by Renee Lindstrom, founder, Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning
Launching Somatic Body Mindfulness Series on Audio Video
Cultivating Awareness & Grounding through Body Mindfulness
Guided Somatic Patterns for Centering
Somatic Body Mindfulness is a series of guided movement patterns based upon the Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education through the perspective of Renee Lindstrom, GCFP ’07 . Renee has been teaching Lifestyle Models in the community since the mid-nineties, which has expanded her perspective, clarity and understanding of learning and aging.
These Somatic Body Mindfulness audio videos will align body, mind and emotions, calming the nervous system and increasing inner peace. With an increase in the felt sense of inner quiet, there is an increase in clarity in the felt sense movement patterns in the shifting body parts as they transition postures. This mindful connection to the movement and physical response in transition increases the conscious awareness and organically integrates the pattern into movement behaviours.
Somatic Body Mindful guided patterns reduce tension, stress, anxiety, fear, frustration and anger and increase inner calm, peace and relaxation. SBM guided patterns support an increase in the range of motion and can reduce constraints that restrict movement.
The positive mental and physical functional outcomes of these SBM guided patterns increase clarity, focus, inner calm, mindfulness, stability, physical balance, balanced alignment between the mental, emotional and physical functions, flexibility and spontaneity. The positive emotional outcomes are an increase of inner peacefulness, contentment, groundedness, connection and belonging.
Some of the conditions that SBM guided patterns that have improved are:
Read more information in each of the audio descriptions to learn more about how each one can support your physical, mental and emotional functional integration.
Somatic Body Mindfulness through Guided Patterns
Renee Lindstrom, GCFP has had the benefit of working in local community centers since the 90’s. This has included centers specifically for adults and 50-plus, and those for younger ages. These experiences have led to the discovery of aging patterns in relationships to learning patterns. With an ability to view patterns and a keen interest in socially conditioned behaviour, Renee’s discovery is through the eyes of a Feldenkrais Practitioner. She has discovered the following patterns of learning in aging.
Organic Learning Patterns and Organized Learning Patterns
| Felt Sense Learning | Cognitive Learning | Felt Sense Learning |
| Birth to 6 years or so | 5/6 years onward | 50 plus -retraining felt sense learning |
| Forming body function and developing cognitive function through functional felt transition and spatial awareness | Forming cognitive skills through focus on short-term and long-term memories that replaces the felt sense awareness with conceptualized intellectualization | Complacency and expectation through long-term habits from socially conditioned behaviours |
| Developing functional through integration of physical, mental and emotional functions, beginning with the shift of weight through the anatomy and observation through the somatic felt senses while coordinating information received through observation of the environment through the somatic five senses. | Shift in focus of attention to conceptualized intellectualization through memorization. Separation from early learning patterns through the felt senses and filters of body awareness. Any recognition of body functional awareness at this level of education is through conceptualized intellectualization. | The separation of early learning patterns is a loss for entering into later stages in life. The shift in focus to mental development separates body recognition from the five senses eliminating the original somatic learning patterns one needs when experiencing reduced short-term and long-term memory. |
| Learning focus is through somatic felt senses | Learning focus shifts to cognition development through short-term and long-term memories | Loss of short-term and long-term memories |
| Organic and spontaneous learning patterns | Evaluative Thinking replaces organic and spontaneous learning experiences | Loss of both organic and evaluative learning patterns |
Introduction: Grounding thru Body Mindfulness
Experience Somatic Body Mindfulness by aligning felt sense observation and anatomy
Introduction to the anatomy using guided patterns and mindful exploration for cultivating awareness through the felt senses.
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Benefits:
- reduce and reverse aging
- increasing flexibility and resilience
- develop body awareness
- reduce body tension, pain, anxiety and effort
- increase relaxation and windows of emotional tolerance and self-connection
- improve sleep and sleep sounder
- increase body functions, cognition and emotional responses of calm, mindfulness and joy
Exploring the body anatomy through the felt senses increases inner awareness and trust. This body exploration is a different type of strength training. The difference is the focus of attention on the body, mind and felt senses through guided patterns designed to expand conscious awareness of the body function. The strength of feeling one’s body through moving joints and bones deepens awareness of physical connections as postures change, like in the shifting transitions from sitting to standing and back to sitting. Movement is a series of shifting postures. The functioning healthy body is not stationary, nor poses. It is designed for a continuous flow of integrative movement patterns.
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