Introduction to the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® in June 2012 at Omega Campus in New York

Your spirit expresses itself through your body. Aligning your spirit with your body is one of the guiding principles of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®. In this workshop, you learn all about this innate healing presence within you.

Joe Weldon and Noël Wight, codirectors of the Rubenfeld Synergy Training Institute and master teachers of the method, create a loving space where the listening touch and gentle presence of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® connect you to the sacred place of wholeness within.

Your spirit allows your body to find ease and freedom of movement. It helps you shed the past; it holds the nectar, the joy, and the sweetness of life. Its messages are the antidote to your struggle, the healing balm for your aches and pains.
Anyone interested in learning about the healing potential of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® is invited. Mental health professionals and bodyworkers can incorporate these techniques into their practices.

Joe Weldon and Noël Wight are also teaching Rubenfeld Synergy Method® Training.
Joe Weldon, a licensed psychologist and Master Rubenfeld Synergist, has been teaching people from around the world to become practitioners of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® for more than 30 years. He is a true believer in the innate wisdom of the whole being and the healing power of humor. rubenfeldtouch.com

Noël Wight, a Master Rubenfeld Synergist, has been teaching the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® since 1990 and maintains a private practice in the Philadelphia area. She brings with her a deep sense of respect for the resiliency of the human spirit. rubenfeldtouch.com

Omega Institute Presents: Spirit Embodied: An Introduction to the Rubenfeld Synergy Method

Omega Institute Presents:

Spirit Embodied: an introduction to the Rubenfeld Synergy Method

with Noël & Joe

June 15- 17, 2012

Spirit expresses itself through the body. Aligning Spirit with body, mind and emotions is one of the guiding principles of the Rubenfeld Synergy Methodâ. Through the use of listening touch and gentle presence RSM connects you to the sacred place of wholeness within.

Spirit helps you shed the past. It holds for you the nectar, the joy, & the sweetness of life. Its messages are the antidote to your struggle, the healing balm for your aches and pains, and the feast your soul needs for nourishment. It allows your body to find ease and freedom of movement. Freeing your body, allows your Spirit to soar and returns you to the knowledge that your body truly is the sanctuary of your soul

Joe Weldon and Noël Wight, Co directors of the Rubenfeld Synergy Training Institute and master teachers of the method, create a loving space that will bring you back in touch with the sacred in you.

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Body Whisperer LLC will be interviewed on the Mind Body and Soul Show tonight!

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Happy New Year

Have a great Happy New Year to All.

Look forward to posting more about how listening to our body can reveal and help heal our lives.

Listen to the Whisperers of Your Body so that it does not have to Scream at YOU

It has been awhile since blogging about my passion on Rubenfeld Synergy.
It has been several years since I started into the 4-year training for Rubenfeld Synergy Method and graduated.  I remember a very good friend of mine, who graduated and was building her private Rubenfeld Synergy practice told me that I would change - that if I would look back on the photos submitted with my application, I would not be the same person.  It kind of scared me at first, but then I was curious what did that mean?  Would I change that much that I would fall out of love for my husband, my hobbies?  I now look at the picture and in awe that it is true - when you start down the path of listening to your body, moving through the world listening to your body, your life does change and so do you.  And my life is beautiful!

Live Interview with Noel Wight on Rubenfeld Synergy

Noel Wight, Co-Director of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method Training Program was interviewed on Life Improvement Radio.

Use the below link to listen to this exciting interview about Rubenfeld Synergy.

http://remmelwellness.com/filechute/HolisticViews3.24.11.mp3


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Listen to the Whispers of Your Kidneys through Rubenfeld Synergy

Listen to the Whispers of Your Kidneys through Rubenfeld Synergy. The Body is a Reliable Source of Information.


Have you listen lately to the whispers of your kidneys? What would it say?

In traditional Chinese Medicine, emotions and physical health are intimately connected. The Kidneys house the emotion of Fear, either as a sudden fright or a chronic state of anxiety.

Have you experienced fear in your body? Do you know what it feels like? Humans freeze when overwhelming, life-threatening situations overrides any viable possibility of fighting or fleeing.

