Blog tag
Self Awareness
10 posts
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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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 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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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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