The Somatic Archetypes in Functional Movement

Posted on September 11, 2025 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, Author of The Somatic Archetypes – the Fantastic Five

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Somatic functional movement patterns, using the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education, guide participants through patterns designed to refocus their attention away from pre-conditioned beliefs and pre-existing understanding of movement. In other words, what they already know. The patterns encourage exploration of movement by bringing their focus to their sensory awareness from the inside with these fantastic five core senses.

This picture demonstrates interpretive dance patterns of movement. The interpretation hints at sensing movement, yet the focus of the patterns these models are making could suggest they are focused outside themselves, versus from inside connections, as in contact dance. Functional Integration, and Awareness through Movement, the Feldenkrais Way focuses on the skeletal movements in connection to the contact with gravity and its responses through the joints that are unlocked and in a posture to invite gravity to travel through the whole skeleton. In the picture above, the models are not making solid contact with the floor to connect to the force of gravity moving up through their bones. It appears to me, as a Feldenkrais Practitioner specializing in this movement pattern, that they are using their soft tissue to support their weight.

When the skeleton is making full contact with gravity through the feet in standing, the sit bones in sitting, the hands in a posture of pushing off, or crawling on hands and knees, or in a prone position on the full skeleton on the front, back or side body on a hard surface the pressure thorugh the bones creates a weightlessness in the soft tissues in the body. The more one makes contact with gravity through skeletal movements, the more ease and freedom one has in their joints, vertebrae and ribs. This increases counter-balance and functional movement abilities.

The guidance patterns in the Feldenkrais Method use felt sensory words on the actual movement of the anatomy, with a focus on the potential for using the force of gravity. It is a powerful shift from analytical thinking that takes one out of a closed mindset function into the exploration of the experience itself, through the movements in connection with the force of gravity. The focus is on the felt sense of the bones and the discoveries through them to reconnect the body’s own elusive responsive connections to the intricacies of movement that are beyond the current comprehension of social conditioning. In essence, the movement is retraining the brain to expand and use more of the available functions in movement.

Why do I write reconnect?

When babies are born, they have the capabilities to use their full range of available learning potentials to guide them to come upright and participate in society. They do so without the educational encouragement of those surrounding them. Those surrounding do encourage them, yet they lack the understanding of how the function of the brain, body, felt senses, and mental is coming online to work in harmony that enables a baby to roll over, sit up, crawl, stand, walk and run while learning to speak and think. It is beyond the comprehension of the family members, as their own process was just that, a process. It wasn’t memorized, itemized or catalogued. It was learning through the experience.

With the focus of attention in society that seems to be focused on evaluative concepts and analytical statements, there has been a separation from the somatic patterns of functional learning that each of us was born with. When an adult speaks, it is through the evaluative expression of analytical thought patterns and statements that are far removed from the actual experience of functioning through the somatic experience. When speaking from an analytical perspective, it is a small interpretation of functional learning. It is like the difference between ballet and contact dance. One dance disconnects the artist from the ground and lacks the connection to the force of gravity, and the other pushes off the ground using the force of gravity. If you observe the two styles of dance separately, one stretches their muscles and holds their joints in a way that is different than the other. The contact dance method uses organic functional movement patterns. One dance appears to have effort with an intention to be interpreted as effortless, while the other one is effortless. This would describe the difference between mentally organized movement from strategies of thinking and spontaneous movement that includes all functioning components through the somatic felt sense as the origin. Basically, one is from the outside trying to define what can happen organically from the inside out.

The early learning patterns for movement are inherent within us as we are born. They evolve around the somatic senses of the fantastic five: sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. Each of the senses stimulate the others, and they are the inspiration to get up off the floor and walk, talk and become members of society. Each child will have one or two senses that will have the strongest response and will become the filter to the environmental stimuli surrounding them. I have begun to call these senses Somatic Archetypes.

I offer movement through group classes and individuals that support these dominant Somatic Archetypes in response to the guided patterns. These are called Awareness through Movement lessons that are group classes, and the other is a personal session or consultation called a Functional Integration.

