Friend Friday – Meet Rachel Putter

On Fridays, I’m going to introduce you to my friends–one at a time.

I’m going to do this because I believe when we are introduced to someone with words from the heart, they become a part of our community. Our community grows. Our circle of care extends.

I love meeting someone, learning about their dreams or needs and feeling into whether I have something to offer. I love connecting people. I love helping others take the next right step in their lives.

So, I’m going to introduce you to people I love. And it may inspire you. You may have something to offer. You may have a message for someone I introduce. He or she may have something to offer you. I want to offer the dance of connection. I want to grow a community that is steeped in love and inclusivity and care.

Meet Rachel Putter. (She’s camera shy but I’ll get a picture yet).

I met Rachel just one year ago. My friend Edie Cortese (http://sherri NULL.machighway NULL.com/~heidiros/2010/friend-friday-meet-edie-cortese/) had a session with her and said I absolutely had to go. I called immediately. I knew when I  heard her voice on the phone that 1) she was a strong and clear woman 2)that I would like her a lot and 3) that she was going to make a big difference in my life.

Rachel is a Grinberg Method (http://www NULL.grinbergmethod NULL.com/) Practitioner. Though it’s hard to describe the Grinberg Method itself, I like to say that Rachel has a special kind of mastery that is part radical honesty, part brilliant intuition, part scientist and part profound compassion. She knows how to reconnect you with your most authentic, clear, vital, pain free self and she settles for nothing less.

We all get caught in wretched patterns (physical, emotional, mental) that are obstructing our truest, most easeful, radiant expression of self. The Grinberg method is a very specific, body-centered path to free us of patterns that have prevented our fullest unfolding.

Rachel, herself, is from Israel. Though she wasn’t born there, she spent her young life there. She discovered the Grinberg Method in her early 20’s and has applied herself to learning and teaching the process over the last 17 years. Though she would never say it herself, word is she is absolutely one of the best practitioners of this method around.

All I can tell you is when she is working with me in a table session, I feel like I can be exactly who I am without apology, pretense or over concern for anyone but myself in that moment. I can take up space. I can cry, sweat, snort, and laugh. She sometimes speaks to me in Hebrew and though I can’t understand a word, it always makes me laugh and cry at the same time. She helps me to reconnect with my breath and my body and reminds me that the truths of the body are some of the greatest truths we have.

What else can I say? She teaches me every day how to be more clear, direct and loving. There is nothing sentimental or wishy washy about love. As long as we are charged with old anger, jealousy, victimhood, or helplessness, LOVE cannot fully be present. In every session with Rachel, I learn more about the work necessary to clear the arteries of our lives so that the blood of life — LOVE — can really FLOW.

When I look into her eyes, as she sometimes asks me to do at the end of a session to help me ground, I feel such timelessness, like she is–was–will be my sister in this great work of learning to be FREE from anything that obstructs our standing together in the great silence and celebration of love.

Absolutely check out one of her movement classes or a one-on-one session. She’s going back to Europe during the month of June, but set something up before she leaves. If you’re out of town, you can fly in for intensives. Now that is something that will ROCK your world.

This is her studio info:

7327 Santa Monica Blvd
90046 Los Angeles, CA
1-310-855 3368

Big love to you all.