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• Bringing Radical Aliveness into the World

  • Start
    30 May 2025
  • End
    12 Dec 2025
  • Location
    In-Person,3095 21st Street San Francisco CA 94110

  Bringing Radical Aliveness into the World San Francisco 2025

  March 28th - 30th, 2025
  May 30th - June 1st, 2025
  August 15th - 17th, 2025
  November 7th - 9th, 2025
  December 12th - 14th, 2025

  This is an in-person event located Heartlab in San Francisco. 

  Cost: USD$4000 (sliding scale available)
  

  Space is limited to 18 Participants

  We believe the world needs your gifts! We have invited RA faculty to work with us over five modules to support you in expanding your impact in the world. Rather than focus on personal work, we are offering a series focused on developing our unique abilities to touch others and transform the world.

  Who is this for?

  • Leaders ready to step into the world fully and embody their gifts

  • People who are self-responsible, self-aware, and able to recognize personal biases

  • Humans willing to explore their impact in a co-created laboratory experience

  March 28th - 30th, 2025
  May 30th - June 1st, 2025
  August 15th - 17th, 2025
  November 7th - 9th, 2025
  December 12th - 14th, 2025

  Cost: USD$4000 (sliding scale available)

  If you are ready to DO YOUR PART, join us!

  Space is limited to 18 Participants

  - Our Invitation -

  We will meet for 5 weekends, each time for 3 days.

  The weekends will have opportunities for leadership, teaching, creativity, and support. Part of each Friday will be peer-led without faculty present as a way to step more courageously into individual leadership.

  Each participant will work on one "project" during this series, using the modules for feedback and support. The project is an opportunity for you to take the work into other contexts and develop your RA inspired skills. Your project is a way for you to do your part, drawing on your passion and willingness to welcome and bridge other perspectives, lenses, or frames. The modules will include time for you to lead activities, work on your project, and work through challenges with group and faculty support.

  We hope you will join us! If you have any questions or would like to register, please email BringingRAintotheworld@gmail.com.

  With Gratitude!

  Location:

  HeartLab in San Francisco

  www.heartlabsf.com

  www.RadicalAliveness.Org

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• Ilana Rubenfeld’s Legacy: Life-Changing Impacts of Her Method | USABP Spotlight Event

  • When
    13 Nov 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    29 registrants

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  This Spotlight Series Event is brought to you in partnership with The International Association of Rubenfeld Synergists - an official member of the USABP Educator Alliance.

  This presentation includes segments of a therapy session and the client’s responses 25 years later.

  This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event. 

  
  

  This event will include our special Overtime! 
  

  Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends. 

  Event Description

  Creating a legacy after a founder has passed is both an honor and a necessity, ensuring that their wisdom continues to guide future generations.

  Ilana Rubenfeld, founder of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method® (RSM), foresaw this need and recorded sessions during her training—leaving behind a rich archive of her integrative work combining talk and touch. The Legacy Project of The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation extends this vision by transforming archival recordings into teaching tools that illuminate Ilana’s method.

  As part of this project, Certified Rubenfeld Synergists Bonnie Muller and Heather Skoll are creating Synergy Conversations to explore the impact of Rubenfeld sessions decades later. In this webinar, they share video excerpts from Heather’s original session with Ilana and their reflective dialogue 25 years afterward. Participants will observe Ilana’s attuned, methodical approach and explore how archival material can ethically preserve and transmit a modality’s essence.

  Attendees are invited to reflect on their own practices and consider or share how they, too, honor and sustain the legacy of their healing lineage.

  Main Points of Workshop

  • A “Legacy” has three parts: The Gift, The Transmission, and The Impact.

  • Legacy links the origins of a modality, how it is communicated, and its impact

  • Transmitting recordings requires a sense of ethics, respect, and privacy.

  • Ilana’s method of transmitting her skills included Bodymind Sequences.

  • The impact of a single session with a masterful practitioner has the power to change the trajectory of one’s life.

  • We often experience changes in behavior and affect after therapeutic sessions, but may not fully appreciate the full impact until years later.

  
  

  Learning Objectives

  After completing this session, participants will be able to:

  • Describe three aspects of Legacy preservation.

  • Identify key components of the simultaneous use of talk and touch as used in the Rubenfeld Synergy Method.

  • Explain the ethical considerations involved in transmitting therapeutic knowledge.

  • Design or augment the legacy efforts of their modality.

  
  

  Presenter Information
  
  Bonnie Muller
  MSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker CT (001909) since 1980. Exp. 6/30/26 Certified Rubenfeld Synergist since 2000.

  Bonnie is semi-retired and presently serves as the president of The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation, with the mission of preserving and promoting the essence of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®.

