by Renee Lindstrom, Founder of Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning
Learning field of expanding awareness for clarity and understanding through lived experiences with practical guided patterns for living.
Inside Awareness patterns through which you can notice your own experience, process it, and discover what becomes available.Shifting focus inward to balance interactive connectedness.
This is a Visual Image of a literacy system for recognizing the relationship between sensation, awareness, interpretation and everyday functional behaviour. The central figure isn’t successfully defending herself against everything coming toward her. She no longer has to organize herself around opposition to it.
The center describes Receptive Observation patterns and the outer describes Interpretative Evaluative Expressions. Guided patterns for lived integration for practical lifestyle integration.
With respect and gratitude, this work acknowledges the ground provided by the teachings and practices of Moshe Feldenkrais, Marshall Rosenberg, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and Dyan Grant Francis. Their contributions are honoured as part of the learning from which Inside Awareness continues to grow.
Feldenkrais® is a system for learning new actions through movement to increase function and quality of life. There is no dogma or self-image attached to this system of independent self-learning. This means it introduces a focus upon what you can do, not what you can’t. It reduces limiting beliefs by increasing focus of attention in the present moment. As an empath, I can trust the Feldenkrais® experience as it deepens my inner understanding, clarity and skeletal support through perception. It taps into the same dynamic of inner support I trusted as a baby to stand up and begin taking my first step.
I recommend it to everyone longing to be free of the past and to shift the fear of the unknown future. I especially recommend it for those who have been given labels and now identify with them. The only way to transformation is through a new action.
Dedicated Feldenkrais Focus, influenced by Somatic Dialogue & Awareness of Environment Stimulation to function
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Functional Integration® are registered service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America. Feldenkrais Method®
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Functional Integration®, are registered service marks of North America. Feldenkrais Method®
by Renee Lindstrom, Founder – Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning
Autumn New Moon Inquiries
Septembers New Moon Was the Inquiry: What is calling me? Now In October the inquiry is:
Current position of the moon phases – September 25th, ’26
An Invitation to Walk with Awareness
No two life paths unfold in exactly the same way.
People may arrive at the same age having developed remarkably different ways of moving, relating, responding, choosing, caring for themselves, and participating in life. These differences do not appear all at once. A life path develops through an accumulation of experiences—circumstances encountered, responses learned, choices made, opportunities available, and patterns repeated over time.
Many of these influences become part of everyday living without being consciously noticed. What is repeated becomes familiar. What is familiar can become a lifestyle. And the lifestyle itself begins to influence how the continuing path is experienced.
This raises a different possibility:
What might change when awareness becomes part of how the path is walked?
Awareness does not tell us what our life path should be, nor does it guarantee where the path will lead. It can, however, help us recognize what is happening while we are living it.
A habitual response can become something we notice.
A reaction can become something we feel before acting upon it.
A familiar strategy can become something we question.
A choice can become more conscious.
The guided patterns offered through Inside Awareness are invitations to explore this possibility through lived experience. They bring attention to ordinary areas of living—movement, sensing, feeling, thinking, eating, communicating, relationships, home and environment—not as separate subjects, but as experiences through which awareness can be learned and integrated.
The intention is not to interpret your life path for you or prescribe how it should be walked.
It is to offer guided experiences that may help you become increasingly aware of how you are walking it.
Your life path continues to unfold.
The invitation is to be present for more of it.
A pattern of inner listening to the experience has emerged through my own life path that has shaped the awareness integration sessions and classes for a number of years. The organic connections that emerged have been put into guided patterns that will be available through boutique group learning in early 2027.
Inner Listening Pathway
This image below reflects an experiential pattern that spontaneously emerged through a shift in the orientation of interpretation. The pattern is one of inner listening that can actively transition from sitting into standing and walking. The pattern of inner listening creates balance and clarity without reacting or attaching to the stories, emotions and thoughts of others in ones relationships. The space becomes the gentle boundary between what others experience and how they responded for remaining centered and grounded creating choice. A choice to engage and how to respond sensibly.
