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September Embodied Lifestyle Articles & News

Posted on September 4, 2026 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, Founder – Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning

Energy of Abundance

The flow into fall begins and summers ease begins to fade.

Sensing

Money Path

When money is approached primarily through fear, analysis, and pursuit, it can become an external measure of security rather than something we feel capable of creating and receiving.

Developing trust in yourself can open a different relationship with money—one that is less influenced by old social conditioning and more connected to your own sense of possibility, resourcefulness, and abundance.

This does not mean being financially reckless. It means noticing the beliefs and habits that restrict your relationship with money and exploring what supports a more independent, grounded, and abundant way of creating financial well-being.

Nature demonstrates.
The moon reminds.
Awareness notices.
Intention chooses.
Life reveals what grows.

New Fall Classes – Functional focused movement

Classes

Fall Awareness through Movement will have a focus on Incontinence

Inquiry about incontinence

Learning → Practicing → Integrating → Embodying → Recognizing

Embodying Nature Lifestyle

This is a mobility labyrinth designed by Renee Lindstrom, founder of Inside Awareness

approximately 15 years ago

A healing garden design created by by Renee Lindstrom, founder of Inside Awareness

approx 20 years ago

Educational health and wellness garden patterns by Renee Lindstrom, founder of Inside Awareness

for students to move through on way to home office

Embodying Relationships

Three Responses: Every choice we make creates an energy that ripples through the group.

Bond Touch 4

Long-distance bracelet that sends human-like touches, replicating the comfort of a loved one’s presence and bridging the distance between couples, friends, and family. The emotional gift to stay in touch with the ones you love. Link below to learn more:

Bond Touch

Embodying Feng Shui

Buying a House

Understanding your Housing Choices when buying
New Buyer Awareness: Considering the purchase of a Strata property?
The Bagua Lifestyle Compass Three Integrative Stages
Embodied Yin and Yang Balance

Embodying Goal Setting using integration

Lifestyle Goal Setting

Read more on conscious alignment through personal goal setting using intention. Includes perspective of 2027 on community:

Fall News @ inside awareness

Renee’s Educational Journey of the Labyrinth mirroring this historical evolution

beginning with introduction through dousing and walking meditation followed by the uncovering of the mathematical patterns in churches and community group sharing labyrinth values

Renee’s Educational Urban Gardening exploration and decisions

A choice to become a master gardener was blocked by a life event. The choice shifted to exploring urban foraging and healing gardens alongside one another with one foot in each category – it changed everything and reconnected a separation to the land I felt somatically yet couldn’t identify cognitively

Fall Detox to build Immune System

I do a detox a couple times of year with wormwood and black walnut. I have never digested it through a liquid and decided to try it for this summer transition into fall. The ingredients in the pic also are inclusions I had not experienced in combination. The berberine excites me as it is a plant tincture I use for infections. It comes from Oregon Grape roots, which is a common bush/shrub in our #yyjneighbourhoods. It is a good time to start this due to the immune system support it offers. Read more @ link below:

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Shopping Partners to support Literacy Project

Legacy Project

New Lifestyle Affiliates:

Bond Touch

Embodiment before strategy is a learning pattern integrated into the program topics at Inside Awareness. Learn more about the lifestyle program topics.

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Announcing the release of the 12 Levels of Consciousness

Posted on June 7, 2026 | Leave a comment

Now Available on Amazon Kindle

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Each of the programs offered at Inside Awareness has the potential to increase understanding and clarity of each of these 12 levels of consciousness in the Dimension Levels of Consciousness Map using practice steps of skill development in the patterns of actions for day to day activities in one’s lifestyle. These qualities bring optimism, hope, self love and esteem in ordinary life experiences initiating fulfillment and contentment. Learn more about the programs in the link below, under the maps 12 Level descriptions.

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The mind focus origins in psychology uses Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to describe the levels of behaviour evolution. These 12 levels of consciousness uses a somatic focus to initiate cognitive mindfulness. The descriptions interprets the balance of the two intertwined dimensions: the body and the mind. This pattern is designed to come into alignment through somatic awareness versus the conceptualization of the cognitive attributes.

Each of the levels are described in the 12 Levels of Consciousness available on Amazon Kindle.

Get your action cards on pdf to print for reflection, consideration and personal action step! 12 Action Cards – Levels of Consciousness

Listen to a meditation for the 12 Levels of Consciousness: below on YouTube

Another New Addition for integration is listening to music for integration. This playlist is selection that would be played on a radio station. Young and interactive day to day topics that align with integration of new behaviour postures and conditioning. Add it to your playlist if you enjoy a selection of different genera’s.

For example, When Separation Dissolves – refers to #8 in the Levels of Consciousness.

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Announcing The Lotus Flower Summer Embodiment Journal

Posted on June 7, 2026 | Leave a comment

Now Available on Amazon

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Lotus Flower Embodiment Action Cards

Lotus Flower Action Cards

Awareness. Intention. Alignment. Growth.

A mindful journal to plan, reflect, and align with your highest self. The Lotus Flower Summer Weekly Embodiment Actions Journal is designed to support this journey.