Your body is a reliable source of information if you listen to it. Do you know how to listen? When your body is in pain, it sends messages to us. Unless we know how to decode and understand these messages, our body may become disabled with dis-ease. You will learn and be guided on how to listen to the whispers of your body through the Rubenfeld Synergy Method.

How would Rubenfeld Synergy help me understand my body’s messages? Experiencing Rubenfeld listening touch offers a powerful tool to access and acknowledge feelings, and images that have been hidden in the body for years, creating tension, pain, and distorted perceptions. Repressed tears, anger, grief, and much else may be re-experienced and released during a session, offering freedom for the new ways of being. Living through listening to your body is like living in another world.

Are you aware of fear in your life? Have you experienced kidney stones, which are tears of emotion? What would those kidney stones reveal about your life? What stops you from learning your body’s story?

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Your body believes every word you say - Listen through Rubenfeld Synergy

Have you listen lately to the whispers of your throat? What would it say?


Your throat is vital in helping you communicate with the world. The throat contains your voice box, which manipulates the pitch and volume of your voice.

Take a moment, close your eyes, and notice your throat. What are you aware of? Do you ever feel a lump in your throat when you speak to a certain individual? What would it be like to give that lump a voice and hear what it would tell you?

When you experience a Rubenfeld Synergy session, you will learn and be guided to bring your awareness to your throat, be invited to listen, and enter into a dialogue with this area. Through this dialogue, you will be supported and able to listen as you learn to unlock emotions and feelings trapped in your throat. Only by becoming aware of these emotions, then expressing and feeling them fully can you understand your behavior and how it may be limiting your life. Getting in touch with your body and discovering what the lump in your throat represents would be the turning point of your healing.

Rubenfeld Synergy Method is a safe, supportive, healing and body-mind approach to listen to your body’s truth. Our bodies and brains house all of our life’s experiences. We may not be able to remember them but they are imprinted in our unconscious. The first step to change is to be aware. Through Rubenfeld Synergy, you will become aware and learn how to move in the world by listening to your body.

What can you not say in life? What holds you back from speaking your truth?

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Listen to the Whispers of your Body Through Rubenfeld Synergy Method

Listen to the whispers of your body so it does not have to scream at you. 

The emotional patterns of our lives are very strong.  They often come into being because we've needed them to survive.  But sooner or later, we arrive at moments where the very thing that has served us is killing us, keeping us from truly living.  Being invisible once kept us from being hurt, but now we are vanishing. Or listening once kept us in relation but now we are drowning in our unheard cries.

How do you listen to your unheard emotional cries?  Can you learn how to truly listen and identify your emotional patterns in your life?  Through Rubenfeld Synergy Method, a client learns how to listen to their body and become aware of the difference between body's language and the mind's language.  Our body holds our life's story.  The body knows emotional well-being -- the mind knows trying to make the being well.

Throughout life, stress, memories, and suppressed emotions are stored in our bodies.  Sometimes these "holdings" can show up as aches, pains, and tensions causing us to feel chronically tired, emotionally drained, and physically disconnected.  These aches and pains are one of the ways our bodies communicate to us.  When we ignore these "messages", stress can become chronic and may eventually manifest as dis-ease in the body.

Through Rubenfeld Synergy Method, clients can begin to make sense of their lives, because we are dialoguing with their senses and soma and begin the healing process.

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Why the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® is Not Massage

Why the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® is Not Massage


The Rubenfeld Synergy Method® (RSM) is not a form of massage therapy. It differs from massage in goals, philosophy, and techniques or method.

Different Goals. The overall goal of Rubenfeld Synergy is psychophysical re-education. RSM assists clients in exploring problems they are experiencing in any area of their functioning, in developing greater awareness on all levels, and in making more satisfactory choices in their way of being. The goals of massage are much more narrow: to enhance the functioning of joints and muscles, to improve circulation and muscle tone, and to relieve mental and physical fatigue.

Different Philosophy. Rubenfeld Synergists see the individual as a whole being with mind, body, emotions, and spirit interrelated and interactive, capable of self-healing, self-regulations, growth, and change. The responsibility for growth and change rests with the client. In contrast, the massage client is completely passive, with the massage therapist responsible for producing results and the focus is on changes in the physical body.

