The Mindful Body
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Reflections on Rosen Method Bodywork, somatic therapy and healing from trauma.
Returning to a Felt Sense of Safe Connection After a Rupture: Reflections on the social/emotional effects of Covid-19
How could I, as a Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and massage therapist, return to a sense of safe emotional/physical connection with others while living with the new reality (during this pandemic) of the potential danger inherent with…
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If You Can Dream It…
There is a quote from Walt Disney, “If you can dream it, you can do it” and I have just proven that to be true.
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Prodigal Daughter
I told my father that there was a specific reason for my call that day. I wanted to share with him a memory that had come up during a series of somatic experiencing sessions of a time when my parents split up when I was three years old. I…
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Experience Rosen Method Movement
“This work is about transformation ~ from the person we think we are to the person we really are. In the end, we can’t be anyone else.” – Marion Rosen A Rosen Method Movement class is a rare opportunity in my daily routine to have the…
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Healing After Birth Podcast – Jennifer Summerfeldt, MACP
by Cinnamon Cranston On March 27th I had the honour of being on Jennifer Summerfeldt’s podcast, Healing After Birth: Body Focused Therapies to Restore, Heal, and Thrive. We had a wonderful conversation about how body focused therapies such…
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Healing One Step at a Time
So often we come up against roadblocks in life, a place where we feel intrinsically dis-satisfied with some aspect of where we are within our life; within ourselves. We ask ourselves why is this happening to me, why do I feel this way and…
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The Benefits of Participating in a Rosen Method Workshop
In my fist Rosen Method Workshop I was both intrigued and flabbergasted by my experience. I was surprised by how my whole way of being in the world was oriented toward others, the need to help them, serve them, do for them and how I really…
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The Need for Nurturing: a reflection on my trip to Brazil
This Fall I had the honour of being invited to bring Rosen Method Bodywork to Sao Paulo, Brazil. I was very excited to have the opportunity to travel to South America and experience another people and culture and give them opportunity to…
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Importance of embodied self-awareness
By slowing down long enough to listen to what is really happening inside our bodies, to feel our sensations, emotions and movements in the present moment (without the interference of judgmental thoughts), we develop a practice of embodied…
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When the threat lies within
So what happens when something scary and overwhelming happens now? Recently I experienced a cancer scare and spent a week and a half thinking I might very possibly have breast cancer, which it turns out I do not thankfully.
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Self-compassion through Rosen Method
What does it mean to have self-compassion? For me self-compassion occurs any time I choose to act with kindness, love, gentleness or sensitivity towards myself. This sounds simple but it has taken the greater part of my life to learn. Of…
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Deepen your connection to self and other
At some point in our human existence we will inevitably experience some form of trauma. Why is it that some people seem more resilient than others in recovering from trauma? Trauma that occurs in early childhood is more devastating in that…
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Experiencing Forgiveness
Rosen Method Bodywork taught me how to allow my emotions without judgement and accept the feelings I had weren’t good or bad, they just were.
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The Mindful Body
I decided to name my business and practice The Mindful Body because I felt it accurately reflected the healing process that is Rosen Method Bodywork. According to Wikipedia, mindfulness is defined as the “psychological process of bringing…
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Transformation through allowing
The process of allowing requires us to slow down and listen deeply within ourselves underneath the level of cognitive thought.
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Rosen Method Movement: authentic movement experience
Rosen Method Movement classes allow people to release the chronic or habitual, physical holding patterns in their bodies and in the process, rediscover the joy of movement.
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Accessing Core essence through Rosen Method
In Rosen Method we refer to spirit as core essence and as practitioners we work with people to help them to deepen their connection to their essence within their bodies and let go of whatever has been holding them back.
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Transformation through self-acceptance
Rosen Method Bodywork practitioners understand that when they are touching the body they are touching the mind and when they are speaking to the mind, they are speaking to the body.
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Rosen Method’s gentle, responsive touch
Gentle, responsive touch, along with affirming, supportive words, is a key component in recovering from emotionally and/or physically stressful experiences because it let’s our bodies/minds know that we are safe, not alone and cared for.
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Moving With Ease, Say What?
All of this moving about with awareness instead of effort and pushing has made me realize how terribly unkind I can be to myself.
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Rosen Method Bodywork: Body Awareness and Trauma
RMB is a type of somatic bodywork that helps people to access and integrate long forgotten or unconscious physical/emotional holding patterns in through body awareness.
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Rosen Method Bodywork: Bringing the Unconscious to Life
as published in Mosaic Magazine in May 2014. When terrible things happen to us we start to treat ourselves as though we were terrible. In this way we come to think of ourselves in relationship to our experiences instead of who we truly are…
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