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Lifestyle Opportunities for Lifepath Integration of Experiences
Embodying Relationship with Lived Experience in the Home
Foundation – Where living takes root
Home • Environment • Life Path
The home becomes a life path for the time one lives in it. This clarity has value as it brings awareness to how it stimulates your thoughts, emotions and actions. Most are considering colour design trends and locking into a long term experience, bypassing the listening stages for maximizing the potential influences in becoming a supporting and flourishing home. One that reflects the homeowners intentions and expectations.
The patterns of listening at Inside Awareness use natural patterns for balancing the interrelationships between the home and householders living within it. The intention is for a fuller life that is supported by a foundation that compliments ones hopes, dreams and intentions on their lifepath.
Listening to Universal Interconnected Qualities
These qualities of Yin and Yang are a focus in Traditional Feng Shui. Together in balance they reflect balance.
These same qualities are consideration that are reflected in in the Life Path & Living Expressions through relationships learning and coaching opportunities.
Recognize the seed pattern? Ancient gravitational rotational pattern. Explore Feldenkrais @ Monterey Center in #yyj’s Oak Bay or create your own boutique workshop or group lessons at home, work or organization. Living Functional topics could include, TMJ and Jaw Bone Function, Breathing through the Flexible Bone function, Walking through Flexible Bone Function, Sleeping with Bone Functional Awareness, Rolling into and out of Bed through Bone Functional Awareness, and more…..
New Fall Movement Classes
Signing up for #yyj Balance and A Fear of Falling still active – Monterey Center – 250-361-7508
October 31st, ’26 – #yyj Workshop – Breathe Easier with Feldenkrais – 250-361-7508
December 5th, ’26 – #yyj Workshop – TMJ – 250-361-7508
A focus of Harmonizing with food is to inspire lived relationships with eating plans that support inner and outer relationships with nature. These lived relationships are demonstrated in the diagram. Eating plans with a focus on the seven energy center colours was an plan to inspire the connection with food choices. The seven chakras life areas influenced by the chakras are shown in a gallery under it.
If you are interested in starting your Cultured Food Journey:
This slideshow demonstrates the body’s seven energy centers in alignment with their corresponding life area influences. Each picture shows a person transferring this into lived action by the figure coming into standing for a lived experience.
Embodiment before strategy is a learning pattern integrated into the program topics at Inside Awareness. Learn more about the lifestyle program topics.
With respect and gratitude, this work acknowledges the ground provided by the teachings and practices of Moshe Feldenkrais, Marshall Rosenberg, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and Dyan Grant Francis. Their contributions are honoured as part of the learning from which Inside Awareness continues to grow.
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Functional Integration®, are registered service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North
A pattern of inner listening to the experience has emerged through my own life path that has shaped the awareness integration sessions and classes for a number of years. The organic connections that emerged have been put into guided patterns that will be available through boutique group learning in early 2027.
Each human has a path forward that could be called their life path.
This path is influenced by experiences and choices. In turn, what has already been experienced and chosen influences how the present is encountered and how future possibilities are approached.
Much of a life path is walked without full awareness of where it is leading. Circumstances arise, we respond to them, and choices are made within them. Those choices become part of what shapes the next steps along the pathway.
Yet many of the influences shaping the path remain elusive. The walker’s attention is naturally drawn toward navigating what is immediately happening. Attention may become occupied with deciding what is right or wrong, solving problems, assigning blame, avoiding shame, or relying upon familiar strategies that have worked—or seemed to work—in the past.
Over time, these learned responses can become habitual ways of walking the path. New experiences may then be approached through patterns established by earlier ones. Attention can become absorbed in resolving the difficulties that arise, while the patterns influencing those difficulties remain largely unnoticed.
In this way, the patterns of one’s lifestyle become a core influence on the lived experience of the life path. They can be quiet, elusive, and outside conscious attention. What has become familiar may simply feel like the way life is.
What if the life path itself could become a place for cultivating awareness?
What if simple guided patterns could be integrated into ordinary life experiences—not to prescribe the path or determine where it should lead, but to make visible what has previously been elusive?
