Body Beautiful – Weight Loss 2: Heavy & and an empath

Posted on November 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

Somewhere along this journey I lost over 60 pounds, dropped 10 inches from around my waist and watched the bulges and pockets disappear, and now the overall body weight is disappearing.

Perceiving the silent responses in others

I shared a snippet of my weight loss thru pragmatic experience versus idealism on lost weight and found food love  page.  Now to the interactions of others.  I have not shared that I am an em-path with many.  Imagine being heavy and facing someone who has no ability to have autonomy from another’s experience and being able to perceive it clearly yet, as a professional,  not specifically addressing it!

I am referring to perceiving others mental processing experience based upon comparisons, moral judgement, criticisms, right and wrong, and shame states and their corresponding feelings.  Perceiving these mental and emotions states of  others was a paradox as an Awareness through Movement, Awareness through Communication and Awareness through Environment Practitioner that focuses upon inner changes and stimulus of cause and effect of shifting environments.  Their reactions to my weight was limited to their idealism of self-image didn’t include their own states of being, mentally, emotionally and physically.    Whether this was lacking physical, mental or emotional flexibility, and resilience or the lack of ability to understand that others have differing perspective  or a lack of listening skills and being able to hear and include others in the conversation their self-image idealism is experienced by this empath as  a prison of fear, anxiety and contempt.  Views, beliefs and emotions that would extend inside themselves as they fail in their own expectations.

How to Loose Weight by creating a Foodie Lifestyle Naturally

Two immediate ways Renee can help you with your weight loss are 

  1.  Coaching Options:
    • Turning intentions into goals
    • Goals Setting & Home Audit and Support
  2.  Food Consciousness Building & Education

Steps to Loosing Weight

  1.  Commit by connecting to intention (separate fitness intention for diet, they are not married and if necessary create a second intention for fitness)
  2.  Foodie Lifestyle assessment to guarantee it’s doable (remember diet extends into the kitchen, fridge, garden and grocer.  It doesn’t extend to the gym or track)
  3.  Choose a diet plan that’s right for you remembering to make it about you and not about the diet.  (Remember that if you choose a trending diet eventually you will go off it and then what? where is the learning integration?)
  4. Get support for keeping your intention and turning them into goals. (Remember a mentor, group or community can  motivate increase incentive to reach your potential)
  5. Acknowledge results with a coach or in a journal.  (Noticing change is the point of mindful awareness and expressing regret or celebrating versus beating yourself up is the new change agent)

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Nov 14 ’18 Inside News: Empathy for the Parasympathetic & Sympathetic Nervous Systems with Feldenkrais®

Posted on November 14, 2018 | Leave a comment

In our last newsletter shared how foods could improve our emotional groupings by connecting them to body regions along the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous systems. This practitioner is going to call that ‘Food Empathy’ due to the amazing emotional shifts food can create!

This newsletter will suggest that movement can also affect these systems giving the reader more choices in increasing their skills to shift or transform uncomfortable behavioral patterns using  Awareness through Movement® Somatic Patterns.

The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) controls homeostasis and the body at rest and is responsible for the body’s “rest and digest” function. The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) controls the body’s responses to a perceived threat and is responsible for the “fight or flight” response.

The difference for this Feldenkrais Practitioner has been that Feldenkrais articulates the inner movement through sensing along the nervous system to mobilize other moving parts to increase ease in movement while other styles of movement are stylized exercise patterns.  The most difficult process this practitioner has observed in others in lessons is the difficulty many have in transitioning from needing to know how to do it before trying it to simply experiencing it through patterns.

Below  are some physical examples along the nervous system that compliment the emotional sensing of the Nonviolent Communication 4 part model, Observation, Feelings, Needs & Request as well as subtle energy center foods mentioned in the last newsletter.  This practitioner is suggestion that these movements can increases one’s window of tolerance and ability to cope as she suggest foods could by increasing the gut brain connection.  It is the body’s natural empathy resource.

To read more from this writer on this topic:

Awareness through Movement for Crown & Brow

The Brow Chakra encompasses the pituitary gland, eyes, head, and lower part of the brain and is associated with the center of ones intuition.

