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Inside Awareness Somatic Integrative Learning Lifestyle Program Topic Articles by life area

by Renee Lindstrom, author of Soamtic Archetypes

Inside Awareness Lifestyle Articles from a somatic perspective by topic. These are: Knowledge, Career, Community, Past, Health, Future, Wealth, Fame and Relationships

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KnowledgeCareerCommunty
Awareness through LifeAwareness through Career Awareness through Comm-unity
Awareness through Nature Value-Based Business Culture#yyj Labyrinths
Awareness through Feng Shui
Culture of Values*Archived – Peace & Intercultural Celebrations
Silent Educator in the Classroom*Archived – Walk Victoria Routes & Community
Past HealthFuture
Awareness of Social & Cultural Conditioning Awareness through Eating Cultivating Life with Goals
Awareness through CommunicationAwareness through Travel
Awareness through MovementAwareness through Children
Somatic Ergonomics
Wealth FameRelationships
Awareness through Wealth Awareness of FameAwareness through Relationships

These lifestyle articles are separated into life areas using a nine-square grid. Each of these topics is viewed through the lens of personal development and enhancement here at Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning. They are components developed through personal and professional practice and integration of the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education, Nonviolent Communication and Western Style Feng Shui. The attention is on cultivating somatic awareness through functional development that is interconnected, yet definable for clarity and understanding.

Each of these links will take the viewer to articles on these individual topics. When clicking on a topic, you will be taken to a web page with that title. The options on each web page will vary due to the different designs of each page. In some look for a title along the top of the site for Posts to find the individual articles that will appear when you hit that tab. Hit the title that is interesting or scroll down depending on the options of the page. Some of the designs the posts will be displayed on the landing page.

If you are interested in more than one topic, return to this page for easy access to the next topic that catches your attention.

The articles will focus on a somatic viewpoint with a personal development perspective. These have been inspired by interactive living cases that have motivated their exploration and development. Often, the viewpoint will include consideration of social and cultural conditioning.

If you have found yourself here on this page, I hope these topics satisfy your interest that motivated you. If so, please like and subscribe.

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Each of these topic pages will have links to individual Facebook pages where there are regular posts and updates. Be sure to check them out. There will also be links to other socials such as YouTube, Linkedin, Instagram, X, Pinterest, Tumblr and TikTok. Be sure to like, follow and subscribe to stay connected through these socials.

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To learn more about Renee Lindstrom, visit her personal website @ www.reneelindstrom.com

To find out how to book an appointment or consultation for you or a group, connect with her to inquire and discuss your needs.

Renee can advise, consult and support each of these lifestyle areas through educational programs or personal enhancement sessions. She is a trained movement expert on the core skeletal movements through the joints, a trained communication expert that focuses on speaking in the present moment with enhanced listening skill patterns, and a trained expert on observing the environmental influences blocking functional behaviour and response.

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Copyright 2014 – 2025  Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2001

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Posted on September 6, 2025

Be the Master Creator of your 2026 experience

Posted on September 5, 2025 | Leave a comment

The energies of 2026 will influence career, and the focus is on new beginnings at the core level. I suggest it will not be superficial rather connected to your root values. This is the year to definitely begin planning if you are not in the habit of it.

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Begin exploring change instead of forcing it through strategies.

 Becoming your own Master Creator of your experience

Turning Intentions into Goals

  • starts with a vision

Breaking 2026 Goals into Seasons

  • becomes more achievable broken into segments for checking in on progress

2026 Goal Template Pattern of action and accountability begins

  • guided patterns of action to achieve seasonal goals and monitor overall progress for 2026 goals

Read the energies of 2026

Take the re off reactive

Turning intentions into doable goals in 5 easy, integrative steps

These are 5 fun and easy steps to activating the integration of intention and action in a meaningful way using a novel pattern to stimulate right and left brain functions with activities that can create life-enriching experiences and relationships.   Each step can be life-changing and integrative. Commit to spending time on each step before moving to the next one. 

STEP #1 – THE FOUNDATION

Book time with yourself to focus your attention on your creative nature.  This step can be a private experience, shared with a friend group, or spent privately with a mentor. It can take up to two hours to lay out the image. Additional time to gather materials beforehand will be needed. 

