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Announcement for 2026

Posted on October 17, 2025 | Leave a comment

Center for Inside Awareness Channel on YouTube

I sent this news out to my students today.

I wanted to share some updates with you that I may not have brought up outside of our focused integrations sessions, whether in movement, communication/relationships or spatial awareness and placements.  For the past ten to 15 years years I have been integrating the interplay between these areas with a deeper focus on habitual or automatic behaviours and choices.  For the past two year’s this has shifted to writing it out in an organized way.  Beginning with the Learning Center Topics, starting with separating the nine life areas with an eye on behaviour and interactions.  There are somatic programs in each of these nine life areas to support the topic they are categorized under. Many of you may have participated in.

In 2026,  I will be launching a new system of interactive patterns in expressive communication where this separation of life areas will be a core focal point in the model.  These practical and actional patterns support an authentic somatic and empathic perspective.  As written by an actual somatic empath living within their interactive experiences 24/7.  Trust me, somatic and empathic expression in behaviour is not based upon the outside strategies of someone trying to describe them.  It is one of the influences towards developing a somatic learning system that goes beyond what is being described in current social conditioning trends. 

A companion book titled  ‘Somatic Archetypes’ will be available.  This will be a foundation pattern to support a practical reference to core reactive responses.  Practical in that they will focus on actionable somatic understanding and not have any focus on evaluative expressions or right or wrong thinking.  The intention is to marry this understanding in active interactions in the moment.  The shift includes somatic engagement, versus old thinking patterns of social conditioning that shifted focus away from it in organized institutionalized education.

A new understanding of social conditioning has emerged with a powerful influence to cut through a term I learned in meditation, spiritual materialism. This is a result of the practices of functional integration and mentoring in how to speak authentically and with integrity that began in 2002. Spiritual materialism is an evaluative expression for the ego self-image.  In Feldenkrais, there is an understanding of an inner felt self-image that supports a new defining inner experience of it that isn’t built up through socially conditioned learned reactions that are focused on materialism through strategies.  Rather, it has a focus on being present from within and sensing from the inside first before outward actions of functional movement or spoken words. This means leading through the felt senses consciously to replace leading through thinking.   

Renee Lindstrom @somaticlifestyleinnovator Channel on YouTube

To support this upcoming launch, I have put my YouTube playlists in order. I have three channels. One has playlists to support the topics of the Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning. (Pictured above).  This includes the nine life areas broken into separate playlists. ie. Feldenkrais is in the Health Center. It is joined by Communication and Eating Plans. In these playlists, you will see early attempts to engage people to shift their focus of attention. For example, the #yyj Nature Walks, which is under the playlist of knowledge. There is also the Culture of Value program for early childhood development in that playlist that demonstrates the first stages of its development. The other channel is in my name, and it is for somatic innovation. The focus was to connect to the environmental triggers that stimulate types of behaviour to educate. 

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Finally, the third just started this past summer and fall, is my podcast.  Currently, it is voice audios of articles I have written to lay a foundation.  It will evolve and expand to include lives and interviews.  

As a dominant somatic empathic learner myself, I have first-hand experience in the alienation of children and adults with these learning styles. There is very little consideration given to the value of these learning styles and in fact, they are categorized, labelled and diagnosed as conditions, with an aim to drug and eradicate the differences they display to the expectation in the tightly defined patterns of Institutionalized education. Patterns that were designed for learning concepts with ease and little variance in the organized structure. This cognitive focus included debate-style communication development that lacked empathy training. In this context, empathy training is the skill development for good listening patterns where the core inner response is an interactive, flexible, and open-minded process, versus the closed-mindedness that results from judging the context of what is being heard as right and wrong based upon personal judgment and understanding.  

The programs at the Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning are focused on a mindfulness that balances both sets of needs of the cognitive style interpretation, and the somatic and empathic. It harnesses all components through functional integration of the physical body working in partnership with the emotional responses that generate the filter for thinking.

