International Rosen Congress in the UK and October, full month of chocolate.
The last week in September saw me participating in an Intensive Module led by Gloria Hessellund, head of the UK School. The Intensives are aptly named, with a much needed free day in the middle. Hard to describe unless you are there, nevertheless the days follow a fluid structure. Each day there will be small group demonstrations, and at some point in the day a chance to practice on each other. Specific demonstrations on one particular part of the body may be followed by questions and answers and more practice. The days are thoroughly absorbing, often very moving, and always reconnecting with both the profundity and simplicity of Rosen method. As always I was grateful to the Get a Life fund to be able to participate, as in theory I have done my seven modules that were essential to pass on to ‘Intern’ stage. Any more Intensives are a huge bonus, as there is always more to learn, and a feeling that the more I learn the huger the subject is, and how really I am only just scratching the surface.
All this intensity made participants hungry for the rounds of chocolate cake that I brought in on the last morning to celebrate my birthday!
Following closely, from the 12th to the 16th October, the Rosen Method Global Congress IV was held at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire. Annabelle Apsion and Ingrid Maria Nordgren, the founders of the UK school, had pulled together the most amazing array of workshops and talks, all in stunning accommodation and surroundings. The Rosen Method community was represented by delegates from all over the world, from Australia to Israel, Russia, Scandinavia, the United States and more. Keynote speaker was Dr Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar from Israel; his speech was entitled ‘Standing at the edge of Love- The Challenges and Potential of Change’, with a fascinating workshop “Shadow- the un-owned potentials of our body minds” .
There was a wonderful atmosphere and warmth accompanying the whole four days, and again I felt so lucky to have been enabled to participate and meet such an international array of the Rosen Method community, and feel proud to be part of it.
Next week I start the internship proper, with supervisions all day. Now the pace will pick up as supervisions start to happen regularly and I have to build up client hours along the way. This is one stage I suppose I am starting to feel quite vulnerable about. Building up a list of clients will probably take longer than I had anticipated, I’ll have to see.
So, a month full of chocolate?! Well, my contribution to the congress was 200 each of home made chocolate truffles, chilli and brandy. Sometimes those reach right to the heart of things too!
Posted by Damaris on November 4th, 2010.
