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Images could describe learning to sense (feel) your head

After last nights introduction to Awareness through Movement® for TMJ, I came across this diagram on learning to draw and observed that it could describe the class I just facilitated!

The first ball could describe how we could feel the weight of our head when we pause to check in .  As we are guided in a direction of observation throughout the lesson there is the potential to begin feeling the separate parts and how they function.  For example in this class open and closing one’s jaw.  How it feels in the eyes at the end of the lesson  is completely different from how it may have felt in  the beginning!  I love this diagram that also depicts growing sensory awareness!

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You can find more about drawing @ Drawing Website

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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000
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A client today had to be convinced that their teeth didn’t control their jaw movements!

What about you?  What do you think directs your mouth to open, closed and shift from side to side?

mouthCrazy idea!  Your teeth are one small part in the function of your jaw, yet when you search mouth images the bulk only show lips and teeth.  The tongue, upper and lower jaw, jaw joints, cheeks and chin is usually missing.  No wonder most people only think teeth and lips!

Learn more about how to improve jaw strain, pain and tension with mouth care at upcoming workshop

Your Jaw and you

Jaw

Jaw

How many of you are familiar with your jaw?  If so, is it because it is tight, sensitive, painful or locked?

This week I worked with a client whose legs started shaking dramatically when massaging their tense jaw.  She had chronically locked her jaw so tightly that it affected how she supported herself through her legs.  Later she mentioned that her walking improved!  Imagine that?

Another client coming to discuss walking explained to me they had surgery on their jaw as a teenager.  Apparently wearing braces had changed the position of their lower jaw.  When the braces came off the teeth were straight but the upper jaw was quite a bit forward of the lower jaw.  The over bite fix was tragic! Breaking the jaw and moving it forward.  Wow, at no time did anyone consider simple learning exercises for releasing the jaw may reduce the need surgery?

Come to an upcoming workshop series and find out more about how jaw health.  For example how your eyes, ears, cheeks, neck, chest, shoulder and arms can or can be affected by what is happening in your mouth!

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Week five of the New Year already! New Week – New Value:

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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Language Enrichment Systems since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000

Learning Systems for:

  • Developing trust, courage, confidence, inner-support and awareness
  • Understanding relationships of the body – brain connections first and then with others
  • Connecting belief system to real-time (present) experiences
  • Integration tools for moving forward with more conscious awareness and ease

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TEACHING CHILDREN EMPATHY – PARENTS STORY-TIME!

  • WED,  JAN 22 – FEB 26   6:00 – 8:00 PM

LOCATION:  James Bay Community School Centre, 140 Oswego Street

Learn tools to teach your children to hear what is meaningful for you as parents.  Learning can be fun and not through discipline, punishment and reward if your model of parenting includes ongoing techniques for sharing what you value.  If you children hear you through fun, play and story time what is important for you they will carry this into their later years when they are becoming more social and less parent centered.  Come and learn it is what you do and how you do it!

  •  REGISTRATION:  250-389-1470 – 6/$70

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Contemplative Movement

Mondays, Mar 9 – 30, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

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LOCATION:  Monterey Recreation Centre, 1442 Monterey Avenue

Explore a flow of movement through patterns to increase mindful and conscious sensual awareness.   A movement system designed on the principles of somatic relationships of your body, brain and behavior expanding neural pathway connections.  It is a journey of inner reflection of your movement that calms your mind, removes blocks and balances your inner and outer self-image.  You may bring a blanket to increase comfort and remember to dress comfortably. (Recommend no jeans or belts)  Leave with increased clarity, and balance of body, heart (emotions) and mind.  4/64.00  Cass 124248

Register@ Monterey Recreation Centre – 250-370-7300 or online 

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Ceremonial Labyrinth for Commitments of the Heart

Pictures showing one walking pattern designed for Heart Commitments by Jerry Eztkorn, Labyrinth Designer.  Standing with Renee Lindstrom on Willows Beach in Victoria after drawing design to birth this new artistic creation for a celebration request to start 2014!

Read more on creating your own committment ceremony……

Why?

Imagine starting your own family tradition.  On each anniversary walk independently into a labyrinth letting go of all attachments to adversarial thinking. Connect to the deeper quality underneath your mind chatter to what binds you both into a meaningful connection.  

Let it become an annual reminder for letting go of your thoughts and images of what’s not working in your relationship for connecting to the meaning and values you made in your original entwining agreement.  Together walk the path out refreshed in a renewed purpose of connecting to each other, your shared values and inner beauty.