The intention for these YouTube platforms is to build an audience and to develop financial opportunities that will support this focus on somatic education.. Until now, I have funded it with my time and energy. I look forward to taking it to the next level. I am hoping you will consider viewing my channels, liking and subscribing to help build this lofty goal. If the content appeals to you, I hope you will share it to support getting a buzz going on these topics.

The following are the links to the YouTube channels. Please keep in mind, these are early developments that have been a learning process and for the process to grow a level of comfort and ease in being on stage. The last link is to a page on the Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic learning explaining the nine life areas that are the core foundation in my perspective of functional integration, somatic dialogue and spatial awareness.

Center for Inside Awareness @ https://www.youtube.com/@somaticlifestyleinfluencer/playlists

Article of explanation @ https://wp.me/p17H3e-h6I

Renee Lindstrom – somatic lifestyle innovator @ https://www.youtube.com/@somaticlifestyleinfluencer/playlists

Renee Lindstrom – Podcast @ https://www.youtube.com/@somaticlifestyleinfluencer/playlists

Copyright 2014 – 2025  Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner ’07, Communication & Empathy Coach, Art of Placement

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The Roots of ‘Somatic Archetypes in Goal Setting’

Posted on September 13, 2025 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, Author of the Somatic Archetypes

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Here are some examples of the Author’s personal intentional goal-setting boards going back to ’14. Greater Victoria presented the community with free magazines and newpapers at pick up stations, whereby viewers could pick up copies each month. They were a treasure trove of topics, pictures and words to cut out for all genres for creating collages.

When this author began creating collages, the creativity was simple and lacked the in depth connection to the seeds of inspiration and skillset. Without giving up due to these lacks, they became more elaborate, skilled and creative. Unbeknownst to the Author, an organic integration occurred during this dedicated process. It translated into living actions and character, including the development of a more playful personality. It was a transforming life pattern.

This Author has what she calls a Somatic Heart expression and receptor, and it was covered by years of experiences with others who have no skill sets in recognizing this quality or in interacting with those who have this organic attribute.

Somatic Heart

Each seasonal or yearly intentional goal-setting activity reintegrated this inner connection to the warmth and playfulness of her heartfelt expressions and receptivity. It was a quiet and creative time to be thoughtful and take affirmative action for what she wanted and not for what she didn’t want. It was a subtle shift and possibly the most meaningful. This is not something she would have learned in a Tony Robbins or Jack Canfield program, as the approaches are completely different. One focuses on strategies and the external ego focus, while this is an active practice that leads into the depth of meaning in the core responses before expressing it outwardly to the world.

This approach is unique and individual and taps into core values, while there can only be one Tony Robbins and one Jack Canfield, with others duplicating them over and over. This approach presents the possibility for being authentically oneself and presenting the world with a face that shines from this alignment of self on the inside and expressed outwardly for others to connect to. This is what Tony Robbins did to become the person he is today. He is presenting as his authentic self and tapping into the needs of thousands. The problem is, it can only be done once to the levels of success he has experienced as he is the model, while this approach is an integrative learning model that each individual can integrate as a learned behaviour pattern that focuses on direction, making choices and decisions connected to an inner value system.

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This pattern of goal setting begins with a target intention that is overall for a period of time. It expands into doable size chunks, breaking the goals down into logical personal steps for achieving success by taking actional value based movements forward. The difference in this approach is in the actions for checking inward to connect to one’s core values, before taking a socially conditioned assertive approach. This means the assertiveness in this approach connects to self-value and esteem that emanates a different type of assertiveness. It is assertiveness that is more naturally mindful, self-connected and trustworthy. The aggressiveness from a socially conditioned action has potential for disconnection of self and energetically presents with less trustworthiness. This seems to lead to a sales job that is followed by justification. The Somatic Heart expression of this Author then suggests that goal setting that begins with an inner self connection with a focus through trained mindfulness and focus of attention can tap into one’s inner strength and courage to have grounded ownership of their goals that are centered in core values. An individual system within one, and not the goals of someone else’s storyline.

