EMOTIONAL ANATOMY CHART

This unique poster is a comprehensive tool, not only for body therapists and psychotherapists to have on their clinic’s wall, but also for all people who are interested in learning the language of their emotions through the body.

The main principles are:

•The body, with it’s parts and organs is our expression vehicle in life.

•There is a constant movement of feelings and emotions in the body which are responded by changes in breathing and tension in the muscles.

•This flow, and the blocks in this flow are the sum total of our emotional structure, form and posture.

•The physical function of the body part can be “translated” into the emotional function and become understood.

FOR WHO?

All students and therapists in the fields of:

• Body oriented psychotherapy
• massage
• Rosen Method
• Gestalt therapy
• psycosynthesis
• Bioenergetic analysis
• Yoga
• Feldenkrais
• all people interested in bodymind connection

The poster will not supply you with cold facts but with a simple way of looking at the body-mind connection. It’s a tool for understanding your/the client’s symptoms and to deepen any therapeutic process and dialogue.

ABOUT US…
AND WHY WE MADE IT

ITZHAK DERY

is a massage and a Rosen Method practitioner who works in the field since 2003.
He searched for an interactive tool that would increase self awareness in himself and his clients and would gather all the information into one source.
When he failed to find one, he made one himself.
The knowledge gathered here can be related to the lineage of Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen and many others. It is logic, simple and global.

THERESE TONNING is an artist in fine arts, educated in the National College of Arts in Norway. She is a natural born healer and an autodidact.
The meeting between the two created the right conditions for this poster to be born.

What is Rosen Method?

What is Rosen method?

Rosen Method is distinguished by its gentle, direct touch. Using hands that listen rather than manipulate, the practitioner focuses on chronic muscle tension.
As relaxation occurs and the breath deepens, unconscious feelings, attitudes, and memories may emerge.

Rosen Method bodywork is a powerful tool for stress reduction and for reaching the body- mind connection through touch. It is a type of complementary health care often recommended by doctors, psychotherapists and chiropractors as an adjunct to their treatment. Rosen Method is effective in easing chronic tension and its ill effects on the mind and body. It is a valuable technique for personal growth and for finding the path of the heart and soul in one's life and living more fully in the present.

The Rosen practitioner has been trained to notice subtle changes in muscle tension and shifts in the breath. S/he recognizes these as indications that the client is relaxing and becoming more aware of his/her body and internal experience. The practitioner responds with touch and words that allow the client to begin to recognize what has been held down by unconscious muscle tension.
As this process unfolds, habitual tension and old patterns may be released, freeing the client to experience more aliveness, new choices in life, and a greater sense of well-being.

What is Rosen Method for me?

"The soft overcomes the hard, the flexible overcomes the rigid..."
(tao te ching)

A Rosen Method touch is still a mystery for me.
It's something about soft hands that are listening to the body,
it's something about meeting the life force that is in the client,
It's something about "surfing" on the client's breath,
It's somthing about acceptance and daring to be there, in the core of our being.
The rest just happens...


The Opening of Eyes

That day I saw beneath dark clouds
the passing light over the water
and I heard the voice of the world speak out,
I knew then, as I had before
life is no passing memory of what has been
nor the remaining pages in a great book
waiting to be read.
It is the opening of eyes long closed.
It is the visioin of far off things
seen for the silence they hold.
It is the heart after years of secret conversing
speaking out loud in the clear air.
It is Moses in the desert
fallen to his knees before the lit bush.
It is the man throwing away his shoes as if to enter heaven
and finding himself astonished, opened at last,
fallen in love with solid ground.
From David Whyte's Songs for Coming Home.