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Experience the transformation within that happens from allowing yourself to fully relax and just BE. You can discover BEING, not doing; ALLOWING, letting go and not forcing; ACCEPTING, not hiding or denying; and LOVING who you really are. Find your open heart. Let go of the pain of feeling like you're "too much" or "not enough." Heal old emotional wounds or traumas held in the body. We can listen to what your body is telling you and discover the truth of who you really are.
What is Rosen Method Bodywork?
Rosen Method is distinguished by its gentle, direct touch. Using hands that listen rather than manipulate, the work takes place on a massage table in a quiet supportive environment. The practitioner focuses on chronic muscle tension. As relaxation occurs and the breath deepens, unconscious feelings, attitudes, and memories may emerge.
The Rosen practitioner has been trained to notice subtle changes in muscle tension and shifts in the breath. She recognizes these as indications that the client is relaxing and becoming more aware of his/her body and internal experience. The practitioner responds with touch and words, which allow the client to begin to recognize what has been held down by unconscious muscle tension.
As this process unfolds, habitual tension and old patterns may be released, freeing the client to experience more aliveness, new choices in life, and a greater sense of well-being.
Benefits of Rosen Method Bodywork
The results of Rosen Method Bodywork frequently include a lessening of pain and tension and an increase in vitality and aliveness. Many individuals experience a new sense of clarity about their life direction and goals. They are better able to make decisions which improve the quality of their life and can more easily align with their purpose.
Rosen Method:
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Relaxes muscle tension and chronic holding
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Increases aliveness and vitality
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Deepens physical and emotional awareness
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Invites personal growth
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Complements other therapeutic modes and psychospiritual disciplines
Who Benefits?
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People who:
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have physical pain and discomfort
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have muscle tension and postural problems
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use their bodies for self-expression: athletes, performers, public speakers
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are under stress
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feel over-extended
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are receiving psychotherapy
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are looking for physical, emotional, and spiritual growth
Who is Marion Rosen?
Rosen Method bodywork was developed out of Marion Rosen’s 50 years experience as a physical therapist and health educator. Her unique approach to bodywork and movement has earned her recognition as a leader and originator in the field of body-oriented therapies.
In the 1930's, Marion studied breath and relaxation in Munich, Germany, with Lucy Heyer, who had been trained by Elsa Gindler, a renowned innovator of body therapies. Licensed in physical therapy, both in Stockholm and at the Mayo Clinic, Marion developed the Rosen Method over the course of many years in private practice.
Marion's purpose is to realize a vision of health and well-being by making the benefits of the Rosen Method widely available to the general public.
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"The basic tenets (of Rosen Method Bodywork) are touching with a soft hand, allowing the breath, going deep, keeping in mind the power of simplicity, and having ongoing sessions. But the most important of these is the quality of the touch."
~Marion Rosen
A Closer Look at Rosen Method
"The underlying theory of Rosen Method reflects Marion's experience as a physical therapist: the muscles used to express a particular feeling will be tense if that feeling is held back; as that muscle relaxes and the feeling is contacted, there will be a movement of breath in both diaphragm and muscle. Stated this way it seems almost impossibly simple. Yet this simplicity is one of Rosen Method's greatest strengths: it is pure bodywork, if one can use that phrase, aimed at contacting the holding in a body with minimum interference from the conscious minds of both client and practitioner.
If muscle tension and breath are two corner-stones of Rosen Method, reflection is the third. As a practitioner I match the tension in a muscle with the pressure in my hands - no more, and probably no less. In effect my hands offer a non-verbal reflection of the tension, 'look, you are tight here, remember'. A body often responds to this: a little sigh, a quiver, a tremor, an opening at the possibility of being heard, being understood. I work on: 'what's happening in the body?' I might ask, 'how come you have to hold in this way?'
In addition to the physical reflection a practitioner orally reflects how she finds her client's body, making these observations in an open-ended, neutral manner. Similarly, when later in the session a client begins to talk, the practitioner keeps track of the words used, not her interpretations or associations with the word, just the words themselves or their synonyms, quietly reflecting them back. At some point there may be a response in the body, a flutter in the muscle, a slight movement of breath, an insight: the unconscious has revealed itself. Many teachers describe the process to students in terms of a midwife present at the birth of contact with a long repressed feeling.
Fundamental to the notion of reflection is the absence of judgment, diagnosis, or even a fixing attitude in the practitioner. These come from the conscious mind, in the Rosen view, and impede on-going contact with the unconscious. The Rosen intent is to be fully present in a quietly curious non-judgmental manner, thus permitting contact with the holding in the unconscious and then, by reflecting it to the client, facilitating further contact. If on receipt of the reflection there is no change, no movement, no insight then that too is reflected and accepted. The silence of the body is honored.
It is in this non-fixing, non-intrusive aspect that Rosen Method differs from some other forms of bodywork. To watch a Rosen practitioner is to be struck with the simplicity, the gentleness, the non-intrusive nature of the work, at the same time as one watches in wonder at its power and effectiveness.”1
"The body does not lie."
~Marion Rosen
Rosen practitioners, as part of their training, work through much of their own psychological baggage. They are not trained as therapists, nor do they engage in therapy with their clients. They are trained to be proficient observers and listeners: listening to the body and what it says and to the words spoken.
Clients who make contact with traumatic past events are referred to a therapist for assistance with integrating the feelings involved. Many people, without the need for professional help, are able to integrate the released feelings over a period of time.
1 Nicholson, "Rosen Method Bodywork: A Recent Arrival in Australia" |
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