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Greater #yyj Hands Across the Sands @ Willows Beach

Are you ready to simply come together, hold hands to join the World in expressing a silent ‘yes’ to clean energy?”

If so, join us in gathering along with our International Community to join hands across the tar/sands!  

WHEN:  Saturday, May 16th – arrive @ 11:45 a.m. – hold hands @ noon

WHERE: Willows Beach at the corners of Dalhousie and Beach Drives.  Meet up on beach under the Kiwanis Tea Room.

We arrive, connect, hold hands from 12:00 noon to 12:15 pm, cheer and leave with no footprint!  

Pictures from previous years

Peace Pal Ambassador of Peace Children’s Art – in Greater Victoria #yyj for ’15

Inside is hosting #yyjpeace.com Peace Pal Ambassador of Peace Children’s Art this year!

Our first showing will be at the #4th Annual Creatively United for the Planet Earth Week Festival over the weekend of April 15 & 26th.  Please join us at the festival to view art along Education Alley.  Come to discuss the art with Renee at the Canadian Peace Initiative Booth where we will be supporting long time local Peace Activists, Saul Arbess and Penny Joy.  Saul and Penny have been tirelessly working towards getting  a Department of Peace recognized in Canadian Parliament.

This exhibition is available to your school house or classroom during this year to add to your ‘Peace Education.”  Please connect with us here at Inside to find out more on availability and how to arrange this.

If you would like to know more about Educational Programs for kids; Speaking Peace – being Peace, Creating a Culture of Value, Kids Peace Bus Yearly Calender of values integration program and the Teaching Labyrinth,  please connect with us or visit our Children’s Educational site – www.cultureofvalues.com.

2015 International Peace Art Contest 

Get your kids involved in submitting their art for this year’s, (2015’s) contest.  The deadline is May 30th.  Find out ore at Peace Pals International.

Living Awareness Personal Program

Living Awareness in the now

Explore being in the now with a personal somatic integration program. This personal educational program is designed for deepened personal learning by enhancing self-awareness.  This holistic movement to mindfulness program guides you to listen to yourself and teaches you how you focus your attention.  Learning how you function increases physical, mental and emotional experiences.  It supports breaking habits that hold you back from fully experiencing a fuller life, increases mobility, flexibility, calms your busy mind and supports you to become mindful of your somatic messaging!

This program increases personal safety and reduces anxiety creating space to stimulate new movement pattern awareness.  Some natural benefits are an increase in tolerance, empathy and patience in oneself and with others. Awareness of movement is the main contributor to improving movement.

Every time the brain is used four competent are stimulated:  movement, thought, sensation and feeling – the four aspects of self.  Typically one aspect is not experienced without the other three.  Inside Awareness programs focus on the four aspects of self.  We offer acute programs that can focus on anyone of these four aspects; movement, thought, sensation or feeling, and programs that are designed for contemplative integration of these four aspects.

What is unique about this program is the patterns of movement may bring you up against your own obstacles of fear and/or protections that you may have  ignored.  Expanding awareness through movement is subtle and easy and  can open you to emotional and mental blind spots.  In this program the movement is the focus and not your stories.  This can give one a fuller understanding of their old habits in present time and bypass lingering in old stories.  It is a practice of being in the now (present) to process.  It is not to say through the movement that old memories won’t arise, they will.  Memories will rise and fall away with ease and are less likely to be lingering parasitic obstacles to a happier and healthier life!

This 90 minute program has three parts.  The first 30 minutes is practitioner lead patterns of movement, the second 30 minutes is guided movement for growing awareness.  This is followed by time with practitioner to build personal literacy of experience.

Each part of this Living Awareness Program can be experienced separately as individual sessions.

Connect now to find out when you can experience your 90 minute Living Awareness Session.  

