Somatic Education

Manual Therapy

Rachel Rudansky

ABOUT RACHEL

Rachel has been cultivating and expanding the skills, attitudes, and perspectives that complement the scientific information of her therapeutic approach. She re-connects her clients with their own innate healing capacity and uncovers blocks, hindrances, and adhesions in the tissues of the body. The total healing Method she employs recovers vital energy and fluid circulation that is tied up by stress from trauma, grief and distressing life choices. Her unique customized sessions include movement education and body manipulation along with occasional conversation which aspires to open new vantage points that deepen our human experience.

Rachel has taken her studies around the world. She has imbibed the wisdom of incredible teachers from Brazil, Canada, China, England, India, Israel, Italy, Tibet and the United States. She is a Meta-Physician, a certified Craniosacral therapist, and a certified Rolfer, with a certification as a Rolf Movement practitioner and is authorized to teach the Feldenkrais Method. Rachel has over 30 years of dedication and experience in holistic healing.

Rachel’s passion for knowledge motivates her to continue studying and learning about the latest advances in her field. She has an excellent reputation for blending the scientific knowledge of the body with a range of more subtle human qualities which gives her work depth and a relevance holistically tailored to the individual and with true compassion.

Rachel utilizes the Feldenkrais Method, Rolfing - Structural Integration, Osteopathic methods of Craniosacral Therapy and Visceral Manipulation and Lymphatic Drainage Therapy, to motivate awareness in the client of that which lies in the depth of knowing oneself. This unique experience informs children and adults alike.

Rachel has dedicated her life to the service of truth and knowledge and works to cultivate and expand the full capacities and gifts of all of her clients.

MODALITIES

Feldenkrais® Method for Somatic Education - Awareness Through Movement®

Rolfing®, Structural Integration

BioDynamic Craniosacral Therapy

Visceral Manipulation

Manual Lymphatic Drainage

Registered Aromatherapy - Spiritual PhytoEssencing

Licensed Massage Therapy

EDUCATION

Feldenkrais Institute - Feldenkrais Method for Somatic Education, Awareness Through Movement Teacher, Authorized

Wellness Institute – Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Certified

Upledger Institute – Craniosacral Studies completed Advanced Training

Barral Institute – Visceral Manipulation

Chikly Institute – Lymphatic Drainage Therapy

Rolf® Institute – Rolfing Structural Integration, Certified.

Rolf® Institute – Rolf® Movement Therapy, Certified

Munich Germany, Boulder Colorado and Sao Paulo Brazil

NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care – Foundation Year Completed

R.J Buckle Associates – Study with Jane Buckle, RN,RA Certified and Registered Aromatherapist

Spiritual PhytoEssencing – Study with Dr. Bruce Berkowsky, Utilizing Combination of essential oils for deep soul level work.

Body Mind Centering – Embryology and primitive reflex Seminars, studied with Bonnie Bainbridge

Continuum Movement – Studied with Emily Conrad

Mindfulness Meditation – Meditation retreats in India and around the United States with the following teachers - Jack Kornfeld, Sharron Saltzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Stanislav Grof, Baba Ram Dass, Master Wei Zong Fu.

Rabbi Yitzhak Buxbaum – Spiritual Teacher

Pratt Institute – BFA

Art Student League of New York

International Center of Photography

International Qi Gong Association – Master Fu Wei Zhong. STUDIED IN CHINA

Pat Gorman – Tai chi

Anthroposophical Society – Rudolf Steiner: Studied with Robert McDermott, and The Handel Method

Hospice Experience – End of Life Care. Peconic Bay Medical Center – Chaplancy Department

Pediatric Brain Based developmental Specialist, Janessa Rick

Metaphysical Studies – Dr. Ken Foldes, Fulbright Scholar

QUOTES: EVIDENCE OF THE CONVERGENCE OF ALL FIELDS
SCIENCE, QUANTUM PHYSICS, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

EINSTEIN: “The distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion.” “And the apparent separation of ourselves from the universe is an optical delusion of consciousness.”
(HENCE Reality is ONE, and you are ONE with the ONE ... NOW!)

SPINOZA (Einstein’s mentor): “The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue”

SCHRÖDINGER: “The Present is the only thing that has no end.”

HEGEL: “Eternity … will not be, nor has it been. It IS.”

NIELS BOHR: “It was the Unity of Opposites (complementarity, “yin-yang”) that gave me the key to the quantum jump.”

FRITJOF CAPRA: “All Opposites are polar, and thus a Unity.”

ERVIN LASZLO: “That all there is in the universe is Matter–is a colossal mistake.” “It is not matter–which is 99% empty space–but consciousness that is ultimate reality.”

SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON: “The world we see in everyday life is an illusion conjured by our senses and mind.” “So-called ‘matter’ is mostly emptiness … indeed, the stuff of the world is MIND-stuff.”

SIR JAMES JEANS: “The universe seems more like a great THOUGHT than a great machine … it is really MIND that is the creator and governor of the realm of MATTER.”

FRED ALAN WOLF: “I am this whole Universe – ‘YOU-niverse’ – is the initial postulate of quantum thinking.”

