“The use of touch gives us important feedback about physical and energetic defenses while communicating patience.”
ILANA RUBENFELD – FOUNDER OF THE RUBENFELD SYNERGY METHOD®
Professional Training
The Rubenfeld Synergy Method® (RSM) is an elegant, integrative somatic-emotional release method.
This 3 year certification program is comprehensive, transformational, and experiential. It is designed to teach individuals this powerful and dynamic healing modality within the support and heart of community. Rubenfeld Synergy with its unique listening touch, and deeply compassionate presence continues to be taught as our late Founder Ilana Rubenfeld intended, as an organic whole – as an ‘in the now’ learning and growth process.
As new research into the bodymind connection continues to unfold, it strongly supports how touch, talk and compassion intertwined are exceptionally powerful healing tools, and as such, this professional training program are for those individuals that not only want to deepen their client’s experience but are also ready to deepen their own.
Further information The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation.org
Current training in Goderich, ON with Melba Amos and Michael Herman
Synergy Inspired Courses
BodyMind Therapy Mentorships: During this mentorship designed for touch and/or talk practitioners, mentees will learn ways to deepen their work by awakening and integrating BodyMind awareness in their clients as well as in themselves. Rubenfeld Synergy® methods and biodynamic cranial therapy are at the core of this mentorship. Few professional training programs provide the time for you to slow down and develop your own self-awareness and attunement. Your very Presence impacts the therapeutic relationship.
Deborah Merkle: 503-307-3456 rsmportland@comcast.net; www.rsmportland.com
Somatic Affective Talk and Touch guides healing, at the confluence of talk and touch and a depth of physical, emotional, energetic, spiritual and intellectual understanding. The founder of SATT is Gilly Thomas, a Certified Rubenfeld Synergist. The experiential learning program has Rubenfeld Synergy Method at its foundation, with additional bodymind, mindbody therapies integrated in a holistic therapeutic approach. The 2-year training program is offered in the beautiful Okanagan Valley, Canada. Click Here For More Info
Webinars
Workshops
Synergy: Integrating Touch & Talk
Intro to Foundations of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®
You are invited to join a small cohort of practitioners – therapists, bodyworkers and healers – to experience and feel the power of Synergy of touch and talk.
Place & Time & Cost:
Tuesday, September 8th, 2026, 1-6 pm
Boughton Place
150 Kisor Road
Highland, New York
$250 USD
What You Will Experience & Practice:
* The skills of dual awareness: self and client
* The resonance of relationship, attunement and presence in the milieu of touch & talk
Download the flyer for more details.