About Hakomi House
Hakomi House of Ashland, Oregon, was co-created in 2002 by Ron Kurtz and Marina McDonald as a space where Ron could focus and experiment with small groups to refine and simplify his Hakomi method. In 2010, shortly before Ron died in January 2011, Marina and he co-created the Ron Kurtz Center to continue his vision of Refined Hakomi. Today, Hakomi House reopens its doors, dedicated to furthering the Refined Hakomi tradition, true to Ron’s vision.
Hakomi House is pleased to announce an inaugural comprehensive training program starting in July 2025 with a five-month, experiential training intensive. The Hakomi House retreat-like gathering space and land are alive with the spirit of Hakomi and the memory of Ron Kurtz.
Whether you are seeking personal growth and healing, professional skill-building, or certification as a Hakomi practitioner, our five-month, 15-day training will meet each participant as they are. Marina speaks with each person to weave their individual needs and goals into the comprehensive training.
This five-month comprehensive training will meet for three days over one weekend per month. It will offer an authentic, in-person experience of the Refined Hakomi method that is true to the Hakomi principles, including loving presence, mindfulness, non-violence, nourishing communication, somatic trauma resolution, and mindfulness-based, body-centered assisted self-discovery. In addition to the 3-day monthly training sessions, Hakomi House will offer experiential learning opportunities, including Thursdays devoted to individual therapy sessions before each training weekend, weekly practice groups, and loving presence sessions.
Refined Hakomi is unrivaled as a pure, practical, powerful practice that reaches to the very depths of the subconscious soul facilitating a lasting and life-changing transformational experience. There is a wholeness to Refined Hakomi that defies definition synthesizing scientific, psychotherapeutic and spiritual experiences.
About Marina McDonald
After meeting Ron Kurtz in 1997 Marina was blessed to know him as a friend, teacher, mentor and business partner and to train directly with him until his death in 2011.
As a certified Hakomi therapist, teacher, and trainer, Marina views her role in the current intensive as that of a midwife who supports rebirthing and reawakening our capacity to give and receive love.
Marina holds all participants as equally precious, sees each one as having their own unique needs and goals, meets every student where they are, and supports them in an ongoing process of assisted self-discovery, spontaneous healing, and expanding their capacity for relationship.