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Did you ever feel as if you lost touch with your body?
This is a loss of body sense: the ability to pay attention to ourselves, to feel our sensations and emotions on-line, in the present moment. In order to adapt to stress, expectations, or perceived threats, we tighten our muscles to sit still, or to keep our chins up, or to control our emotions cutting ourselves off from our own sensations and feelings.
Over time, we forget how to relax our contracted muscles as we lose touch with our body sense and all of our awareness is directed outward toward the environment or inwards towards thinking. Eventually, the tension becomes part of our expressions, movements, and postures. Our inner body sense experience becomes impoverished and gets our attention only when painful. Even then, we may try to avoid the pain by thinking about ways to alleviate it rather than feeling it.
Rosen Method Bodywork and online Embodied Self-Awareness consulting can help people to locate tension in the body and its relationship to the holding back of felt experience. People who continue with a trusted practitioner of this approach come to feel their own sensations and emotions more fully. Awareness grows about how our whole body reacts to the stresses of everyday situations, and how those reactions may lead to impairments in health and wellbeing. Eventually, people can learn how to relax and stay in the present moment, being fully aware of feelings and sensations as information that helps them make healthy and life sustaining choices about what is good for for themselves, leaving behind habitual and potentially harmful practices that resulted from stress and trauma.
is a fully realized embodied practice that allows the nervous system to deepen awareness of our living body from within. We learn it is possible to really listen to ourselves and to fully “show up” for others. This gentle and profound work of Marion Rosen, a pioneer in the field of body-oriented therapies, can lead to freedom from physical and emotional discomfort and pain. This ease allows more creativity, passion, and the clarity to make important life decisions. On its own or as a complement to other health care modalities, Rosen Method has a transformative effect on the whole person, and brings balance and ease into one’s life. Online Embodied Self-Awareness consultations achieve the same goals using similar practices of non-judgmental presence and attention to the clients' body and embodied experiences.
A growing body of evidence-based research is beginning to show that Rosen Method Bodywork can be an effective complementary practice for enhanced physical health; increased body awareness; reduction in depressed feelings, anxiety and stress; lowered perceived levels of pain and fatigue; support for personal growth; and ability to self-initiate life changes.
Dr. Alan Fogel (PhD, LMT)
is a Certified Senior Teacher and Practitioner of Rosen Method Bodywork living in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is licensed in Utah as a Massage Therapist, and is a Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of Utah. Click here for free downloads and other links to his publications, and here for his Amazon.com author page. His LinkedIn profile is available here and his podcasts can be found on his YouTube channel.
Alan Fogel is the founding editor of the Rosen Method International Journal. He is and a Professional Associate of the Rosen Method Center United Kingdom and a guest faculty at the Rosen Method Open Center in New York, USA.
Recent Publications of Interest:
Article on Three States of Embodied Self-Awareness: The Therapeutic Vitality of Restorative Embodied Self-Awareness, International Body Psychotherapy Journal, Volume 19, Spring, 2020, by Alan Fogel
Article on Three States of Embodied Self-Awareness in Rosen Method Bodywork: Part 1: Practitioner Observations of their Clients Rosen Method International Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2020 by Alan Fogel
Article on Three States of Self-Embodied Awareness in Rosen Method Bodywork: Part 2: Practitioner Observations of Their Own Experiences, Rosen Method International Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2020 by Alan Fogel
Article on Embodied thinking and embodied feeling, Kosmos: Journal for Global Transformation, Autumn 2021.