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The Original Somatic Archetypes

Posted on September 10, 2025 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, Author of The Original Somatic Arcetypes

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I introduced the concept of Somatic Archetypes in a pattern for setting goals in 2026 in a post this past week. As a somatic Practitioner, Mentor, and Educator, I have discovered these archetypes are the original ones and at the core of each individual’s perception and expression. An example is how each individual will set their goals. It will be through a different medium unless they are in a closed situation where there is only one choice.

I am suggesting that there is no one way forward for all people that is the exact same in life due to these differences. I have also discovered there is an expectation that all people are the same, or should be identical, without any intelligent conceptual understanding that there are differences among two or more people. This, my readers or listeners, is what I believe is at the core of most conflicts. This lack of understanding generates a lack of empathetic listening to others. It comes across as arrogance. Usually, arrogance is someone who engages with others with some form of false authority that has the attitude of power over which lacks the intelligence to understand that this inner mental conditioning is their sickness. It’s not entitled behaviour that gives someone a higher IQ or status. Yet, somewhere in their social development, these seeds were planted in their physiology. Usually, when generational, it is held together with ego and pride behind walls of secrecy and not wanting to be seen.

After years of engaging with individuals or groups in personal and social development sessions, I have begun to say quietly and with a strength that comes from this conditioning as a mentor, “You are not the Judge and jury. You do not have the credentials to go along with your statements.” I may switch it out and say title instead of credentials. This authoritarian way of expressing is conditioned in our Western Cultures through generational socialization skill development. It is habitual and unconscious. There can be retraining yet that needs its own form of social conditioning that requires recognition and acknowledgement. As a Somatic Practitioner, mentor and educator, I begin with learning the dominant sense a person uses to perceive. These would be through the five senses we are all born with and used to get up and walk, talk, think and generally function in our society. These are sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. These are the fantastic five core archetypes. Not labels or cute names, foundational attributes each of us needed to integrate functions. They are the forgotten ones!

These archetypes are at the core of intention and stimulate motivation. It’s an inside job in the moment that can be spontaneous due to our free will. It is the generational influences that restrict and shape our decisions. This generational behaviour that has been passed down can be transmuted into the here and now for making better and more logical choices that would be for the highest good of the individual and those surrounding them, yet this ability is rare. This suggests retraining the brain while adopting new patterns in our system that is shaping our generational experiences through social conditioning that is shaping our cultural conditioning.

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The Somatic Archetypes – The Fantastic Five

Posted on September 10, 2025 | Leave a comment

by Author Renee Lindstrom of The Somatic Archetypes

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The Archetypes

This introduction to defining these five senses includes both the noun and verb uses of these identifiers. It begins with a noun to describe sight, sound, smell, hearing and touch using a pattern that refers to conscious awareness for the intention or purpose to perceive and regain their felt sense.

As a Feldenkrais Practitioner, teacher and mentor, I have experienced these fantastic five somatic triggers as the core receptors of environmental influences that stimulate inner functional responses. These receptors are the beginning of any and every response that travels through the body, back and middle brain, and finally to the prefrontal cortex last. It happens quicker than one can track and control. The only thing that can be controlled is mental function and the information going in. Even thoughts of memories can influence and activate these five senses, suggesting there are internal and external sources of environmental influences. These five Archetype patterns for functional integration of the environmental stimulus that triggers receptors are introduced below. An important point to consider is that these Archetypes stimulate each other’s sensory awareness prethought. They have their own expressive language.

The Artist

The Visionary


Most babies are born with the gift of sight. Sight is through the beautiful body design of vision that includes the lens that takes in the world. Artists take in the world and interpret it through their unique abilities. An example, developing the quality of one’s eyes that was present at birth, would be the experiences of meditation. Mediators have spent time and energy softening their eye habits from which to take in the world, to retrain their brains that have developed a harsh and critical focus looking at the world. A subtle yet profound shift in quality of life.

The eyes are located in the head in direct contact with the brain.

The Musician

The Vocalist

A musician has developed their sense of hearing in an advanced way to differentiate musical sounds and notes. The universe is filled with musical tones that formed early music perspectives. There is a belief that primordial creation began with sound in some Eastern philosophies, such as Hinduism. This sense is as important as sight, touch, taste and smell. A sense that may be taken for granted until it is dimmed. It inspires and motivates action. For example, music. If a piece is playing, it will either heighten moods or it will create agitation. It can even inspire movement through dance spontaneously or provoke immediate frustration and annoyance. This is a hidden influence of behavioural responses. Hidden suggests unconscious awareness or taking this sense for granted. If sound is a dominant sense, the tone of voice or sounds a person will make will be another hidden environmental influence in controlled or spontaneous responses.

