Healing touch, connecting to the essence of the self
Reaching unconscious limitations,
To live life in the world as the one you truly are:

Bringing forth what is within you . . .

Taking charge of your life . . .

Shifting what holds you back . . .

Creating self-healing, self-love, self-respect

CONNECTIONS: Rosen Method Bodywork

with Dorothea Hrossowyc is for people who have wishes and visions of what life really could be like. It is for those who wish to use a holistic approach to physical and emotional health, and to empower themselves in their personal lives. It is for those wishing to

• gain more self-confidence, feelings of self-esteem, and self-worth
  
• restore their life of feelings, including their childhood ability to unconditionally love
  
• experience the power of safe, gentle, healing touch
  
• reintegrate the connections between body, mind, and spirit
  
• release emotion and tension stored in the muscles of the body and relieve the accompanying physical pain
  
• reclaim the vibrancy of their senses
  
• support continuing recovery from addictions by developing a strong sense of self
  
• become free from the effects of early childhood hurts, physical, sexual, or emotional; it is especially for those who no longer want to hold themselves back in their past painful experiences
  
• bloom into their full intelligence and creativity and live without limits

Dorothea Hrossowyc, M.A., RMPA, is a Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, and also a Certified Teacher of Rosen Method Bodywork. She trained with Marion Rosen at the Berkeley Center.  She is also a graduate of Hakomi Body Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma and Attachment Issues, and is trained in Self Led Transformational Counseling, or Internal Family Systems, from the Center for Self Leadership, Chicago, IL. In over 20 years as an educator, trainer and personal empowerment consultant, she has led many workshops and classes in mind/body medicine, releasing unconscious limitations, women’s empowerment, men’s liberation, couples and relationships, listening skills, healing from physical and sexual hurts, parenting, educational change, eliminating racism, and transforming the inner critic. She teaches week long intensive trainings in Rosen Method. She is committed to physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, and all forms of human liberation are her lifelong passions.

Philosophy

CONNECTIONS: Rosen Method Bodywork and Empowerment uses Rosen Method Bodywork to release tension held in the body—tension that can hold one back in life. Deep contact through gentle touch in those places of holding tension encourages awareness through relaxation, through the breath, and by connecting to the deep essence of the person. Often, painful emotions or unconscious limitations can be released, and by moving past the history of experiences, the possibilities of fuller life can unfold.

CONNECTIONS maintains that we are our own healers. We are designed to live our lives in complete creativity, with full power and intelligence, full of awe and wonder, fully connected to each other in loving cooperation. This is your inherent nature, and it is possible to live from this place. The Rosen Method practitioner can support the client's unfolding self-discovery, self-expression, and healing to live from this place, the essence of the real self.

Rosen Method Bodywork is not designed as a substitute for mental health professional therapy or for treatment of medical illness. It is a holistic, alternative approach to emotional self-healing outside the medical model. It can be used, however, in an adjunct capacity, as a nationally recognized bodywork supporting and correlating with professional mental health or medical treatment, and to provide relaxation and self-care with enhanced communication between the physical body and the emotional and spiritual self.

Self Leadership Transformational Counseling

Dorothea is a Level Two Practitioner of Self-Led Transformational Counseling, or Self Leadership, also called Internal Family Systems. It is some of the most powerful inner work you may ever experience, and it is the fastest growing new development in psychotherapy.  It resonates deeply with Rosen Method Bodywork, Empowerment Counseling, and with healing old patterns and old trauma.

Self-Led Transformation holds the truth that within each of us is the Self, and that we are designed to live our lives in complete creativity, with full power and intelligence, full of awe and wonder, fully connected to each other in loving cooperation with compassion, zest and compassion. This is your inherent nature, your true Self, and it is possible to live from this place, the essence of the real self.

Self Led Transformation is non-pathologizing but is empowering. It is based in systems theory, that the human being is a living system with multiple parts to us all, beautiful though sometimes conflicted parts,  like competencies, originally designed to function elegantly and well. But because we do not live in a perfect world with perfectly healthy adults to raise us, these parts develop different strategies to cope with the difficult terrain we have to navigate while protecting the precious and vulnerable Self. In time these strategies or parts of the system, forced by difficult circumstances, conditioning and repeated hurts to take on unhealthy roles in us, can block our ability to function well with all of our gifts, talents and strengths.

Self Led Transformation holds that we can respect all parts of us, instead of rejecting these challenging patterns in ourselves, and that the true Self can transform these parts or strategies, through compassionate understanding, listening and healing, thereby helping all the different parts of us reclaim their original powerful roles in our lives, and function as an integrated whole, the way we were intelligently designed.

Self Led Transformation  is creative and powerful in healing attachment or abandonment wounds, and insufficient attunement, validation or approval, which all of us suffered, though we had the most well meaning parents. It is powerful for healing low self esteem, and inner self critical parts, and in releasing old beliefs about ourselves, other people or the world that we took on when we were young.  Exciting research has graphically  shown that  we can actually change old brain patterning when we bring resource, (the Self,) to the young hurt parts of us.

Self Led Transformation envisions a world where relationships are transformed through Self-Leadership:  that it is in the practice of Self-compassion that it becomes possible to love freely and courageously, thriving in intimate connection with others and ourselves, where each of us can allow the true heart of the human being to shine forth, the true Self, the wise, compassionate, loving intelligence, the Divine spark within each of us. May it glow in you, and in all of us.

Come for a session of Self-Led transformation with Rosen Method touch, if you’d like.

Offices and Fees

Confidential individual sessions by appointment:

Tuesdays, Fridays and some Saturdays in Northfield, MN - map

Wednesdays and Thursdays at Integrated Wellness Center, Hermitage Farm Center For Healing----6415 West River Road NW in Rochester, MN 55904 - map

Mondays at the Inner Light Healing Center, 17305 Cedar Ave S. in Lakeville, MN 55044 - map

$85/hour

507-645-1600
612-817-5777 (cell)

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