Annabelle Apsion - Acting Editor

Annabelle is an actress, writer and Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Supervisor, and Senior Teacher. Annabelle was one of the co founders of the Rosen Method School in the United Kingdom established in 2004, and served on the first Editorial team when the Journal was first established. She was invited to rejoin the Board in 2018 to be Acting Editor. Annabelle has also served on the Rosen Institute Board many times and been involved in various sub committee’s. You can contact Annabelle at aapsion@rosenmethod.co.uk

Carol Cober, MS, LPC, LMT - Editor Emeritus

Carol Cober MS, LPC, LMT is a Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, psychotherapist and manager of a consulting business leading workshops on creative renewal, embodied art making and using creative expression self-care. Carol has served on the Advisory Board for 10 years. She trained at the RM Southwest School in New Mexico and is studying Rosen Method Movement at the Rosen Open Center in New York. Carol has a background of leading national programs on aging and wellness and managing research projects on child abuse, prison rape, aging and disability programs. Now her research interests include creativity as a wellness and recovering embodied joy after grief and trauma. She enjoys time with her husband, three grown children, and 3 grandchildren in Silver Spring, Maryland near Washington DC. She celebrates each day with Rosen movement, art and meditation. Contact her at: ccober4@gmail.com

John Bosman - Editorial Advisory Board

John was certified as a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner and Rosen Method Movement teacher on December 9th, 2012. At the age of 16 he migrated with his family from Amsterdam (The Netherlands) to Adelaide (South Australia). Upon finishing his secondary education he entered the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, a catholic religious order, completed his studies in Rome with a Doctorate in Moral Theology (thesis title: Authority in the Discourses of Gregory the Great). and then worked in seminaries, parishes, hospitals and universities. In 1987 he met Marion Rosen, who with the Rosen Community, became a mentor to him. Over the years he obtained a diploma in Acupressure, studied Counseling and Somatic Psychotherapy. Now actively retired, he works with family, social justice and other interest groups. He enjoys sports, reading, photography and playing the didgeridoo. He has a Rosen Method Bodywork and Rosen Method Movement practice in Sydney, Australia. His contact address is: johntheobosman@gmail.com

Maja Skau-Olsen - Editorial Advisory Board

Before she started working with Rosen Method full time, Maja worked as a nurse and taught anatomy and physiology to students of health. She has been teaching anatomy and emotional anatomy to students of Rosen Method since 2004 in Denmark, and to Rosen practitioners since 2014, both in Denmark and abroad. Maja has a passionate interest in understanding how the body works, especially the musculoskeletal system, and how we can use that understanding as practitioners; both to get a better sense of our own bodies and to enhance our sessions in Rosen Method Bodywork. Maja was certified as a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner in 2001 and Rosen Method Workshop Teacher in 2010. From 2014, she followed the international teacher’s training and was trained in Israel, England, Russia, USA and Denmark. In December 2016 she became a certified Rosen Method Bodywork teacher. As a teacher it is very important for Maja to support students to find their own way of allowing the work to come through them. Maja lives in Skanderborg, Denmark and sees clients both in Skanderborg and Copenhagen. Currently she is one of two co-owners of the Danish Rosen Method school. She is also a member of the faculty of the Rosen Method school in Russia and enjoys travelling and teaching in many countries. Maja is happy to support the work of the Rosen Method International Journal because she thinks it is very important that we all share our knowledge and experiences with each other. This way we become true students of Marion Rosen, who always learned from practice. Contact Maja at majaskau@gmail.com

Anette Koegler, MA - Editorial Advisory Board

Anette is a Rosen Method Bodywork Intern and Movement Student with ties to both the Berkeley Center and the German school. She holds an M.A. in Tibetan Studies and Anthropology and is a Restorative/Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher, and a Mindfulness and Resiliency Coach. After her formative years in Germany she spent two years in Tibet doing research, language studies and pilgrimages. For almost 15 years she worked as residential volunteer at Odiyan Retreat Center and the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley where she lead a Text Preservation project which collects and reprints ancient Buddhist scriptures. She also participated in sacred art projects, landscaping, many meditation and yoga classes and taught the Tibetan language. As an avid meditator she is very interested in the exploration of mind/consciousness and the connection between Rosen Method and Spirituality. Anette enjoys gardening, meditating, creative projects and going on pilgrimages. She splits her time between Northern California, Germany and the Himalayas where she has been offering bodywork sessions to Buddhist refugee nuns.

