Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning

Interested in Becoming Friends First?

Posted on September 12, 2014 | Leave a comment

Sunday’s starting Oct 5th 1 – 2:30 pm

Love Talk Meet Up’s

Becoming Friends

Serious about love and looking in all the wrong places? Are you tired of signing up to sites only to be played and enable hook ups. Hook ups with no real intent or integrity? If you would like to connect with others and become friends first, join our Sunday afternoon meet-ups. A gathering for men and women to feel comfortable connecting

in a safe and fun environment leading to a heart connected conversations. Our gatherings will include focused group sharing encouraging an environment for safely sharing and deepening friendship as well as a social aspect.

Some events may include labyrinth walks to encourage self (inner) connection first before sharing.

Connect: renee@insideawareness to express your interest or make inquiries

By drop in: $10.00

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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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Announcing sister site focused upon creating a Culture of Values

Posted on August 28, 2014 | Leave a comment

Launching:

Culture of Value & Kids Peace Bus Value Based Calendar Education Systems this September!

Kids Peace bus Calendar of Values is a structure of learning patterns that breaks through complex critical thinking due to its simplicity of experiencing. These patterns model ethical and humane behavior that layered with learning empathetic listening and speaking, children can learn to communicate using a language that values others and is inclusive. The Kids Peace Bus Calendar of Values is the foundation that can make later development of complex social learning systems easier and less time-consuming.

The Kids Peace Bus Calendar of Values program is a value-based educational component that is also a structure of implementation that is easy. It is a program that makes learning fun, and can grow into an organic system for creating *green behavior!

Integration programs include:

yearly calendar of values to follow for easy integration,
setting goals for creating a community and social culture for learning support
Teacher’s agendas and personal workbooks for simple integration and value definition development
vocabulary building
discussion topics for listening and dialogue skill building (designed for organic honesty & empathy)
community building ideas

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September ’14 Courses from Inside:

FAQ:

Posted on August 11, 2014 | Leave a comment

What are some qualities that clients would experience in your private sessions that they would remember?

Four qualities that come to mind are: support, fairness, patience and empathy. Whether a movement, empathy or personal coaching the sessions are grounded upon empathetic listening and honest expression, (even if hard to hear messages). Focus is upon the clients, not the practitioner, therefore a direct opportunity for the client can be for a deeper self connection. In sessions the clients are guided through their experience replacing the teaching model (being talked at) that culturally we have come to rely upon. Being told, fixed or having the person we are paying teach us through their experience is so unsatisfactory. It is the qualities of willingness and courage that inspire change. An atmosphere encouraging safe reflection achieves quicker and easier transitions with the least amount of effort!

In Relationships:

Whether sessions include both parties or not, space is held to consider the cause and effect for both sides. This can deepen conscious understanding of the root causes of the current experiences. This process is based upon empathy to transition out of right or wrong judgments for clarity and to regain composure, balance and free will for making difficult choices. Life changing choices resulting from reaction can create bigger issues, resentment and regret. Therefore these session need honesty, patience and empathy to support a smoother transition forward.

In Movement

Once again this process focuses on empathetic listening except now it is focused upon what the body is demonstrating. Unknown to most in our culture is that our bodies tell our story! Through observation and felt touch in a safe environment the physical, mental, emotional and belief aspects of oneself can open to patterns that are no longer working. It is the awareness of old habits and this new experience that shifts outcomes. These sessions need honesty, patience and empathy to support clients inner felt sense needs for safety to be met to let go of resistance to go beyond into a new experience in how they feel themselves.

Lifestyle

Clients who are either motivated for change or with chronic conditions will have home or office visits to increase support for life change through their environment. Like ones body posture the home or office tells a story of one’s experience, yet not one of a personal self-image story. This is a story of where ones attention is focused in life and how the relationships are in community that shares the space. These visits need honesty, patience and empathy to support each member in the process in a way that change can happen.

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Upcoming Classes & Events – Listed by date

Renee Lindstrom

Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Vice-Chair of World Children’s Summit on Peace & Nature – May 2015

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#yyj Peace Week Project

Posted on August 8, 2014 | Leave a comment

Celebrating Peace Week?

