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.
Podcast
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
Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning 