Sign of Aquarius
Today may be a no meat day for me! Luckily I start the day off with fresh celery juice and ginger followed later with fruit smoothie with an orange for Vit C. Thankful fermented sauerkraut is ready – occasion to eat it later. Possibly a lighter food plan for today.
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Today’s first #yyj Feldenkrais Awareness through movement classes happen in Aquarius under 1/4 Moon actions of Challenges, Decisions & Actions. Aquarius governs these body parts: Wrists, Ankles, Joints, Circulation, Veins, Neurological System and reflects the 1st chakra – Read more on first chakra life influences & try sample movement experience.
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by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness, Living in Natures Love Blog & Renee Lindstrom Live
Natural Foot Motion each of us was borne with. Without it one is less likely to have balance.
For 13 years I have been asked about what shoes I would recommend by clients and students in my Feldenkrais® Private Movement Practice and Awareness through Movement Classes. Shoes are a very personal decision and one must be comfortable with the design, style, fit and personal concepts of what will give them the best support.
An opportunity to work more closely with foot pain led to some postural patterns becoming obvious. Postural patterns that seemed to be created by the insoles in ones shoes. Insoles that hold the foot in one place with no natural shift of weight through the foot from back to front, front to back and side to side. This surprising awareness was enough to break a 13 year pattern of not getting into shoe talk and the start of taking a deeper look.
This pair of Adidas will explain one of the reasons I have not recommended shoes in the past. It goes against the past few decades of advertising and marketing that has been somewhat misleading. Yet these are quite possibly the most comfortable shoes I have ever slipped on. These are wide enough to let ones toes move and the uppers are soft without any weight, seams or tight bands or pressure. It has a sock fit construction with pull tongue and heel making it easy to slip on and off. The insoles are a soft foam with no rises, valleys or dips letting the weight move through the feet and toes curl to create natural arches. This design lets one have a more natural gait. The only aspect of this shoe that I have reservations on is the slight incline of the heel, however smaller concern than I have for other styles.
Why recommend they type of shoe?
“Flexible Body, Flexible Mind” Moshe Feldenkrais
I am going to recommend this type of shoe as they are weightless. When wearing them the focus is not on lifting the shoe in the same way as the more familiar styles of shoes. This will increase the potential of increasing the movement of the foot and ankle versus the effort of lifting a heavier shoe. Ideally one would not lift their foot from the floor or ground to take a step. Instead they would use the ground to push-off from that comes from a shift of weight through their foot to create a pattern of movement moving up the up leg. This shoe design has the potential to allow one to have freer movement through the bone structure in the feet. The sock fit of the shoe eliminates the distraction of laces and weight at the top of ones foot allowing more felt sense awareness of how ones foot is moving. My experience of this shoe is the one can begin to cultivate awareness of their feet in motion versus loosing a connection to them in heavier more confined shoes.
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by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness
This desk corner is about abundance. Abundance in finances, investments, and resources. For me it also represents abundance in the quality of experiencing life and relationships that includes the cycle of giving and receiving. An example is the balance of giving and taking. If wealth is from natural resources the question to consider is in the equal contribution back to restore and maintain balance and the quality of nature and the environment. In other words, is only taking and not giving back?
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In Cultivating Awareness foundational for experiential learning one will read about the similarities and differences between Renee’s educational programs and a Mindfulness Mediation Practice.
The focus of this article is on cultivating awareness to retrain the brain and balance used of left and right sides of the brain that Renee encourages her students to learn in the process of becoming self-directed and connected to what and how they are speaking.
The importance of a particular practice of identifying types of thoughts became relevant when a student came back to class and shared their life changing self-awareness experience. They discovered that they compare themselves and others while making critical moral judgments based upon their filter of jealousy. By slowing down to observe these patterns, this recognition can shift and transform their experience. The types of thoughts we address are in the following illustration.
In this diagram a maze is in the area of the fore-brain that depicts the essence of figuring it out and hitting walls until one finds their way forward. This can be complex and draining process.
In the following diagram a larger spiral leading directly into the center point is shown in the fore-brain area that demonstrates the ease in which cultivated awareness through communication can mirror. This cultivation is not unlike the growing ability to focus ones attention as they would in a sitting mediation. It is a different focus, pattern and foundation that one would practice that would include more of ones whole functional ability than the limiting thought process shown in the above diagram.
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Each of the these experiential learning opportunities share the same objectives of cultivating awareness and focusing attention.
Another thing in common they have is that they are inclusive of the four aspects of the human condition and function: mental, emotional, physical and belief systems. These components are not isolated as separate functions as in other wellness styles. In each of these functional events there is an education aspect that includes a mindful pattern cultivating expanded focus.
Here is a way of cultivating awareness through a pattern one may be familiar with:
Step #1 – Begins with a foundation
Mat, Cushion, Posture
Step #2 – Then a focus point
Breath
#3 – Followed by a pattern
Observe your thoughts & environment while following your breath
Improving the ability to notice, discover new connections, refine self-use, and integrate your new skills through the experiential learning techniques anyone can integrate the skills and action steps that creates a ‘being in the moment experience‘ like in a dedicated meditative practice.
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