What is Rosen Method Bodywork?

 

Rosen Method Bodywork is distinguished by its gentle, direct touch. Using hands that listen rather than manipulate, 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. The practitioner recognizes these as indications that the client is relaxing and becoming more aware of their 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.

 

Rosen Method bodywork is a powerful tool for stress reduction and for reaching the body/mind connection through touch. It is a type of complementary health care often recommended by doctors, psychotherapists and chiropractors as an adjunct to their treatment. Rosen Method is effective in easing chronic tension and its ill effects on the mind and body. It is a valuable technique for personal growth and for finding the path of the heart and soul in one’s life and living more fully in the present.

 

People who are seeking relief from headaches, back pain, muscle tension, joint pain, injuries, insomnia, and chronic conditions like asthma and chronic fatigue often use Rosen Method bodywork. The work can be supportive for people with eating disorders and healing for survivors of physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse.

 

 

Benefits of Rosen Method Bodywork

 

The results of Rosen Method bodywork and movement 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 that improve the quality of their life and can more easily align with their purpose.

 

Rosen Method:

 

    * Relaxes muscle tension and chronic muscular holding

    * Increases flexibility and vitality

    * Deepens physical and emotional awareness

    * Invites personal growth

    * Complements other therapeutic modes and psycho spiritual disciplines

 

Who Benefits?

 

People who:

 

    * Have physical pain and discomfort

    * Have muscle tension and postural problems

    * Want to increase their ease in physical activity

    * Use their bodies for self-expression: athletes, public speakers, performers

    * Are under stress

    * Feel overextended

    * Are receiving psychotherapy

    * Are looking for physical, emotional, and spiritual growth

           

 

Rosen Method bodywork and movement was developed by Marion Rosen, now in her mid-nineties. In the 1930s, Marion studied breath and relaxation in Munich, Germany, with Lucy Heyer, who had been trained by Elsa Gindler, a renowned innovator of body therapies. Heyer worked with her husband, Dr. Gustav Heyer, a colleague and former student of Carl Jung. Lucy and Marion did bodywork on patients who then saw Dr. Heyer for psychotherapy. The Heyers found that with the bodywork, the patients could experience their emotions more easily. Because of her Jewish origins, Marion had to flee Germany at the beginning of W.W.II. She came to America in 1940 and settled in Berkeley, California. Licensed in physical therapy, both in Stockholm and at the Mayo Clinic, Marion worked for many years as a physical therapist, first at Kaiser Medical Center and then in private practice.

 

Rosen Method developed over the years that Marion practiced physical therapy. Marion observed that clients who talked about their lives recovered more quickly and did not come back again with the same problems. She watched for the interconnections between the physical posture and the emotional state of the person, and noticed how the body is a living metaphor of a person’s inner state.

 

In the mid-seventies Marion began to teach and draw more specifically on her early training in relaxation and bodywork. As the body/mind renaissance flourished in California, students were drawn to Marion and her gentle, powerful work. In 1983 the Rosen Institute was formed.  Since then Rosen Method training centers have been established in many countries around the world. Rosen Method is now a recognized modality for somatic exploration and personal growth, as well as a powerful complementary healing therapy.

 

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. Through her unique approach to bodywork and movement, she has gained recognition as a leader and originator in the field of body-oriented therapies. 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.

 

“This work is about transformation from the person we think we are to the person we really are.” –Marion Rosen

 

 

 

 

 

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