Somatic Educator, Trauma Practitioner, Rolfer, Yoga Teacher, Inner Selves Guide

Hello! I’m Ruthie. I work in the Healing Arts, and I am the creator of Body Rewilding, a comprehensive method for awakening our human kinesthetic intelligence.

My most exciting offering currently is my new Signature Online Course —

Body Rewilding 4 Month Transformation: Awaken the Original Integrity of Your Human Body & Restore Kinesthetic Health

I’m in private practice in Germantown, NY, where I offer a unique synthesis of Rolfing (structural bodywork), Somatic Experiencing (body-based trauma resolution), Embodied Inner Selves work (Jungian-based archetypal parts), and Body Rewilding movement.

I also offer in-person small-group retreats and workshops for collective healing.

I am a Certified Rolfer with 20 years of experience (practicing since 2006), I am a Somatic Experiencing Pracitioner (SEP since 2022), I’ve been teaching yoga and movement for 25 years, and I’ve been a Parts-work Facilitator for 13 years. I graduated from Brown University in 2003 with a BA in History of Art with a concentration in antiquity. I continue to be inspired by ancient human culture, art, symbolism, and mythology.

I’m most interested in the alchemical intersection of expressive, primal movement, body structure re-patterning, trauma resolution, and embodied inner selves work for healing and wholeness.

I am affiliated with The Ida P. Rolf Institute and Somatic Experiencing International.

For 25 years, I have guided people in exploring the innate intelligence of our bodies. Body Rewilding is the culmination of everything I’ve synthesized throughout my life as a teacher, bodyworker, clinician, mover, student, and innovator.

For the first 20 years of my life, my kinesthetic focus was in dance. I studied and performed ballet and modern dance, as well as experimental dance theater, hip hop, and West African dance. At 18 years old I immersed myself in Yoga practice and my life changed forever.

I started teaching Yoga at age 19 while studying at Brown (my professors sometimes took my Yoga classes). I was lucky to ignite my serious Yoga journey with Tom Gillette, who emphasized Yoga philosophy, consciousness work, and emotional transformation.

In my early 20s I studied Ashtanga Yoga and went to Mysore. I traveled around Central America and Asia, often making a living by teaching Yoga at various retreat centers. I found a Yoga home at OM Yoga Center under the guidance of Cyndi Lee, and there I found the fruitful overlap of Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism. I planted my feet on the path of Iyengar Yoga and was blessed to learn from many of the phenomenal teachers at the Iyengar Institute of NY— especially Lara Warren.

At age 24 I found Structural Integration and the work of Dr. Ida Rolf. After completing the Guild for Structural Integration training in 2007, I opened up a bodywork practice in NYC and have been in private practice ever since. I discovered the fertile ground of the Structural Integration-Yoga intersection, and invented and brainstormed within that realm for many years (and still do).

In my late 20s I discovered Continuum movement (the work of Emily Conrad) through Mary Abrams, which was like a homecoming. In my late 20s into early 30s I made several long contemplative trips to India with my partner Eric Fraser, who is a masterful musician on the Indian Classical music path.

Around the time I turned 30 I found Voice Dialogue, the work of Hal and Sidra Stone, through my mentor Bridgit Dengel Gaspard. It blew my mind open to experience the framework of the psychology of selves and explore the inner archetypes and sub-personalities. I became a Voice Dialogue facilitator and brought the work into my clinical practice. When I started to wrap my mind around integrating Voice Dialogue with Structural Integration and Yoga, I knew I was coming into something rich and important.

Soon after finding Voice Dialogue, I found animism, SoulCraft, and the work of Bill Plotkin. I participated in a soul initiation journey and found a new language for understanding human wholeness and rewilding.

Then, in 2015, I was reborn as a mother. Twice—again in 2018. Raising my sons continues to be the most challenging, rewarding, enriching, informing, humbling experience of my life.

When my first son was a baby, my first book was published by The Experiment Publishing in NYC: Stack Your Bones: 100 Simple Lessons for Realigning Your Body and Moving with Ease. I created the drawings for the book while breastfeeding. The book offers a simple, inclusive, and effective curriculum for restoring basic movement health—and making friends with oneself in the process. The content of this book eventually blossomed, expanded, and evolved into Body Rewilding.

In early 2020, I decided to study Somatic Experiencing and enrolled in the 3-year professional training program. This brilliant trauma resolution work based in nervous system physiology was the missing piece in the constellation of my offerings and methodology, and I am grateful to incorporate it.

Sometimes I feel a tension from being in both a healing role and a teaching role. I am continually investigating the essence of each of these roles—how they overlap and how they are at odds. But the truth is, I don’t completely identify as a Healer or a Teacher. I do help people heal. And I do educate. But somehow these titles or archetypes don’t seem to fit perfectly. It came to me recently that I feel much more like an Artisan, an Alchemist, a Collaborator, and a Guide. I am excited to share my craft with you and show you the lands that I’ve explored.