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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

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:

Amazon

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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Fall News @ inside awareness

Posted on August 25, 2026 | 1 comment

by Renee Lindstrom, founder Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning

Embodied Mindfulness approach to personal change

Here is a life style map diagram of the the focus of attention in the learning topics at Inside Awareness. The intention of lifestyle learning patterns are for Human Flourishing.

Human Flourishing

Flourishing is a state of living optimally, in deep fulfillment and ongoing personal growth, beyond basic survival or simple happiness. Flourishing encompasses a sense of purpose, rich relationships, physical health, and resilience to adapt to challenges

The body reveals.

The mind interprets.

Awareness connects the two.

Recent Lifestyle Articles:

Goals: 2027 Manifesting through intention first before solutions

1. Article on Goals: ’27: #2 (numerology)

’27 Numerology

2. Article on Goals: Be the Master Creator of your 2027 Lifestyle

Master Creator of 2027

Relationships – Clarifying Relationships

3. Article on Relationships: The fractals creating the words expressed from the speaker you are listening to suggests need to take caution before going into agreement with their perspective …

Fractals in Relationships

Self Image

4. Embodiment before strategy

Embodiment Before Strategy

Sculpting Self Image from inner connectiveness before solutions

5. Body Sculpting from the inside first before seeking solutions

Body Sculpting from the Inside

6. Sculpting Life through Inner body mindfulness

Sculpting Life through body mindfulness

Environment – Embodied Fengshui

7. Bagua & Land Placement

Bagua & Land Placement

8. Celestial Animals in Property Placement

Celestial Animals

9. Architecture Integration of Past into the Present

Architecture – Past into the Present

Health & Function

10. Live #yyj Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement Classes in Oak Bay

Feldenkrais Group Classes

Abundance & Wealth

Inside Awareness Intention for Fall – Intentional Lifestyle of Prosperity

Intentional Lifestyle of Prosperity

‘Poverty consciousness’ into Divine Abundance

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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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Companion Activity:

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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Recognizing a gap between a somatic newborn and a cognitive societies social conditioning

Posted on April 20, 2026 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, founder Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning

Invert hierarchy titles: safety top, self-actualization bottom

This blog article below was written on this author’s personal website http://www.reneelindstrom.com recently. It is from a perspective of a somatic empath that carries the ability to identify the authentic somatic experience and the cognitive conceptualization that those not in their somatic experience believe it is. No judgement, simply a gap this author is bringing focus to. You can read this article by clicking the article link below or listen on You tube at link below it. I hope this content will be of interest in those sincerely interested in actively going beyond what they think they know from societies conditioning in accepting the stories attached to their mental, emotional and physical states of being. The first step to breaking free of acceptance to labels, assessments, and moral judgements, etc., is having clarity on the separation that supports it.

Newborns are born somatic into cognitive conceptualize society, transitional awareness is needed for change

Below are two earlier articles from this authors personal web site on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from an interesting perspective that may be interesting to read after digesting and integrating this perspective from a somatic empath. Understanding this first stage will support how society is perhaps being misguided by this lack of clarity by those who are seeking to meet their needs without compassion and empathy for others.

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Inverting Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for personal gain

Corrupted use of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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Cultivating core 2026 life area connection’s from the inside out

Posted on December 31, 2025 | 1 comment

by Renee Lindstrom, founder, Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning

The nine life area goals identified in the poster above were painted as a creative personal connection to intentions in each area and framed last night as the calendar is about to shift into 2026. This poster is hung facing the door to my office/creative space as a visual reminder as I move about and sit at my desk. This interactive poster is placed prominently with the intention of manifesting life through creative expression in living and learning. It is a visual focus of intention for creative living in 2026 that expresses from a thoughtful core connection. It is my ‘Shining North Star’ guiding my 2026 experience. A Shining North Star that contains what is alive and meaningful in the present moment of reflection. Each year is a stepping stone on an elusive journey, and this poster identifies the present location of this North Star on this pathway. It creates groundedness in the spontaneity of living an interactive and innovative lifestyle.

Shining Star

by local #yyj artist from my children’s school in ’01/’02

In the center of the Shining Star, in the above drawing, one can imagine the burst of creation. Creation that creates form. This activity, shown in the poster above, demonstrates intentional action for creating an interactive board that connects to what is meaningful at a core level. It is the elusive structure that contains the form for bursts of spontaneous action in alignment with core intention.

The board replaces outside influences and realigns my decision-making focus to make independent choices in alignment with what is meaningful, rather than seeking outside advice and opinions. It has proven to be a strong support that eliminates the unnecessary projections of others that do not have the same inner patterns for processing information. Each of us has an inner pattern for processing information that is unique. No one can duplicate another person’s inner filter or processing patterns or tell someone what to do effectively, based on the separation between inner programming. Programming that I identify as social and cultural conditioning.

In simple terms, this means that the poster above reflects a lifestyle model where consideration was given to determine important next steps. These stepping stones guide the coming year at a core level and become the source for checking in for reassurance and guidance that outside actions are in balance with inner values. My yearly considerations go back to 2013 or thereabouts. Each year became a stepping stone on a journey that unlocked a natural and organic model of elevating conscious awareness. It is one of the pillars that has become an educational pattern for expanding beyond the constraints of learned social and cultural behavioural conditioning. How? It has replaced outside authorities with an inner one.

What does outside authority versus an inner one mean?

Outside

An outside authority is exactly how it is written. In this context, it means looking to others (false guru’s) for guidance on what is right and what is wrong based upon their opinions, belief systems and limited living experiences. Anyone with a closed mindset that looks outside themselves at status (what others have) and self-image (how things appear) has limitations in clarity and life experience. It’s all contained within a closed circuit and small-mindedness. If they have a title, it is even harder to discriminate, as the Indoctrination creates a false belief system of superiority.

_{Google writes: Indoctrination is teaching someone a specific set of beliefs or ideas, often political, religious, or ideological, in a way that discourages questioning or critical thinking, making them accept it as truth without examination, like brainwashing, but can also be a less harsh form of cultural teaching. It’s about instilling a doctrine or viewpoint repeatedly until it’s accepted uncritically, differing from general education which encourages independent thought.}

Inside

An inner authority means checking in mindfully or thoughtfully to tap into what is meaningful in the present moment. This suggests a structure for learning core values, and trusting them in a sea of outside opinions, perspectives and beliefs. It suggests owning one’s own power, instead of being in the habit of giving it away. This is an action of leadership that can be challenging. It means letting go of blame and shame to justify the action one is taking, or has taken.

_{An example of blaming others for personal actions. As a kid, I blamed a sibling for taking an action to shoplift. I was 7 years old. I told my dad …….made me do it. Only,………wasn’t there!}

Not only is considering intentions for the coming year important for cultivating awareness of personal needs, its accountability training. It can be an elusive pattern with a spontaneous outcome. It shifts the blame and shame learned thinking behaviours into a focus on self-value and accomplishments.

Reading more posts on Cultivating with Goals on our Goal news webpages:

somatic focus to ’26 goals

the canvas for 2026

Canvas TemPlate for ’26 goals Breaks them down into Life areas

2026 Numerology

Master Creator for 2026

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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.

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