The skill to hear vibrations is a gift that translates into the health and well-being of individuals and relationships.

Sound is received through the ears that are directly connected to the brain.

Sound is expressed through the mouth, yet originates from below the head in the voice box at the base of the neck in the front.

The Somatic

The Toucher

A baby will be sensitive to the somatic touch of all the textures and levels of denseness of articles and items they come in contact with. Their skin is receptive and a source of information. The hands are known to make a larger map inside the brain of neuro-pathways as the baby gathers this intel through touch. The skin is an organ that covers the body. As a receiver, the skin responds to what the other senses are hearing, seeing, smelling and tasting. When these senses send signals to the brain, it sends signals to the skin that responds immediately. It happens faster than any identifying label or word in our common vocabulary to describe it. This somatic sense is at the core of function and integrates all the senses. The other senses influence one another similarly, yet the somatic sense of touch encompasses them all and is a source of awareness that can be conscious or unconscious. This is the Milky Way of our universal responsive experience to explore and investigate.

Touch encompasses the whole body through skin contact with solid surfaces, and elusive and unsolid influences like the wind, heat, cold, water, and emotional waves emanating from people and animals

The Perfumeur

Scent Enthusiast

Dual Activation of Scent Responses

Digestion

The sense of smell is a powerful activator. It is how a baby senses their mom and begins to locate their food source. The connection continues through life as smell is what activates the taste buds to create the ability to taste flavours. Smell will activate taste buds to taste flavours and begin the function of processing and digesting foods even before it is put in one’s mouth. It activates the stomach to receive the food with the right digestive enzymes and stimulates the organs to prepare for processing it through the gut. Digestion begins before putting food in one’s mouth and chewing.

Attraction

Scents create attraction that is confirmed through generations of creating special perfume scents for both males and females. Scent is a silent expression of attraction and a powerful expression for mating. The sense of smell will be one of the first unconscious expressions that will attract a person to another. This personal scent will only attract a few matches. It will not attract the general population. It is like a mother who has a connection to the scent of their child. You will often see them smell their child’s head. It is a form of expression and affection.

Scent is through the nose, located between the eyes and mouth on the head and direct link in the brain

The Taster

The Supertasters

The mouth function is the first dominant sense used at birth. Immediately, a baby begins to feed long before being able to focus their eyes on objects. The ability to suckle at birth is an inherent functional action of survival. When a baby begins to receive new foods to explore from three months on, their taste buds stimulate conscious awareness of different tastes. Some of these babies will have a stronger taste sense and be able to differentiate flavours. Many of those with this ability become tasters of fine wine and foods to classify them in the industry, or become critics of them for the benefit of others. However, it is the sense of smell that activates the taster buds.

The taste buds are in the mouth, on the surface of the tongue located in the head close to the brain

Early Somatic Development

Most babies are born with the gift of training their mental patterns to process information to fit within their social structures. This suggests that they learned the conditioning of those in their surroundings. I call this an environmental influence. It is a lifelong influence that is passed down to future generations. It’s taken for granted. When this thinking behaviour is taken for granted, it doesn’t include insight, especially if the educational system guidance is using the same patterning. The person sitting in meditation is retraining themselves not to attach to the random pre-conditioned thoughts and reactions that are arising. This begins to create a gap between the thoughts that leaves space for silence. It is in the silence that recognition unfolds, and one begins to recognize who they are outside the social conditioning of their family, friends, peers, etc. It is a profound experience to tap into the real person inside the layers of trying to belong and be what others want you to be.

Through the practical development and experience of Feldenkrais, I have discovered that there is a similar experience, as described in meditation. The difference for me as a student, practitioner, teacher and mentor is that it takes this meditative experience to the next level. It is in living action while in the engagement with day-to-day interactions and actions.

