Rosen Method Open Center
Testimonials
About Intensives...
These haikus were written by participants, summarizing their experience at the end of a Bodywork Intensive in 2001:
Little by little
I let go of the holding
And I gain myself
-Pat Murphy
Touch me into wholeness
My body will show the way
Listen to my heart
-Anne Hawk
You listen and see
Touch, allow me to be
I come home to me
-Elizabeth Smith
Aware, awakened
To new possibilities
Joyfully I rise
-Lee Brind'Amour
A scared little boy
Feelings waiting to be free
Now I can be me
-John Oravec
Tender touch on skin
Loving words warmly given
Heal the heart within
-Nina Bender
About Private Sessions...
I already had a deep appreciation for Rosen Method bodywork when I first came to Odile--I had worked with a practitioner several years before to support my recovery from a serious illness. Because of my past work, I was looking for someone very experienced with Rosen Method to help me--mind body spirit--move through a time of difficult life transition. I was reinventing myself. After our first session, I knew I'd found my way to an extraordinary relationship. Odile can read my body like a sage. She knows how to hold me to help me come into my body and really inhabit it. Her hands offer direct feedback about where I am disconnected. On her table, time and spaciousness expand. I have the feeling of every cell enlivening and I feel very present with myself. Odlie invites me into an alchemical dialogue--sometimes through touch, sometimes through words, always through the breath. This multidimensional dialogue helps me articulate and deepen my dialogue with myself. As a learning coach, I support a lot of people. In my work with Odile, I am supported and renewed by the awareness that results...with this awareness, I notice myself opening naturally. I appreciate and trust the full range of my emotions. I experience a deepening integration. Over time, I see myself learning how to bring this awareness and integration into more of my daily life. I understand why Odile uses the phrase "Returning to Wholeness" to describe her work. When I get up off the massage table, I am a woman returned to wholeness...as I reenter my daily life from this journey within, I have so much more of myself available to work and play and love and create.
- Claudia L'Amoreaux, March 2004
"When I lie down on the table for a Rosen session, I feel like I'm lying down in a cradle that is waiting to receive me exactly as I am. But I am not treated like a baby - I am received as a whole person, a grownup. Everything that I express is received and observed. The Rosen worker is my witness. She watches me, touches me, notices that I am alive. I become a full person through her watching, touching, and listening. I inhabit my body. I flow into my own body, like water. And I am not alone. There is a sense of being restored, as if, lying on the table, I am drawing clear water up into my being from a deep deep well.
Metaphors about my own body often come to me during a session, and they help me to understand myself. On one occasion I experienced myself as an urn, full of creative space, not empty but open. Another time my chest felt like a giant butterfly with its colorful wings spread wide. Sometimes I have felt enormous angel wings sprouting from my shoulders. A common quality of all these metaphors is the sense of openness I get from Rosen work. At the same time that I inhabit my body more fully, I understand that my body is not a fixed or rigidly defined object. There's a porousness, a fluidity between myself and the rest of the universe. There is an exchange of energy, a tidal flow, in and out, along with the breath. It's hard to find the language for this experience of openness."
- Sue Moon, November 2002