  Bonnie has been a clinical social worker for 50 years. Certified in Rubenfeld Synergy 25 years ago, she has incorporated this integrative approach in a full range of human service agency and advocacy settings. Her advocacy and connectivity have served communities across the life span - working with babies, children, adolescents, young adults, parents and elders. As the president of The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation, she is coordinating the efforts of Rubenfeld Synergists to edit the preserved videos of Ilana’s sessions in order to demonstrate the methodology and impact of the Rubenfeld Synergy approach.

  Heather Skoll

  Heather Skoll has been a Certified Rubenfeld Synergist (CRS) since 2002 and a member of the INARS (International Association of Rubenfeld Synergists) Board in various roles through the years.

  Currently, Heather considers her work as “Adapted Wellness”, with a client centered focus, whether it is with Rubenfeld Synergy sessions, or Chair Yoga classes.

  After watching her session with Ilana Rubenfeld 25 years later, Heather was moved to contact Bonnie and ask her how it was for her to watch her session all these years later. This conversation sparked an idea…to have conversations, record and share these conversations to continue the legacy of the brilliant work of Ilana Rubenfeld.

  
  

  APA references

  The Rubenfeld Synergy Method. (n.d.). Rubenfeld Synergy. Retrieved October 9, 2025, from https://www.rubenfeldsynergy.com

  The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation. (n.d.). The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation. Retrieved October 9, 2025, from https://www.rubenfeldfoundation.com

  The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation. (n.d.). YouTube channel. YouTube. Retrieved October 9, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/@TheIlanaRubenfeldFoundation

  The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation. (2023, May 1). The Listening Hand – Ilana Rubenfeld (Full Interview) [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/9W34SNL-Oq4?si=NIWDcktgLRX4FLFT

  The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation. (2023, May 15). Ilana Rubenfeld – Legacy of Touch and Listening [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Px5hqQot0OA?si=FZDimgbY0pFYSDb4

  The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation. (2023, June 1). The Art of Synergy: Exploring Rubenfeld Synergy Method® Principles [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/HrcBQ0UmJhk?si=BXxE3YKce-hHGHje

  Rubenfeld, I. (2000). The Listening Hand: Self-Healing Through the Mind-Body Connection. Bantam Books.

  Rubenfeld, I., & Griggers, C. (2015). Somatic emotional release work among hands-on practitioners. In G. Marlock & H. Weiss (Eds.), with C. Young & M. Soth, The handbook of body psychotherapy & somatic psychology (pp. 872–882). Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.

  
  

  Bibliography

  The Rubenfeld Synergy Method. Rubenfeld Synergy, www.rubenfeldsynergy.com.

  The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation. The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation, www.rubenfeldfoundation.com. The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation YouTube Channel. YouTube, www.youtube.com/@TheIlanaRubenfeldFoundation.

  The Listening Hand – Ilana Rubenfeld (Full Interview). The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation, YouTube, uploaded by The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation, 1 May 2023, youtu.be/9W34SNL-Oq4?si=NIWDcktgLRX4FLFT.

  Ilana Rubenfeld – Legacy of Touch and Listening. The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation, YouTube, uploaded by The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation, 15 May 2023, youtu.be/Px5hqQot0OA?si=FZDimgbY0pFYSDb4.

  The Art of Synergy: Exploring Rubenfeld Synergy Method® Principles. The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation, YouTube, uploaded by The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation, 1 June 2023, youtu.be/HrcBQ0UmJhk?si=BXxE3YKce-hHGHje.

  Rubenfeld, Ilana. The Listening Hand: Self-Healing Through the Mind-Body Connection. Bantam Books, 2000.

  Rubenfeld, I., & Griggers, C. (2015). Somatic emotional release work among hands-on practitioners. In G. Marlock & H. Weiss (Eds.), with C. Young & M. Soth, The handbook of body psychotherapy & somatic psychology (pp. 872–882). Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.

  
  

  
  

  The Rubenfeld Synergy Method® (RSM) is a powerful and proven healing modality, with a 60-year history of using the wisdom of the body to provide transformational healing. Combining intentional, respectful, listening touch with verbal processing creates a dynamic integration of body, mind, emotions, and spirit. READ MORE
  

  
  

  

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  These exclusive webinars are brought to you by the USABP and its proud educational and training institute member organizations.

  These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.

  

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  ABOUT OUR EVENTS

  Our events often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.

  These courses content levels serve introductory or beginning level; intermediate level; or advanced level.

  Please cancel prior to 24 hours before the course starts. For questions or concerns, phone 202-466-1619.

  Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

  

  DON’T FORGET! 

  REGISTRATION is in three steps:

  1) Register first on the USABP website (click the register button on this page), and then

  2) Register at Zoom too. Use the Zoom link that we will email to you after you register with USABP (click the register button on this page to begin registration).