It is through the:

  • freedom of eye movement patterns that are spontaneous
  • sounds in the environment and inside your functioning body and thinking brain
  • touch of solid objects for feedback, and the elusive waves in the environment
  • smell stimulates attraction or warning, and stimulates digestion
  • taste, a somatic receptor, like touch and starts digestive functions, like smell

Patterns that have been lost through reactions of a lifetime of social interactions and conditioning. It adds the component of awareness and spaciousness, which increases windows of tolerance in ongoing daily activities.

The Thinker

The Intellect

Thinking is not a sense. Often, it is confused with the ability to hear, using the term auditory. However, thinking is a separate inner function for processing information that has been learned through social conditioning. Anyone using auditory to describe thinking is minimizing the ability to hear sounds separately from the ability to think and obtain memories from which to understand and process information.

Thinking is also a separate function from seeing, smelling, touching and tasting. However, thinking puts thought forms into statements that often reflect belief systems, opinions, and perspectives. These beliefs, opinions and perspectives are taken from long and short-term memories of past experiences and learned conditioning of our individual and unique social and cultural conditioning.

Mindfulness through thought patterns

coming out of the shadows of projections into the lighter qualities of present moment clarity

Memories are the past that shapes thinking patterns in the present and future.

Thinking in the present through the experience of the fantastic five senses and expressed somatically, not thought projections, can be conscious awareness in the moment that redirects and retrains thought focus.

The fantastic five senses can be a focus of attention for determining the value needs for creating the future using intention to create motivation.

These fantastic five somatic archetypes are at the core of Inside Awareness Center’s Integrative Learning programs. These programs are somatic dialogues, somatic movement and function, somatic spaces with support programs that are environmental influences in relationships, behaviours and function.

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Community Bullying 101

Posted on September 8, 2025 | Leave a comment

Power over dynamics

As a mature woman, in a casual work and connected home environment, I found myself in an experience of being bullied by another mature business woman in a group of women that ranged in age from young with small children themselves, to those older than them. These women’s behaviour repeated the same patterns that small children demonstrate at the toddler stage when parents and early childhood educators are tasked with modelling how to navigate their triggers to process their reactive feelings and resolve them within themselves before lashing out and harming others. These mothers and grandmothers did not demonstrate the skills or ability to slow down their emotional escalation before focusing on resolving issues that led up to their reactions. It suggests that they had not integrated these skill sets themselves. Keep in mind that these were mothers, grandmothers and aunties of children who were the core educators modelling learned behaviours within their family and community units.

Let me introduce myself

My name is Renee Lindstrom, and I have been focused on educational programs for bullying since arriving in Victoria 35 years ago. This focus of attention has been from a somatic empathic perspective and not at the typical vantage point of strategies and analysis of the behaviours. This suggests the focus has been on the practical steps of integration at the core internalized behavioural level.

The two options:

  • Labelling the behaviours and speaking about them to create strategies with no inner accountability
  • Slowing down the emotional reaction on the inside first to identify the internal stimulus and connect to the causation of the trigger before responding (taking accountability)

More about these two options

These two bullet points suggest that one pattern has a focus of analysis while still in a triggered reactive state. This suggests attention is aimed outward at others without any self-connection first. This suggests it is a position of denial and lacks any personal responsibility. This leads to a projection that lacks logic and empathy in the responses.

The other option begins with an inside focus for checking into oneself first to connect to the internal source of the trigger to calm reactions down before connecting to outside solutions. This option contains self-empathy first to connect to the source of the trigger response before any outside actions are taken. This increases the potential for balanced fairness and equal opportunity in the outcomes.

Back to the introduction of Renee Lindstrom

The first educational choices for navigating experiential learning techniques for deeper clarity and understanding from a somatic empathic viewpoint came through movement and meditation. The mediation I engaged in opened an opportunity to study Feng Shui that aligned with the core syllabus of the meditation practice I was integrating. This led to an intensive dive into Nonviolent Communication guided patterns created by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, Phd, and author of Nonviolent Communication.

My focus on teaching NVC began in 2007 after 7 years of personal study and integration with a focus on the areas of bullying and relationships. I taught, presented and organized events actively in our Greater Victoria Communities in Juan de Fuca, James Bay, Oak Bay, Greater Victoria, and Saanich. It included the focus of primary couple relationships, families, parenting, peers in the workplace and primary education.