TEILHARD DE CHARDIN: “We are not separate beings on Gaia [Earth]: We are a mode of being of Gaia. How you and I think is how Gaia and the Universe thinks.” (cf., The Gaia and Anthropic Principle)

BERNARD HAISCH: “It is Consciousness that creates an illusion of Matter, not the reverse.” “God is an infinite, timeless Consciousness and actualizes his infinite potential through our experience.”

KANT: “Transcendental Consciousness is one and the same in all experience and for all people.”

FICHTE: “The Absolute I (the ONE Consciousness) is all that ever was, is, and will be.”

GROF: “Observations from consciousness research dispel the myth of materialistic science that consciousness is a product of neurophysiological processes in the brain. … Our true identity is the totality of cosmic creation itself.”

EBEN ALEXANDER: “That the Consciousness of the observer bounds the observer to all he or she observes is an irremovable part of any scientific experiment.” “John Bell has proved that time and distance are illusions.”

BHAGAVAD GITA: “To achieve union (yoga) you must constantly practice One-pointedness.”

SHANKARA: “There never was Duality [separation]. There is no Duality now. There never will be Duality.”

CIM: “What is real (true) cannot be threatened. What is unreal (untrue) doesn’t exist. Herein lies the peace of God.”

ALAN WATTS: “You – your true self – are the ultimate ground of being.”

ECKHART TOLLE: “All that ever has been or will be is Now, outside of time, which is a mental construct.” “Awakening as a future event has no meaning, because Awakening is the realization of Presence.

BOOKS

Alan Watts, All Works esp., The Book: The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Behold the Spirit, and Psychotherapy East and West.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man.

Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land.

Isaac Asimov. The Foundation Trilogy.

Aldous Huxley, Island and The Perennial Philosophy.

Robert De Ropp, The Master Game: Pathways to Higher Consciousness, Beyond the Drug Experience and Self-Completion.

Ram Dass, Journey of Awakening, Be Here Now, Be Love Now (with Rameshwar Das), and Polishing the Mirror (with Rameshwar Das).

R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and The Divided Self.

C.G. Jung, The Red Book.

A. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being and Religions, Values and Peak Experiences.

G. Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on A Course in Miracles and The Healing of America.

Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud and One Dimensional Man.

Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History.

Thomas J.J. Altizer, The (New) Gospel of Christian Atheism and Godhead and the Nothing.

D.G. Leahy, Foundation: Matter The Body Itself.

Meher Baba, Discourses, God Speaks.

Sydney Cohen, The Beyond Within.

Foundation of Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles.

Richard Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness.

John J. McDermott, Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and Philosophy of American Culture and The Drama of Possibility: Experience as Philosophy of Culture.

Robert A. McDermott, The New Essential Steiner (esp. the Introduction) and The Essential Aurobindo.

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience.

John Dewey and Arthur Bentley, Knowing and the Known.

Buckminster Fuller, Anthology for A New Millennium (ed. by Thomas Zung.)

Ken Wilber, A Theory of Everything, The Atman Project, and Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution.

Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics.

Wayne Dyer, Your Sacred Self and Wishes Fulfilled.

Paul Davies, God and the New Physics.

Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future, The Holotropic Mind, The Cosmic Game, and The Adventure of Self-Discovery.

Peter Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry.

Sean M. Kelly, Individuation and The Absolute: Hegel, Jung and the Path to Wholeness.

Eckhart Tolle. The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.

James Redfield and Michael Murphy, God and the Evolving Universe.

Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi and The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You.

Bernard Haisch, The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What’s Behind It All.

Ervin Laszlo, Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality, The Connectivity Hypothesis, and Quantum Shift in the Global Brain.

David R. Hawkins, Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self.

Ramana Maharshi, The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi.

Roger Walsh & Frances Vaughan, Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision.

Ken Foldes, Hegel and the Solution to Our Postmodern World Crisis. and The Jedi Handbook of Global Education.

David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order.

Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy.

Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World.

P.D. Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe..

Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics.

Robert Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future.

Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, How Quantum Activism Can Save Civilization, and The Quantum Doctor.

Fred Alan Wolf, Taking the Quantum Leap.

Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.

John Mackey, Conscious Capitalism.

Kenneth Ring, Lessons From the Light, and Heading Toward Omega.

Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix.

John D. Barrow & Frank J. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle.

Frank J. Tipler, The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead.

Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular World.

G.W.F. Hegel, All Works esp., The Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic, Science of Nature, Science of Spirit/Mind, The History of Philosophy, and The Philosophy/Science of History.

F.W.J. Schelling, All Works esp., Of the I as Principle of Philosophy and On University Studies.

J.G. Fichte, All Works esp., Early Philosophical Writings (tr. by Dan Breazeale)

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Will to Power, and The AntiChristian.

Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason.

Spinoza, The Ethics.

J. Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living.

Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga.

Rudolph Steiner, Esoteric Science: An Outline.

Dean Radin, The Conscious Universe.

John Gribbin, The Birth of the Living Universe.

Nick Herbert, Quantum Reality.

LINKS, FILMS, AND VIDEOS: Fred Alan Wolf, Einstein,
Bernard Haisch, Amit Goswami, Deepak Chopra, Doreen Virtue, Ken Foldes: Total Health

DVD: The Quantum Activist, The Razor's Edge, Doctor Strange.

Movement self care suggestions - Exercises

Meditation links

Nutritional Links

Functional medicine – referrals

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