  • This initial step will be stimulating. 
  • Let it digest for a minimum of three days before moving to step two.

What is stopping you from moving to a life of more joy?

Check out the archetypes below and find out what dominant pattern is yours

The thinker

The Thinker

  • If you hesitate, or if you believe you are not creative, go beyond this thought and gather together some magazines, glue, scissors and some paper and begin creating. Your thoughts are your learned behaviour from years of conditioning.
  • Create a collage mixing pictures and words that speak to you.
  • If you cannot devote this time, pause and make a commitment and do it anyway.  This is as important as eating, sleeping, and socializing. Perhaps even more important is the point of clarity and balance in our natures.  It is invaluable learning and guidance that comes from within.
Create with abandon

The artist

The Visionary

  • Gather the medium you wish to create with: such as water colours, oil, charcoal, etc.
  • Create a vision of your dreams
Create with abandon

The musician

The Musician

  • Gather music sheets, pencil/pen or instrument.
  • Create music for your dreams
  • Write a song reflecting your deepest desire for 2026.
Create with abandon

The physical

The Somatic Touch

  • Gather pen & paper and locate a place in nature that you can walk ALONE under and surrounded by trees.
    • Let this forest bath of smells, sounds & movement calm and slow down to connect to your inner desires for the coming year
    • Listening inside is a place one can go in nature easily when slowing down to create the space for it. Listening from inside can give you your best guidance.  Use this time to become quiet and let your inner desires be heard.  Remember to make notes afterwards so this experience isn’t fleeting.

Finding out your archetype is the first step towards knowing and understanding your inner behaviour preferences and habits. Some of us will be thinkers, and our first response will be thought. We’ll speak from our memory, while others will be visionaries and their expression will be through images and creating picture stories. Some of us will be listeners, and we’ll hear the music. As we observe and consider our goals for 2026. While others of us will be physical and we will choose nature dance, exercise or running as a way to connect. Each of us is uniquely different in our makeup. So take a moment and do this pattern I’ve suggested, and that is guided to find out your archetype. This is the first step to creating a connected future that is connected from the inside out, versus being stimulated by the outside world and trends. Take time to enjoy the process. Breathe, and enjoy the process.

What Archetype are you
Create with abandon

Read the energies of 2026

Learning Center for Inside Awareness Manifesting through intention to goals.

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Copyright 2014 – 2025 Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

This connection to intention can then easily be turned into doable guided patterns incorporating universal values, characteristics and qualities in a novel and uncluttered way by creating new habits through the months and seasons.  The ease of learning is integrated through the experience from a simple guided pattern.  Awareness through creation that uses intention before focused action.

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2026 in numerology is #1

Posted on August 29, 2025 | Leave a comment

2 + 2 + 6 =’s 10

by Renee Lndstrom, founder of Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning

What does the #1 mean personally and as a society in numerology philosophy?

The number 1 in numerology reflects independence, leadership and new beginnings. It is associated with unity and the origins of all things. 2020 was all about a new operating code, laying a foundation, and creating stability, followed by 2021. which was all about being present in the moment, discovery, and exploration, while 2022 was about unconditional love and healing. 2023 was about finding harmony between the conscious and unconscious mind, and 2024 was all about ego and the balance between the spiritual and materialistic states of being. 2025 has been about prosperity, happiness, and good luck in life

9-year cycle

Numerology 9 year Grid of years beginning in 2020
Grid used @ Inside Awareness for clarity & understanding behaviour through goal setting

WHAT IS 2026’S #1 ABOUT?

The number 1 brings new ventures, projects, personal growth, self-discovery, new beginnings, opportunities and charting new territory.

The qualities of a #1 are:

  • Leadership
  • Courage
  • Boldness
  • Uniqueness
  • Originality
  • Passion
  • Confident
  • Self Reliant
  • Pioneering
  • Determination
  • Innovation

The areas of influence of a #1 are:

  • Creativity
  • Will Power
  • Self Discovery
  • Individualism
  • Primal Power
  • Pureness
  • Goals
  • independence

Support #1 needs

For this writer, coach, and mentor, 2026 numerology reflects the career area of the Nine Life Areas grid. The career segment of the nine life areas reflects the work one does to support themselves and their contribution to the community. The qualities and influence of a number 1 seem to align with the leadership qualities needed for the new beginnings and vision for 2026.