Back to the experience

No Remuneration for time and effort where other employee/s were paid for

While this experience that will be described is one in a sea of many, it is a definable one that shifted my patterns of response and continues to demonstrate to me the value in the training patterns I create through my practice and personal studies. It has also been an event where I never received remuneration for my time, yet someone received payment for it, even though it was the time and effort I put in. This, together with my mail being opened without my permission, and a lack of meeting my request to have it forwarded to me, plus some other incidents, I share this event in my life for training purposes. I, like the universe. do not like the lack of energetic reciprocity. This is one way of meeting my needs and balancing this out energetically while sharing it as educational materials. It is paying it forward to others in a positive way.

Being Nudged By Spirit to use this as a pattern to create a model

I believe I am being nudged by spirit or the dream state to share the patterns of how I handled this experience on site and after, as it was either detached or a state of detaching from ego, status and fear. It demonstrated fearlessness and the growth of a higher state of self-confidence and empowerment. A state that bypasses the fight, flight, freeze or fonding states with conscious awareness. Even though I kept telling myself that I had already learned these lessons and questioned how I found myself in this placement now, in hindsight, it was exactly what I needed to go through and be able to integrate into the focus of attention I have held for the past 30 years.

Why? Working with others now, what took 30 years is transitioning in mere hours or days is now happening for others who have gone beyond looking for outside strategies to change, and have shifted into longing for change. When that choice is made, there is less effort in transforming obstacles, and it seems that they fall away with more ease.

Upcoming post points will focus on these types of issues from this experience and will include practical steps to hold both sides equally from a leadership perspective and support each side involved to get their needs met, instead of only one side, due to the leadership going into sympathy versus empathy. This will be an integrative pattern to transform these types of bullying behaviour for your home, office and institution

An example of what you can expect to read about:

  • Home/Business Environment
  • Observations and Pitfalls of institutionalized expectations of employees in a home environment for one person
  • Employees who lacked typical dedication and devotion to their scheduled hours, and their possible contributions to this (from a professional with a background in hotel and hospitality)
  • Bullying incidents
  • Getting Resident outside after being housebound for over two years and only going out to go to Doctor appts
  • Patterns I used to encourage going outdoors with ease and motivation
    • Response of employees hearing about this, and aggressive responses
    • Response of a family member upon hearing this achievement
  • The use of inappropriately timed texting that instigated conflict and aggression
  • No regular eating schedule and missing meals daily basis
  • Lack of routine and schedule, and wellness shift with changes by creating regular daily patterns
  • Harmful Gossip that crossed between family and employees, no boundaries
  • Food Cost concerns by Office Admin that resulted in hostile behaviours, confusion and lack of food for resident:
    • The concern led to insufficient groceries in the home where I began feeding the resident my food daily
    • This concern led to repeated surveillance of me eating my own food by casual employees who wouldn’t know whose food was whose
    • My food was even used to make a meal for a family member by employees responsible for ordering food – there was a lack of consistent food supply
  • Business Partner/Friend who led a meeting to find out my concerns that led to employees changing all the points shared in the next days before our next meeting for resolution
  • Business Partner/Friends open hostility in a Professional Meeting
  • Sabatosh ofreputation in the community after being a whistleblower
  • Business Leader sabatoshing reputation with false accusations in the local community

Before exiting the property, I made some suggestions for the employee to implement. Some of these ideas were shared with a family member and business partner. I will do a detailed list of these points and recommendations and give an explanation of what inspired them. I believe they will be useful for other families who have employees working in a home with institutionalized training. I have successfully created other structured plans for families in need of this service in the local community. They are doable and work well.

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Inside Awareness Somatic Integrative Learning Lifestyle Program Topic Articles by life area

by Renee Lindstrom, author of Soamtic Archetypes

Inside Awareness Lifestyle Articles from a somatic perspective by topic. These are: Knowledge, Career, Community, Past, Health, Future, Wealth, Fame and Relationships