In an earlier post titled Be the Master Creator of your 2026 experience the pattern for creating goals was introduced as is the Somatic Archetypes. These Archetypes are the perception filters that are individual for each person. Consideration of these Archetypes are missing in the earlier goals step patterns that was compared to this approach. This pattern of goal-setting begins with this consideration.

This Somatic Archetype Goal Setting program is an educational system of somatic learning:

  1. sets an overall goal intention
  2. breaks it down into logical and actionable steps over a period of time as an integratable pattern
  3. taps into your Somatic Archetype for personal learning and integration of understanding of unique differences

The benefits of this Somatic Goalsetting program are:

  1. integrative learning happens natural that creates new habits that are productive to personal lifestyle goals
  2. action steps develop skills to increase personal courage and self-confidence naturally
  3. introduces a core value system that is unique to the participant
  4. creates new beneficial habits for taking self-connected and self-directed lifestyle actions

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The Somatic Archetypes in Functional Movement

Posted on September 11, 2025 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, Author of The Somatic Archetypes – the Fantastic Five

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Somatic functional movement patterns, using the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education, guide participants through patterns designed to refocus their attention away from pre-conditioned beliefs and pre-existing understanding of movement. In other words, what they already know. The patterns encourage exploration of movement by bringing their focus to their sensory awareness from the inside with these fantastic five core senses.

This picture demonstrates interpretive dance patterns of movement. The interpretation hints at sensing movement, yet the focus of the patterns these models are making could suggest they are focused outside themselves, versus from inside connections, as in contact dance. Functional Integration, and Awareness through Movement, the Feldenkrais Way focuses on the skeletal movements in connection to the contact with gravity and its responses through the joints that are unlocked and in a posture to invite gravity to travel through the whole skeleton. In the picture above, the models are not making solid contact with the floor to connect to the force of gravity moving up through their bones. It appears to me, as a Feldenkrais Practitioner specializing in this movement pattern, that they are using their soft tissue to support their weight.

When the skeleton is making full contact with gravity through the feet in standing, the sit bones in sitting, the hands in a posture of pushing off, or crawling on hands and knees, or in a prone position on the full skeleton on the front, back or side body on a hard surface the pressure thorugh the bones creates a weightlessness in the soft tissues in the body. The more one makes contact with gravity through skeletal movements, the more ease and freedom one has in their joints, vertebrae and ribs. This increases counter-balance and functional movement abilities.

The guidance patterns in the Feldenkrais Method use felt sensory words on the actual movement of the anatomy, with a focus on the potential for using the force of gravity. It is a powerful shift from analytical thinking that takes one out of a closed mindset function into the exploration of the experience itself, through the movements in connection with the force of gravity. The focus is on the felt sense of the bones and the discoveries through them to reconnect the body’s own elusive responsive connections to the intricacies of movement that are beyond the current comprehension of social conditioning. In essence, the movement is retraining the brain to expand and use more of the available functions in movement.

Why do I write reconnect?

When babies are born, they have the capabilities to use their full range of available learning potentials to guide them to come upright and participate in society. They do so without the educational encouragement of those surrounding them. Those surrounding do encourage them, yet they lack the understanding of how the function of the brain, body, felt senses, and mental is coming online to work in harmony that enables a baby to roll over, sit up, crawl, stand, walk and run while learning to speak and think. It is beyond the comprehension of the family members, as their own process was just that, a process. It wasn’t memorized, itemized or catalogued. It was learning through the experience.

