Mindfulness Lifestyle summer focus on Embodied Fengshui & August Somatic micro movements for balance

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP, founder of Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning

Here’s how we have been spending our summer:

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Announcing the release of the 12 Levels of Consciousness

Now Available on Amazon Kindle

Each of the programs offered at Inside Awareness has the potential to increase understanding and clarity of each of these 12 levels of consciousness in the Dimension Levels of Consciousness Map using practice steps of skill development in the patterns of actions for day to day activities in one’s lifestyle. These qualities bring optimism, hope, self love and esteem in ordinary life experiences initiating fulfillment and contentment. Learn more about the programs in the link below, under the maps 12 Level descriptions.

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The mind focus origins in psychology uses Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to describe the levels of behaviour evolution. These 12 levels of consciousness uses a somatic focus to initiate cognitive mindfulness. The descriptions interprets the balance of the two intertwined dimensions: the body and the mind. This pattern is designed to come into alignment through somatic awareness versus the conceptualization of the cognitive attributes.

Each of the levels are described in the 12 Levels of Consciousness available on Amazon Kindle.

Get your action cards on pdf to print for reflection, consideration and personal action step! 12 Action Cards – Levels of Consciousness

Listen to a meditation for the 12 Levels of Consciousness: below on YouTube

Another New Addition for integration is listening to music for integration. This playlist is selection that would be played on a radio station. Young and interactive day to day topics that align with integration of new behaviour postures and conditioning. Add it to your playlist if you enjoy a selection of different genera’s.

For example, When Separation Dissolves – refers to #8 in the Levels of Consciousness.

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Announcing The Lotus Flower Summer Embodiment Journal

Now Available on Amazon

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Lotus Flower Embodiment Action Cards

Awareness. Intention. Alignment. Growth.

A mindful journal to plan, reflect, and align with your highest self. The Lotus Flower Summer Weekly Embodiment Actions Journal is designed to support this journey.

Like the lotus flower, growth often emerges through challenge. Each page of this journal is an invitation to slow down, notice what matters, and take intentional steps toward the life you wish to create.

Inside these pages, you will find space to:

  • Set meaningful intentions
  • Track habits and progress
  • Reflect on emotions and experiences
  • Practice gratitude
  • Strengthen self-awareness
  • Align your actions with your values

This journal has been created through 26 years of experience integrating somatic awareness as support for understanding and increasing clarity in behaviour through movement, communication and listening. The cognitive behaviour and somatic behaviours are intertwined and this author practitioner and mentor has recognized a lack of balance and understanding between the two. Mainstream guided pattern focus in education has mainly been on cognitive function and not on somatic experience. Therefore, the somatic reactions can be out of control without the skills to keep impulse control in check. This is demonstrated through a lack of body connections to how the skeleton functions at the core patterns and in the inner processing of information due to limited filters of understanding. The guided patterns in this journal support the integration of balancing the interrelationships between the body and mind responses.

Below you will find two more somatic oriented activates that engage the mind through guided patterns. One is meditation and the other through sound.

Connect to learn more about Lotus Flower Embodiment Learning Series that integrates functional movement and mindfulness for converting out of balance reactions into conscious responses.


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#yyj in person Awareness through Movement® lessons in Oak Bay

Spring/Summer ’26

group lessons

Micro-movements using the Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education

Felt sense through Body

New Summer Sessions:

August 10th, ’26 – 4 Sessions

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

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Renee is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner – since 2007

Location: Monterey Recreation Center – Oak Bay

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‘Poverty consciousness’ into Divine Abundance

Intention can be woven into ones lifestyle for integrating a pattern for connecting and setting intention. Here is a selection of Natural Essences that can be introduced into ones lifestyle to align with intention for manifestation.

By Crystal Herbs Flower, Gems & Crystal Essences

Prosperity means to ‘have plenty of’, this is also a state called Divine Abundance.

Some people are born with a natural form of this divine energy, regardless of their childhood circumstances. We all know someone like this, who leads a charmed life, with good things always happening to them, and their needs always being met. This is often because of the good karma which has been accrued from past lives. To reach this divine state we need to release poverty consciousness and the thoughts which tell us that we will never have enough.

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The Angel of Abundance…

The Angel of Abundance will help you to remember that you live in an abundant universe, and that you are part of the flow of divine universal energy, within which there is plenty for everyone.

The vibrational quality of abundance feels generous, expansive and loving, so working with the Angel of Abundance will help you to experience more of these qualities in your heart and your energy field, attracting more of the same.

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Abundance & Prosperity…

opening your heart to abundance & prosperity

Abundance in all its forms is an expression of the flow of divine energy available to us when we live in harmony with the Universe. However, many of us unconsciously block this flow of energy due to beliefs, patterns and old stories that prevent us from feeling truly abundant.

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Intentional Lifestyle of Prosperity

Inside Awareness offers another way of approaching change.

Rather than beginning with what to do, it begins with noticing how we are being. Every movement, every conversation, and every decision arises from an intention, whether it is conscious or unconscious. When intention becomes visible, action naturally becomes more aligned.

Intention can be woven into ones lifestyle for integrating a pattern for connecting and setting intention. Here are some pieces of jewelry designed specifically for abundance and prosperity. Some are called prosperity generators. Embodying the life area of wealth begins with an active inner focus of intention before outside mindfulness action. Here are some pieces of jewelry to mindfully align attention with action for the wealth area in ones lifestyle

Embodiment through integration of conscious intention

Jewelry for the wealth and abundant lifestyle

Prosperity, Abundance & Wealth Manifestations

Herkimer Diamond Bracelet with Red Activation String

Embodied Wealth Activation – Manifestation, Highest Protentional, Universal Abundance,

Designed with the red string of universal intention

Financial Transformer Necklace

Attracting prosperity: If you’re ready to shift your financial reality, this is where it begins. Malachite is known as the stone of transformation—especially when it comes to money, opportunity, and bold action. This fully beaded necklace, paired with a high-grade gem show pendant, works to clear old financial patterns and activate new pathways for abundance. Wear it when you’re ready to evolve how money flows to you.

