What the method does not claim
Anyone looking for promises of healing on the FIVE MOVES website will look in vain. The method positions itself with striking restraint. The claim reads so deep. so safe. and stays in English even in the German-speaking market. The words healing, transformation or breakthrough appear remarkably rarely in the brand's texts. Instead they speak of the tool, of the sequence, of the body doing the work.
In the background stand two scientific reference points. One is memory reconsolidation, a concept from neuroscience describing how emotional memories become modifiable while they are being reactivated. The other is the polyvagal theory of the US neuroscientist Stephen Porges, which describes the autonomic nervous system as a social safety detector. Both theories are not without controversy in the research community. FIVE MOVES refers to them as an explanatory model, not as proof.
Who comes
The clientele is broad. Around one thousand people have received a FIVE MOVES session to date. Among them: executives with sleep problems, women after separations, parents with blocked patience, people after losses, athletes with performance anxiety. What connects them is less a diagnosis than a point at which the cognitive strategies are exhausted. "My head had long known there was no reason. My body blocked anyway," runs a typical description.
Where it goes from here
With Female Intimacy (German original: Lebendige Weiblichkeit), the first fully digital programme built on the method now exists. Its content is the responsibility of trainer Sévérine Bächtold-Sidler, who has run live courses on the method in her practice in Sursee for years and developed the course from this work. The course architecture comes from Andy Dittrich. Further programmes by further trainers are conceivable on the same model.