Rosen Method Bodywork: Accessing the Unconscious Through Touch
by Marion Rosen with Susan Brenner

In this long-awaited description of the body-centered therapy developed by Marion Rosen, the reader begins to understand how emotional and physical ailments can be addressed through the gentle touch of the Rosen practitioner. Rosen explains how the practitioner identifies tensions in the body that point to the source of a problem, and how that awareness guides the healing process. With the help of psychotherapist Susan Brenner, one of Marion's first students and director of Rosen Center East, she describes the origins of her method; how people reveal their emotions in body postures; barriers they set up to love, self-expression, and intimacy, and how Rosen work enables a client to move beyond these barriers. Treatments for asthma, migraine headaches, heart problems weak immune systems, and psychosomatic illnesses are chronicled. Essays by doctors, psychologists, and Rosen practitioners describe how this method of touch, words, and acceptance guides their work, and complete this remarkable tribute to a visionary woman.

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The Rosen Method of Movement
by Marion Rosen and Sue Brenner

In Rosen movement, healing manifests itself as a reclaiming of movements. Rosen Method movement is based on physical therapy exercises playfully executed and set to music. The body begins to move again as a whole with the freedom of early childhood. This book gives a history of Rosen Method movement, discusses the physiological basis of movement, and recommends exercises and music.

Copies of this book are available through Rosen Method: The Berkeley Center.
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Rosen Method: An Approach to Wholeness and Well-being Through the Body
by Elaine Mayland, Ph.D.

This groundbreaking book about Rosen Method bodywork is also used as a text for Rosen Method training classes. It includes a brief biography of Marion Rosen, and a sound, easy to understand explanation of the theoretical and physiological foundation of Rosen Method. Mayland has written a piece that is as helpful to clients as it is to students, simplifying the process and its relationship to tension and holding, the breath, emotions, and spirituality.

Copies of this book are available through Rosen Method: The Berkeley Center.
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Phone: 510-845-6606 (Berkeley, CA USA)
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Touching the Body - Reaching the Soul: How Touch Influences the Nature of Human Beings
by Sandra Wooten

This book is an important contribution to the growing body of knowledge about the intricate relationship between psychological issues and the physical body. These issues are of direct relevance to the work of hospital and home care nurses, doctors, psychotherapists, massage therapists, bodyworkers, hospice workers, clergy and other health care providers. Experiences cited as examples in this book are drawn from the author's years of work as a practitioner and senior teacher of Rosen Method bodywork.

To quote the author: "Respectful touch allows changes to begin on the inside, and more outward at a pace that matches an individual's own rhythm. The result is an 'unfolding'. Rather than attempting to fix someone or make them different, this is a process of gently showing people to themselves Ð reflecting their true being, recognizing their integrity & aliveness, allowing physical and emotional ease."

Copies of this book are available through Rosen Method: The Berkeley Center.
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Phone: 510-845-6606 (Berkeley, CA USA)
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Come Dance with Me - Exploring the Body-Mind Connection
by Judith Nicholson, with preface by Marion Rosen

Come Dance with Me tells of Judith's journey towards freedom and self-fulfilment. It is the story of a daughter, law lecturer, diplomat's wife and mother of four, who, in her mid-fifties, became dissatisfied with her life. Searching for empowerment to live her own life, she explored meditation, Carl Jung and Rosen Method Bodywork. Judith describes in detail her Rosen training in Sweden, and the theory and techniques of the Method. Her life changed. She then created a dream retreat in Tumut, rural New South Wales, and introduced Rosen Method therapy to Australia. Judith struggled with 3 bouts of cancer over 9 years, which are intimately described, and which led to her death.

Copies of this book are available through Rosen Method: The Berkeley Center.
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The Rosen Method: Coming Alive and Staying Alive in the 21st Century
by Marilyn J. Davis

With a focus on both universal and human themes, Marilyn studies the meaning and importance of presence in the Rosen Method bodywork practice. She explores how the body armors itself due to emotional experiences that have never found expression. Through sensitive touch to the body, keen observation of the breath, and verbal exchange, the client realizes relaxation of tight muscles and a deeper contact with the inner self. Through presence, the practitioner and client together create a relationship which recognizes the intrinsic worth of each, and through which personal change can effect universal change.