March 16th to April 27th, ’20
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What a great sign to begin a six part series. Leo reflects fun, adventure and exploration which are the qualities to best capture the illusive awareness experience. Too serious it passes by without recognition!
Two classes begin today. One has a focus on balance and the other on growing qualities of awareness in the action of movement. (Unlike yoga and the arts as the focus is placed on different functions)
The focused parts of the body for Leo are: Blood, Heart, Lower Back, Circulation, and Spleen. I will incorporate these into today’s movement patterns.
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In our last newsletter shared how foods could improve our emotional groupings by connecting them to body regions along the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous systems. This practitioner is going to call that ‘Food Empathy’ due to the amazing emotional shifts food can create!
This newsletter will suggest that movement can also affect these systems giving the reader more choices in increasing their skills to shift or transform uncomfortable behavioral patterns using Awareness through Movement® Somatic Patterns.
The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) controls homeostasis and the body at rest and is responsible for the body’s “rest and digest” function. The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) controls the body’s responses to a perceived threat and is responsible for the “fight or flight” response.
The difference for this Feldenkrais Practitioner has been that Feldenkrais articulates the inner movement through sensing along the nervous system to mobilize other moving parts to increase ease in movement while other styles of movement are stylized exercise patterns. The most difficult process this practitioner has observed in others in lessons is the difficulty many have in transitioning from needing to know how to do it before trying it to simply experiencing it through patterns.
Below are some physical examples along the nervous system that compliment the emotional sensing of the Nonviolent Communication 4 part model, Observation, Feelings, Needs & Request as well as subtle energy center foods mentioned in the last newsletter. This practitioner is suggestion that these movements can increases one’s window of tolerance and ability to cope as she suggest foods could by increasing the gut brain connection. It is the body’s natural empathy resource.
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The Brow Chakra encompasses the pituitary gland, eyes, head, and lower part of the brain and is associated with the center of ones intuition.
All guided Awareness through Movement® Lessons, called ATM’s, would support the 6th & 7th Chakras as the intention of the patterns are designed to focus ones attention to specifically bring a state of experiencing each moment using the movement itself. In meditation one is taken into a practice of following the breath or imagery while Feldenkrais® takes one into the focused experience of their personal action from the inside out.
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Located in the throat at the voice box and Adams apple areas, the Throat Chakra governs the voice, endocrine gland, thyroid and communication.
The guided patterns Awareness through Movement® lessons can increase ones ability to sing higher or lower, speak with more groundedness, swallow easier and unblock air passageways going down into the torso. Mobilizing unused muscles and spinal movements can free up any restrictions limiting information and fluid going upwards into the head and brain also.
In Nonviolent Communication, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg discussed how the base of the throat area is the line that separates reaction with thinking and speaking from connection to universal values increasing empathy. His focus of empathy was an action with an intention of the heart (or values). If one was speaking only from the mind only the result would be disconnection and conflict.
This Feldenkrais Practitioner, who mentors and coaches using Nonviolent Communication, can see clues in others who appear to living in their heads, so to speak. It is evident in their facial features, colouring and body posture. Sharing lessons in either Awareness through Movement or Awareness through Communication this Practitioner can see the changing environment in ones colouring, features and postural changes.
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Re-attaching Head to Whole Movement
Figure 1 – Triangles of Head, Neck, Shoulders, Arms & Hands.
Level two Of Jaw Release begins immediately on floor mats with a guided check-in to connect and focus on personal sensing. In re-attaching ones head to core movements the Jaw Release Awareness through Movement® lessons are designed to draw ones attention to the rotation triangles of the head, arms and shoulders. It starts with the farthest point from the body – ones hands! Quite interesting to think about how one’s hands are connected to one’s jaw. In particular when during one’s lifetime the focus is on isolating ones mouth with attention only on the placement of teeth!
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Below is a description to the three parts to the workshop: Re-attaching Head for Whole Movement in Jaw Release.
Attention is first drawn to the movement in ones extremities, the farthest parts from the body core. It begins with the joints in one’s thumb and fingers, before moving closer inward to ones shoulder and spine to sense and notice movement in ones palms, hands, wrists, elbows and shoulders.
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Movement then shifts into ones shoulders, ribs , spine, neck and head beginning with sensing and noticing regular up and down motions of ones breathing pattern. The integration of further patterns creates ease in rolling ones head left and right that includes a short introduction to synchronizing movements in rolling ones head forward and back in time with ones pelvis.
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The first two parts of the Jaw Release Workshop is designed to increase one’s sensing skills so that in the third part the movement patterns one begins to sense the differences within ones mouth and how the jaw and neck moves in time with one’s tongue!
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This program is suitable for all ages in all situations. These movement patterns can be restorative or for learning to improve your functions. Can be taken into the office and schools for increasing brain function and reducing distractions. It is the natural next step to mindfulness training however, it is based on the real function of one’s senses so opens a new one to a new experience. An experience of being present in action; walking, talking, thinking, being!
Excellent for improving ones abilities and experiences such as for those chronic sufferers of TMJ or to:
Interested in becoming more fully present in how you walk and act in your day-to-day activities. Consider Feldenkrais® as it is the next level to your mindfulness or yoga training to become more fully aware of your spontaneous movement patterns versus holding a pattern.
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by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness, Living in Natures Love Blog & Renee Lindstrom Live
TMJ Jaw Release Workshop
At a weekend workshop for TMJ a student shared their surprise and relief during a previous workshop. They realized that others had similar pain and recognized they were not alone. From this experience they longed for a support group, simply because they had spent so much money and time searching for answers and no one has any! I smiled, these workshops and classes to me are supportive groups too, not only learning opportunities.
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by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness, Living in Natures Love Blog & Renee Lindstrom Live
A message on my phone today from a client that came in for TMJ pain,..
“I notice I am walking better today. My walking has improved!”
I smile as I connect to my need to contribute to someone else’s wellbeing and at the thought of suggesting to someone walking has anything to do with TMJ!
Empathy from cultivating awareness from the inside out
The intent of this article is in the context of how communication and movement can support the decrease of anxiety, stress & fear.
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by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness, Living in Natures Love Blog & Renee Lindstrom Live
Portland, OR- January 9, 2007- The Feldenkrais Guild® of North America Makes an announcement about Feldenkrais Method® Lessons and Lengthening Hamstrings.
In the Physical Therapy Journal (Volume 86, Number 12, December 2006) a research study by Temple University Professor James Stephens, PT, PhD, CFP, found that hamstring muscles can be lengthened using specific Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons without any stretching.
Previous studies have shown that the traditional approach to passive stretching to increase muscle flexibility does not produce long-term changes in the viscoelastic properties of muscle. In Dr. Stephens’ study, the experimental group engaging in the complex active movements of ATM lessons gained significantly more hamstring muscle length compared with the control group continuing normal activity. The study results suggest a wide range of applications of ATM for problems of flexibility and mobility. Further research is needed.
ATM lessons are typically experienced in a group atmosphere where a Feldenkrais practitioner verbally guides students through a series of slow, gentle movements. The method was developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc. (1904-1984), an engineer, physicist and martial arts expert. Currently there are over 1700 practitioners of the method in the United States and Canada.
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Empathy from cultivating awareness from the inside out
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