All guided Awareness through Movement® Lessons, called ATM’s, would support the 6th & 7th Chakras as the intention of the patterns are designed to focus ones attention to specifically bring a state of experiencing each moment using the movement itself. In meditation one is taken into a practice of following the breath or imagery while Feldenkrais® takes one into the focused experience of their personal action from the inside out.

Try this example experience of 7 steps to get in touch with your somatic awareness capabilities:

Awareness through Movement for the Throat

Located in the throat at the voice box and Adams apple areas, the Throat Chakra governs the voice, endocrine gland, thyroid and communication.

The guided patterns Awareness through Movement® lessons can increase ones ability to sing higher or lower, speak with more groundedness, swallow easier and unblock air passageways going down into the torso.  Mobilizing unused muscles and spinal movements can free up any restrictions limiting information and fluid going upwards into the head and brain also.

In Nonviolent Communication, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg discussed how the base of the throat area is the line that separates reaction with thinking and speaking  from connection to universal values increasing empathy.  His focus of empathy was an action with an intention of the heart (or values).  If one was speaking only from the mind only the result would be disconnection and conflict.

This Feldenkrais Practitioner, who mentors and coaches using Nonviolent Communication,  can see clues in others who appear to living in their heads, so to speak.  It is evident in their facial features, colouring and body posture.  Sharing  lessons in either Awareness through Movement or Awareness through Communication  this Practitioner can see the changing environment in ones colouring, features and postural changes.

Try this example experience of 8 steps to get in touch with your somatic awareness capabilities:

Click the links to read more on the remaining centers:

Two ways you can enjoy the Feldenkrais Method is through group classes or personal integration sessions called:
Function Integration  & Awareness through Movement 

To demonstrate the difference between Feldenkrais and other Movements in this weeks Awareness through Movement Lessons I showed the group a yoga mat and a mat I use in my movement classes.  The differences you can actually see are that the yoga mat is sticky on purpose to support held patterns while the Feldenkrais mat is for mobility for the purpose of having no environmental
restrictions.  In yoga one holds a pose and moves into another contrived pose while in Feldenkrais one has a focus on all the steps of the inside structure on their way towards striking any one posture.  

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  • Turn Intentions into goals following pattern that increases self-esteem and confidence replacing self judgements in areas of movement, relationships & lifestyle
  • Begin Planning now for 2019 using a model of integration where your vision can become reality.
  • Celebrate your commitment to yourself with monthly organized labyrinth walks to reflect and check in.

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Nov 4 ’18 News: Learn to make no-cost cream cheese & whey for the holidays

Posted on November 14, 2018 | Leave a comment
Learn how to make cream cheese, whey & fermented foods, and about 5 Ways to enhance your focus of attention, improve somatic movement & communication skills

movement, communication, diet, environment, intentions into goals 

1  Take a class  @ Monterey Center:

Somatic Movement Series

  • ​Balance and A Fear of Falling – starts Mon, Nov 5 @ 1:00 pm

Read more or still time to register @ 250-370-7300

  • Awareness through Movement – starts Mon, Nov 5 @ 2:30 pm

Read more or still time to register @ 250-370-7300
Nonviolent Communication

  • Removing Obstacles to Love – starts Fri, Nov 9th @ 1 pm

Read more or still time to register @ 250-370-7300

2.  Personal Function Integration

Book a personalized Feldenkrais Somatic Movement session
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3.  Take individual or plan group Coaching/Mentoring

  • Turn Intentions into goals following pattern that increases self-esteem and confidence replacing self judgements.
  • Begin Planning now for 2019 using a model of integration where your vision can become reality.
  • Celebrate your commitment to yourself with monthly organized labyrinth walks to reflect and check in.
Book a personalized Coaching session for self, work, group or create a retreat
250-361-7508

4.  Improve outcomes with Home & Work Audits

Explore how your environment is contributing to any blocks you are experiencing in your ability to transform your personal goals.  Create a supportive environment to help you integrate your dreams.
Book a personalized Coaching session
250-361-7508

5.  Educational:  Healthy emotional eating!

Did you know that food can create a shift in your emotions?

