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The Rosenmethod was created by Marion Rosen

Marion Rosen, who was originally born in Germany, came to America in the 1940's and is supposedly still practicing in Berkeley, California.

Even though the Rosenmethod focuses on listening and watching, this massage style with very soft touch has been shown to be very successful.

It does remind me remotely on the principles of Cranio Sacral Therapy.

See what Marion Rosen herself had to say about the principles of her bodywork in a little interview:

JR: What is the theoretical basis of your work?

MR. The theoretical basis is that the body doesn't lie. The body retains thoughts, experiences what really happened. It doesn't change it in any way. So some times when we are asked a question and we answer with our thinking we can influence our thinking, but the body ? the breath especially, cannot be influenced. Something very spontaneous occurs which we can feel with our hands. We can gain access to experiences and feelings that otherwise are not accessible.

JR: Describe how you see the body when you work on someone.

MR. When I look at a body I get the picture of how this body would look if it was showing itself in the best working order and then I look and see what has happened, how it has deviated from its perfection. I believe there have been some experiences that could not be handled at the time we experienced them, and so we put them in our unconscious with the help of muscles. The muscles suppress the feelings or the knowledge about what has happened to us, and, as a consequence, the muscles working on that experience appear different in the body.

JR: How does movement relate to the Rosen Method?

MR. Movement shows where a person is not free. For example a child usually moves very freely. But if a child grows up with experiences that are frightening or hurtful or if they have feelings that were suppressed, things that could not be said that want to be expressed, then all kinds of muscles will constantly hold and form a barrier to free movement. So when we see a person move we see where they allow themselves to move freely or where they don’t allow themselves to move.

JR: In this process, what does the client and the practitioner experience when these emotions surface?

MR. The practitioner feels the breath increase, feels or sees the colour in the face change and sees a movement – a rapid eye movement – sometimes hears a sound in people’s breathing. What the client feels is really the feeling – the authentic feelings – that they felt at the time when a trauma or difficulty happened. It is not something they think about but something they really feel.

See the full Rosenmethod interview with Marion Rosen here:
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Here is a little video that shows some massage techniques of the Rosenmethod:

Because it is not possible to embed the video, here is the link to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4m9YA2-pwM
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