We urge you to share a Peace focused event in your community group during the week leading up to September 21st, ‘World Peace Day’

Why?

TO PLANT SEEDS OF PEACE ,

IT BEGINS WITHIN US IN COMMUNITY

If you are planning an event in Greater Victoria during the week of September 14 – 21st, connect to have it added to our Peace Week Project Calendar!

see event calendar on facebook

follow @ Greater Victoria for Peace & Intercultural Celebrations

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Finding Love, Being in Love & Remembering your love………

Posted on July 22, 2014 | Leave a comment

Love Questions:

Does love just happen? (No, sex just happens!)
Does that loving feeling last forever? (No, when the physical chemical wears off the relationships becomes a struggle.)
Do you fall out of love with yourself when you love someone else? (When you let anything go without addressing it, yes you are no longer loving yourself)
Who do you fall out of love with first, yourself or your mate?

Heart Shaped Ceremonial Pathway

LOVE RELATED WORKSHOPS

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A new way of looking at finding, being and staying in love!

New type of SUPPORT FOR FINDING, BEING AND REMEMBERING LOVE………….

Love is fresh, never old!

First lets look at what makes love old when:

looking for it,
being in it
or trying to remember it?

If your answer was unmet needs your right!

Surprisingly our first step for finding love is hunting for it. It’s easy to hunt and be hunted. We are longing to feel connected, loved and chemically high!

Typically our second step is to conform ourselves to fit the model we think we should be.

Or, we demand our love interest conform to be who we want them to be!

Putting them or ourselves first turns today’s dream into tomorrow’s nightmare!

Screech……..STOP!

Let’s start over! Together lets take a look at your definition of love and find out if it is working for you, but first lets talk about why. Whether you are looking for a short-term fix or long-term relationship wouldn’t you want to experience the best of you versus the worst? To feel confident, beautiful and fulfilled replacing hurt, resentful and frustrated would be the ultimate experience in love’s connection. How can you achieve this? By making love in your life your priority. Considering it, defining it and preparing for it. The definition you have for love is different than anyone else on the planet. Yes, even your lover!

If you know your love map you will choose better lovers.
If you know your love map your lover has a better chance of being in connection and not having to be right or wrong!
If you are in a right and wrong relationship and have forgotten the ‘er’ at the end of love stopping to define your love map will refresh your memory.

Love is a philosophy. Love is life. Love is a career.

Love is the field when the head, heart and body is in sync.

Are you focusing as much of your attention to your love as your own career? If not, why not?

Connect to find out how you too can deepen your connection to find, be and stay in love. Personal programs include creating your love map, defining love in your life, creating the space for love, attracting love to you and how to talk ‘love’.

Connect and ask about:

Creating a love map (yes works for singles & couples)
Home assessment
Movements, mental & emotional aspects for releasing blocks to love
Love Conversations
Getting Married
Ceremonies

(in person, by telephone & by conference call)

Love related workshops

Wedding Labyrinth

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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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Taking treatments outdoors

Posted on July 17, 2014 | Leave a comment

Feeling the ground

Taking clients outdoors for a change of environment has been successful in ways of:

Increased calmness
Deepened breathing
New interest
Accepting condition
Lowering anxiety, depression and pain
Less tension and more flexibility
Increased hopefulness
Relief of depression

As a client enjoys these differences they will generally bring up a thought, experience or worry that they have not voiced that could be closer the to source of their condition.

Some ways of working outdoors with adults and children:

Personal Movement/Cognitive Therapy Session
Empathy Coaching
Relationship Coaching
Increasing Focused Movement Abilities using Awareness building skills, ie. Walking
Contemplative Movement for cognitive Therapy and Connection (effective with children and painful relationships issues)

An example is my most recent success is with a centurion who has suffered sever anxiety and depression that keeps them in a state of tension and nausea. Being outside resulted in marked improvement in their current state of mind and understanding of the relationships between tension, anxiety, mental state, cognitive abilities, nausea and movement.

Their home that has become their prison of ill-health and getting outdoors changes their focus of attention. It has changed the view, smell, sounds, temperature and has them feeling the ground. It has shifted their focus of attention and became a distraction to expand their limited focus.