Information on seminar lecturers and workshop leaders:
Karen Roeper (USA)
founded Essential Motion in 1990 and has been a Rosen Method Bodywork Senior Teacher for over 30 years. She holds a Masters in Counseling and Dance Therapy.
She maintains a private practice in bodywork and movement, supervises Rosen Method interns, and conducts Essential Motion Leadership Trainings in the United States, Sweden and Finland.
In the seminar her topic is :
Our greatest guides are our bodies. Embodied mindfulness is the gateway to coming home to ourselves.
For most of our lives, our dialog is primarily in our heads. In three decades of working with embodied awareness, I have discovered it is possible to guide people towards developing an inner dialog with their bodies. By actually following where our movement leads us we learn to listen deeply to our authentic selves. In this way, we can cultivate a capacity to attune ourselves to our bodies and create new references for what is possible in our lives. From there we can experience the world and ourselves from our whole heart, mind, and body.
In my work, I utilize body awareness and mindfulness practices in combination with improvisational movement. This is an experiential practice. With perceptive and compassionate eyes, I observe where bodies are stuck and where they are free. I work with people alone, in dyads, and as a group.
For the Finnish Home Body Seminar, I will offer a demonstration of how I work with individuals. Through gentle guidance, individuals are able to dissolve habitual and often unconscious holdings in the body that create restrictive beliefs about who they are and what they can do. As each person enters into a deep dialog between the body and its expressive movement, they discover and remember how they long to live in the world and connect with others. They move into the new possibility of dwelling in an expanded and open-hearted body.
My goal in sharing this work is two-fold. First, I want to offer you, as a participant, an immediate experience of your own embodied awareness which leads to expanded expression and aliveness. Second, my desire is for people to witness a unique way of working with individuals using this transformative approach.
When I am engaged with others in embodied awareness, I am guided by a deep faith in the wisdom inherent in each of us to transform ourselves. There is a power that comes from contacting the self on a visceral level, a power that leads to an opening of the heart and a return home to whom we truly are. I always feel very honored and extremely touched to be able to meet people at this intimate level when a moment of truth rings out through their bodies in an expression of aliveness, connection and heart.
Reija Suntio
Rosen method practitioner, mindfulness, breathing school and stress/tension release group leader - author of a book for educators and parents how to help a child to deal with stressful tension and fear.
In the seminar Reija Suntio is going to lead an experimental lecture on how to create a compassionate relationship to the own body - how to deal with stressful tension and fear.
Jaana Laukkarinen
DI, Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change (Tavistock Institute), certified coach. Laukkarinen has published a book on leadership.
In her presentation Jaana Laukkarinen deals with the question how a person with a leader's roll can utilse embodied information: to deal with stress, meeting the employees and as a mean of understanding more about ongoing issues.
Merja-Riitta Hämäläinen
teacher, art therapist, body work practitioner, coach on creative therapy
Merja-Riitta Hämäläinen is going to lead together with Marjut Liesmäki a workshop called "Creative Body". In their workshop they will lead us to an experience where embodied information is made visible by the the means of creative arts. This gives a larger perspective and increases understanding of the experience.
Marjut Liesmäki
artist on ceramics,coach on creative therapy, coach
Pirjo Salo
Rosen Method practitioner, Essential Motion leader
Pirjo Salo leads a workshop where she demonstrates how embodied awareness can benefit highly sensitive people (HSP).
Ulla Kaukonen
a physiotherapist, a Rosen Method Practitioner and an Essential Motion -leader.
I have 15 years experience in body-awareness-based psychophysical methods both personally and professionally. In my work I use experience that I learned in Essential Motion -leadership- and Rosen Method Bodywork -trainings and knowledge and understanding I've gained during past years about how mental and physical trauma affects our body and mind, about early interaction and attachment trauma, physiological trembling etc. Psychophysical methods might help for example in relaxation and stress release, increasing body-awareness, pain management, sleeping problems, increasing self-knowledge and dealing with emotional challenges. In my work I value genuine presence and meeting my clients in a holistic way. Body-awareness helps to cope with work-load and it's a useful tool in helping people. In the seminar I'm giving a workshop: Body-awareness as a tool for physiotherapists, where I address both specialists who are willing to investigate how body awareness affects wellbeing, and common people interested in the subject.
Eeva-Maija Salo
certified coach, mindfulness leader, pharmacist
Eeva-Maija Salo will give an interactive dance performance that demonstrates her growth to a more mindful life of more presence.
Päivi Pylvänäinen
M.A. in dance/movement therapy, psychologist
The theme of her presentation and workshop is body image: how we are in contact with ourselves, others and the environment.
Jenni Kallio
Special teacher, Neuropsychiatric Coach, professional working with creativity and body-orientation
Jenni Kallio discusses in her workshop how to communicate in an empowering way with children and teenagers and how embodied awareness can be a tool.
She has over 20 years experience in working as a special teacher and coach in Finland, USA and India.
Kristiina Laihi
Essential Motion leader, BA, therapist
Kristiina Laihi leads a workshop with Hannele Tenhu with the name "Freedom to be me". This workshop demonstrates the unified experience of being fully embodied and in contact with one's spritual self from a Christian perspective.
Hannele Tenhu
parson, studying dance and movement therapy
Regina Skogberg
Essential Motion leader, meditation leader
In her workshop Regina Skogberg is going to lead us to explore how sprituality can be part of the embodied experience.
Ulla Kleberg (Sweden)
Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner, Essential Motion teacher, Qigong teacher, masseur
In her workshop Ulla Kleberg leads us to experience the synergy of improvisational movement and Qigong - an old chinese method to maintain balance both in mind and body.
Eevi Salila-Anttila
Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner, TRE (trauma release exercises) coach
Eevi Salila-Anttila leads a workshop where we explore touch as a bridge to meet another person.
She describes herself and her work:
I have worked in this field from 2005. My professional practises are in Tampere and in the region of Lahti. In addition to Rosen Method Bodywork and TRE I give child massage. I use my hands, eyes and senses when touching people with body awareness. I give words to what I experience to enable my client to receive information from the body, thus mirroring and supporting a more clear and healthier picture of himself. Through ”listening” touch and being centered in my body my client can, without demand, safely and deeply connect with the body. This enables new ways of integrating the body as well as space for discovery of lost parts, shelters and new resources and healthy limits. This deeply connected and confidential way of working is a deep experience for me too. I experience giving and receiving at the same time, and it allows me to deeply connect with both my client and myself. In addition to being my work this embodied way of listening is also a way of being for me.
Riitta Saarikko
Coach, Rosen Method Practitioner, Essential Motion leader, PhD
How do you sense feelings in your body? Using body intelligence in freeing up emotional states in everyday life.
Feelings are part of our inner sensory system. Each of the key feelings – joy, sexual feelings, anger, sorrow and fear – have a very specific bodily sensations and they become activated in specific places in the body. Children are taught to tune into their bladder language and they become fluent with it already by 2-3 years. In a similar way we can learn to tune into other zones in the body, and learn to listen to the message of different feelings and free up emotional states in a meaningful way. Unfortunately in our culture we are not taught to use body intelligence to deal with emotions in everyday life.
In this workshop we practice to tune in to three zones in the body to recognize anger, sorrow and fear. We also study creative ways how to deal with the activated energy and be available fully in social situations.