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Qualities of Feminine Leadership

CALL TO ACTION IN THE COMMUNITY

INSIDE AWARENESS HOSTS:  #YYJPEACE.COM:  

  • Sunday, April 12 3:00 – 4:30pm


We held our first informal conversation on the qualities of Feminine Leadership on International Women’s Day in March that will continue again in April It is not a speaker, but rather a group conversation to hear each others voices and integrate what is being shared. It will be a diverse group of women of different ages, careers and passions. I hope you will consider joining in and sharing your meaning of leadership and ways to integrate what we say into what we do.

Connect with renee@insideawareness.com to express your interest

Living Well the Natural Way – Guest Writer – 2008

 

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Living Well the Natural Way – wisdom from naturalhealthcare.com

Happy Love Day! #14th Tip to finding better love

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness
#14 – ‘Signs of Attraction’

Mutual eye contact is a sure sign of attraction. Brief glances catching each other’s eyes without turning away that may lead to other body signals. The first stage of passion in relationships will lead to the second and third stages; emotional intimacy and commitment. If this is the partner of your dreams, enjoy this first stage of romance and the growing excitement of passion.  Take your time and enjoy the foreplay without rushing it.   It is the easiest and greatest stage of any relationship and creates mystery and intimacy.  Too soon and it’s lost!

Love Day 14Tip of the Day:  Take your time noticing each other reactions and flirt-i-ness.  If you are attracted you will make gestures that you find mirrored by them.  Love this stage as this is the time of heightened dreams and hopefulness.  Don’t rush past this stage and extinguish it too soon.

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
                                                     Ingrid Bergman

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Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication Relationship & Life Coach since 2004, Art of Placement  since 2000, Founder of Greater Victoria Peace & Intercultural Celebrations since 2010 & Greater Victoria Labyrinths since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Calendar Founder – 2014 & 2015

11 Fun & Easy (& sometimes free) Dating & Meet up Idea’s

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness

1.  University & College Lectures – living in a university town you can attend a variety of lectures and information series events usually for free!  Hook up to your university’s calendar today!

University of Victoria – Free Lecture Series 
Camosun Calendar of Events

2.  City, Local Library and Bookstore Public Events – go to a book reading and signing together or attend a special presentation presented in your community!

Greater Victoria Public Library
City Event Listings

3.  Community Gardens – source out local gardens that are open to the public.  In Victoria, we are lucky enough to have many stunning gardens within the City and free to explore. For example – Finnerty Gardens at the University of Victoria, Beacon Hill Park in James Bay.

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Finnerty Gardens – University of Victoria

4.  Local Markets, Food kiosks and trucks – meet up to enjoy different foods at markets or around your town.  Enjoy the scenic downtown areas and be a tourist in your own town!

5.  Local Wineries – take an afternoon to check out your local wineries and sample their free tastings!

6.  Natural History Society – find yours and check out their schedule for bird-watching, nature and historical lectures.

7.  Explore your local Tours and Walking Maps –  Locate interesting walking maps in your town and meet up to investigate.  In Victoria, we enjoy tours of historical architecture, Chinatown, Artist Stroll events, Fisherman’s Wharf, Ross Bay or Chinese Cemeteries (Historical Sites)  with Emily Carr and Billy Barker (Barkerville, B.C.) and more!

Chinese Cemetary

Chinese Cemetery

8.  Volunteer in the local park, forest trails and beach clean up – Get outdoors and meet up to do an activity together that is invigorating and giving back.  Forest trails and parks are looking for volunteers to clean out invasive plant species and our local Surf-riders are looking for beach clean-up help at their events.

9.  Tour your local museums, old churches and interesting historical buildings in your city.  Take time to walk through some of these local gems and stop for a treat along the way.

10.  Inner City Walks or walk outside your doorstep – In Victoria, we are lucky enough to have scenic walks along our waterfront with downtown parks that have walking trails!  Many of these can be reached during lunch breaks!

11.  Volunteer at local festivals & events!  – Victoria hosts many festivals and events that are in need of volunteers from concerts, walks, and runs to Ted Talks!


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Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication Relationship & Life Coach since 2004, Art of Placement  since 2000, Founder of Greater Victoria Peace & Intercultural Celebrations since 2010 & Greater Victoria Labyrinths since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Calendar Founder – 2014 & 2015