The Rosen Method Israel school is a team of professionals from the international community in the US and Europe that are committed to bringing Rosen Method Bodywork to Israel. Our aim is to reach the diverse communities in Israel and provide personal and professional education in Rosen Method with complementary development of mindfulness meditation and movement. We support the growing Rosen students and interns of the method creating an international resource for them. We are holding the vision of peace through individual inner work, inner freedom and wholeness.

Dina Kushnir
Dina is a Rosen practitioner and teacher and a life-long student of the healing arts with a focus in wisdom teachings and spirituality.
Dina received her MAIS (Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies) in 1984 in dance, music, and psychology. Her training as a dancer opened the door for her study of various body-mind healing modalities. She was certified in Swedish Massage therapy (LMT 1988), Reiki (Master Teacher since 1991), yoga and Integrative Yoga Therapy (1995) . Her training also included Alexander, Feldenkrais, and Huma Transpersonal Bodywork modalities. In 1992 Dina was certified as a practitioner of Rosen Method Bodywork , which since became the focus of her practice. The spiritual foundation of her healing work rests in her Jewish roots and in her studies of Insight Meditation .
In 1990, Dina founded the Zohar Body-Mind Healing Center in New York , home for Women Weaving , a yearly conference for women in the healing arts. More recently, she developed Sisters of the Diamond Light and the Path of the Priestess , a combined four-year program for personal growth and spirituality for women to reach their inner core and empower the feminine within. She has been teaching Mindfulness Meditation since 1996 in Israel and the United States, has led numerous workshops in the Rosen Method for psychotherapists, and has lectured on the connection between meditation and Rosen Method in various conferences including the Rosen World Congress in Finland (2006).
Dina views her work as an on going process of exploration and discovery, creating sacred spaces for the unveiling of the heart. In her private practice and teaching she offers the warmth, joy, and freedom of the feminine with years of experience in leading people into soulful transformation.
Since 2005, Dina has been bringing the Rosen Method to Israel , her native country. With an international team of Rosen Teachers and practitioners, she is creating the Rosen Method Israel School.
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Ritva Malka
Ritva is a senior teacher from Finland. She met Marion in 1984 and since then she has been involved in The Rosen Method Body Work as a practitioner, teacher, supervisor and director of teaching. Ritva also trained as a nurse in acute care and hospital care. She was a business owner of health food store for over 10 years. Ritva is married to an Israeli and is a mother and a grandmother for 6 grandchildren. She has been teaching the Rosen Method in Europe and the USA and was invited to be part of the Israeli team by Dina Kushnir. She started to teach in Israel October 2006.
Ritva loves Israel and the People of Israel; she is dedicated to bringing the Rosen Method to Israel, to supporting the growing student body and the training of practitioners. For her the Rosen Method is a way of life. She brings to it her extensive experience, sense of humor, compassion and her lightness of being.

Zach (Itzhak) Dery
I was born in Jerusalem 1978, grew up there and later in a Kibbutz in the north. Year 2002, two years after finishing my army service, I moved to live in Sweden with my Swedish girlfriend, lived there in a small farm in the forest for four years. During this time I got to know about the Rosen Method and started taking courses in Oslo, Norway. I finished my studies in October 2006 and started my internship.
This past year I have been living in Oslo and working with Rosen Method and massage therapy.
The Rosen work for me is still a mysterious phenomenon. There is a magic in the touch. There is an enormous power in the softness, in the listening with one's whole body, in being present. To be a Rosen therapist is a constant inner work on oneself: to dare and just contain what is, without trying to change it, trusting that the right change will come in the right time and way. It's amazing to see what happens when the whole attention of the therapist is fully there, in the physical meeting between two bodies and the way it affects both the therapist and the client when this "sacred meeting" is happening.
My vision is to see one day Israelis and Palestinians doing workshops together, touching each other, meeting each other's pain with compassion and love.

Linda Frisone
Linda began her bodywork training in l981 in polarity therapy and Swedish massage. In l989, she attended Dr. Scherer's Academy of Healing in Santa Fe, and became nationally certified as a massage therapist. She was introduced to Rosen Method at Dr. Scherer's and felt like she had come home. She became certified as a Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner in l994 through the Rosen Method Center Southwest. In l996 she became certified as a Rosen Method Introductory Workshop Teacher after completing a two-year training with the Southwest Rosen Center. Linda has taught Rosen Method Workshops throughout the Southwest and the East Coast. She has, also, taught Rosen Method to the staff at Omega Institute. Most recently, she has been involved on the Rosen Method Professional Association Conference Committee for the RMPA Conference in California in 2006 and the Conference in April of 2007 on the East Coast. In l996, she became certified as a Burnham Systems Facial Rejuvenation Practitioner and assistant taught with Dr. Burnham in Sao Paolo, Brazil and the Omega Institute. Linda is very excited about being part of the teaching team to bring Rosen to Israel. She feels honored to be bringing Rosen Method, the work that she feels very passionate about, to a country that she feels passionately connected to. She has been asked to present Rosen Method at Al-Quds University in Palestine in November; and is very committed to the possibility of bringing Israelis and Palestinians together in a Rosen Intensive.