So, finally I have started talking about touch, touch therapy, somatic awareness and body oriented psychotherapy – again.

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MY BACKGROUND AND TRAINING
TOUCH, SOMATICS, BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY

Let me provide some of my background and early training that led me to incorporate the amazing healing potential of touch into my private, couples and group sessions. I was a Professor of Health and Physical Education for 25 years and before that I had taught at the high school level. I taught yoga, stress management, health, tennis gymnastics, slimnastics, human sexuality and even some jazz dance courses and I coached tennis and gymnastic teams..

Having all sorts of aches and pains, I reached out to receive different types of body therapy in New York City in the 1970’s and 1980’s I received massage, Trager, Rolfing, Myofascial Release, Reflexology, Shiatsu, Thai Massage, Acupuncture, 7 Rays, Shamanism, Reiki, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Hypnosis, and others without a definite name.   I took many trainings in Trager, but when I was going on a trip to California and reached out to hopefully get a session with Milton Trager, his phone assistant refused to let me because I was not certified and advanced, I had only completed the intermediate training.  I also took many, many shiatsu courses with Waturu Ohashi, a master teacher from Japan.

A week before my doctoral dissertation orals, I attended a weekend at the Association for Humanistic Psychology and met my teacher and mentor, Ilana Rubenfeld.  Her beautiful work, (the Rubenfeld Synergy Method, combining Gestalt Therapy, Eriksonian Hypnosis with Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais) put it all together for me – the mind, body, spirit connection.  It was a 3 year training.  During the breaks, I got trained and certified in Polarity Therapy with John Beaulieu.  At some point, I started receiving sessions with Dr. Alexander Lowen, creator of Bioenergetic Analysis, and I attended a few of his workshops as well.  Next I studied Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release with Dr. John Upledger.

Then, in 1996, Ilana asked me to represent the Rubenfeld Synergy Method on the Steering Committee for the newly forming U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy.  I also was on the first few boards and was newsletter editor for awhile. So, as you can see, I have had lots and lots of training in various modalities and lots of exposure to practitioners and teachers of the many different methods and modalities.