Check out these 7 clip-art pictures of certain emotions & feelings that can be shifted with food!  Yes with food.  Food can increase our levels of tolerance by creating a healthier gut and communicating with the body via biological systems, such as the endocrine glands and nervous system – read more  or pick out group that represents you dominate emotions and go to link of healthy emotional foods for that group.

Healthy gut, flexible brain

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Making no-cost cream cheese & whey (whole protein)

 Making yogurt with two ingredients led to making home-made cream cheese.  What is so wonderful about this is that I am left with 2 cups of   whey.

Whey is a whole protein that has 9 essential amino acids and is low in lactose content.  Starting with home-made yogurt means no additives.  Simple ingredients with no preservatives or sugars.  Clean food!

   Make your own yogurt, cream cheese and whey for the holidays!
Start with simple yogurt recipe
or with simple cream cheese recipe
use whey in:
Bone Broth
Fermented Food Recipes
Soups, Stews, Shakes

fermented Foods are fun & healthy living foods for the holidays:

Here is a link to pdf download or to view some great recipes to increase gut health with the bonus of increasing brain health:
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What seeds do you want to sow for 2019? Fall is not only the harvest, its time to sow.

Posted on September 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

Did you know that fall is the best time to set your intention for 2019?  If you organize your goals according to natures cycle, fall is the time to sow seeds and winter is the time to let them gather the nutrients they need to sprout the following spring.  Winter is not the time to plant seeds?  Unfortunately the goal setting habits are out of sync with natures rhythm.  We have been taught to wait until after Winter Solstice to set our intentions for the coming year and to have a high expectation for achieving them immediately.  There is no grace period for consideration or integration sometimes leading to self-criticism and depression.

What if you spent time now to consider your wishes for the coming season and give yourself time to refine them before you commit.  Once you begin considering your dream, you begin to make room for them in your lifestyle without evening thinking about it.  Making room for your dreams is actually a pattern of creating new habits.  It’s not declaration!

So with this in mind here is a reminder of the nine life areas you may wish to consider as you begin reflecting to have balance.  These are; wealth, fame, relationship, ancestors (1st family), health, creativity, knowledge, career and helpful people.

Nine Life Squares

Get templates here for writing out your 2019 goals.

Knowledge includes; faith & spirit
Creativity includes; travel, adventure & children
Wealth includes; abundance
Health includes; home, fitness, diet
Fame is what you want to be recognized for
Helpful people are support in the community
Career is more than work, it include the essence of what you are known for in this life

Did you know goals start out as Intentions?  
 
Your intentions for 2019 are not your goals. Your goals are what you create to achieve your intention.  An example of this is a vision board.  If your create a vision board this represents your intention.  However if you don’t do anything different to manifest your dreams, they may not emerge.  If you haven’t made room for your dreams they may not fit into your life easily.
Manifesting your intention is just like your clothes closet.  If it’s too full nothing new can go in it.    However if you clear the clutter it makes room for something new to enter.

Recently I have hosted a circle for women over 50 to explore finding love.  We began with a vision board exploring the above nine life areas and what that means in finding a relationship.  Not only have we been looking at making room in our life for a lover and how to maintain balance in these areas, we are considering if we are living our best life prior to manifesting a partner.  After all, if we are not living it, we won’t attract it.

So whether you are looking for love or wanting social change in other areas you too can begin to focus on your intention which is simply another way of saying, becoming conscious to what is meaningful to you.  Goals are then what you follow-up with!

n easy way with turning intention into goals is an 8 step pattern following the lunar calendar.  Replace making goals the night before and then beating yourself up for not being accountable, explore a way of integrating intention into goals that are doable.  Read more on these steps.

To make goal setting easy follow the Lunar Cycle Goal Setting steps on Inside Awareness Calendar
Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication,  Empathy,  Values Coach since 2004, Art of Placement  since 2000, Labyrinths of Victoria since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Grassroots Calendar Founder, Vice-Chair of World Children’s Summit on Peace & Nature in 2015
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Feldenkrais in the Pool?