Different Techniques. Rubenfeld Synergy uses gentle, non-intrusive touch with fully clothed clients. Rubenfeld Synergists “listen” with their hands and use intentional touch, movement and talk throughout the session. They frequently use metaphor, imaging, and humor in verbal interactions. As a client identifies an area of concern in his/her life, the Synergist suggests and “experiment” in that moment that is designed to provide an opportunity to re-experience some personal issue or event from a new perspective. This can lead to a new behavior sequence or a new view of an earlier experience.

In specific contrast to massage, the Rubenfeld Synergy client is always fully clothed. RSM uses none of the tools of massage, not hot or cold packs, nor oils or hydrotherapy or aromatherapy, nor any of the techniques such as stroking or kneading or tapping. RSM does not even use its light touch for therapeutic purposes, but only to heighten the client’s awareness. RSM never uses deep tissue manipulation.

In summary, both the purpose and the technique of Rubenfeld Synergy differ so greatly from those of massage, that RSM can not, in any way, be considered a form of massage nor should it come under the regulations that govern massage.

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Rubenfeld Synergy Method

After reading all of the articles and information posted on this blog have you wondered what it would be like to have a Rubenfeld Synergy session or asked yourself what would this do for me, would I experience something in my life different and would I feel better each day.

From my own personal Rubenfeld Synergy sessions - yes you will feel different and better.

I was first introduced to this work when my best girlfriend was an intern in the Rubenfeld Synergy Training Program in 2002 gave me a session.  Wow, it was unbelievable.  Not really understanding what she was going to do I was open to the experience as I laid on a padded massage table being fully clothed.  I remembered her touch - it was supportive, caring, and safe - safety was and is very important for me even to this day.  Out of my session came the release of emotion that I had held in my body, specially in my left hip which hurt for years, the trauma that I experienced from a horrible car accident some 25 years earlier.  From that day on, I never had or experience any more pain from my left hip.

I realized that throughout my lifetime, stress, memories and suppressed or denied emotions are stored in our bodies, affecting our health and well-being. These “holdings”, “tensions” and “aches” cause us to live feeling chronically tired, emotionally drained and physically disconnected like the pain in my left hip that I had for years.


Rubenfeld Syngery Method helped me to learn to listen to my body, become aware of habitual patterns and tensions and decode their messages empowering me to make concrete improvements in my daily life and relationships. The uniqueness of Rubenfeld Synergy lies in the use of talk and touch together. Touch heightens awareness, both emotionally and physically, and allows us to explore levels that are difficult to access through talk alone

From my very first session, I became a support of this work and entered into the program in 2003 and graduated in 2007.  Many people have not heard of this powerful work. 

It changed my life - when you can come home to be in your body, it is good to be home.  My life and experience has been warm, fuzzy, safe, and fun. 

Would you not want to feel great in your body and be in a better place?

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Body Mind Therapy

BODY-MIND THERAPY

By Jeanne Reock

“What are you experiencing in your body right now?” “Where in your body do you feel the sadness?” “When else have you felt that sadness?” “If the pain in your back had a voice, what would it be saying?”

Modern science is now confirming what traditional cultures have known for eons: we are whole beings. Our feelings, our beliefs and attitudes, our physical well-being and our spiritual life are all one piece; what happens in one part, affects each of the others.

The father of the movement to recognize that body and mind are one was unquestionably Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian psychoanalyst and student of Freud. One of Reich's primary contributions was the concept of "armoring". Reich believed that we all experience emotional and physical trauma to varying degrees and that, as infants and young children, we "armor" ourselves by constricting our musculature in order to deal with the pain and to protect ourselves.

For instance, the child who is constantly told not to touch things in the house may become the adult who walks and moves in a fearful, hesitant way. These are the physical manifestations of his constriction. On an emotional level, he is likely to be fearful of reaching out and trying new things; he feels unwanted and unwelcome. He sees the world as a dangerous place where it’s easy to get into trouble; he wants to figure out the rules so he can do it right and be safe.