With the focus of attention in society that seems to be focused on evaluative concepts and analytical statements, there has been a separation from the somatic patterns of functional learning that each of us was born with. When an adult speaks, it is through the evaluative expression of analytical thought patterns and statements that are far removed from the actual experience of functioning through the somatic experience. When speaking from an analytical perspective, it is a small interpretation of functional learning. It is like the difference between ballet and contact dance. One dance disconnects the artist from the ground and lacks the connection to the force of gravity, and the other pushes off the ground using the force of gravity. If you observe the two styles of dance separately, one stretches their muscles and holds their joints in a way that is different than the other. The contact dance method uses organic functional movement patterns. One dance appears to have effort with an intention to be interpreted as effortless, while the other one is effortless. This would describe the difference between mentally organized movement from strategies of thinking and spontaneous movement that includes all functioning components through the somatic felt sense as the origin. Basically, one is from the outside trying to define what can happen organically from the inside out.

The early learning patterns for movement are inherent within us as we are born. They evolve around the somatic senses of the fantastic five: sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. Each of the senses stimulate the others, and they are the inspiration to get up off the floor and walk, talk and become members of society. Each child will have one or two senses that will have the strongest response and will become the filter to the environmental stimuli surrounding them. I have begun to call these senses Somatic Archetypes.

I offer movement through group classes and individuals that support these dominant Somatic Archetypes in response to the guided patterns. These are called Awareness through Movement lessons that are group classes, and the other is a personal session or consultation called a Functional Integration.

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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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Community Bullying 101

Posted on September 8, 2025 | Leave a comment

Power over dynamics

As a mature woman, in a casual work and connected home environment, I found myself in an experience of being bullied by another mature business woman in a group of women that ranged in age from young with small children themselves, to those older than them. These women’s behaviour repeated the same patterns that small children demonstrate at the toddler stage when parents and early childhood educators are tasked with modelling how to navigate their triggers to process their reactive feelings and resolve them within themselves before lashing out and harming others. These mothers and grandmothers did not demonstrate the skills or ability to slow down their emotional escalation before focusing on resolving issues that led up to their reactions. It suggests that they had not integrated these skill sets themselves. Keep in mind that these were mothers, grandmothers and aunties of children who were the core educators modelling learned behaviours within their family and community units.

Let me introduce myself

My name is Renee Lindstrom, and I have been focused on educational programs for bullying since arriving in Victoria 35 years ago. This focus of attention has been from a somatic empathic perspective and not at the typical vantage point of strategies and analysis of the behaviours. This suggests the focus has been on the practical steps of integration at the core internalized behavioural level.

The two options:

  • Labelling the behaviours and speaking about them to create strategies with no inner accountability
  • Slowing down the emotional reaction on the inside first to identify the internal stimulus and connect to the causation of the trigger before responding (taking accountability)

More about these two options

These two bullet points suggest that one pattern has a focus of analysis while still in a triggered reactive state. This suggests attention is aimed outward at others without any self-connection first. This suggests it is a position of denial and lacks any personal responsibility. This leads to a projection that lacks logic and empathy in the responses.

The other option begins with an inside focus for checking into oneself first to connect to the internal source of the trigger to calm reactions down before connecting to outside solutions. This option contains self-empathy first to connect to the source of the trigger response before any outside actions are taken. This increases the potential for balanced fairness and equal opportunity in the outcomes.

Back to the introduction of Renee Lindstrom

The first educational choices for navigating experiential learning techniques for deeper clarity and understanding from a somatic empathic viewpoint came through movement and meditation. The mediation I engaged in opened an opportunity to study Feng Shui that aligned with the core syllabus of the meditation practice I was integrating. This led to an intensive dive into Nonviolent Communication guided patterns created by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, Phd, and author of Nonviolent Communication.

My focus on teaching NVC began in 2007 after 7 years of personal study and integration with a focus on the areas of bullying and relationships. I taught, presented and organized events actively in our Greater Victoria Communities in Juan de Fuca, James Bay, Oak Bay, Greater Victoria, and Saanich. It included the focus of primary couple relationships, families, parenting, peers in the workplace and primary education.