Posted on July 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

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Recently a client asked if I would come into the pool for our Feldenkrais session.  I couldn’t see any reason not to and was curious about the upcoming experience.

The day arrives and this clients physio and I are at the outdoor pool with them.  I begin with listening and observing what their routine is in the pool before sharing any possible movement patterns.  What I recognize is simple and doable movements are missing.  Movements such as rotating leg in a circle to loosen hip-joint and create a brains connection to using this rotation in future patterns of movement.  A movement the client can successful do in the pool without strain or pain.  I suggested this pattern and then added ankle joint circles.  In the water this movement was more available and the client had more ease in turning one foot in a circle once again increasing the connection between the brain and the action.  Finally going to their knees and to explore bending them to bring them up one at a time to mimic walking which is doable in the water.

After a few minutes of creating these easy patterns that are difficult on dry land I suggest that the client stretch out in the water face down and begin to bring knees towards chest to mimic crawling.  Beautiful precursor to walking!

Feldenkrais in the water?  YES!

One take-a-way was what happened when a stretching exercise created a leg cramp.  In explaining it the physio said to the client, …. “this is the same cramp that you have had since last year.”  I waited a for a time and said that cramps come with movements that are happening in the moment.  I asked the client what movement they  did that resulted in the cramp.  Both the physio and the client identified immediately that it was the stretching exercise.  The function of being able to associate with the real action is imperative if there is to be effective change.  Generalization, association and storytelling has no therapeutic value in my opinion.  Why?  There is no connection or awareness of the action to be able to replace it with a new action.

Another take-a-way is that rotating the limb was called, “range of motion” by the physio versus a movement the client can make to increase their functional ability to increase the way they move.   Generalizing this movement by labeling it “range of motion” creates a degree of separation in the clients conscious awareness of it’s intended function.  It’s time to get back to the basics and focus on real function.  Lets stop talking a language of separation and start speaking  a language of connection to functions.

Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication,  Empathy,  Values Coach since 2004, Art of Placement  since 2000, Labyrinths of Victoria since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Grassroots Calendar Founder, Vice-Chair of World Children’s Summit on Peace & Nature in 2015
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Active Grounding Exercise

Posted on February 1, 2018 | Leave a comment

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Active Grounding Exercise

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This active grounding exercise is a wonderful way to explore transforming an individual’s experience from disconnection into a connection.  It includes; mindfulness, movement, imagination, sensing and how to harness and expand ones focus of attention.

These patterns of movement direct the participants through  guided actions that integrates their thinking, sensing and movement.  These patterns free one up to be more present while growing their inner awareness and sense of themselves.

This group exercise is a valuable way to settle an individual for the purpose of being more present and able to engage into the topic being discussed or for learning.

If one is experiencing a state of flight, fright or fight it is a somatic movement pattern that can be beneficial to support re-connection or settling without the effort of talking.  Talking can become easier after this somatic experience.

  • Step one uses imagination to suggest that the participants can separate from the mental chatter in their head to refocus their attention.
  • Step two guides’ participants towards how they can sense themselves somatically harnessing their thought process. 
  • Step three starts them on exploring a felt sensory experience that will eventually differentiate being grounded or ungrounded.
  • Step four is designed to increase their own sensory awareness through a somatic exercises designed to slowly integrate body, mind and felt experiences. 
  • Step five is for noticing the changes and letting the brain and mind connect to these changes. 

Active Grounding Exercise in 5 Easy Steps

Step #1

To begin, walk around the group of participants with a bag, purse or box that has a lid.  Ask each participant to put their baggage thoughts  into the container.  Let them know that they can pick them up on their way out. 

Step #2

Ask your participants what their experience is to be ‘grounded.’ Feel free to add questions to encourage answers, such as:  “How does it feel in your body? and where do you feel it in your body?”

Step #3

If they are seated in a chair or standing ask them how they feel their feet on the floor. 

After giving them a moment to check in and sense their feet, ask them how they feel their legs? 