These constrictions remain throughout our lives and become so much a part of who we are that we lack even the awareness of them. They exist on several planes-physical, emotional and mental (in our beliefs and attitudes)—and limit our ability to live life to its fullest. They often distort our perceptions, our relationships and our bodies in painful and dysfunctional ways.

Reich applied very deep pressure to certain parts of the body and worked with the emotions, images, memories and sounds that were released. Through invasive touch, Reich was able to break through the armor and reach the underlying, unconscious beliefs, memories and feelings that had been locked into the muscles and the fascia (surrounding tissue) at the time of the trauma.

What the child takes in as trauma might not fit our normal definition of the word. Trauma includes subtle messages from significant others, even such commonplace ones as “Don’t cry,” “Don’t be noisy,” “Smile” or “Be nice." Whenever children are told not to feel or express what they are, in fact, feeling, they must exert an effort to suppress their feelings and the urge to express them. Failure to do so can jeopardize survival since children are dependent on the good will of their significant others.

Since feelings are literally felt in the body, they can be deadened by contracting the muscles surrounding the area. When this is done again and again or a major event causes a severe contraction, the muscles and the surrounding fascia remain contracted, frozen in place, even when the individual is as relaxed as he/she knows how to be. And so we have adults who are out of touch with their feelings and their bodies and who operate unconsciously out of belief systems they adopted long ago and that may no longer work for them.

Reich’s work inspired many to explore further and develop their own ways of helping people free themselves from their armoring so that their life force or energy can flow freely through their whole being. Some continued the focus on deep body work, adding new techniques for breaking down the armoring and helping the true self emerge. The use of sound, movement and breathing techniques were developed even further by others such as the Neo-Reichians, Core Energetics, Bio-Energetics, Rolfing, and Hellerwork.

Beginning in the 1950s, other forms of work developed that are premised on the body-mind connection, but are distinguished by their gentleness. These include the Rubenfeld Synergy Method, the Hakomi Method, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, the Rosen Method, and the Focusing Technique. Gestalt Therapy, with its emphasis on what is happening in the whole being and in the moment, was part of this body-oriented flow in the ‘60s and ’70s.

Ilana Rubenfeld, the founder of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method, describes her work as “melting” the armor rather than breaking it down. Believing that we learn more through pleasure than through pain, she uses gentle, non-invasive touch as a way of communicating a caring and supportive presence. Rubenfeld’s “listening hands” also serve as a valuable source of information about what is happening with the client on the deepest levels; her hands are an important two-way form of communication. In the safety of that touch and with the use of visualization and light humor, Rubenfeld encourages the client to go deeply into the hidden places.

Although a Certified Rubenfeld Synergist starts with what the client is experiencing physically at the moment or what is happening in his/her life, the session often moves to the early years when the feelings and beliefs that undergird present experience came into being. The use of touch helps the client experience rather than just talk about feelings, facilitates the release of old holding patterns in both body and psyche. Trusting the inner wisdom of the client is basic to the work.

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, developed by Michael Lee, takes a somewhat different approach, fusing Yoga postures with elements of contemporary body/mind psychology to identify and release physical and emotional tensions. By combining a sequence of Yoga postures supported by the practitioner, with breathing techniques, visualization, meditation and dialogue, the process enables the client to recognize and dissolve habitual holding patterns.

Other body-centered therapies such as Focusing and Hakomi use special techniques to direct clients’ attention to their feelings, bodily sensations, breathing, muscular tensions, voice and movements. The Focusing technique, created by Eugene Gendlin, does not include touch and can be incorporated into traditional talk therapy with relative ease. In the Hakomi Method, as taught by Ron Kurtz, the therapist uses supportive touch at times to facilitate the client’s inward journey to awareness and release. First the Hakomi therapist creates a relationship that allows the client to feel safe and to establish an attitude of mindfulness, a special way of looking at himself and how he organizes experience. In the state of mindfulness, experiences are then evoked and processed to help the client understand and change. For instance, working with a client who has chronic shoulder pain, the therapist, after learning that the man carries a lot of responsibility in his life, has two assistants in the group take over the job of supporting the man’s shoulders, letting his muscles relax, so that he can experience what it is like not to shoulder so much responsibility. Then he might recognize that he has a choice, both in his body and in his life.

