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Complete one hour interview featuring Marion Rosen. Click the link to view.

Author: Hans Axelson, Ph.D. (hon)

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Un documentaire proposé par l’association La Bande Sonore avec le soutien de l’APPMRF, Association professionnelle des praticiens de la Méthode Rosen France.

An audio documentary offering a sensitive look at the Rosen Method which is little known in France and in French-speaking countries. Caroline Fontana, the author, guides us in the heart of the experience of the Rosen Method Bodywork : accessing the unconscious through touch. Faithful to Rosen Method, the documentary creates an intimate atmosphere.

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A first of a two part recording of Marion Rosen and Hans Axelson speaking about the Rosen Method and their experience of the method and its affect on clients. The discussion is translated throughout into French

Author: Marion Rosen

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A first of a two part recording of Marion Rosen and Hans Axelson speaking about the Rosen Method and their experience of the method and its affect on clients. The discussion is translated throughout into French

Authors: Marion Rosen, Hans Axelson, Ph.D. (hon)

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Marion Rosen was one of the first to discover the relationship between our emotional lives and the condition of our bodies. She developed a system of bodywork so effective that clients release old emotional pain, their relationships improve, and their work life becomes better. As she explains, "By relaxing the muscles, what comes up is some of these [painful] experiences. Instead of holding them down and trying to forget about them, you can handle them." The results are more far reaching than even Ms. Rosen initially expected. She's discovered that real physical and emotional release changes the way people live, and even makes a difference in the lives of their family members and all the people they touch day-to-day

Authors: Valerie Luoto, Michael Toms, Ph.D. (hon), Darsa Nickelson

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Complementary approaches to health and wellness are widely used and research is needed to provide evidence of their utility. Rosen Method Bodywork (RMB) is a complementary approach with a small, but growing body of evidence. The purpose of this research study was to explore the processes of Rosen Method Bodywork to develop a theoretical framework about what occurs over the course of receiving sessions RMB, both within the recipient and between the recipient and the practitioner. In this grounded theory study, data from interviews of twenty participants was analyzed and a theoretical model of the overall process of RMB was constructed. The model consists of the five integrative phases through which these participants moved within the iterative RMB process from Feeling Stuck and Disconnected to Feeling Connected. Mindfulness is observed to be a central component of the RMB process which participants describe as helpful for trauma recovery. Implications of these findings for mental health care providers, including advanced practice mental health nurses, for Rosen Method Bodywork practitioners, and for future research are discussed.

Author: Susanna Smart

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This article is an initial exploration of the perceptions of a group of Rosen Method bodywork practitioners and movement teachers about the relationship between mindfulness and Rosen Method. The authors are three members of the editorial board of the Rosen Method International Journal who embarked on this investigation with the intention of exploring how Rosen Method practitioners and movement teachers view mindfulness and Rosen Method, and how mindfulness-centered training and practice may serve as a resource for Rosen professionals. This inquiry used semi-structured telephone interviews with 13 Rosen Method professionals in the United States. The interviews were conducted to identify if and how, in the opinion of these Rosen professionals, mindfulness practices provide a resource for personal and professional development in the practice of Rosen Method bodywork and movement.

Through our introductory, informal exploration we found that mindfulness-based trainings and practices have served as valuable resources for personal and professional development for these practitioners and movement teachers. Additional questions of interest also emerged. Given the extensive research on mindfulness applications in several health professions and the availability of training programs in mindfulness for professional development, the authors hope to further explore this topic in the future, using interviews and focus group discussions with a wider range of practitioners from around the globe in order to provide additional insights. We hope this article will stimulate dialogue in the international R M I J. . . Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 2014
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Rosen community about ways in which we might explore the intersection between mindfulness and Rosen Method bodywork and movement.

Authors: Carol Cober, Susanna Smart, Jeanie C. Williams

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This study investigates a modified form of Rosen Method Bodywork (RMB) in which sessions last only 30 minutes, clothing is worn and a blanket is used during sessions, there is an opening question for the clients and at the end, an invitation to stroll around in a garden setting at a rehabilitation hospital. Seven RMB practitioners volunteered to receive this modified form of bodywork and compare it with an ordinary RMB session. The practitioners completed questionnaires before and after each of the sessions they received; the modified session and the typical session. A main question of this study was to ask whether this modified session could contact a client’s holding (muscle tension), barriers to feeling, and memories, the core of what occurs in a typical RMB session. During the modified session, all practitioners reported that they were able to make contact with their holdings and barriers and none of the participants mentioned anything about the clothing or blanket creating an impediment during the session. Instead, one practitioner reflected that this approach seemed “less demanding.”