Gail Barry Bourque, PT, Psy.D, LMT - Editorial Advisory Board

Gail Barry Bourque is a Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, a workshop teacher and primary supervisor Somatic Psychotherapist and certified TRE - Trauma and Tension Release Exercises practitioner.  Gail became a Registered Physical Therapist in 1977 and worked in Oakland, CA at a public hospital.   Gail trained at the Berkeley Rosen School in 1983-1986 with Marion Rosen and Louise Barrie.   She and several others started the original Rosen Method Professional Organization – RMPA. Gail became President of the RI Board of Directors for several years in the early 1990s. Gail received and MA in Somatic Psychotherapy Program at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, in 1995.  She completed a doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology and became licensed in 2002. Her doctoral thesis was on Pain and the Body. She has taught Neuophysiology, has led workshops at the RI World Congresses: On The Polyvagal Theory in Imatra, Finland, Attachment Theory in upstate New York, and on Living the Embodied Narrative of your Life at Whistler, Canada.  Gail has taught Rosen Method Living Anatomy in the United States, Russia and Israel and has been a Specialist and Assistant Bodywork Teacher for Intensives in Russia and Israel. Gail was on the RI Journal editorial board as one of the early editors starting in 2008. She has had a long practice with Buddhist meditation and study - first with Vipassana and in later years with Tibetan Buddhism.  She has travelled to Tibet and India in pursuit of that practice.  She enjoys traveling with her husband of 45 years and being very involved with her two sons and their families, six grandchildren aged 24 to 12. Reading, hiking, playing the flute, doing art, gardening, visiting with friends and studying French are all delightful involvements as well.

Alan Fogel, PhD, LMT - Editor Emeritus

Alan Fogel, PhD, LMT, founding editor of the Rosen Method International Journal, is a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner and a Rosen Method Bodywork Senior Teacher. He is the author of Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness (W.W. Norton & Company, 2013), and writes a blog on body sense for Psychology Today magazine. Alan has also worked as a behavioral scientist in the field of Developmental Psychology for many years and readers can find free downloads of many of his publications. He has a private practice in Rosen Method Bodywork in Salt Lake City, Utah and does consulting-mentoring via Skype on topics related to Rosen Method, embodied self-awareness, research and writing. Alan has taught workshops in Rosen Method Bodywork and in Embodied Self-Awareness both nationally and internationally. Alan retired in 2012 from his university teaching and is currently taking a sabbatical from workshop teaching. This gives him more time to devote to his private practice of bodywork and consulting, and also to music, photography, gardening, hiking, biking, and skiing in the beautiful mountains and red-rock deserts around Salt Lake City, Utah. He and his spouse, Jacqueline Fogel (a Rosen Method Movement Teacher) have two sons and three grandchildren. Contact him at fogel.alan@gmail.com.

Alexandra (Sasha) Dolnykova, Editorial Advisory Board

Sasha was born and lives in Moscow, Russia. She is a graduate of the Psychology Department of Moscow State University. For many years, she worked in psychiatric clinics as a clinical psychologist. Sasha was one of the first students (first generation student) in the Russian Rosen Method School when Mary Kay Wright founded the school in 1989. She was certified as a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner in Berkeley, California, USA (where she was finishing her RMB Internship) in 1996. Some years later, with Mary Kay Wright’s training, she became an Introductory Workshop Teacher. Currently, along with her work in clinical psychology, Sasha has a small RMB private practice and she teaches introductory workshops. For some years, she also assisted RMB intensives in the Austrian Rosen School. In Moscow, she is a member of the leadership group in which she and her colleagues do logistic work for Russian Rosen school.

Ivy Green, Editorial Advisory Board

Ivy was a psychiatric counselor when she had her first bodywork session in the Alexander Technique. Loving the way her body felt as a result, Ivy trained to become an Alexander Teacher. While working as a counselor and a college psychology teacher, Ivy searched far and wide for a method that would allow her to use touch to bring both the body and the mind together. When Ivy received Rosen Method touch she knew she had found her life’s work. Ivy has been practicing and teaching Rosen Method Bodywork since 1995. She is a co-owner and a co-director of teaching for the Rosen Method Open Center. She is a member of the Rosen Institute Board of Directors and participates in several committees. Ivy has published articles about Rosen Method in the Rosen International Journal and in other venues. She believes that the Rosen International Journal not only gives Rosen Method greater legitimacy, but is a forum for sharing the ideas and experiences of our vibrant international community. In 2016 she published a book called Relaxation Awareness Resilience: Rosen Method Science and Practice which is now also an ebook. She had a wonderful time researching and writing this book, which is a resource text for teachers, practitioners, and clients. Born and bred in the hustle and bustle of New York City, she has spent the last twenty years in the country, surrounded by water, mountains and wildlife which soothes and nourishes her heart every day. Contact her at ivy.green@earthlink.net.