by Renee Lindstrom, Founder – Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning
Autumn New Moon Inquiries
Septembers New Moon Was the Inquiry: What is calling me? Now In October the inquiry is:
Current position of the moon phases – September 25th, ’26
An Invitation to Walk with Awareness
No two life paths unfold in exactly the same way.
People may arrive at the same age having developed remarkably different ways of moving, relating, responding, choosing, caring for themselves, and participating in life. These differences do not appear all at once. A life path develops through an accumulation of experiences—circumstances encountered, responses learned, choices made, opportunities available, and patterns repeated over time.
Many of these influences become part of everyday living without being consciously noticed. What is repeated becomes familiar. What is familiar can become a lifestyle. And the lifestyle itself begins to influence how the continuing path is experienced.
This raises a different possibility:
What might change when awareness becomes part of how the path is walked?
Awareness does not tell us what our life path should be, nor does it guarantee where the path will lead. It can, however, help us recognize what is happening while we are living it.
A habitual response can become something we notice.
A reaction can become something we feel before acting upon it.
A familiar strategy can become something we question.
A choice can become more conscious.
The guided patterns offered through Inside Awareness are invitations to explore this possibility through lived experience. They bring attention to ordinary areas of living—movement, sensing, feeling, thinking, eating, communicating, relationships, home and environment—not as separate subjects, but as experiences through which awareness can be learned and integrated.
The intention is not to interpret your life path for you or prescribe how it should be walked.
It is to offer guided experiences that may help you become increasingly aware of how you are walking it.
Your life path continues to unfold.
The invitation is to be present for more of it.
A pattern of inner listening to the experience has emerged through my own life path that has shaped the awareness integration sessions and classes for a number of years. The organic connections that emerged have been put into guided patterns that will be available through boutique group learning in early 2027.
Inner Listening Pathway
This image below reflects an experiential pattern that spontaneously emerged through a shift in the orientation of interpretation. The pattern is one of inner listening that can actively transition from sitting into standing and walking. The pattern of inner listening creates balance and clarity without reacting or attaching to the stories, emotions and thoughts of others in ones relationships. The space becomes the gentle boundary between what others experience and how they responded for remaining centered and grounded creating choice. A choice to engage and how to respond sensibly.
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Lifestyle Opportunities for Lifepath Integration of Experiences
Embodying Relationship with Lived Experience in the Home
Foundation – Where living takes root
Home • Environment • Life Path
The home becomes a life path for the time one lives in it. This clarity has value as it brings awareness to how it stimulates your thoughts, emotions and actions. Most are considering colour design trends and locking into a long term experience, bypassing the listening stages for maximizing the potential influences in becoming a supporting and flourishing home. One that reflects the homeowners intentions and expectations.
The patterns of listening at Inside Awareness use natural patterns for balancing the interrelationships between the home and householders living within it. The intention is for a fuller life that is supported by a foundation that compliments ones hopes, dreams and intentions on their lifepath.
Listening to Universal Interconnected Qualities
These qualities of Yin and Yang are a focus in Traditional Feng Shui. Together in balance they reflect balance.
These same qualities are consideration that are reflected in in the Life Path & Living Expressions through relationships learning and coaching opportunities.
Embodied Function Integration Opportunities
Harmonizing Movement
Learned by the Body, not explained
Recognize the seed pattern? Ancient gravitational rotational pattern. Explore Feldenkrais @ Monterey Center in #yyj’s Oak Bay or create your own boutique workshop or group lessons at home, work or organization. Living Functional topics could include, TMJ and Jaw Bone Function, Breathing through the Flexible Bone function, Walking through Flexible Bone Function, Sleeping with Bone Functional Awareness, Rolling into and out of Bed through Bone Functional Awareness, and more…..
New Fall Movement Classes
Signing up for #yyj Balance and A Fear of Falling still active – Monterey Center – 250-361-7508
October 31st, ’26 – #yyj Workshop – Breathe Easier with Feldenkrais – 250-361-7508
December 5th, ’26 – #yyj Workshop – TMJ – 250-361-7508
Harmonizing with Food
A focus of Harmonizing with food is to inspire lived relationships with eating plans that support inner and outer relationships with nature. These lived relationships are demonstrated in the diagram. Eating plans with a focus on the seven energy center colours was an plan to inspire the connection with food choices. The seven chakras life areas influenced by the chakras are shown in a gallery under it.
If you are interested in starting your Cultured Food Journey:
This slideshow demonstrates the body’s seven energy centers in alignment with their corresponding life area influences. Each picture shows a person transferring this into lived action by the figure coming into standing for a lived experience.
Harmonizing Interactions
September Fall News – First Full Moon
Embodied Discovery – What becomes possible through exploration
Learning → Practicing → Integrating → Embodying → Recognizing
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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Copyright 2026 Renee Lindstrom, GCFP
With respect and gratitude, this work acknowledges the ground provided by the teachings and practices of Moshe Feldenkrais, Marshall Rosenberg, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and Dyan Grant Francis. Their contributions are honoured as part of the learning from which Inside Awareness continues to grow.
Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Functional Integration®, are registered service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North
