Balance

Being fortunate enough to share Awareness through Movement lessons in local community centers has offered a broad range of participants to work with these past years. This focus on a somatic movement perspective has exposed the lack of insight into the body’s functional movement and range of motion to stay upright. Balance in mainstream consciousness is dominant through the effort of muscle contraction to remain upright. In this focus, there is no room for spontaneous counterbalance. In this video, Renee shares one of the initial concepts she employs in her Awareness through Movement lessons to cultivate and integrate a greater concept of balance and counterbalance. The lessons focus on increasing spontaneous movement patterns to improve balance in all functions.

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Focus of Somatic Ergonomics Included in Balance and A Fear of Falling Group Lessons

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More on functional Awareness:

• Breathing←
• Sleeping←
• Spine←
• TMJ←
• Walking←

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Feldenkrais integrates well and supports:

• Awareness through Eating Programs
  • Actions motivated by integration of somatic experience using focus of attention, intention and manifestation
• Awareness through Eating Programs
  • Cultivating awareness of foods for optimum function
• Awareness through Goals
  • Integrating universal, human and earth values
  • Doable action focus to support the intentional manifestation
• Awareness through Living Integrative Programs
  • Sleep, Sweet Sleep
• Somatic Dialogue Programs
  • Integrating universal values
    • Balancing somatic experience in relationships
      • Effective and intentional dialogues
      • Effective and intentional listening
• Awareness through Feng Shui Programs
  • Integrating universal, human and earth energies
  • Balancing somatic experiences using focus and intention for manifestation of health, wealth & and harmony

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by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness,  

Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Functional Integration® are registered service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America. Feldenkrais Method®

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Inside Awareness blog posts on hidden patterns (environment) of early learning of movement behaviours:

• Shifting perspectives through movement can be the new reality
• Awareness of walking
• Micro-movements and the classroom chair for developing a child’s ability to age well
• Hidden influences of the decor in a Classroom learning environment
• An intro to hidden patterns of learning in the classroom that lead to reduced mobility through the spine
• Feldenkrais and early learning for aging well
• The need for rounding the edges in design to increase spinal rotation in the classroom
• Cervical Spine Function
• Spinal Cord & Nerves
• Vertebrae & the Spine
• The need to shift theory observations to clear observations in physicality