Related Resources
Rubenfeld Synergy
In-depth information about the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®,
the training program, and how to locate practitioners.
Biographical information about the Method’s founder/creator
and her workshop/presentation schedule.
Related Modalities
The Alexander Technique can help one to become aware of
balance, posture and co-ordination. This awareness brings
into consciousness the tensions throughout our body that
have previously gone unnoticed, and it is these tensions
which are very often the root cause of many common ailments.
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Cranial Therapy, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Bio-dynamic Cranial
Therapy ... there are many different ways people and think
about this hands-on-body type of therapy. I have been trained,
and continue to train in Bio-dynamic Cranial Therapy with
Todd Jackson of Portland, Oregon. I have found that this form
of Cranial Therapy, integrated with the Rubenfeld Synergy Method has helped to further deepen my clients’ experience of themselves.
The Feldenkrais Method is a way of working with the
awareness of one’s body to improve movement and enhance
human functioning.
There are many sites from which to learn about Gestalt
Therapy. This introduction by Gary Yontef, Ph.D. is a fine
place to start.
The Portland Gestalt Training Institute (PGTI) is a resource
for those interested in Gestalt training or for those looking to
work with a Gestalt therapist in the Pacific Northwest. PGTI is
affiliated with the Pacific Gestalt Institute in Los Angeles, CA.
United States Association for Body Psychotherapy is a
nonprofit membership association dedicated to developing
and advancing the art, science, and practice of Body
Psychotherapy.
BodyMind ... to name a few
A research professor in the Department of Physiology and
Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in
Washington, D.C., Dr. Pert is best known for her discovery of
opiate receptors in the brain. She was a featured expert in the
highly acclaimed Bill Moyers PBS series "Healing and the
Mind." She is the author of the bestseller Molecules of Emotion.
Dr. Lipton is an internationally recognized authority in
bridging science and spirit. He has been a guest on many
television and radio shows, and keynote presenter for
national conferences.
Susan Aposhyan, M.A., L.P.C. developed Body-Mind
Psychotherapy as an application of “Body-Mind Centering” to
the process of psychotherapy. She is the former director of the
Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa University, and is
the author of Natural Intelligence: Body-Mind Integration
and Human Development and Body-Mind Psychotherapy.
The integration of mind, body, emotions, spirit, and culture is
a movement well on its way in the world. I am continually
intrigued and inspired by philosopher/theoretical psychologist,
Ken Wilber, founder of Integral Institute, a think-tank for
studying issues of science and society in an integral way,
and a host of the website, Integral Naked. He is the most
widely translated academic writer in America and an
internationally acknowledged leader of the integral revolution
gathering momentum around the world. The link provided here
is a forward written by Ken Wilber for Integral Medicine:
A Noetic Reader.
“ And the day came
when the risk to
remain tight in a
bud was more
painful than the
risk it took to
blossom. ”
- Anais Nin
© Deborah Merkle 2010