Author: Lillian Lavesson

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Objective: To investigate whether a support intervention (warm touch enhancement) influences physiological stress systems that are linked to important health outcomes. Growing evidence points to a protective effect of social and emotional support on both morbidity and mortality.

Methods: In this study, 34 healthy married couples (n = 68), aged 20 to 39 years (mean = 25.2 years), were randomly assigned to a “behavior monitoring” control group or participated in a 4-week intervention study in which clinic levels of plasma oxytocin, 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure, and salivary cortisol and alpha amylase were obtained pre and post intervention, at the same time salivary oxytocin was taken at home during weeks 1 and 4.

Results: Salivary oxytocin was enhanced both early and late in the intervention group and alpha amylase was reduced at post treatment in intervention group husbands and wives relative to controls. Husbands in the intervention group had significantly lower post treatment 24-hour systolic blood pressure than the control group.

Conclusion: Increasing warm touch among couples has a beneficial influence on multiple stress-sensitive systems.

Authors: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Wendy A. Birmingham, Kathleen C. Light

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Background: Fluctuations of good days and bad days—in physical symptoms and emotional states—are common for individuals with chronic illness. This pilot study examines these fluctuations during bodywork treatment.

Purpose: We analyzed changes in daily selfreports over a period of five months for five individuals who received weekly treatments of Rosen Method Bodywork (RMB), which uses touch and words to enhance body awareness of physical sensations and emotional states.

Subjects and Design: Five subjects (aged 31–56) who had chronic low back pain (CLBP) received 16 weekly treatments given by three experienced RMB practitioners.

Measures: Pre- and posttreatment assessments covered demographics, disability, and pain. Clients also completed daily bedtime assessments of pain, fatigue, emotional state, and sense of control during the entire treatment period.

Results: All clients reported reductions in pain and/or disability in post- compared to pretreatment. In spite of a high level of day-to-day variability in the daily assessments, there were significant reductions in pain and fatigue, and significant increases in positive emotional state and sense of control across the treatment period. In reaching this end, however, some clients had slow and steady improvements, some improved more rapidly, while others got worse before they got better.

Conclusions: The natural course of healing— with its inevitable fluctuations in symptoms—is part of a process leading to successful treatment outcomes. Rosen Method Bodywork may be especially helpful in developing and accepting both sensory and emotional body awareness changes that facilitate overall improvement.

Author: Alan Fogel

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This is a case report on the author’s Rosen Method Bodywork client, Mille. The report documents Mille’s
medical history of chronic pain due to Crohn’s disease, family losses, and physical assaults, and an inability of
conventional medicine to provide relief. Detailed descriptions of her bodywork sessions describe the course
of her Rosen treatments. The client also kept daily records of the amount of her pain medications and her selfreported
feelings of pain. The results show that there was a statistically significant reduction of the pain and
medication exactly at the time in her treatment when the client experienced a breakthrough of self-awareness
in which she could feel in her body the links between chronic tension, pain, and her history of relationships
with significant others.

Author: Teresa de Silva

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People who participated in an employee wellness program in California that included RMB along with diet and exercise showed significant reductions in blood pressure, body weight and body fat and an increase in perceived quality of life.

