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

Launching Somatic Body Mindfulness Series on Audio Video

Listen on Youtube audio – Authors Voice

Cultivating Awareness & Grounding through Body Mindfulness

Somatic Body Mindfulness is a series of guided movement patterns based upon the Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education through the perspective of Renee Lindstrom, GCFP ’07 . Renee has been teaching Lifestyle Models in the community since the mid-nineties, which has expanded her perspective, clarity and understanding of learning and aging.

These Somatic Body Mindfulness audio videos will align body, mind and emotions. These patterns will calm the nervous system and increase inner peace. With an increase in the felt sense of inner quiet, there is an increase of clarity in the felt sense movement patterns in the shifting body parts as they transition postures. This mindful connection to the movement and physical response in transition increases conscious awareness and organically integrates the pattern into movement behaviours.  

Somatic Body Mindful guided patterns reduce tension, stress, anxiety, fear, frustration and anger and increase inner calm, peace and relaxation. SBM guided patterns support an increase in the range of motion and can reduce constraints that restrict movement.

The positive mental and physical functional outcomes of these SBM guided patterns increase clarity, focus, inner calm, mindfulness, stability and physical balance. These patterns will create a balanced alignment between the mental, emotional and physical functions. This alignment improves flexibility and spontaneity. The positive emotional outcomes are an increase of inner peacefulness, contentment, groundedness, connection and belonging.

Some of the conditions that SBM guided patterns that Renee has observed improve are:

• Anxiety and Depression
• Artheritis
• Back and Neck Pain
• Loss of Balance
• Bell’s Palsy
• High Blood Pressure
• Shallow Breathing
• Chronic Pain
• Eating Disorders
• Fibromyalgia
• Lack of Flexibility
• Hip, Knee and Ankle Joint Pain
• Injuries
• Insomnia
• Pulled Muscles
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Parkinsons
• Locked Shoulders
• Stroke
• TMJ

Some of the Benefits that Research has shown are:

• Improved:
  • proprioception
  • coordination and ease of movement
  • posture and stability
  • well-being
  • feeling of confidence
  • breathing
• Decreased
  • pain
  • spasm

Research Evidence:

• Improves:
  • body awareness:  Multiple sclerosis, pain, stroke, able-bodied  
  •  mobility
  •  stability
  •  coordination
  •  ease of movement
  •  posture
  •  balance confidence
  •  mood
  •  breathing
  •  well-being and quality of life
  •  sleep
  •  self efficacy and health locus of control
  •  self image
  •  greater recruitment of the affected part of the motor cortex  (stroke)

• Reduces, decreases:
  • decreased pain
  • fatigue
  • anxiety and stress
  • medical costs

_{To learn more about this Research on the Benefits of Feldenkrais, go to the link in the description box and tap the link}

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How to purchase and enjoy this introduction to a grounding and centering somatic experience:

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Introduction: Grounding thru Body Mindfulness

Benefits:

• reduce and reverse aging
• increasing flexibility and resilience
• develop body awareness
• reduce body tension, pain, anxiety and effort
• increase relaxation and windows of emotional tolerance and self-connection
• improve sleep and sleep sounder
• increase body functions, cognition and emotional responses of calm, mindfulness and joy

Exploring the body anatomy through the felt senses increases inner awareness ​ and trust. This ​body exploration is a different type of strength training. The difference ​is the​ focus of attention on the body, mind and felt senses through guided patterns designed to expand conscious awareness of the body function. The strength of feeling one​’s body through moving joints and bones deepens awareness of physical connections ​as ​postures change, like in the shifting transitions from sitting to standing and back to sitting. Movement is a series of shifting postures. The functioning healthy body is not stationary, nor poses. It is designed for a continuous flow of integrative movement patterns.

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Feedback On Body Mindfulness Introduction

“I am excited!!! This is great! It is like you are there with me step by step. It’s what all of us are looking for, real Feldenkrais support” S

“That was great, Renee! You have such a calm and lovely voice. I’m happy to add this to my calming strategies. Thank you. ” H

“I really like this sort of thing and would welcome further “installments” in the series and/or a revised version of this one. I liked the pace at which you spoke, not too rushed and left enough time to do the exploration of the particular area of the body to which you were drawing attention.

I liked that you offered options re leg position (straight out or with bolster under knees) but wondered whether one position or the other is preferable. Or is it just that one would notice different things, depending on how the legs are positioned?”   K

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