Teachers

Bodywork Teachers

Bill Samsel is a Senior Teacher and the Director of Teaching of the Rosen Method Cascadia Centre. Bill began studying with Marion Rosen, founder of the Rosen Method, in 1979. He was a student in the first training program, becoming certified as a Rosen Method practitioner in 1982 and later a Senior Teacher. He has a private practice in Santa Cruz, California. He is a past President of the Rosen Institute. He teaches in the Monterey Bay area, at the Rosen Center in Berkeley, California, at the Cascadia Centre, Canada and in Australia.

Mariette Berinstein is a Certified Bodywork Teacher. Mariette trained with Marion Rosen (Founder) and Elaine Mayland.  She is a Certified Bodywork Teacher and Owner/Director of Rosen Method Cascadia Centre.  Mariette discovered Rosen Method in 1989 while on her own healing journey.  Rosen Method established in Mariette such a strong belief in her own wholeness and potential that she now carries this belief system forward to others in her practice and teaching.  Honouring the sacredness of the circle and the group as a whole, Mariette creates an allowing, safe place for the individual to connect with their authentic, whole Self.

Mariette brings a deep passion for Rosen Method to her teaching. With a strong belief in the sacredness of the circle, she provides an allowing, spacious place for the individual and the group as a whole.

Karen Roeper- Senior Teacher Rosen Method - Karen is the Founder of Essential Motion, a somatic-based coaching process. She maintains a private practice in California and she holds a Masters Degree in Counseling and Dance Therapy.  She leads workshops in the U.S. and Europe in addition to doing training, counseling and coaching.  A student of Vipassana meditation, Karen’s primary focus is to empower people to inhabit their bodies with more grace, vitality and power.

Paula Kimbro is a Senior Training Teacher. She has a M.A. degree from the University of Chicago and is a licensed Clinical Social Worker. In 1976 she began working with Marion Rosen, the physical therapist who originated this gentle powerful work. Paula has taught in Europe, Canada and Berkeley, California where she has a private practice in psychotherapy and Rosen Method.  Paula Kimbro was the Director of Teaching of Rosen Method Cascadia Centre for five years. She implemented new initiatives and programs, which supported the development of Rosen Method in Canada.

Rosen Method Bodywork, article by Paula Kimbro

Deborah Marks is a Senior Teacher of the Rosen Method and a Rosen Movement teacher.  First trained by Marion Rosen and Louise Barrie in the early 1980’s, Deborah taught for years in the Russian Rosen School.  It was there she was introduced to SE, Peter Levine’s trauma resolution work, which she has since been trained in.  Deborah says: each of us unfolds at her own rate and rhythm; our dance together reveals steps impossible to foresee, a joyous movement of life and connection.

Movement Teachers

Julia Martin is our Director of Movement Training for Rosen Method Cascadia Centre. She began her training with Marion Rosen in 1991. She was certified as a Rosen Method Practitioner in 1995, a Movement Teacher in 1996 and a Movement Teacher Trainer in 2002. She maintains a practice in Rosen Method Bodywork in Fairfax, CA. Julia is Director of Movement Training for Rosen Method Center Southwest. She has taught Rosen Movement in New Mexico, California and Minnesota.

Aurelia Priotto St. John is our Rosen Method Movement Teacher Trainer for the Rosen Method Cascadia Centre. She is a practitioner from the Berkeley area and a Rosen Movement teacher. She teaches weekly movement classes in the San Francisco and Bay area of California. Aurelia joins the Cascadia Centre as an assistant and provides Rosen Movement for our Residential Rosen Method Intensives in bodywork.

Some of Cascadia's Teaching Team

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