Authors: Maracie Wilson, Sylvia Nobleman

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This article will offer insight into the ways clients perceive Rosen Method Bodywork (RMB) in their
process of healing from trauma. Data about their experiences with RMB has been collected via interviews in
a qualitative research study that intended to explore several questions: How do clients who survived trauma
experience RMB? Do they perceive it as a modality that supports the release of symptoms, the regulation
of posttraumatic stress, and the reconstitution of healthy psychological functioning in their individual
lives, and if so, why? In pursuing this inquiry, my research focused on the subjective experiences trauma
clients have with RMB, thus discerning the elements that may most impact trauma healing, and how clients
experience those aspects in their life.
The following article is my attempt to describe RMB and Trauma Therapy with the intention to allow
insight into the client perspective. It may help us understand how and why RMB can become such a unique
way to restore our clients’ health on all levels of contact—with themselves, with other people and with
life itself. For many weeks I found myself in the process of attempting a “scientifically grounded, academic
article,” reading and re-reading research on trauma, but when I realized my struggle and the fact that ‘it’ just
did not ‘flow’ out of me and onto paper, I recognized that I had to let go of my intellectual attempts and sink
into the flow of everything I learned about Rosen Method over the past nine years, and trust the process of
what would emerge. My intention, therefore, was to write in a way that does not require much scientific or
academic knowledge.

Author: Shantika Bernard

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Introduction: Users of complementary (CAM) therapies frequently report satisfaction although scientific support for the efficacy of many therapies is lacking. This study investigates a relatively unexplored CAM therapy; Rosen Method Bodywork (RMB) from a new perspective. The treatment includes gentle physical touching of tense muscles as well as - the interpersonal interaction. The aim was to explore if caring is a part of the interpersonal interaction in RMB treatments by analyzing clients' experiences from a nursing theoretical framework. Methods: The study design is exploratory and qualitative. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews with eleven RMB clients with positive and negative experiences from the treatments. The interviews were content analyzed using the theoretical stages in a nursing theory to build the structure for categorizing the data. Results: Treatments where study participants declared satisfaction included supportive caring aspects. In these cases, trusted interpersonal relations and a secure environment were established, where the participants felt accepted regardless of their problems. The interpersonal interaction seems to contribute to participants' increased awareness of their own capacities and motivation to independently develop new ways to manage health-related problems. In contrast, participants who were dissatisfied with RMB described opposite experiences. This seems to result in termination of the therapy or a change of therapist. Conclusions: The results indicate that caring is an essential contextual component in RMB treatments. In future research, not only for RMB, but for similar CAM therapies, more attention should be paid to caring as an important part of the interpersonal interaction and the therapeutic experience. This article belongs to the Special Issue: 'IG000020'.

Authors: Jan Löwstedt, Riitta Hoffren-Larsson, Anne-Cathrine Mattiasson, Torkel Falkenberg

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This exploratory study examines the Rosen Method Bodywork (RMB), a complementary (CAM) therapy method that previously lacked scientific documentation. The objectives of this study were to describe (1) why clients consult RMB and (2) what kind of help or benefit (if any) the clients perceive. The study comprised a survey of 53 Swedish RMB clients sampled from therapists, based on a criterion of personal experience of the therapy method, responding to a questionnaire collecting both qualitative and quantitative data. The quantitative data were analyzed descriptively and the qualitative data were analyzed by applying content analysis.

Authors: Riitta Hoffren-Larsson, Barbro Gustafsson, Torkel Falkenberg

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First published in Soul Work: A Guidebook for Spiritual Seekers (1998) by Anne and Charles Simpkinson, Sandra takes us through a Rosen Method session step by step.

Author: Sandra Wooten

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A study was conducted to identify, through the application of Waston's theory of caring to patients with rheumatoid arthritis, if evaluating the psychosocial needs, as well as relieving the symptoms and improving function, improved the quality of life for patients with a non-curable chronic disease. Nyman thinks these curative factors are very much like the caring that is offered during Rosen Method sessions.

Authors: Kim Lützen, RN, PhD, C. Sture Nyman, RNT; L.Ac

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This article was prepared for a National Conference on Integrative Medicine and Wellness in 1997 in Burlingame, CA. It was organized by an OT named Michael Pizzi from Silver Spring, MD. The authors gave a two hour workshop and recommended Marion Rosen as a guest speaker for one of the conference days. They also presented this paper at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, CA in 1998.

Authors: Hanna Cohen, P.T., Jane Pittsinger, P.T.

