What a Session is Like
The Rubenfeld Synergist creates a safe and accepting environment and is present as a caring facilitator. Boundaries are always respected and sessions are strictly confidential.
Your Synergist is your guide in creating a dialogue between your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Feelings and beliefs that you weren’t fully aware of may emerge during the session. With new awareness, comes the possibility of change.
Gentle, listening touch is a powerful way for you to access feelings and images that have been hidden in your body for years, creating tension, pain and distorted perceptions. Repressed tears, anger, grief, and much else may be re-experienced and released during a session, freeing you for new ways of being.
Your needs and issues will emerge at the appropriate time and in their own unique way. The Rubenfeld Synergist follows your lead in an intuitive way, using the skills gained in their training, to help you find your own inner wisdom.
The length of a session is typically 45 to 50 minutes; the number and frequency of sessions depends on your need.
(For detailed descriptions of actual Rubenfeld Synergy sessions, visit www.healing-journeys.com)
"The client had been living with a constant aching in her shoulder. As the Synergist worked gently with her body, the client began to talk about how difficult and scary it had been growing up in her family. As she spoke, her shoulder started to pull in. Knowing it was a protective move, she imagined she could see her spirit living inside her shoulder curled up in a ball hiding. It had been beaten down and had given up on life. And she began to cry for her spirit that had been broken such a long time ago."
Deb Elkin, Certified Rubenfeld Synergist
"As the client lay on the table, the Synergist noticed that his body was very crooked. When she asked him what he was aware of, he said, 'my body feels bruised and broken.' She asked how it got that way. 'I keep beating myself up.' He identified an angry inner voice that constantly reminded him of how stupid and incompetent he was. He recognized his father's critical voice. And in that moment, he realized he was treating himself exactly as his father had treated him. As he felt his anger and his sadness, the Synergist worked gently to help release these trapped feelings from his body."
Deb Elkin, Certified Rubenfeld Synergist
"As someone who is 'in my head' a lot and talks a lot, I am grateful for having had this experience. It was an important reminder that the answers will come for me if I ask the question and then give myself time to listen to the part of me that already knows the answer."
Meg Morris, Excerpt from “Healing Journeys”
"I try to listen not just with my ears, but also with my hands and my entire being. My hope is to be with my clients in a full, non-judgmental way—and so invite them to be with themselves in the same way."
Lee McAvoy, Certified Rubenfeld Synergist, Excerpt from "Healing Journeys"