  3) Once you register with Zoom.  Zoom will send you your login link.

  We look forward to seeing you at this premiere event.

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• Meditation in Action with African Drumming and Dance | USABP On The Move Event

  • When
    16 Feb 2026
  •  
    9:50 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
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  Join us for this event featuring Gordy and Zoe Ryan
  
  

  Our Topic for this Virtual Experiential
  

  Meditation in Action

  Gordy and Zoe studied and toured with Babatunde Olatunji and the Drums of Passion. Babatunde Olatunji was known for introducing West African drumming in the West. Beginners and experienced drummers and dancers are welcome at this online event which will be a musical, educational, and cultural experience for all. Instruction for drumming and dance are tailored to accommodate various skill levels making it an inclusive environment for all to enjoy.

  Take Away

  • Experience and learn techniques to open up to your own and your groups connection to Spirit. 

  About Our Facilitators

  Gordy Onayemi Ryan

  Gordy Ryan played with Babtunde Olatunji for 30 years and built the Olatunji Hall in 1999; members of the Drums of Passion consider it as being our ‘Spirit Well’ where we honor Baba and the traditions passed to us by our elders in the Culture. Gordy has played on movie scores, over 100 albums, and now lives on Vashon Island where he teaches Afro Cuban music and plays in multiple bands including Roger Fisher’s (lead guitar and songwriter for the band Heart). He loves playing for the dance with his wife Zoe and accompanied Gabrielle Rothe during her career in the 5 Rhythms for over 30 years. His goal is to bring the Spirit to the musical moment.
  
  Zoë Ryan
  

  Zoë Ryan has journeyed deep into modern, shamanic and West African dance. It is her joy to bring the transformative nature of dance to people of all ages. She trained in dance education at the Rudolph Laban Centre in London and has an early background in Shakespearean Theatre. She apprenticed with Gabrielle Roth and played extensively with Babatunde Olatunji and the Drums of Passion.

  
  

  Event Preparation Info

  This event will include our special Overtime! 
  Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends.
  

  Prepare for movement
  Please come dressed in loose fitting clothes and the space to move around. If you can bring a mat to lie on that would be helpful. 

  Invite friends and colleagues.
  Check back for more specific event day details.

  Register now and we will send you updated information for the event. This includes being notified when the event recording is ready for viewing. Important! Please note the start time is 9:50 am PST. 

  Please donate to this program.

  Event Format - 9:50 am PST start time

  • 10 min welcome and program set up talk
  • 50 min experiential
  • 10 min check ins, shares, and closing
  • Overtime begins

  Cost 
  Free to members and guest. Donations welcome. 
  
  Please consider making a donation in support of our programs. USABP is member supported and a contribution based on your resources would be greatly appreciated.

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  USABP ON THE MOVE is an opportunity for our community to connect and experience restorative practices while getting exposure to many forms of somatic movement and mindful body-awareness programs. 

  The root of e-motion is “to move.” The same regions of the brain responsible for movement also carry out our cognitive processes. Our brain evolved from movement and still depends on it day to day. Join us to discover how conscious movement can bring nourishing restoration, playful community connection, and the understanding of how moving helps our thoughts, words, and actions.

  Somatic tools may include, among others, breath, movement, self-directed touch, sound vibration, and conscious dialogue.

  
  

  

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  Get invited to events like these, updates on free resource materials and more. Subscribe to the USABP Highlights Newsletter.

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  Check back as new information on our events happen regularly and updates are ongoing.
  

  These exclusive webinars are brought to you by the USABP and its proud educational and training institute member organizations.

  These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.

  

  IMPORT NOTICE!

  Registration is in three steps. Get the details below.

  Non-members see special message* to you below.

  Members you must be logged in to be able to access free registration.

  

  *NON-MEMBERS SAVE NOW: 

  Non-members are better off to join the USABP. For a little more money paid as a member - instead of an event registrant - you can participate in 12 plus upcoming webinars FREE and get access to our library of training - lectures. Plus get our International digital and/or printed version of our International Peer Reviewed Journal and much more.

  

  ABOUT OUR EVENTS

  Our events often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.

  These courses content levels serve introductory or beginning level; intermediate level; or advanced level.

  Please cancel prior to 24 hours before the course starts. For questions or concerns, phone 202-466-1619.

  Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

  

  DON’T FORGET! 

  REGISTRATION is in three steps:

  1) Register first on the USABP website (click the register button on this page), and then

  2) Register at Zoom too. Use the Zoom link that we will email to you after you register with USABP (click the register button on this page to begin registration).

  3) Once you register with Zoom.  Zoom will send you your login link.

  We look forward to seeing you at this premiere event.

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