Marion Rosen
Marion Rosen (born June 24, 1914 in Nuremberg , † January 18, 2012 in Berkeley , California ) was a German-American physiotherapist . She founded a method of body work, the Rosen method named after her.
Life
Marion Rosen was born as the third of four children in Nuremberg and lived there intermittently until she emigrated in 1938. Marion Rosen's family was of Jewish descent. For example, after passing her Abitur in 1933, Marion Rosen had no opportunity to complete the intended medical studies.
She met Lucy Heyer, the wife of the psychotherapist and C. G. Jung student Gustav Richard Heyer. Lucy Heyer gave her husband's psychotherapy patients accompanying respiratory therapy.
Lucy Heyer offered Marion Rosen to train her in her method. Marion Rosen studied with Lucy Heyer for two years. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II , Rosen left Germany. First she fled to Sweden with her sister, where they were waiting for a US visa . Rosen used the time for a physiotherapy training. After getting her visa, she traveled to San Francisco via Russia, Japan, and the Pacific, and settled in Berkeley.
During the war she mainly worked with wounded shipyard workers. After the war, she deepened her physical therapy skills with a free course program at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota . She worked in physiotherapy for many years, first in a clinic and later in her own practice.
Services
Marion Rosen's decades of work and experience with patients led her to believe that there is a connection between emotional suppression, breathing patterns and muscle tension . From this knowledge she developed her method - a gentle release of muscle tension with the aim of allowing suppressed feelings and relinquishing unnecessary tension.
In 1983 she founded the Rosen Institute in Berkeley. Her work spread around the world; in addition to the USA and Canada, there are now schools in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, France, England and Germany where the Rosen Method is taught and practiced.
Fonts
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Rosen Method Bodywork - Accessing the Unconscious through Touch (with Sue Brenner), North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 2003, ISBN 1-55643-418-9
- Translation: Rosen method body work - touching the body - reaching the soul , Verlag Neue Erde, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89060-252-3
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The Rosen Method of Movement (with Sue Brenner), North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 1991, ISBN 1-55643-117-1
- Translation: Rosen Method Movement , Books on Demand, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-6480-8
literature
- Elaine L. Mayland: Rosen Method - An Approach to Wholeness and Well-Being Through the Body (Foreword by Marion Rosen, PT), 52 Stone Press, 2005, ISBN 0-9773796-0-4
- Translation: Rosen method body work - A textbook , Books on Demand, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-6704-5
- Ralf Dornieden: Paths to Body Consciousness Pflaum, ISBN 3-7905-0857-8 , p. 294 ff
Web links
- Website of the German Center for the Rosen Method
- The Rosen Institute in Berkeley, CA / USA
- Stephanie Baer: Marion Rosen, massage therapy pioneer, dies at 97 , San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday February 14, 2012, page C-3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosen, Marion |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American physiotherapist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 2012 |
| Place of death | Berkeley , California |