Back to the experience

No Remuneration for time and effort where other employee/s were paid for

While this experience that will be described is one in a sea of many, it is a definable one that shifted my patterns of response and continues to demonstrate to me the value in the training patterns I create through my practice and personal studies. It has also been an event where I never received remuneration for my time, yet someone received payment for it, even though it was the time and effort I put in. This, together with my mail being opened without my permission, and a lack of meeting my request to have it forwarded to me, plus some other incidents, I share this event in my life for training purposes. I, like the universe. do not like the lack of energetic reciprocity. This is one way of meeting my needs and balancing this out energetically while sharing it as educational materials. It is paying it forward to others in a positive way.

Being Nudged By Spirit to use this as a pattern to create a model

I believe I am being nudged by spirit or the dream state to share the patterns of how I handled this experience on site and after, as it was either detached or a state of detaching from ego, status and fear. It demonstrated fearlessness and the growth of a higher state of self-confidence and empowerment. A state that bypasses the fight, flight, freeze or fonding states with conscious awareness. Even though I kept telling myself that I had already learned these lessons and questioned how I found myself in this placement now, in hindsight, it was exactly what I needed to go through and be able to integrate into the focus of attention I have held for the past 30 years.

Why? Working with others now, what took 30 years is transitioning in mere hours or days is now happening for others who have gone beyond looking for outside strategies to change, and have shifted into longing for change. When that choice is made, there is less effort in transforming obstacles, and it seems that they fall away with more ease.

Upcoming post points will focus on these types of issues from this experience and will include practical steps to hold both sides equally from a leadership perspective and support each side involved to get their needs met, instead of only one side, due to the leadership going into sympathy versus empathy. This will be an integrative pattern to transform these types of bullying behaviour for your home, office and institution

An example of what you can expect to read about:

  • Home/Business Environment
  • Observations and Pitfalls of institutionalized expectations of employees in a home environment for one person
  • Employees who lacked typical dedication and devotion to their scheduled hours, and their possible contributions to this (from a professional with a background in hotel and hospitality)
  • Bullying incidents
  • Getting Resident outside after being housebound for over two years and only going out to go to Doctor appts
  • Patterns I used to encourage going outdoors with ease and motivation
    • Response of employees hearing about this, and aggressive responses
    • Response of a family member upon hearing this achievement
  • The use of inappropriately timed texting that instigated conflict and aggression
  • No regular eating schedule and missing meals daily basis
  • Lack of routine and schedule, and wellness shift with changes by creating regular daily patterns
  • Harmful Gossip that crossed between family and employees, no boundaries
  • Food Cost concerns by Office Admin that resulted in hostile behaviours, confusion and lack of food for resident:
    • The concern led to insufficient groceries in the home where I began feeding the resident my food daily
    • This concern led to repeated surveillance of me eating my own food by casual employees who wouldn’t know whose food was whose
    • My food was even used to make a meal for a family member by employees responsible for ordering food – there was a lack of consistent food supply
  • Business Partner/Friend who led a meeting to find out my concerns that led to employees changing all the points shared in the next days before our next meeting for resolution
  • Business Partner/Friends open hostility in a Professional Meeting
  • Sabatosh ofreputation in the community after being a whistleblower
  • Business Leader sabatoshing reputation with false accusations in the local community

Before exiting the property, I made some suggestions for the employee to implement. Some of these ideas were shared with a family member and business partner. I will do a detailed list of these points and recommendations and give an explanation of what inspired them. I believe they will be useful for other families who have employees working in a home with institutionalized training. I have successfully created other structured plans for families in need of this service in the local community. They are doable and work well.

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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

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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 – 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

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Learning Center for Inside Awareness Manifesting through intention to goals.

Connect and let’s work on your 2026 goals together for a balanced lifestyle experience

by Renee Lindstrom

Cultivating Success with Awareness through Goals Programs

 1st Level – Getting Started (Introduction & Pattern)
 2nd Level – Getting Intouch (Experiencing & Connection)
 3rd Level – Integration (Embodiment)

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by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness,  
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 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 ABOUT?

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

The qualities of a are:

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

The areas of influence of a are:

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

Support 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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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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