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Somatic Bodywork
11 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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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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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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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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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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