Prosperity Generator: Pyrite Necklace with Red Activation String

This isn’t just a necklace — it’s a wearable wealth ritual. The Mini Pyrite Donut on a Red Activation String fuses one of the most magnetic prosperity stones on the planet with the ancient power of red string protection. Slip it over your head and you’re declaring: I’m done playing small. Step into the frequency of abundance, confidence, and unstoppable momentum — worn right at your heart, where the world can feel it.

Prosperity Seed Necklace

The Prosperity Seed Necklace is a quiet force of growth, designed to plant the frequency of abundance deep within your energy field. Featuring vibrant green garnet, this piece supports expansion, opportunity, and long-term wealth building. It’s not about quick wins — it’s about rooted, sustainable prosperity. Small, powerful, and always working beneath the surface.

Prosperity Purse Scarf

Prosperity Generator: Your purse is about to become the most powerful accessory you own. The Prosperity Purse Scarf was hand-drawn exclusively for Energy Muse — layered with sacred geometry, prosperity crystals, and ancient symbols designed to magnetize wealth wherever you carry it. Citrine sparks opportunity, malachite amplifies growth, and tiger’s eye keeps you bold enough to receive it all. This is wearable intention/

Prosperity Necklace

For centuries, Jade and gold coins tied with red string have been used in Feng Shui to invite prosperity. The Prosperity Necklace is a wearable version of that formula — updated with a Pyrite pendant in place of the coin, making it even more energetically effective.

Jade — attracts wisdom, harmony, and new opportunities, and promotes the flow of money and abundance.

Red String — a Feng Shui tool for wealth; red is considered a deeply auspicious color.

Pyrite — holds the energy of wealth and light, helping to manifest intentions faster by raising vibration.

Together, the combination is designed to help the wearer attract new opportunities and manifest success in every area of life — paired with the affirmation: “I live in a state of joyous expectancy.”


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Embodiment before strategy

Minimalist line art emphasizing embodiment before strategy

Embodied somatic action harmonizes with cognitive focused strategies and increases conscious connection to motivation. It leads to clarity of motivation before action. This pattern increases the potential for successful outcomes in all life areas, and reduces inner and outer conflicted states. Leading with strategies indoctrinates self and others and reduces innovation, motivation and spontaneous outcomes. Embodiment cultivates awareness and increases possibilities for higher outcomes and experiences.

Cognitive Strategies Vs Somatic Awareness

Strategies are cognitive based upon beliefs, while somatic processing is a learning path of awareness. A cognitive based belief system can stunt a person’s perspective by its nature as it has a focus of attention in one or two life areas only. For example, if a person is only focused on wealth and its attainment, every action will be strategic to meet that need. Generally, there will be a lack of mindfulness through the experience. The experience will lack the balance and harmony that is born from lived mindful awareness. Without this mindfulness there can be perpetual states of conflict, inside and out. Conflicted states fanned by the flames of seeking ways to increase wealth. This can influence every aspect of living as this conflict is expressed through emotional behaviour, expression and physical action. It can extend to every relationship that begins with critiquing through the lens of how to use others to their advantage in growing greediness. Strategy focused actions usually led to winners and losers. Strategies born from beliefs lack conscious awareness of the intent in the present moment. Beliefs are the past, yet they control the present, the future. This pattern can lead to extreme actions and statements for justification, with the last attempt feeding the next.

The process of mindfully connecting to one’s inner motivation before strategies increases conscious awareness. This process is more likely to grow beyond a single minded focus such as in this example, to become wealthy. The isolation that comes with self perceived status can expand into a state of thriving, instead of striving, through the increased range of information that comes with inclusion. Achievement will not be at the cost of people, places and things and instead include consideration for them. Those who are strategy first decision makers are not eliminating somatic experiences, they simply have no control over it. Their focus on power and control is strategic and is without the abilities of self regulation. How can one self regulate an experience they are cognitively ignoring? Being led by uncontrollable somatic experiences can lead to conflict and harm, of self and to others. They may lack the discernment for recognizing they are living in a cycle of going from one catastrophic experience to the next. Often overlapping.

Embodiment before strategy is a learning pattern integrated into the program topics at Inside Awareness. Learn more about the lifestyle program topics.

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Recognizing a gap between a somatic newborn and a cognitive societies social conditioning

by Renee Lindstrom, founder Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning

Invert hierarchy titles: safety top, self-actualization bottom

This blog article below was written on this author’s personal website http://www.reneelindstrom.com recently. It is from a perspective of a somatic empath that carries the ability to identify the authentic somatic experience and the cognitive conceptualization that those not in their somatic experience believe it is. No judgement, simply a gap this author is bringing focus to. You can read this article by clicking the article link below or listen on You tube at link below it. I hope this content will be of interest in those sincerely interested in actively going beyond what they think they know from societies conditioning in accepting the stories attached to their mental, emotional and physical states of being. The first step to breaking free of acceptance to labels, assessments, and moral judgements, etc., is having clarity on the separation that supports it.

Below are two earlier articles from this authors personal web site on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from an interesting perspective that may be interesting to read after digesting and integrating this perspective from a somatic empath. Understanding this first stage will support how society is perhaps being misguided by this lack of clarity by those who are seeking to meet their needs without compassion and empathy for others.

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