Rosen Method

“[Rosen Method] bodywork combines touch with verbal dialogue that guides the client’s awareness of their inner experience so that they can discover the connections between the body, mind, and emotions. This happens by bringing conscious awareness to patterns of tension and holding in the body, and inviting that tension to release if and when it feels safe to do so for the client. 

The approach of Rosen Method Bodywork is not to do something to the client, but rather to be fully present with and attuned to the client, and to utilize touch as a tool to listen to the client’s body with our hands. 

Over time, as clients experience the safe, attuned presence of the Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner, it allows tension and holding in the body to soften. What emerges are the unconscious and unfelt feelings that were blocked and created the tension in the first place. As these feelings are allowed to be met and safely felt, new possibilities for ways of being and moving through the world can be explored and expressed by the client. 

While this might sound like somatic psychotherapy (and it is indeed therapeutic to both soma and psyche), Rosen Method Bodywork is born out of Marion Rosen’s background in physical therapy, and is therefore rooted in the anatomical function of the muscles themselves. This is because all people use their musculature to express their emotions, and when emotions are not allowed or are too big to meet in the moment, we also use our musculature to repress or contain the feelings.”

In the words from The Berkeley Center Rosen Method’s website
https://www.rosenmethod.com/training-bodywork