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KnowledgeCareerCommunty
Awareness through LifeAwareness through Career Awareness through Comm-unity
Awareness through Nature Value-Based Business Culture#yyj Labyrinths
Awareness through Feng Shui
Culture of Values*Archived – Peace & Intercultural Celebrations
Silent Educator in the Classroom*Archived – Walk Victoria Routes & Community
Past HealthFuture
Awareness of Social & Cultural Conditioning Awareness through Eating Cultivating Life with Goals
Awareness through CommunicationAwareness through Travel
Awareness through MovementAwareness through Children
Somatic Ergonomics
Wealth FameRelationships
Awareness through Wealth Awareness of FameAwareness through Relationships

These lifestyle articles are separated into life areas using a nine-square grid. Each of these topics is viewed through the lens of personal development and enhancement here at Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning. They are components developed through personal and professional practice and integration of the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education, Nonviolent Communication and Western Style Feng Shui. The attention is on cultivating somatic awareness through functional development that is interconnected, yet definable for clarity and understanding.

Each of these links will take the viewer to articles on these individual topics. When clicking on a topic, you will be taken to a web page with that title. The options on each web page will vary due to the different designs of each page. In some look for a title along the top of the site for Posts to find the individual articles that will appear when you hit that tab. Hit the title that is interesting or scroll down depending on the options of the page. Some of the designs the posts will be displayed on the landing page.

If you are interested in more than one topic, return to this page for easy access to the next topic that catches your attention.

The articles will focus on a somatic viewpoint with a personal development perspective. These have been inspired by interactive living cases that have motivated their exploration and development. Often, the viewpoint will include consideration of social and cultural conditioning.

If you have found yourself here on this page, I hope these topics satisfy your interest that motivated you. If so, please like and subscribe.

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To learn more about Renee Lindstrom, visit her personal website @ www.reneelindstrom.com

To find out how to book an appointment or consultation for you or a group, connect with her to inquire and discuss your needs.

Renee can advise, consult and support each of these lifestyle areas through educational programs or personal enhancement sessions. She is a trained movement expert on the core skeletal movements through the joints, a trained communication expert that focuses on speaking in the present moment with enhanced listening skill patterns, and a trained expert on observing the environmental influences blocking functional behaviour and response.

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Be the Master Creator of your 2026 experience

Posted on September 5, 2025 | Leave a comment

The energies of 2026 will influence career, and the focus is on new beginnings at the core level. I suggest it will not be superficial rather connected to your root values. This is the year to definitely begin planning if you are not in the habit of it.

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Begin exploring change instead of forcing it through strategies.

 Becoming your own Master Creator of your experience

Turning Intentions into Goals

  • starts with a vision

Breaking 2026 Goals into Seasons

  • becomes more achievable broken into segments for checking in on progress

2026 Goal Template Pattern of action and accountability begins

  • guided patterns of action to achieve seasonal goals and monitor overall progress for 2026 goals

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Take the re off reactive

Turning intentions into doable goals in 5 easy, integrative steps

These are 5 fun and easy steps to activating the integration of intention and action in a meaningful way using a novel pattern to stimulate right and left brain functions with activities that can create life-enriching experiences and relationships.   Each step can be life-changing and integrative. Commit to spending time on each step before moving to the next one. 

STEP – THE FOUNDATION

Book time with yourself to focus your attention on your creative nature.  This step can be a private experience, shared with a friend group, or spent privately with a mentor. It can take up to two hours to lay out the image. Additional time to gather materials beforehand will be needed. 

  • This initial step will be stimulating. 
  • Let it digest for a minimum of three days before moving to step two.

What is stopping you from moving to a life of more joy?

Check out the archetypes below and find out what dominant pattern is yours

The thinker

The Thinker

  • If you hesitate, or if you believe you are not creative, go beyond this thought and gather together some magazines, glue, scissors and some paper and begin creating. Your thoughts are your learned behaviour from years of conditioning.
  • Create a collage mixing pictures and words that speak to you.
  • If you cannot devote this time, pause and make a commitment and do it anyway.  This is as important as eating, sleeping, and socializing. Perhaps even more important is the point of clarity and balance in our natures.  It is invaluable learning and guidance that comes from within.
Create with abandon

The artist

The Visionary

  • Gather the medium you wish to create with: such as water colours, oil, charcoal, etc.
  • Create a vision of your dreams
Create with abandon

The musician

The Musician

  • Gather music sheets, pencil/pen or instrument.
  • Create music for your dreams
  • Write a song reflecting your deepest desire for 2026.
Create with abandon

The physical

The Somatic Touch

  • Gather pen & paper and locate a place in nature that you can walk ALONE under and surrounded by trees.
    • Let this forest bath of smells, sounds & movement calm and slow down to connect to your inner desires for the coming year
    • Listening inside is a place one can go in nature easily when slowing down to create the space for it. Listening from inside can give you your best guidance.  Use this time to become quiet and let your inner desires be heard.  Remember to make notes afterwards so this experience isn’t fleeting.

