Individuals from four different walks of life share how RSM has improved their lives and touched their souls in meaningful ways.
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Joanne, a nurse and psychotherapist entered the RSM Training program to enhance her professional skills. Gradually and steadily she experienced a profound shift in her experience of herself, which has affected all aspects of her professional and personal life and health.
“In my third year of RSM training I was in a car accident that left me with a pain syndrome which interfered with my ability to work and function normally. The attention and guidance of my RSM colleagues and teachers helped connect with my personal healing resources when the medical community could not offer me any further help.”
Joanne’s Story ↓
I entered the RSM Training program to enhance my professional nursing and psychotherapy skills. Gradually and steadily I experienced a profound shift in my experience of myself, which has affected all aspects of my professional and personal life. RSM’s focus on the wisdom and knowledge of the body offered me a simple and fundamental paradigm shift. I am now in contact with the inner experience of myself which informs and guides my skills and interventions as a psychotherapist. I am more observant and able to utilize my client’s experiences to assist them in employing RSM as a resource in their own healing and recovery. This empowers them to heal and shift in ways that would otherwise have not been available to them.
The current research and clinical work in the trauma field is uncovering the high incidence of developmental trauma experienced across the general population. This type of trauma is not amenable to traditional types of psychotherapy. My husband, who is a trained adolescent and child psychiatrist, had worked for seven years on his own traumatic childhood experience. Through my involvement in RSM training he became interested in experiencing and understanding the process. He was surprised and unaware that he was still holding onto the “emotional charge” of this event in his body. His body experience and the communication of touch were essential to his ability to release the stored emotional content and fully grieve this event. Through RSM he was able to reconnect with the core sense of himself that had remained unavailable to him. In my third year of RSM training I was in a car accident that left me with a pain syndrome which interfered with my ability to work and function normally. The attention and guidance of my RSM training colleagues and teachers helped me connect with healing resources when the medical community could not offer me any further help. These resources and the training of deeply listening to my body allowed me to recover to a level of pain free strength and flexibility that I had not had prior to my accident.