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Career LIfe Area

Coaching, support, and mentoring will be important in 2026 due to the new vision and changes that will be required to rebuild globally. The border relationships and trade agreements have shifted with the consequences of changing economies for many. It is going to be a time for innovation, courage, determination and fearlessness for tapping into a pioneering spirit.

The number one has an association with goal setting for setting vision intentions. The era for manifesting through the laws of assumption is becoming stronger as more and more people tap into using them.

Concrete planning will create the focus for integrating balance, harmony, and success for living one’s hopes and dreams.

  • Co-creating with the universal laws of manifestation through setting intentions into goals creates confidence, direction, and purpose.
  • A goal plan lays a foundation that is reassuring and increases ease in the journey.
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Be your own Master Creator of 2026

Books by Renee Lindstrom to support creative goals aligning with personal values, health and wellness. Guided patterns shift from the inside out.

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2026 available soon

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*Getting InTouch Weekly Values coincides with Children’s educational program – Culture of Values

2026 available soon

Influences to manifesting through intention to goals with the Inside Awareness Center for integrative somatic learning

Elusive becomes obvious

The book titled The Elusive Obvious by Dr. Feldenkrais

Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais wrote a book, The Elusive Obvious, The Convergence of Movement, Neuroplasticity, and Health. Moshe founded The Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. The focus of attention in this learning system is to cultivate awareness of the unconscious behavioural reactions that are taken for granted and habitual, therefore unknown.

 

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For transparency, I have begun posting a link to my paypal, for those inspired by my posts that have been for learning purposes. I am not sponsored other than by myself at this time. My focus has been on the development of an interconnected and integrated system that is apparent in all my efforts shared. The focus of this body of work is on somatic connections that is completely misunderstood by most. The mainstream focus talks at it with strategies in mind while my focus is on the practical aspects of living it. It matters in understanding how to support somatic empathic children from early childhood and shifting a social conditioning that could benefit from more from this focus of learning and understanding. This focus is on a well-functioning body, improved relationships and communication, and connections to food, nature and environment to support healthier social and cultural conditioning. If you would like to buy me a coffee or support this effort for further development, please go to paypal.me/reenelindstrom – you will notice Renee is spelled Reene on this link – that is me, it is not a mistake. You will see this link on my YouTube Channel and educational web materials, fyi.

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Interesting & Important viewpoint of Carl Jungs on ‘being empathic’

Posted on July 24, 2025 | Leave a comment

This description is one of the best I have heard on explaining the statement, ‘being empathic.’ As a somatic empath myself, it resonates and supports my own personal experience and awareness that I draw on to cultivate concepts for learning to expand consciousness outside limited social conditioning constraints.

If you enjoy this video consider how important it is to integrate this archetype Carl Jung describes into the mass consciousness for acceptance to replace the stigma that comes from limited institutionalized educational patterns currently.

The educational programs here at Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning have a somatic empathic foundation.

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‘New News’ for Inside Awareness Center for Somatic Learning

Posted on February 9, 2025 | Leave a comment

New Web Pages to support learning opportunities @ Inside Awareness Center for Somatic Integrative Learning – http://www.insideawareness.com

  • By Renee Lindstrom, GCFP
  1. Renee Lindstrom
  2. Cultivating Life with Goals
  3. Culture of Values
  4. Awareness through Feldenkrais
  5. Awareness through Eating
  6. Awareness through Feng Shui
  7. Awareness through Life
  8. Awareness through Communication (coming soon)

Last fall I began breaking down the learning components into easy pages to simplify and create ease in understanding what I offer under the individual life area focus of Feng Shui. This Feng Shui Map is a formula I use as a pattern as an easy somatic learning system to enable a mindfulness approach to settle the busy analytical nature that can be a constraint to shifting old habits in physical, mental and emotional responses.

The individual approaches range from logical concrete practical applications for personal skill development to exploring higher self-actualization patterns.

The practical functional international learning methods are Awareness through Feldenkrais, Culture of Values, Awareness through Communication, Awareness through Feng Shui, Value-Focused Business Culture, Cultivating Life with Goals and Awareness through Eating.

