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Mindful Metaphors
Soliloquy

Explore the Enneagram, Mindful Metaphors, and Trauma-Informed Bodywork, in Baltimore and Virtually

Meet Rosemary

These processes are gentle, organic, effective and efficient: My clients find that they get to the origin of their imbalances.  This facilitation addresses the cellular memory stored in the body. Each session is meaningful and restorative.

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During the Pandemic, I began exploring the Enneagram and now I am certified as an Enneagram Instructor and Enneagram Informed coach under Russ Hudson.  The Enneagram has provided me strategies for deepening my experience of being present and self-aware. This is integral to my mission to provide meaningful content to my coaching practice.

In the 1980s, I began my journey exploring the Mind/Body/Spirit- in Japan with Asian bodywork and meditation practices. I discovered the value of coming into harmony with life, the seasons and listening to my body.  Shiatsu uses therapeutic touch along the acupoints and energetic pathways that connect the neuromuscular system with the mind-body response. I have integrated my bodywork with Lymphatic Massage -Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD), and Intuitive Energy Work.

I am certified in MLD by Klose Training and Vodder School International.  This therapy is sought after to address allergy symptoms, illness, injury, or surgery–MLD cleanses the tissues and initiates an immune response. 

In Cambridge, England, where I completed certification in metaphor coaching with Penny and James Lawley, the founders of Symbolic Modeling. Metaphors are the window into what is holding us back and giving voice to what is motivating us to move forward. Metaphor coaching helped me to transform my life with this exploratory, insightful, emergent process.

 

Since 1990 I have been a professional member and certified instructor of AOBTA and NCCAOM Diplomate. Since 1994 I have held a Maryland state license under the Chiropractic Board.  In 2009 I graduated from the Energetix College of BioEnergetic Medicine to be qualified to recommend nutritional remedies for home care, which enhances health maintenance and detoxification. 

Since 1990 I have been an instructor of Meditation including Mindfulness, Buddhist, and Qi Gong. In 2009 I started as a research assistant and guide for a clinical study specializing in meditation and states of consciousness assisted by psychedelic therapy at The Johns Hopkins University Medical School under the direction of Roland Griffiths. 

 

Through my years of clinical experience — having studied with some of the best teachers in meditation, Asian bodywork therapy, Lymph Drainage Therapy, and Mindful Metaphor Facilitation and Enneagram training/coaching— I am prepared to offer you high-quality services.

What People Have to Say About Working with Rosemary

"Hi Rosemary. 

So glad you are in my neighborhood. Your Shiatsu is definitely amazing and I look forward to your heart and hands soon."

Alexandra

"I started working with Rosemary about ten years ago when I had a cough that wouldn’t go away. Her shiatsu therapy helped me get rid of it and it has never returned. Shiatsu Therapy with Rosemary has helped me stay on a path of wellness and grow into living the kind of healthy lifestyle that I had hoped for."

Judy P.

"My acupuncturist recommended Rosemary to me when I was suffering with asthma. After a series of treatments, my asthma was gone. Recently, four years since my previous treatment, I got a cough and asthma again. I contacted Rosemary and she treated me and the cough and asthma subsided quite quickly. She has a very special and healing touch. Thanks for the great treatments."

Pam Corckran

"I recently started seeing Rosemary to help treat chronic pain. She helped me feel better after just the first session. Rosemary’s style is warm and supportive. I’m grateful to be working with her." 

Maria Wydra

"Last fall I had three Mindful Metaphor sessions with Rosemary. She created a very comfortable environment. It opened me up to underlying imagery and themes in my life that are always present but that I was only semi-aware of. This unveiling continues to resonate and is a good tool in terms of figuring out what is important."

Johanna Biehler

"Rosemary's a fantastic healer and is very experienced in doing energy work. I had terrible sinus problems and she would massage my upper palate using acupressure points and I could literally feel my sinuses open and drain. The relief was instantaneous and lasted for weeks."

"Rosemary is a thoughtful teacher. In her Enneagram class, she took the incredibly complex Enneagram system and chunked it into digestible pieces of information that we could absorb and integrate into the way we orient ourselves in our lives.  It has been incredibly useful in both my personal life and professional life."

Jen S

"I was curious about the Enneagram and curious to learn about the personality types of the people in my life. I learned a lot about the personality types of my family and friends. Very interesting. I was surprised to learn that my type wasn't what I thought it was. It's great to have the Enneagram perspective on my strengths and weaknesses. Rosemary knows the Enneagram and shares it with enthusiasm, deep wisdom, and an open heart."

Anne C

"We were going to talk about 'humility' with Rosemary. She told me to draw 'what I want' and having moved to this rural village recently, I drew my plans of how this village was going to be transformed into an artistic community. Pianos being played, concerts held, chefs presenting gourmet food, artists exhibiting artwork, mushrooms everywhere, carpenters doing exquisite woodwork, people reading books, sharing poetry, etc.. I drew that. Then I had a second drawing where there were masks we put on and how tired I was to keep using those masks. How am I going to get rid of those masks and finally BE myself was what I wanted on a personal level.

So we started the session. A little background info is required here. I am getting my house built and having issues with contractors. Getting furious at them. So she asked me a couple of questions and then asked me to draw 'unconditional love in action'. My mind went blank. I could not do anything. First I tried to speak and buy time. Then I got to the job and drew a circle and started describing that. In the end, my obsession with the completion of the house disappeared. And what remained was to go up , up, up, to the level where my single hooked perspective, which is the result of fear, gets lost and I go above the problems. At the high, high level, there is nothing impossible for God. No problem can ever persist there. So whether a contractor shows up for work or does not is not an issue there. Because what matters is unconditional love, and collaborating with people. Seeing the thing, the mundane work, from each other's perspective dissolving the borders, and embracing one another. Never get stuck on the problem. Rising above it, breathing, remembering the divine. Feeling light, instead of stuck and frustrated… I cried a lot when she made me feel 'unconditional love in action'. Now I have a guiding light, a guiding perspective, a feeling to turn to whenever one of my contractors comes to me with an issue. And also, those drawings I had at the beginning of the session are not required anymore, because I realized I was imposing MY vision on the villagers. Claiming I know more than they do. Now, I am planning on blending with them, instead of showing off MY ways...This is humility..."

Elif Kalayci

Get In Touch

Please use the form below to schedule an appointment. 

If you have any questions, please contact me via phone or email and I'll be glad to speak with you. 

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Rosemary Scavullo Flickinger

Phone: (410) 963-4643

Email: rflickinger7@gmail.com

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