Empowering people to make conscious choices is what body- mind therapy is all about. This process is facilitated by recognizing that the choices we made long ago are locked into our bodies as well as our psyches and that change is most effective when it involves all levels of being- physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

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Roots and Wings of Rubenfeld Synergy

Roots and Wings of Rubenfeld Synergy


We are all children of the earth riding the wind. This became a reality the moment we stood upright. From this position, through our hips and our feet our bodies take root on the ground. We are not planted. We are step creatures, always moving and contemplating the next step. Sometimes we give ourselves the next step, sometimes we are taken. The hips are always swaying to keep in time with the turning of the earth. When the hips lose their ability to sway or to be swayed, life feels dead. We don’t feel the ground. From the hips down to our feet, the body reaches to the earth looking for its support. The connection to the earth allows the upper body to fly.

In this upright position, we fly. We fly as humans fly. This means we can align our spines to reach, resonate, and recoil. In this body flight will not happen without roots and roots will not happen without flight. They need each other. This flight we speak of today as we already said is human flight. We are lifted into the atmosphere by the alignment and natural curvature of our spines. It is not the flight or fight or flight which is really running away in body terms. It is the flight of lifting off into our length, which houses our longings and sense of a soaring spirit. It is as if the spine and shoulders are instruments of light, soaring and turning in the airwaves. The four curves in our spine make us aerodynamic and allow us to lift up even with great burden on us. Our shoulders are like the wings that allow us to float freely in the air, our head and neck the navigational gear that orients us in time and space.

At some point in each of our lives, we are thrown an unexpected curve that lands in our spine and disrupts our flying. In these moments the spine is dealing with an unnatural curve. One put there by the world. Usually the unexpected curve is one of pain, trauma, guilt, or shame. We could make a list of all the unexpected curves we have experienced. The unexpected curves of trauma take us out of roots. We become up in the air with no ability to fly. We are then moved by weather patterns whatever way the wind blows. This is also known as being dominated by our feelings. We do things or don’t do things just because we feel like it.

The unexpected curve was the learning curve for Ilana Rubenfeld, responsible for the founding of this work. The pain in her back took away Ilana’s flight into the musical sky. When her back hurt she lost her wings. Her brilliant discovery was that in order to have wings again, she had to know, experience and express the thoughts, emotions, and spirit along in the body of her crashing. Her story is the underpinning of all we do in RSM. WE reinvigorate movement. The body is looking for movement, for the restoration of movement. Ilana wanted her movement back. Movement is most important to the body. The mind is interested in meaning. When we put the mind and body together we have meaningful movement. For most of us an unexpected curve tends to cut us in half leaving our feet with no flight and flight with no feet. In human flight, this is called crashing to the ground whether it is collapse or falling over.

In RSM, we help a person to get their feet back under their heart. When our feet are back solidly under our hearts we become givers instead of seekers. The natural rhythm and ability of the body to give and receive is restored. This is what is important about having our roots and wings. It allows us to reach and receive simultaneously. It brings touch and talk together, tapping the root of our work and our existence --- THE BODY!

The body is the root of our work. The roots are different than the underpinnings. The underpinnings of RSM are Alexander, Feldenkrais, Rubenfeld touch, and Rubenfeld talk. The foundation of our life, the place where we are found is in the body. When we dialogue with the body we tap the roots of our existence. It is the place we root from, searching for nutrients and cheering ourselves on.

The body reveals a treatment plan. It tells us how a person needs to be treated and what would feel like a treat. The body tells us when the heart is in the stomach, and that is needs to be put back in the chest. The body tells us what it is like to walk around without a neck. The body tells us what it is like to walk around without a turning radius. The body tells us about our ability to reach or recoil. The body tells us about a spinal cord that has lost its harmony. It tells us the tale of its life by how it moves its tailbone. The body is the root our work. We constantly tap it trust it touch it and treat it.

We give a person their neck back. We rewire the nervous system. We help a person to lengthen to lighten. We put the heart back into chests and we invite the feet to come under it is support it. We help the body to regain its spine to line up the foraman in each vertebra so that the spinal cord can once again become a spinal cord full of harmony and harmonious resonance. We help the body to regain its natural ability to turn, turn up turn down turn in turn out turn over. Having our turning radius helps us when we don’t know where we are going. We can turn around to make sure we know where we’re coming from. We help the body to move in the direction it needs to move forwards backwards side to side up or down.

