Rosen Method® is a complementary practice which promotes physical and emotional well-being by increasing body awareness; reducing feelings of depression, anxiety and stress; lowering perceived levels of pain and fatigue; supporting personal growth; and strengthening the ability to self-initiate life changes.
“Through listening to the truth of the body, it is possible to discover what we can do, who we can be, what we can experience, how we can love” – Marion Rosen
Rosen Method Bodywork promotes physical and emotional well-being by bringing felt awareness to constricting muscle tension and restricted breathing patterns which have developed over time.
Rosen Method Bodywork can help you:
Using supportive, listening touch and words that respond to subtle shifts in muscle tension and breathing patterns, RMB practitioners guide the client’s awareness of their physical and emotional experience, including accompanying thoughts and beliefs.
Rosen Method Movement is deeply restorative and develops one’s sense of being embodied. Unconscious emotions, attitudes and beliefs create muscle tension which restricts your full range of movement, reducing your body’s capacity for enjoying a sense of freedom and presence in daily living.
Using inviting and supportive music, Rosen movement classes evoke the experience of relaxing into action, enabling participants to find new vitality, spaciousness and joy in their bodies through simple movements. As muscles relax into their natural length, body alignment and expressiveness improve. These benefits thoroughly prepare the body for ease in ordinary movements, as well as for more strenuous exercise.
Professional Certification Training and Course for Personal Development are offered in both Bodywork and Movement at training centers around the world. Rosen Method training offers a transformative personal development program, delivered by experienced Senior Training Teachers.
Training centers are certified by the Rosen Institute and are dedicated to offering high quality and rigorous training programs that leave graduates ready to build a rewarding career in Rosen Method practice
Born on June 24, 1914, in Nuremberg, Germany, Marion Rosen grew up in a family that valued travel, sport, friendship, and an active social life. Her early years were marked by support, joy, and ease. As Germany’s political climate shifted in the 1930s, however, Marion and her family began to experience the growing hardship and anxiety faced by the Jewish community during this period of profound social and political change.
In 1936, at the age of 22, Marion began studying touch therapy with Lucy Heyer in Munich. During her apprenticeship, Marion worked with patients undergoing psychoanalysis, using touch therapy to access unconscious memories, emotions, and past experiences that had been forgotten or suppressed. These early experiences later informed the distinctive approach to bodywork and movement that would become the Rosen Method.
Marion left Germany in the late 1930s, eventually arriving in California after a period in Sweden, where she began studying physiotherapy. She later became licensed as a physical therapist and established a private practice in Oakland, California. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Marion started to develop the unique elements of her method. As her reputation grew for skillfully accessing body-based memory, her client base expanded. In 1980, she launched her first professional training program. The name Rosen Method was chosen when Marion felt her initial students had fully learned the fundamentals of her approach.
The method continued to grow and spread through new generations of students and clients. In time, Marion returned to Europe to teach, beginning in Sweden and later in Finland, Norway, Denmark, and beyond.