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This paper describes and advocates the practice of presence as a tool of
healing and transformation in the manual therapies. The authors discuss the
advantages and effects of presence in the therapist, methods and reasons for
promoting presence in the client, and the relational aspects of presence within the
client–therapist relationship. Specific exercises and therapy vignettes are provided
to supply the reader with examples of the role of presence in clinical work.
It is the authors’ opinion that the concept of presence may become a common
denominator for understanding the effectiveness of somatic approaches in bodycentered
therapies. Presence, when properly understood and applied, should have
new and profound influence on all therapeutic modalities. There would seem to be
no reason that the practice of presence would be excluded from any therapy session
except for lack of training, understanding, and experience on the part of the
practitioner. The practitioner’s sensitive accompaniment is fundamental to the
client’s journey towards body-centered self-awareness. The client’s progress
towards body-centered self-awareness has many stages of growth, and is comparable
to a spiritual pilgrimage—there are places of reflection, resistance, reaffirmation,
and insight. The somatic therapist has the role of supporting this journey through the facilitation of presence.

Authors: Jack Blackburn, MTS, LMT, Cynthia Price, PhD, LMT

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This book chapter describes the theory and practice of Rosen Method Bodywork, particularly in regards to the practice of physical therapy. It also provides a short history of Marion Rosen.

Author: David Berger, MA, PT, MFCCI

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Books that either have Rosen Method in them or are about Rosen Method entirely. They are listed in order of publication, oldest to newest. I found good prices for most of these books on Abebooks.com, Alibris.com and Amazon.com.

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What is the best way to support clients when emotions arise during bodywork?... This is how the Rosen Method somatic approach works with clients - and it can help release even long-held trauma and emotional patterns that are locked in the body through years of contracted muscle tension, as the article's case history demonstrates.

Author: Jane Turney

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This article on the Rosen Method was written by Ruth Loosli, a writer writer who received three complimentary Rosen Method Bodywork sessions from Maria von Saurma, Rosen Method practitioner. The article describes what the author experienced during the sessions. Language: German

Author: Ruth Loosli

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Marie-José Thijssen, Rosen Practitioner from the Netherlands, interviewed Marieke Janssen for this article. She gave her permission to be photographed during treatment. She suffered from stress, pain in her intestines (it looked like a form of irritable bowel syndrom, IBS), and couldn't take a pause in life. Often, due to the stress she was not able to function normally. Besides the mental and physical benefits of receiving Rosen Method bodywork she changed from a shy person to a woman taking her place in the world. In her work as a photographer she now automatically takes the best position to take a picture. Previously she would first look to see if she was bothering someone. In the article she is very up-front and open about her personal process. She is aware that her self-esteem has increased. Language: Dutch

Author: Marie-Jose Thijssen

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Language: Dutch

Author: Marie-Jose Thijssen

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Rhode Island Pages, 1998. A personal description of learning the power of Rosen Method as a bodyworker and as a person who needed to remember how to be whole not holy - which is messier but allows for more intimacy and heartfelt living.

Author: Kerstin Zettmar

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This article, "Rosen Method Bodywork: Study Points to Benefits of Integrative Program" co-authored by Maracie Wilson, Sylvia Nobleman with Helen Morgan, published in the May/June, 2011 issue of Massage and Bodywork Magazine discusses the inclusion of Rosen Method bodywork in an executive wellness pilot program in 2008 at Synergy Wellness Center, Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, California.

Authors: Sylvia Nobleman, Helen Morgan, Maracie Wilson

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Discussion on the importance of professional boundaries.

Author: Sara Webb

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Actress Annabelle Apsion has co-founded UK's first training school in the Rosen Method. She talks to Jane Turney about this powerful psychophysical bodywork. Kindred Spirit Magazine, Issue 78 Jan/Feb, 2006, Page 50.

Author: Annabelle Apsion

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The Rosen Method uses the power of touch to reconnect with yourself.

Author: Jon Spayde

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Article in Democrat & Chronicle, May 12, 1998
In her article about The Rosen Method, Salibian makes real how the how the mind-body connection works, which for many is an abstract concept.

Author: Anais Salibian

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Article in Democrat & Chronicle, May 12, 1998
With the author's experience as a bodyworker, with the support of science, she gives compelling reasons to learn from the "bodymind." I wrote "Get your mind, body back together" after getting so excited to find the science behind what we experience every day as somewhat mysterious. In our current culture, it's helpful to have a physiological explantion for what some of my clients think of as woo-woo: the notion that their body has something intelligent to tell them.

