Rupa Cousins, Integrated Life Mentor

This page is about the work of Rupa Cousins, her private practice as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, as a somatic therapist with the Rubenfeld Synergy Method, and as a teacher, guide. mentor and facilitator, offering private sessions, workshops and classes, locally and internationally.

Primarily, Rupa offers one on one sessions at her office in East Dummerston,VT and once a week in Keene New Hampshire. She has been private practice with the Alexander Technique for over 30 years, and with the Rubenfeld Synergy method for over 20 years.

These modalities, are both different and complementary. The Rubenfeld Method evolved from the Alexander Work through the insight of Illana Rubenfeld who added emotion processing to the mind/body work of FM Alexander and Moshe Feldenkrais.

Most recently, Rupa has joined with Dr. Michael Gigante in creating the North East PNI Institute for Healing, (Psycho-neuro-immunology.) Together and with guests facilitators, they teach classes for professionals and people who are wanting to work with their mind/body towards self healing.

For many years, Rupa has been leading workshops in movement, meditation, poetry and sharing, from an eclectic and "embodied" spiritual perspective. Gleaned from her life as a seeker, who loves dance, movement and body awareness as a way to reach the heart of the divine, WHEN DANCE BECOMES PRAYER has become a gift she loves to offer.

Paneurhythmy, is a twice a week offering in Brattleboro VT. at 8:00 in the morning, always free, meetings are on Wednesdays and Sundays, between the spring and fall equinox when it is not raining near the top of Living Memorial Park. From the sacred wisdom teachings of Peter Deunov, (Biensa Douno), it is a transformational movement practice, a healing for the self, the earth and all beings.

The name "The Connected Self" comes from Rupa's personal struggle to find and name what might be a theme that runs through all her work. "The Connected Self" is about integration, wholeness, joy in the body/mind/emotions/spirit.