Ultimately, what we help a body to do is return to its natural state of giving. This allows the spirit to soar. In its natural state of giving two things happen. The body doesn’t make mistakes, because it is not in a taking mode. It doesn’t mis-take one thing for another. It may have misgivings. The other thing is, it reconnects us with the natural state of receiving. Receiving is the natural true complement to giving. Taking is the false compliments to giving as in give-and-take. Give-and-take is usually dominated by taking. We are a culture of takers. You can hear it in our everyday language. We take time to take a shower, take a seat, take a moment, and take a breath. Let’s do an experiment. Take a breath and notice what happens in your body. Now give yourself a breath and notice what happens in your body. When the body returns to giving and receiving, we hear in the body’s language the roots for flight and flying from a human place. We no longer fly off the handle.

This article was written by Master Synergist Joe Weldon with permission to publish

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Who Is That Pain In Your Neck? Listening to Your Body’s Messages - RUBENFELD SYNERGY METHOD®

RUBENFELD SYNERGY METHOD®


Who Is That Pain In Your Neck?

Listening to Your Body’s Messages
 
Who can forget the old song, “I gotta wash that man right outta my hair”? Well, believe it or not, sometimes a painful break-up, a job lay-off, even an old memory from childhood can leave messy traces of emotional residue in or on the body; and it takes a little more than shampoo to get rid of it! Today’s fast paced society might rely on catchy quick-fix slogans like, “Get over yourself!”, “No pain, no gain!”, or “He’s just not that into you!” But often uncomfortable experiences (especially those involving grief, sadness, confusion, betrayal, abandonment, unworthiness or anger) get swept under the rug, only to resurface disguised as physical “dis-ease”. Even the most successful, confident, well-adjusted people encounter life experiences that leave them with unresolved feelings which sometimes masquerade as conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, seasonal affective disorder, insomnia, even tennis elbow!


Understanding this hidden link between what happens in the mind and what shows up in the body is the beauty behind a groundbreaking therapeutic healing technique called the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®. Developed by Ilana Rubenfeld in 1977, Rubenfeld Synergy is one of the most effective solutions for addressing stress, trauma, anxiety, tension and discomfort. It is a proven method that incorporates light touch with guided dialogue in a way that allows the body the freedom to uncover the sources of physical stress and discomfort. The results include accessing and releasing hidden physical/emotional tension stored in the body and restoring and maintaining health and wellbeing.

When Kay* discovered the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®, her goal was just to address the feeling of neck and back strain that was causing her sleepless nights. Her grandmother had been arthritic, and experienced achy muscles, but Kay had a “gut feeling” that this was more than just a sign of getting older. Kay had some prior experiences with massage, Reiki, and other forms of bodywork, but was pleasantly surprised by what she discovered with Rubenfeld Synergy. Kay says, “I tried everything to deal with this problem. Then I found out after a few Rubenfeld Synergy sessions that I didn’t need any more rubs, herbs, pills or potions to get rid of my aches. I just needed help hearing what was inside me. I was looking for what was physically wrong with me. But who knew that the heated arguments I had been having with an old boyfriend had literally become ‘a pain in my neck’! On the outside, I seemed fine, but on the inside I honestly did feel like I was ‘stabbed in the back’. Understanding this connection made all the difference in the world. It helped me let go of the pain.”

Like so many people who experience the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®, Kay was able to feel safe and secure enough to uncover what was beneath the surface of her discomfort. Founder Ilana Rubenfeld explains in her book The Listening Hand, “Emotions and feelings are embedded both in our body and in our brain, and to reach them, we need touch — nonverbal communication — and talk. Through touch you can understand the body's message, and through talk you can understand the brain's, even if the message is "hiding" in the unconscious... I strongly believe that everything — mind and body, thoughts, emotions and feelings, bloodstream and brain, soul and spirit — must be in a state of synergy if we ourselves are to become whole.”

*Client’s name was changed to protect confidentiality

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