Rubenfeld Synergy Method®
(RSM)
The Rubenfeld Synergy Method® is a powerful, elegant and gentle healing modality with a 50 year history of using the wisdom of the body to provide transformational healing. Combining deep presence with intentional listening touch, intuition and creative dialogue RSM promotes the integration of the body, mind, spirit and emotions.
Those who practice RSM are known as Rubenfeld Synergists. They address a wide variety of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual challenges. Memories and emotions stored in our bodies can result in energy blocks and imbalances. Rubenfeld Synergy utilizes talk, movement, awareness, imagination, humor and compassionate touch as gateways - contacting and melting frozen tensions and feelings, freeing the body from pain and the mind from suffering.
Ilana Rubenfeld,
Our Founder
Ilana Rubenfeld
has been called the Grande Dame of the body-oriented therapy
movement, a world-recognized pioneer in integrating emotions,
intuition and bodywork. She recognized that when she simultaneously
listened, talked and touched, people learned to listen to themselves.
They also found wisdom, emotional freedom and ease from within.
Ilana's inspiration came from her own experience of needing healing from back spasms that arose from her posture while conducting. Ilana was a Julliard trained, award winning orchestral conductor. She started seeing the F.M. Alexander teacher where after a while, deep feelings would arise. Discovering where these were coming from and why started her on a journey of learning the Alexander Technique, The Feldenkrais Method and Gestalt Therapy.
Weaving these processes with her musical and spiritual sensitivities into an integrative whole, and having declared as far back as the 60's and 70's that 'bodymind' is one word, Ilana founded the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®. She was encouraged to teach others this powerful modality and in 1977 she started the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® Professional Training Program.
In 1998, she received the Pathfinder Award from the Association for Humanistic Psychology, in 2002 the lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy as well as an Honorary Doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology from the International University. She Authored "The Listening Hand" (published by Bantam-2000)
https://www.rubenfeldfoundation.org/
https://www.rubenfeldsynergy.com/about-ilana-rubenfeld/
In Memory, December, 2022.
Melba Amos, CRS.
Melba
Amos, Certified Rubenfeld Synergist.
Training Director of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method.®
WholeBeing
Synergy is a wellness initiative owned by Melba Amos, Certified
Rubenfeld Synergist. Melba primarily uses the Rubenfeld Synergy
Method® - RSM (a gentle and powerful healing method) to support and
honour the client's journey to living a more authentic and embodied
life.
After
being a client for 4 years, Melba decided to enroll in the then
4 year Rubenfeld
Synergy Training 15 (RST 15) so that she could share this
life-changing work with others. She received
her certification in 2002 and has an
international RSM practise.
Melba
is a past-president of the professional organization The
International Association of Rubenfeld Synergists and currently sits
on the board of The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation (TIRF).
She
lives by the lake in Goderich, ON, Canada and is excited to be
offering the upcoming Rubenfeld Synergy Training Program as Training
Director.
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