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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. |
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Mariette Berinstein, Director of Rosen Method Cascadia Centre is a Certified Bodywork Teacher and Practitioner. She has trained and worked with a number of teachers, including Marion Rosen (founder) and Elaine Mayland, author of “Rosen Method: An Approach to Wholeness and Wellbeing Through the Body”. Mariette discovered Rosen Method in 1989 while on her own healing journey. In honouring the sacredness of this work, she creates an allowing, safe place for the individual to connect with their authentic, whole Self. As an artist, Mariette brings creativity and passion to her teaching and her practice. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Sarah Dandridge, CMT, SEP, was trained by Marion Rosen and has been practicing Rosen Method for 23 years in the Bay Area. For many years, Sarah has been a Primary supervisor for Rosen interns and she co-taught the first training class for supervisor candidates in Berkeley. Sarah is a certified Teacher and has taught introductory workhops and co-taught intensives in Canada, Moscow, Santa Fe and the Bay Area. She is also a certified practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, the technique developed by Peter Levine to resolve trauma in the body. Sarah served as treasurer of the Board of the Rosen Institute with Bill Samsel for 3 years. She is an avid birdwatcher. |
CERTIFIED MOVEMENT TEACHER TRAINERS |
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Aurelia Priotto St. Johnis our Senior Rosen Method Movement Teacher Trainer for the Rosen Method Cascadia Centre and a Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, as well as an Apprentice Teacher for Bodywork. Aurelia was trained in Berkeley by Marion Rosen. She has been teaching weekly movement classes for over 15 years in the Bay Area and has had a private practice in Sausalito CA. She has recently returned to her home in Italy and brings her passion for the Rosen Method there as well. |