As patterns become recognizable, there is an opportunity to pause, sense what is present, and notice how an experience is being interpreted. What was once habitual can become available for inquiry.
Awareness creates the possibility for greater clarity.
And with greater clarity, choices along the life path can become more conscious.
The intention is not to interpret another person’s life path for them.
It is to cultivate the awareness through which they can begin to interpret their own.
Read initiation to Life Path in Octobers Newsletter
With respect and gratitude, this work acknowledges the ground provided by the teachings and practices of Moshe Feldenkrais, Marshall Rosenberg, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and Dyan Grant Francis. Their contributions are honoured as part of the learning from which Inside Awareness continues to grow.
by Renee Lindstrom, founder of Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Learning
Here is a Labyrinth Pattern I designed about 15 years ago. The intention was to design it for limited mobility access where the walker may become a scooter. The seed pattern for the labyrinth is a cross sections to reflect the cardinal directions which is duplicated in the Medicine Wheel and other traditions throughout history. The objective was to provide seating at each cardinal direction once entering from the East.
This design was also my interpretation of honoring an earlier career of the person it was being designed for who studied the middens archaeology of the far north of B.C. and into Alaska. It was a tribute to a ‘mentor.’ One of my mentors. I call it Dee’s Labyrinth.
What I love about the design is that it can be adjusted for smaller spaces by taking out middle pathways.
Embodiment before strategy is a learning pattern integrated into the program topics at Inside Awareness. Learn more about the lifestyle program topics.
by Renee Lindstrom, Founder – Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning
Energy of Abundance
The flow into fall begins and summers ease begins to fade.
Sensing
Money Path
When money is approached primarily through fear, analysis, and pursuit, it can become an external measure of security rather than something we feel capable of creating and receiving.
Developing trust in yourself can open a different relationship with money—one that is less influenced by old social conditioning and more connected to your own sense of possibility, resourcefulness, and abundance.
This does not mean being financially reckless. It means noticing the beliefs and habits that restrict your relationship with money and exploring what supports a more independent, grounded, and abundant way of creating financial well-being.
Nature demonstrates. The moon reminds. Awareness notices. Intention chooses. Life reveals what grows.
Long-distance bracelet that sends human-like touches, replicating the comfort of a loved one’s presence and bridging the distance between couples, friends, and family. The emotional gift to stay in touch with the ones you love. Link below to learn more:
Renee’s Educational Journey of the Labyrinth mirroring this historical evolution
beginning with introduction through dousing and walking meditation followed by the uncovering of the mathematical patterns in churches and community group sharing labyrinth values
Renee’s Educational Urban Gardening exploration and decisions
A choice to become a master gardener was blocked by a life event. The choice shifted to exploring urban foraging and healing gardens alongside one another with one foot in each category – it changed everything and reconnected a separation to the land I felt somatically yet couldn’t identify cognitively
Fall Detox to build Immune System
I do a detox a couple times of year with wormwood and black walnut. I have never digested it through a liquid and decided to try it for this summer transition into fall. The ingredients in the pic also are inclusions I had not experienced in combination. The berberine excites me as it is a plant tincture I use for infections. It comes from Oregon Grape roots, which is a common bush/shrub in our #yyjneighbourhoods. It is a good time to start this due to the immune system support it offers. Read more @ link below:
Embodiment before strategy is a learning pattern integrated into the program topics at Inside Awareness. Learn more about the lifestyle program topics.
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Functional Integration®, are registered service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North
by Renee Lindstrom, founder Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning
Embodied Mindfulness approach to personal change
Here is a life style map diagram of the the focus of attention in the learning topics at Inside Awareness. The intention of lifestyle learning patterns are for Human Flourishing.
Human Flourishing
Flourishing is a state of living optimally, in deep fulfillment and ongoing personal growth, beyond basic survival or simple happiness. Flourishing encompasses a sense of purpose, rich relationships, physical health, and resilience to adapt to challenges
The body reveals.
The mind interprets.
Awareness connects the two.
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