Marion Rosen (1914-2012) was a german Jew from Nürnberg/Germany, who worked as a physiotherapist in California/USA after escaping from Germany and developed and teached her own method, which she called Rosen Method.
(text from the website of the Rosen Institute) (see german page here for another article in german)
Marion's Story
Born on June 24, 1914, in Nuremberg, Germany, Marion Rosen grew up in a family that valued travel, sport, friendship, and an active social life. Her early years were marked by support, joy, and ease. As Germany’s political climate shifted in the 1930s, however, Marion and her family began to experience the growing hardship and anxiety faced by the Jewish community during this period of profound social and political change.
In 1936, at the age of 22, Marion began studying touch therapy with Lucy Heyer in Munich. During her apprenticeship, Marion worked with patients undergoing psychoanalysis, using touch therapy to access unconscious memories, emotions, and past experiences that had been forgotten or suppressed. These early experiences later informed the distinctive approach to bodywork and movement that would become the Rosen Method.
Marion left Germany in the late 1930s, eventually arriving in California after a period in Sweden, where she began studying physiotherapy. She later became licensed as a physical therapist and established a private practice in Oakland, California. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Marion started to develop the unique elements of her method. As her reputation grew for skillfully accessing body-based memory, her client base expanded. In 1980, she launched her first professional training program. The name Rosen Method was chosen when Marion felt her initial students had fully learned the fundamentals of her approach.
The method continued to grow and spread through new generations of students and clients. In time, Marion returned to Europe to teach, beginning in Sweden and later in Finland, Norway, Denmark, and beyond.
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