“Listening touch became my instrument for tuning into all levels of the psyche. Touch and talk became an essential duet; here were two great healing forces that when synergized were greater than either alone.”
ILANA RUBENFELD – CREATOR OF RSM®
Safety, Compassion, Curiosity
In a Rubenfeld Synergy Method® session, emotional and psycho-spiritual processing are fully integrated with the somatic patterns in order to harmonize the Bodymind.
Rubenfeld Synergists journey with their clients. They use light, sensitive touch and compassionate dialogue, simultaneously, to track a client’s total bodymind communication. The limbic system is a group of structures in our brain that regulates emotional, somatic, and verbal expressions. The Synergists reflects these expressions back to their clients, thereby increasing a client’s awareness of incongruities between what they are saying, what they are feeling, and what they are doing. Through this process, a client’s “truth” is articulated more and more clearly, and can then become an integrated and harmonious expression.
What Experts Say …
From healers and poets to medical doctors, bodyworkers and brain researchers, the sources gathered here all offer insight into what makes RSM® so effective. These disparate voices –– acclaimed trauma psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, researcher/scholar/author Brené Brown –– illuminate the prismatic complexity of the individual bodymind, giving guidance toward a wholistic healing.
Working With Trauma
“When you’re traumatized you’re afraid of what you’re feeling, because your feeling is always terror, or fear or helplessness. I think these body-based techniques help you feel what’s happening in your body, and to breathe into it and not run away from it. So you learn to befriend your experience.”
–– Bessel van der Kolk, MD Clinical psychiatrist, World’s leading trauma expert, author of The Body Keeps the Score
The Nervous System
“The choices we make in day-to-day life are prompted by impulses lodged deep within the nervous system… Self-awareness sets us free. The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”
–– New York Times, “The Amygdala Made Me Do It,” by James Atlas Read full article
Increased Awareness
“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy, shame can’t survive.”
–– Brene Brown, PhD, LMSW Researcher & Storyteller; author of Daring Greatly and many other titles
Why Touch
“The languages of the senses, in which all of us can be socialized, are capable of enlarging our appreciation and deepening our understanding of each other and the world we live in. Chief among these languages is touching. The communications we transmit through touch constitute the most powerful means of establishing human relationships, the foundation of experience.”
–– Dr. Ashley Montagu, Anthropologist & author of Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin
Body, Mind, Spirit
“My first years in practice revealed that there was a huge emotional component to symptoms, especially pain.”
–– Toni Luisa Rivera, D.C., Certified Rubenfeld Synergist, author of The Propelled Heart
Working With Trauma
“Healing trauma via nervous system health is THE biggest missing link for helping and healing all things related to stuckness, suffering, and sickness.”
–– Irene Lyon, MSC author of The New Inner Game
The Nervous System
“While chronic pain can have many different causes, the outcome is often the same: an overly sensitive nervous system which responds much more than it normally would. However, a question still remains as to why the nervous system should remain in this sensitive state over long periods of time, especially in instances where the underlying injury or disease has gone.”
–– Kings College Study Read full article
Increased Awareness
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy – the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
–– Brene Brown, PhD, LMSW Researcher & Storyteller; author of Daring Greatly and many other titles
Why Touch
Why touch when creating safety, healing, and new movement?
“There is an ancient longing wired in us as infants to be seen, to be felt, and to have our surging, somatic-emotional world validated by another. When our subjective experience is empathically held, contained, and allowed, we come to a natural place of rest.”
“The Mystery of Holding” from The Sounds True Blog Read full article
Body, Mind, Spirit
“The Rubenfeld Synergy Method supports us to move out of our fearful mind into our longing, loving heart through the bridge of the body.”
–– Georgena Grace, CRS, Grief Specialist, & author of A New Mourning: Discovering the Gifts in Grief
Increased Awareness
“The subtle, specific touch, “listening” to the personal nuances of the individual, evokes the internal healing capacity of the body. Using the inborn, reflexive systems of the central and peripheral nervous systems, I facilitate the physical body’s own natural corrective ability…When the body’s messages are received by the client, through their own insight into their life, the body makes rapid changes. These changes are from a deep connection of the body, mind, and spirit. When integrated completely, they can lead to permanent transformation.“
–– Dr. Rivera, CRS & author of The Propelled Heart
Working With Trauma
“The Rubenfeld Synergy Method is an educational paradigm that empowers people to heal themselves by connecting with their bodies through gentle listening touch. Confidence fills the core of their being and allows for the release of their traumatic emotions as the ‘story’ of their life is told.”
–– Georgena Eggleston, CRS, Grief Specialist, & author of A New Mourning: Discovering the Gifts in Grief
Body, Mind, Spirit
“The inner voices of the body want to speak to us, to inform us of the truths beneath the fixed surface of our external lives.”
–– John O’Donohue, author
Body, Mind, Spirit
“As the great physiologist Walter Cannon suggested, there is an innate wisdom in our bodies. May we align with the inner wisdom we all possess.”
–– Gabor Mate, MD, author of When the Body Says No
Working With Trauma
“It’s important to understand the feelings that you’re experiencing are from the past… If you can have new experiences in the present when traumatic memories arise, the nervous system learns new ways of being, and healing occurs. Staying connected through your senses is the way to do that.”
–– WebMD Read the full article