Like the lotus flower, growth often emerges through challenge. Each page of this journal is an invitation to slow down, notice what matters, and take intentional steps toward the life you wish to create.

Inside these pages, you will find space to:

  • Set meaningful intentions
  • Track habits and progress
  • Reflect on emotions and experiences
  • Practice gratitude
  • Strengthen self-awareness
  • Align your actions with your values

This journal has been created through 26 years of experience integrating somatic awareness as support for understanding and increasing clarity in behaviour through movement, communication and listening. The cognitive behaviour and somatic behaviours are intertwined and this author practitioner and mentor has recognized a lack of balance and understanding between the two. Mainstream guided pattern focus in education has mainly been on cognitive function and not on somatic experience. Therefore, the somatic reactions can be out of control without the skills to keep impulse control in check. This is demonstrated through a lack of body connections to how the skeleton functions at the core patterns and in the inner processing of information due to limited filters of understanding. The guided patterns in this journal support the integration of balancing the interrelationships between the body and mind responses.

Below you will find two more somatic oriented activates that engage the mind through guided patterns. One is meditation and the other through sound.

Connect to learn more about Lotus Flower Embodiment Learning Series that integrates functional movement and mindfulness for converting out of balance reactions into conscious responses.

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Listen to Music Playlist to support Lotus Flower Embodiment Series:

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The Original Somatic Archetypes

Posted on September 10, 2025 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, Author of The Original Somatic Arcetypes

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I introduced the concept of Somatic Archetypes in a pattern for setting goals in 2026 in a post this past week. As a somatic Practitioner, Mentor, and Educator, I have discovered these archetypes are the original ones and at the core of each individual’s perception and expression. An example is how each individual will set their goals. It will be through a different medium unless they are in a closed situation where there is only one choice.

I am suggesting that there is no one way forward for all people that is the exact same in life due to these differences. I have also discovered there is an expectation that all people are the same, or should be identical, without any intelligent conceptual understanding that there are differences among two or more people. This, my readers or listeners, is what I believe is at the core of most conflicts. This lack of understanding generates a lack of empathetic listening to others. It comes across as arrogance. Usually, arrogance is someone who engages with others with some form of false authority that has the attitude of power over which lacks the intelligence to understand that this inner mental conditioning is their sickness. It’s not entitled behaviour that gives someone a higher IQ or status. Yet, somewhere in their social development, these seeds were planted in their physiology. Usually, when generational, it is held together with ego and pride behind walls of secrecy and not wanting to be seen.

After years of engaging with individuals or groups in personal and social development sessions, I have begun to say quietly and with a strength that comes from this conditioning as a mentor, “You are not the Judge and jury. You do not have the credentials to go along with your statements.” I may switch it out and say title instead of credentials. This authoritarian way of expressing is conditioned in our Western Cultures through generational socialization skill development. It is habitual and unconscious. There can be retraining yet that needs its own form of social conditioning that requires recognition and acknowledgement. As a Somatic Practitioner, mentor and educator, I begin with learning the dominant sense a person uses to perceive. These would be through the five senses we are all born with and used to get up and walk, talk, think and generally function in our society. These are sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. These are the fantastic five core archetypes. Not labels or cute names, foundational attributes each of us needed to integrate functions. They are the forgotten ones!

These archetypes are at the core of intention and stimulate motivation. It’s an inside job in the moment that can be spontaneous due to our free will. It is the generational influences that restrict and shape our decisions. This generational behaviour that has been passed down can be transmuted into the here and now for making better and more logical choices that would be for the highest good of the individual and those surrounding them, yet this ability is rare. This suggests retraining the brain while adopting new patterns in our system that is shaping our generational experiences through social conditioning that is shaping our cultural conditioning.

What are these Somatic Archetypes?

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

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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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Vanity doesn’t age

Posted on October 14, 2021 | Leave a comment

In a recent conversation with an elder I was able to reflect back from the spoken words I was hearing, “It seems that vanity hasn’t aged along with you.” “Yes,” was the reply., “vanity tells me that I am ugly.”

Later in the day I became curious about this experience and how and when this shifted for me. When did I stop giving power to vanities harsh words of criticism spoken in my head? It wasn’t that long ago. I wondered what changed? Spontaneously I connected to the sense of self-love inside. I realized at some point the depth of self-love surpassed the value I placed upon vanities words in my head. The scale had tipped in self-loves favour and the criticisms of vanity don’t carry the weight they once did. This is a celebration. At some point in the practical application of my practice there has been a shift in the dialogue in my head and body. My heart speaks the loudest and demonstrates that self directed sense of love.

In my conversation with the elder I hoped my intonation came from this heartfelt experience so it had a soft landing. My intention – not to increase their own moral judgements.

What is your vanity telling you? Has your vanity criticism shown any acceptance of your aging?

The only way to change is action

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Desk Wealth Corner

Posted on January 30, 2019 | Leave a comment

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?

3 Wealth Corner Tips:

  1. Declutter and open up space in this corner
  2. Add blue, purple, and red colours
  3. Add objects reflecting moving water such as fish (3), picture,  or fountain

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