Rosen-Methode Körperarbeit & Movement, Ulrike Weiss

16/03/2026

The Throat and Trust 🤍

Many people intuit that the throat is where expression can meet with restraint.
In The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk discusses the experience of a “holding” or the experience of a tight sensation in the throat, as a common bodily expression of unresolved trauma. For example

They are unable to speak about what happened
They have learned it’s unsafe to express feelings
They are holding back anger, grief, or fear
The throat, jaw, and upper chest often tighten when someone:
Couldn’t speak safely as a child
Learned to suppress anger or grief
Was shamed or silenced
Experienced fear while needing to stay quiet

Rosen Method supports:
Reduced muscle guarding
Slow relaxed breathing
Lessening of chronic stress
And gently introduces a felt experience of relational and physical safety

When trust has been broken, when speaking feels unsafe, when words carry unwanted consequences, the throat instinctively tightens. The jaw braces. The breath shortens.

Trust is not rebuilt through force, but the experience of safety and consistency. When the body no longer feels it must protect itself 24/7, new body language can speak.

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27/07/2025

25/05/2025

Some say that if only we had a positive attitude, if only we approached our circumstances in an upbeat way, we would feel no emotional pain.

I challenge this. It’s inevitable that by simply living a life, being a human being, we will encounter times of adversity. It’s not because of our attitude that a pandemic or 9/11 or a financial crisis or a marriage or a long friendship ending are oppressive or heartbreaking. Some things just hurt. I have found this basic truth liberating.

In the teachings and practices I studied, there was no attempt to belittle my pain or rationalize it, and no one was reassuring me that things would surely get better soon or reminding me to only look at the bright side—all things we are conditioned to say and believe in the face of suffering. For the first time, I felt permission and freedom to feel whatever I was going to feel. I wasn’t doing it wrong, and neither are you.

Of course, we don’t want to let our suffering, and the suffering intrinsic to being a human being, define and overtake us either. Therein lies our work. So how do we do it?

For a start, it helps to recognize that for many of us, a dominant cultural attitude toward pain is that it’s something to be avoided, denied, “treated.” As a result, it can be particularly tough for people—including me—to acknowledge painful emotions. Simply recognizing and accepting suffering is a huge first step.

Second, remember that this truth, that some things just hurt, is universal. That means that no matter what, we are not alone.

When I’m in some kind of pain, I’ve found that one of the worst components of what I experience is feeling that I’m all alone with my pain, my nose pressed up against the window, looking into the space where everyone else has gathered, to enjoy themselves together or comfort one another. It’s the worst and most habitual “add-on” to suffering that I experience.

But it is not actually true that we’re excluded, uniquely cast out because of the pain. Everyone hurts at times. Try reaching out to someone, or allowing someone to reach out to you. Take one small step to allow whatever helping hands are coming toward you to find you.

26/04/2025

Die Rosen-Methode kann uns helfen, in einen von Deb Dana beschriebenen "ventral vagal" Zustand zu kommen.

16/02/2025

Das neue Buch über Marion Rosen - Ihr Leben und Wirken ist jetzt auf Deutsch erhältlich!

SEHEN BERÜHREN ATMEN

Wir, die Autorinnen sind als Praktizierende und Lehrerinnen seit vielen Jahren mit der Rosen-Methode verbunden.
Marion Rosens Methode hat unser Leben auf wunderbare Weise geprägt und bereichert.
So entstand der Wunsch, sowohl unsere Erinnerungen an Marion, als auch an ihr erfülltes, facettenreiches Leben und ihre Arbeit in Wort und Bild festzuhalten.
Es war uns eine Freude, Marion auf diese Weise nochmal in uns lebendig werden zu lassen, ihren Mut, ihre Zuversicht und ihr Vertrauen ins Leben zu spüren.
Autorinnen: Juliane Knoop, Christel Maisel und Maud Guettler

Das Buch ist in Berlin bei Maud Guettler oder in Bühl bei Juliane Knoop zu kaufen oder bei BoD (Books on Demand)
https://buchshop.bod.de/sehen-beruehren-atmen-maud-guettler-9783769338621
Es hat 111 Seiten und kostet € 16,00, als E-Book € 9,99. (Das E-Book wird jedoch erst in etwa zwei Wochen verfügbar sein).
ISBN: 978-3-7693-3862-1

21/12/2024

Today's inspo from Maya Angelou

20/09/2024

Gestern habe ich an der VHS Gütersloh mit 14 TeilnehmerInnen über den Zusammenhang zwischen Muskelverspannungen und Gefühlen gesprochen und die Rosen-Methode vorgestellt. Alle haben die Rosen-Berührung hands-on erfahren und auch ins Rosen-Movement sind wir eingetaucht. Der 2stündige Workshop hat mir sehr viel Spaß gemacht, vielen Dank an die TeilnehmerInnen für ihre Offenheit 😊💛

17/08/2024

Eine sehr persönliche Erfahrung mit der Rosen-Methode meiner Kollegin Meg Butler, USA.

14/08/2024

Das neue VHS-Gütersloh Programm ist da! Ich biete3 Rosen-Methode Termine an, die Ihr nicht verpassen solltet:
Mo. 16.09.24 19:00-20:15 Uhr Start des wöchentlichen Kurses "Bewegung mit Freude nach der Rosen-Methode (Kurs G33240)
Do. 19.09.24 19.00-21.00 Vortrag: Was haben verspannte Muskeln mit Gefühlen zu tun? (Kurs Nr. G31200)
Sa. 21.09.24 10:00-13:00 Rosen-Movement Bewegungs-Workshop (Fokus Rücken & Füße) (Kurs Nr. G33241)
Gleich anmelden bei der VHS GT https://www.vhs-gt.de/kurssuche/kurs/Bewegung-mit-Freude-nach-der-Rosen-Methode/G33240

23/02/2024

Science, Soma, and Soul

What is vagal tone?

Vagal tone is measured through the oscillations in heart rate variability that occur with the breath. This is referred to as Heart Rate Variability or HRV. Healthy tone of your vagus nerve involves a slight increase in heart rate on the inhalation and a decrease inheart rate when you exhale.

Healthy vagal tone can be thought of as an optimal balance of parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system actions. People with higher HRV can move more easily from excitement to relaxed and can recover more easily from stress.

Simply put, vagal toning means you are adding gentle stimulation to the vagus nerve pathway through breath, sound, eye-movements, self-applied touch, and gentle movements that help you come into balance.

Since most of us are sympathetic dominant, balance involves more down-regulation of the nervous system into the parasympathetic. However, some of need up-regulating strategies to come out of fatigue or collapse. In that case, the same balancing vagal toning practices will still work, and you can also emphasize the inhalation and gentle expansive movements to up-regulate your system whereas you would emphasize the exhalation and inward awareness to down-regulate your system.

And what is happening as we tone the vagus nerve? We are strengthening the nerve pathway of the social engagement system through repeated practices within the context of connection and safety and we are resetting baseline HRV through conscious breathing, movement, and self-compassion.

And food for your soul:

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
~ Rabindranath Tagore