Dancing Your Bliss

Bliss Psychotherapy and Healing Retreats

Rachel Fleischman

Rachel Fleischman, LCSW is a highly-skilled psychotherapist and dynamic workshop leader, based in San Francisco.  Throughout her career, Rachel has pioneered the combination of traditional psychotherapy with movement, body awareness and spirituality.

Embodying 20 years of expertise, Rachel has been trained in several healing arts including; Body-Mind Psychotherapy, somatic psychology, mindfulness, Hakomi and expressive art therapy.   Whether in her private practice, or leading a retreat, Rachel choreographs a total experience for each individual’s body, mind, and spirit. Her body of work has been designed to strengthen and empower you from the inside out – removing tension from the body, releasing the entrapments of the mind and reconnecting you to your powerful self in a thoroughly conscious way.

Rachel's fascination with spirituality, soul, mood disorders, and movement, has led her to develop a movement system called Dance Your Bliss™, a playful powerful and highly original movement form which she leads across the globe.

Rachel has led Dance Your Bliss™ to thousands of people and is longtime faculty at the Omega Institute in NY. Her insatiable curiosity for authentic movement and healing infuses every moment of her classes with surprising clarity.

Rachel is a licensed psychotherapist in the state of California.  License # LCS 24819

Education:

Movement Based Expressive Arts Therapy (2004)
Tamalpa Institute, San Anselmo, CA

Masters Degree in Social Service (2000)
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude (1995)
Temple University, Philedelphia, PA


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Mission:

To foster change as you trust your body's wisdom. Without nurturing, the vitality of our own body and spirit can dry up. The poet John Ciardi explains "an ulcer is an unkissed imagination taking its revenge for having been jilted. It is an undanced dance, and unpainted watercolor, an unwritten poem."

Testimonials

Thank you Rachel! My life has changed dramatically since I began working with you. I now feel happier, more energized, much more creative and FREE again!" I don't know which I love more - the private sessions, or the Dancing Your Bliss workshops..

I have never had counseling or seen anything close to a therapist before.  When I realized that the time had come to explore some things about myself, Rachel was such a fantastic professional to work with.  I didn't feel like I got my head "shrinked."  Instead I felt very supported and like I was sharing with someone who was really experienced and available for me.  Rachel has a beautiful approach that is not focused only on the mind, but on the heart and body, too.   Rachel is a true healer, and has so much to give.  Everything about the experience was uplifting - from her beautiful office space to the surprising variety of exercise we did that helped me get much deeper into my process.  I highly recommend her to anyone that feels like they are ready to take a step in getting to know more wonderful and beautiful parts of themselves.