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- Touch allows you to get to the heart of the matter.
- Talking allows you to understand its meaning.
- Combining empathetic conversation with a gentle, healing touch is transformative.
The Rubenfeld Synergy Method (RSM) was developed in the 1970s by its founder, Ilana Rubenfeld. She began her career as a driver and gradually began to have intense pain in her back and shoulders. This took her on a journey toward personal exploration and self-healing. At that time, she received Alexander Technique sessions that focused on helping her realign her posture and movement. But as she received this gentle touch, her emotions rose to the surface and Master Alexander was not qualified to help her. So he traveled through New York City to spend time with a Gestalt therapist. But in therapy sessions her emotions were not so easily aroused. That’s what prompted her to start combining that gentle touch with talking in an effort to integrate the two systems into her body. The result was more than the two separate entities, hence the term “synergy.”
Rubenfeld’s Synergists are men and women who reached the same point of fulfillment or “aha” in their careers and in their lives. They saw Ilana Rubenfeld or another “Synergist” perform the “magic” that occurs during a session. They saw, with their own eyes, the transformation of the customer experience by receiving this kind of listening touch and intentional dialogue. That “aha” moment has brought body workers (massage therapists, chiropractors, Reiki practitioners, nurses, and other practitioners who use touch in their work), psychotherapists (psychologist, social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors and even psychiatrists who have only used speech when working with clients), homemakers, businessmen, lawyers, medical professionals, artists, musicians and others in the healing experience of becoming a certified Rubenfeld Synergist.
Where can you find a qualified practitioner of this unusual and powerful work? Here are the locations of the currently certified synergists and the locations keep expanding and this work reaches out to hungry clients and curious therapists.
Certified Synergists in the USA
- Washington
- Oregon
- California
- Arizona
- Mountain
- Wyoming
- Colorado
- New Mexico
- Minnesota
- Tennessee
- Indiana
- Michigan
- Ohio
- Florida
- Georgia
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Washington dc
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- Maryland
- Delaware
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- Massachusetts
- Vermont
Certified synergists in Canada
- British columbia
- Alberta
- Ontario, CA
Certified synergists in Europe
- Welsh
- England
- Ireland
- Scotland
Apprentices in Taiwan
If you are looking for a way to heal your body and its emotional disorders without medication, RSM is a path to explore. If you want to help your clients recover from physical and emotional pain, you can start learning this powerful method in just 7 months. Visit the Rubenfeld Synergy website to find an intern in your area and visit the Rubenfeld Training Institute website for upcoming trainings.