The web pages for higher self-actualization is Awareness through Life.

These learning opportunities reflect a lifestyle experience, however, breaking them down into these areas increases the potential to transform habits into expanding awareness for improving peace, harmony and abundance.

Please check out the topic that speak to you and remember to like and subscribe to get access to the latest information.

New News coming…..

I will be introducing a pattern of processing dialogue that may just be the key to cutting through conflict more easily in 2025. Using it these past years has proven to be like an exacto knife cutting through the resistance as it creates logic that is currently missing in our behaviour conditioning.

I will also be introducing clarity on a spontaneous behavioural response that is habitual that isn’t in the mainstream conversation yet. It has proven to be a game changer in posture awareness.

Stay tuned for these important topics.

In the fall I published some books on Amazon to support goal setting and value integration. They are:

Early Childhood Culture of Values Education

Available on Amazon

Amazon

Adult Education

Available on Amazon

Amazon

I have begun to share shorts on YouTube and TikTok that are fun and informative so if you have an account be sure to follow @

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I have individual Facebook Pages for the Topics that align with the above Ebepages. They have links on those individual web pages.

One Facebook Page I am devoting to the Divine Feminine may be interesting for some. This page will focus on topics of higher vibration aspects of femininity that include the balance of feminine and masculine energies that influence each person from a Divine Feminine Perspective.

Upcoming One-Day Feldenkrais Workshop

TMJ – Jaw Release

Saturday, February 15 2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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Guided Movement shorts inspired by Feldenkrais for the office!

Posted on February 7, 2025 | Leave a comment
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Inside Awareness Learning Center: Grounding Pad when Earthing isn’t an option

Posted on November 16, 2024 | Leave a comment

Health Life Area

Interacting with people to improve function using somatic movement I have noticed that there is a lack of being in nature with bare feet. This normal activity growing up in previous generations is now called earthing. It is trending as a wellness activity for grounding and improving mental, emotional and physical health. This is a strategy where shoes are taken off to put bare feet on the ground for twenty or more minutes a day. It is suggested that this strategy will reduce chronic pain, increase sleep and energy, lower stress, balance circadian rhythms and slow down aging.    

This activity may not be available for students who have mobility restrictions and for those working long hours at a desk. I have learned that a grounding mat can support these people who cannot be outdoors. Reading about its potential I have read that while using the grounding mat one can reset their biological rhythms using the negative charge of electrons of the earth. There is a suggestion that these electrons increase antioxidants and neutralize free radicals.  

From a Feng Shui perspective this grounding mat would be useful to balance out the electrical exposure from from all the devices and Wi-Fi waves.

Two popular grounding products are a grounding mat and a grounding sheet. The mat can be used under ones desk to rest feet on or on the desk to rest hands on. The sheet can b used on ones bed to rest on.

I decided to test a mat as I would like to have this type of tool to recommend for those who are not getting out into nature often. I found it easy to set up. It was a plug that goes into the electrical ground outlet that snaped to sheet or pad that has silver through it to conduct the negative charge. This same post can be pushed directly into the ground which is a nice alternative. The person who came up with this concept created their own with wire and a metal infused tape. He pushed the wire into the ground and attached it to the silver infused tape. The tape went across his bed. He came up with the idea after becoming ill with a serious condition. It made a difference in his condition that led him to follow it up with scientific studies.

Even though it suggested not to lay on it all night when first getting it, I didn’t listen. The suggestion was to use it during the day for shorter periods. So by not listening I was up all night. lol. My system is a-typical. I can’t take any sleep formulas. If I do I am wakeful all night, while others are put to sleep. It’s an energy thing. However, following their suggestions and only using it during the day for shorter periods it has improved the quality of my sleep.

Grounding Sheets

Pictured above is a grounding sheet. I put my crystals on it during the full moon transition. I am not able to put them outside on the earth. Before and after I used dowsing rods to measure the field of the sheet and crystals. The field tripled outwards and upwards. If this interests you follow Feng Shui articles on our Awareness through Feng Shui news pages. Feng Shui is a pillar of Inside Awareness foundational teachings. It rests under the Higher Knowledge Life Area.


Copyright 2014 – 2024 Renee Lindstrom, GCFP
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