“Unless you know your body—feel it, sense it, rather than deny it—
you can’t go beyond the still picture you have of yourself.”
—Mirka Knaster

The foundation for my work is my training as a certified Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner, but it is also strongly influenced by my years of meditation practice studying the body/mind connection, and my life experience which includes my own personal path of healing. I’ve used the name body-listening representing my own direction with bodywork.

The structure for a session follows the Rosen Method model, being done on a massage table and fifty minutes in length. Using touch that is both strong, direct, yet gentle, I follow your breath, muscle tension, noting any changes, talking with you about what you are experiencing and I am noticing. A significant quality of Rosen Method is the presence we bring to the work. When we touch someone without judgment and with awareness, something very deep and essential is contacted. It’s touching in a way that allows you to open to those deeply held places that you didn’t even want to admit to yourself or that were held unconsciously.

• Creating a container of care and respect. By building a relationship of safety, trust and gentle yet direct touch, I give you, the client, a chance to know on a visceral level that here is a place you will be heard, understood, and honored just as you are.
  


• Reawakening of the sensory awareness system of your body on a deep level. Learning to recognize feelings, sensations, in your body and their corresponding emotions.
  
  
• Developing the willingness to stay present with feelings, emotions as they shift and change, moving through your body. Through this process you can begin to separate from your identification with unpleasant mind states and uncomfortable body sensations—the labeling of yourself as an angry or fearful person becomes less solid.
  


• Understanding of your belief systems and habitual thoughts that perpetuate self-defeating patterns, tension, constriction in the body, which is often unconscious.
  


• Exploring, cultivating being in your body in a pleasurable way. Developing techniques to include an awareness of the whole body, rather than focusing only on unpleasant sensations. This allows you to be with your feelings, sensations, not in them. Learning to recognize and enjoy muscles that relax, breathing that comes with ease. Through expanded awareness and deeper physical relaxation experiencing a felt sense of completeness, peace.