After another moment to check in then ask them how they feel in their upper body sitting on the chair or if in standing how they sense from the waist up? 

Step #4

Now ask them to begin lifting their feet one at a time and softly put them back onto floor several times, alternating first one side and then the other.  Suggest they focus on the feeling of it. 

After 4 or so times, ask them to speed up the movement a bit while increasing the pressure slightly. Once again, ask them to focus on the feeling of it.

Then after a few more times, ask them to speed it up even more while increasing the pressure.  Ask them if they are noticing the feeling of it. 

One last time ask them to now put a lot of effort into it.  Encourage them to pound their feet into the floor while going as fast as they can.  After a few seconds have them stop. 

Step #5

Sitting or standing quietly ask them the following 5 questions:   

  • Ask if they sense their feet differently?
  • Ask if they sense their knees differently?
  • Ask if they sense their hips differently?
  • Ask how they sense their upper body in sitting?
  • Now ask them where their focus of attention is?

Active Grounding Exercise

Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication,  Empathy,  Values Coach since 2004, Art of Placement  since 2000, Labyrinths of Victoria since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Grassroots Calendar Founder, Vice-Chair of World Children’s Summit on Peace & Nature in 2015
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Calming Fright, Flight, Fight reactions through movement techniques

Posted on September 9, 2017 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

Mindfulness through Movement

Observing people’s posture in standing and walking for the past 10 years has been educational.  I have begun to notice subtle posture nuances that clearly indicates ones state of mind and their physical and emotional well-being.  The most common condition I am observing in people is a separation between what one thinks and a connection to physical movement.

Generally I notice ones focus of attention is on interpretation of what is happening versus actual experience.  For me this means having a fixed perspective, opinion or belief.  If a physical ailment surfaces there is a fixed belief to go and have someone fix it or use tools to make physical movement easier.  Tools like a cane, walker, scooter, special chair and bed.    What’s missing is an easier possibility!  This is the exploration of how to move differently.  I am not referring to practices such as yoga, therapy, stretching or exercising as the difference is that you are following a limited structured pattern.  I am referring to increasing awareness of feeling how you move in the process of moving.  This includes increasing your ability to focus your attention on how each bone  and joint movement can be sensed.

When mobility increases I notice that there is an increase in coping.  The mask of fear, anger, pain and anxiety is replaced with a peaceful and open appearance.

Recently I wrote about settling the fight, flight, fright experiences of the Hippocampus from the perspective of communication.  I have noticed that another more effective way to settle these reactions has been through the application of Feldenkrais® Movement.

Working with three ways to settle ones flight, fight and fright reactions I find the application of Feldenkrais Movements the quickest and most effective for shifting and integrating change.  It engages more immediate functional connection between ones physical, mental and emotional states of being.  Many times I have experienced someone in a series of 6 classes for balance where after the first or second class someone has given up their cane.  They describe that they are less fearful to stand and support themselves.

This year a trend has been the lack of  connection to feeling one’s legs.  I had to purposely show  someone that they dragged a leg behind them when there wasn’t any physical reason for this.  It turned out this leg had been broken years before and this person forgot how to use this leg.  This resulted in collapsing. When life became too difficult to enjoy they requested an operation, however there wasn’t anything to operate on!

Recently I encouraged someone to consciously shift weight purposely into one of their legs and their reaction was to say that this leg couldn’t support them.  I asked them how they had walked all these years and suggested that this leg must actually be supporting them.  We spent a few minutes practicing shifting weight from foot to foot and their fear was tangible.  A short week later the leg that was not trusted appeared stronger and I smile as there was no hesitation in using this leg.  The fright, flight and fight reactions were not visible!

What is exciting as a practitioner giving guidance to explore patterns of movement is that there it bypasses the stories in ones mind and focuses them on discovering their movement process.  It teaches them ways to feel the movement.     It increases present awareness (being in the moment).

To other ways for calming ones state of flight, fright and fight can be through increased understanding of your emotional and intellectual functions and your environment.

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Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness Paperback – by Moshe Feldenkrais 

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