Past, Present and Future of Inside Awareness

Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning was founded by Renee Lindstrom in 2007. The center has had a couple of name changes before becoming known as Inside Awareness. The difficulty in finding a name to describe the areas of focus was an ongoing challenge, as each pillar of learning could be an individual learning method. In fact, they were during the founder’s studies. The intention was to integrate a whole system of behaviour development to realign responses to the environment with mindfulness.

In the course of coaching, mentoring and teaching in the local community, Renee Lindstrom began to create learning materials for different demographic needs, as well as hosting talking circles and community groups, and creating community events with focused topics for educational purposes in the community. Learn more about these at her personal website, http://www.reneelindstrom.com.

While continuing to expand the Learning Center’s objectives for continued consulting, teaching, coaching and mentoring Mindful Lifestyle choices through education, a new goal was announced in late 2025 for creating a legacy impact through education for balancing the two learning streams of consciousness.

The first stream of consciousness each human is born with includes patterns that develop abilities to navigate and process the world. The second is the conceptualized intellectualization development by man that separates the body, mind and spirit from the first organic and natural pattern. This legacy work will be under the umbrella of a non-profit that will be created or an existing one that is compatible will be joined.

This non-profit will develop foundational learning materials and technology based upon the existing patterns created during the past 26 years of teaching them in the community. The target audience will be early childhood educational programs that will align with the existing curriculum. There was recognition of a need for a focus in early institutionalized education when children are impressionable in that transition from one learning pattern to the next. This would include those who are entrusted with the children’s care. If you are interested in donating to this project, we would enjoy your support. This support will go to value-based curriculum and integrative somatic learning patterns for balancing both the early learning patterns of intellectualized conceptualized learning, focused on short-term and long-term memories. The patterns include logical, basic training in patterns to process information in healthy and productive actions.

Meanwhile……

The programs for personal development, business and community education will co-exist and help fund the early childhood developmental programs.

In 2025 and 2026, a commercial component supporting the vision statement of the Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning was begun. This included affiliate links with products the founder has created or used herself on her health and wellness journey. It includes suggestions for equipment she has used to cook and create home remedies with. It extends to books she has written on health and wellness, and for setting goals. A new product for somatic Body Mindfulness guided pattern audios has been launched now as ’26 begins. You will see these options in the side panel on the blog post and web pages.

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Foundation Pillars of Focus in Learning

The Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning reflects the integration of four learning pillars to balance body and mind function. These integrative learning pillars each focus attention on cultivating conscious awareness through actions that align with a present-moment experience, versus experiences from the past or future projections.

These four pillars of learning are a somatic integration of the five senses in movement, inner sensing of physical felt sensations through focusing attention, mindfulness and spatial awareness. Essentially, the intention is to develop a felt-sense connection with the anatomy, expand and balance abilities for focusing attention (mindfulness),

While mindfully focusing attention specifically to expand awareness through function. This mindfulness is similar to an experience of mindfulness meditation. The difference is in the mind’s focus of attention. In these patterns, one focus is on movement functions in transition while observing shifting weight patterns in the body, versus sitting in meditation, observing the breath as it leaves the body. The second focus is on the inner felt senses experienced in processing stimuli, triggering thoughts and action to separate socially conditioned reactions from past information and shift into the present actions being experienced. Essentially, this pillar is the pre-verbal influence. The third pillar is communication patterns that articulate from the present with clarity of communication patterns that achieve connection, and those that disconnect. The fourth pillar focuses attention on the environmental stimulus that supports connections to body, mind and emotions for balance and mindfulness.

Inside Awarenesses Interactive Foundation Pattern for grounding techniques into personal experience

All lifestyle learning programs are interactive and designed using a pattern with nine life areas.

The perspective of Inside Awareness is that the entrance to health and wellness can be through any one of the nine life areas as the focus for balancing health and well-being in the life area in relationships with the other life areas.

1. Education & Knowledge
2. Career
3. Community
4. Past/Ancestors/Children
5. Health
6. Future/Creativity
7. Wealth
8. Fame
9. Relationship

Relevant Areas of Application

Integration of these nine life areas for balancing a lifestyle of health and well-being can be beneficial in the following areas of life experiences:

• Personal Lifestyle Development
• Home & Parenting Culture
• Educational Institutions & School/Classroom Culture _{(Early, Middle, Intermediate, Secondary Levels and up)}
• Workplace Culture
• Business Planning for Creating a Culture
• Community Groups

Enhancing or creating a new foundation with conscious intention

• Creation or Refining:  Foundation (Building on existing, enhancing it or rebuilding it)
• Increasing potential with education:  spontaneous Interplay between elements in relationships to the environmental stimulus
• Integration through exploration to increase the potential of the experience

Methods used:

Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education  – pre-verbal human response and functional response to the ecological responses; physically, emotionally, mentally and *spiritually

*side note:  Spiritually means the connection to common values in this perspective

Somatic and Logical Interactive Dialogues – Spontaneous interplay between preverbal information gathering, inner process and communicating it through thinking or speaking

Culture of Values – integrating universal values into patterns of behaviour that starts by building inner definitions that create qualities of behaviour that become natural and organic.

Somatic and Logical Environmental Awareness, Placements and Ergonomics – external influences in the environment that include solid matter and the elusive flow of nature in space

Cultivating Awareness through a learned mindfulness that is active and an interplay between mindful awareness of internal and external stimuli

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