Finding out your archetype is the first step towards knowing and understanding your inner behaviour preferences and habits. Some of us will be thinkers, and our first response will be thought. We’ll speak from our memory, while others will be visionaries and their expression will be through images and creating picture stories. Some of us will be listeners, and we’ll hear the music. As we observe and consider our goals for 2026. While others of us will be physical and we will choose nature dance, exercise or running as a way to connect. Each of us is uniquely different in our makeup. So take a moment and do this pattern I’ve suggested, and that is guided to find out your archetype. This is the first step to creating a connected future that is connected from the inside out, versus being stimulated by the outside world and trends. Take time to enjoy the process. Breathe, and enjoy the process.

What Archetype are you
Create with abandon

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This connection to intention can then easily be turned into doable guided patterns incorporating universal values, characteristics and qualities in a novel and uncluttered way by creating new habits through the months and seasons.  The ease of learning is integrated through the experience from a simple guided pattern.  Awareness through creation that uses intention before focused action.

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2026 in numerology is #1

Posted on August 29, 2025 | Leave a comment

2 + 2 + 6 =’s 10

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

What does the mean personally and as a society in numerology philosophy?

The number 1 in numerology reflects independence, leadership and new beginnings. It is associated with unity and the origins of all things. 2020 was all about a new operating code, laying a foundation, and creating stability, followed by 2021. which was all about being present in the moment, discovery, and exploration, while 2022 was about unconditional love and healing. 2023 was about finding harmony between the conscious and unconscious mind, and 2024 was all about ego and the balance between the spiritual and materialistic states of being. 2025 has been about prosperity, happiness, and good luck in life

9-year cycle

Numerology 9 year Grid of years beginning in 2020
Grid used @ Inside Awareness for clarity & understanding behaviour through goal setting

WHAT IS 2026’S ABOUT?

The number 1 brings new ventures, projects, personal growth, self-discovery, new beginnings, opportunities and charting new territory.

The qualities of a are:

  • Leadership
  • Courage
  • Boldness
  • Uniqueness
  • Originality
  • Passion
  • Confident
  • Self Reliant
  • Pioneering
  • Determination
  • Innovation

The areas of influence of a are:

  • Creativity
  • Will Power
  • Self Discovery
  • Individualism
  • Primal Power
  • Pureness
  • Goals
  • independence

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For this writer, coach, and mentor, 2026 numerology reflects the career area of the Nine Life Areas grid. The career segment of the nine life areas reflects the work one does to support themselves and their contribution to the community. The qualities and influence of a number 1 seem to align with the leadership qualities needed for the new beginnings and vision for 2026.

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Career LIfe Area

Coaching, support, and mentoring will be important in 2026 due to the new vision and changes that will be required to rebuild globally. The border relationships and trade agreements have shifted with the consequences of changing economies for many. It is going to be a time for innovation, courage, determination and fearlessness for tapping into a pioneering spirit.

The number one has an association with goal setting for setting vision intentions. The era for manifesting through the laws of assumption is becoming stronger as more and more people tap into using them.

Concrete planning will create the focus for integrating balance, harmony, and success for living one’s hopes and dreams.

  • Co-creating with the universal laws of manifestation through setting intentions into goals creates confidence, direction, and purpose.
  • A goal plan lays a foundation that is reassuring and increases ease in the journey.
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Influences to manifesting through intention to goals with the Inside Awareness Center for integrative somatic learning

Elusive becomes obvious

The book titled The Elusive Obvious by Dr. Feldenkrais

Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais wrote a book, The Elusive Obvious, The Convergence of Movement, Neuroplasticity, and Health. Moshe founded The Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. The focus of attention in this learning system is to cultivate awareness of the unconscious behavioural reactions that are taken for granted and habitual, therefore unknown.

 

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