Author: Anais Salibian

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Anneli Rufus interviews Sara Webb, Senior Rosen Method bodywork teacher, about The Rosen Method. In a short article she includes some history and theory and personal experience of Sara Webb and makes it accessible to the average person.

Author: Anneli Rufus

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Roberts interviewed Marion Rosen in her 84th year.

Author: Joseph Roberts

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Originally published in Heart Dance, this article mentions the healing power of Rosen Method for eating disorders and emotional and sexual abuse.

Author: Paula McGuire

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Mara Lynn Keller speak with Marion Rosen and Gloria Hessellund about the experience of Rosen Method.

Author: Mara Lynn Keller, Ph.D

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Psychoanalyst Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer talks about how her interest and investigations in anomalous phenomena and the science of mindbody connections helped her find the mindbody work of The Rosen Method.

Author: Chad Jones

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Essential Wellness, October 2006 issue on Emotions: Our Wellness Barometer How Rosen Method helps us integrate emotional awareness to transform and inform our lives

Author: Marjorie Huebner

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Essential Wellness, October 2006 issue on Emotions: Our Wellness Barometer This article explores the consequences of not paying attention to our emotions and not knowing ourselves through our body experience. It highlights scientific research that is now verifying what we experience with our naturally occurring human connection system

Author: Dorothea Hrossowyc

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Published in Massage and Bodywork magazine in 2003, it describes various parts of Rosen theory (meeting, holding, movement, choice, freedom,transformation) how Rosen might be used in conjunction with other bodywork modalities and includes a short interview with Kate O'Shea about Rosen bodywork and movement.

Author: Libby Gustin

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An early interview with Elaine Mayland, from Journey Magazine, 1992. Elaine Mayland is one of the first teachers of The Rosen Method and author of the first book about The Rosen Method, by the same name.

Author: Caroline Goodell

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A trauma from outside the body creates a reaction in the body (behaviors like fight, flight or freeze, alterations in gut function, cortisol and other hormones that alter metabolism, immune system response, etc.). Because of this, some trauma survivors may not respond to traditional psychotherapy. They may need a more body-centered approach to treatment. Blog post from Psychology Today magazine online.

Author: Alan Fogel

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Cardiovascular exercise is now known to be essential for health and well-being. If exercise is your only form of movement, however, it is not a very balanced diet. There is mounting evidence that slow movement, with body sense awareness, has astounding health benefits by itself and in combination with regular exercise routines. Blog posting to Psychology Today magazine online.

Author: Alan Fogel

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A blog written by Alan Fogel

Author: Alan Fogel

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Author: Bevalyn Crawford, M.S., M.S.W.

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Essential Wellness, August 2007 issue Moving Our Bodies to Heal An overview of the origins, class structure, purpose and benefits of Rosen Movement

Author: Louisa Castner

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One of the earliest interviews with the Marion Rosen, founder of The Rosen Method. This interview with Marion Rosen and Gloria Hessellund first appeared in MASSAGE Magazine, Issue Number 32, July/August 1991. Posted with permission of MASSAGE Magazine (www.massagemag.com), a monthly, national trade publication for massage therapists.

Authors: Robert Calvert, Judi Calvert

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Massage News, Newsletter of the Minnesota Therapeutic Massage Network. Spring 1991, Vol. 9, No. 2. Breath as a guide to a client's inner experience.

Author: Kathie Bailey

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Published 1996. Language: Dutch.

Author: Lidia Hofma

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Published in Conscious Dancer, Winter, 2011
This article gives you a feel for a Rosen Movement class, some background as to how it was created and why it is so effective.

Author: Odile Atthalin, M.A., Director Of Rosen Method Open

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Actress Annabelle Apsion has notched up a string of acting credits and established the Rosen Method Bodywork School in the UK after a profound experience of this gentle hands-on form of bodywork. Dawn Mellowship explores the Rosen Method and spirituality with Annabelle. From High Spirit magazine.

Author: Annabelle Apsion

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Newspaper and Magazine Articles that mention or are about The Rosen Method that we don't have permission to reprint in the Rosen Archives, at the present time, due to the cost of royalties.

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