About the Grinberg Method®
Learn how to stop what you're doing
The Grinberg Method® is based on the understanding that suffering, limitations, and self-defeating habits are held physically in the body, and the body itself can reveal what needs to change. Using this modality, I use specific forms of touch, a foot assessment similar to reflexology, along with breath work and verbal guidance to bring your attention to your body to stop unhelpful patterns.
Sessions are conducted on a massage table but are not a soothing massage. I do not use a top sheet, meaning that I ask clients to wear underwear they feel comfortable being seen in. This allows you to more easily feel the experience of your physical and energetic body.
With your consent, our work together is to look directly at your relationship to pain and fear, your reactions to it, how to let it go, and allow you to feel all of this fully through your body.
As a practitioner, my job is to create the conditions where you learn to heal and unburden yourself. You know the most about your body, you're in the driver seat, and I'm here as teacher (and hype guy).
The Founder’s History
The Grinberg Method® was developed over 40 years ago by Israeli founder Avi Grinberg, and has largely been taught and practiced throughout Europe. After working in war zones and conflict areas as an army medic, Avi noticed that his level of attention along with that of the person he was treating, drastically improved the potential for that person to heal more quickly.
He began to dedicate his life to learning how to help people inhabit their bodies more deeply. He studied Zen Buddhism, and learned techniques from Bedouin healers and indigenous healers in South America before forming and teaching his own practice.
I (Ky here) recognize that Avi's history working in the IDF in his youth may be a difficult pill to swallow given the state of Israel's current genocide of Palestinian people.
As a practitioner, I am a part of a tradition which is in part originated by an Israeli man, and also stems from indigenous cultures around the world and is not owned or propagated by any one state. It is a part of my responsibility to transparently name, honor, and question this practice's origin, and I welcome further conversations on this topic