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."