Rosen Method UK
Marion Rosen
Marion Rosen pioneered a new method of whole person well-being centred at the body-mind interface.
Marion Rosen pioneered a new method of whole person well-being centred at the body-mind interface where our physical experience of ourselves combines with our emotional sense of self. Rosen Method is based on Marions experience of working with patients who responded to her unique combination of attuned touch and dialogue and experienced both physical and emotional benefit.
The Origins
Marion Rosen (formerly Rosenfeld) was born in 1914 in Germany and was of Jewish origin, (although she was unaware of this until the persecution of the Jews began). Trained by Lucy Heyer (a student of Elsa Grindler) in massage and breath-work, Marion worked on clients who also received psychotherapy from Lucy’s husband Carl Gustav Heyer. Heyer was a Jungian psychoanalyst and a former student and colleague of C.G. Jung. Marion soon noticed that the treatment time for patients was greatly reduced by this combination of bodywork and psychotherapeutic intervention.
Having escaped from Germany, Marion took further training both in Sweden and in the United States as a physical therapist (physiotherapist). She also spent six months working with clients from the Tavistock Clinic in London while her brother (the late psychoanalyst Herbert Rosenfeld) completed his psychiatric residency there.
“In Rosen Method Bodywork we touch people. It is a special touch that makes contact with the body. We also say we have inquiring hands that locate tensions in the body and areas that are not moved by breath”
– Marion Rosen