Somatic Experiencing, Vagus Nerve and Feldenkrais

Irene Lyon, MSC. and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives. To date, her online programs and classes have reached over 9,500 people in over 90 countries. Irene has a Master’s Degree in Biomedical and Health Science and also has a knack for making complex info easy for ALL of us to understand and apply to our lives. She has extensively studied and practices the works of Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais, Peter Levine (founder of Somatic Experiencing) and Kathy Kain (founder of Somatic Practice). Irene spends her free time eating delicious food, hiking in the mountains or walking along the Pacific Ocean in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tools to Access Your Inner Guidance

Feldenkrais takes us on a journey of inner awareness which can be helpful for decreasing pain, and increasing movement and freedom. Lisa will share 4 other tools that helped her in her own healing from chronic pain and journey towards freedom. These are tools that can be used interchangeably.

Transformational Tension Tamer:

How to Smash Jaw Pain through a Blissful, Mindful, Stress- Less Process

Tension can lead to stress and pain, and when it settles into the jaw, it affects everything we do. It can be a puzzle, even for movement specialists, to know how to improve this area of the body when it hurts to move it. In this session we will cover a whole-body approach to alleviating jaw pain, and get you back on track to chew your food with joy and abundance.

I Hand it to You

Hands have been called the outer brain, and even more intelligent than the brain! Hands are often the first point of contact with the environment, and moving our hands can be a primary way of communicating. Yet not all of us have full capacity, or they can get tired, or injured, and if so how can we improve the functionality of our hands, and arms so we can access them to best make our way through the world in the ways we wish. We will explore the quality, function and meaning of touch and the meaning and culture of gesture.

The secret to pain free sitting at the desk

“Why ergonomics have failed us and how can we find comfort in sitting.

A small lecture, followed by a small movement lesson.”

“Why do we suffer so much sitting at our desks?

Erifily Nikola shares here secrets for a good seated posture.

A graphic designer turned somatic practitioner, Erifily has personal experience of both the problem and the solution.

Uplift Yourself and Uplift Yourself Out of Pain.

Tune into and develop the feelings of self-improvement and advancement of yourself. This gentle movement lesson will bring good vibes that come through learning about yourself/body and let the developing sensations wash through you to get rid of body aches/pains while improving our mood, posture and more.”

My 4 year training, but have developed it further.

Move Away from Pain into a Stronger You

Tapping into your full potential while still respecting your own limits. I will give you tools to regain authority so that you are empowered to improve your well-being, move away from pain into a stronger version of you, using principles from the Feldenkrais Method and adapt it to your daily activities or your next movement class. We’ll start by bringing attention to your own patterns. We tend to stop our breathing when dealing with pain or learning something new. This Awareness Through Movement lesson will help you noticing when this happens and therefore empower you to change your habits.

Expanding Your Breathing Potential

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Where do you find your attention when you breathe? We often have a habit of attention when it comes to noticing and changing our breathing. This lesson explores spaces we often don’t associate with breathing to expand our potential and inner world. Do you find breathing confusing?

The Power of Play to Find Your Potential

If you think play is only ‘kids’ stuff’ it’s time to think again. Sarah’s presentation covers why our bodies and brains are built to benefit from play no matter what our age (and other fun stuff!).

Feldenkrais and Tensegrity

Richard’s presentation takes a deep dive into the structural model of tensegrity and why it’s important for healthy movement. 

Tensegrity – or tensile integrity – is a type of structural model that relies on the continuous balance of tension and compression within an interconnected structure.  If you pull or strain one part, you create a push on another part and vice versa. If there is no push, you won’t have the pull. 

The body is an interconnected system that operates as a tensegrity model.  

This means to experience easy and harmonious movement, we need to create equal and opposite push/pull or tension/compression within the body. When the body overworks or underworks too much or too little (or not at all), the structural integrity is thrown out of balance.

Using easy-to-follow visual aids, Richard will show why it’s the intersection of these opposing push/pull movements that are important for us to gain clarity, coordination and choice in our everyday movements.

Having pain in the neck is a pain in the neck

Neck pain is believed to effect 30 to 50% of the adult population in the U.S. In this workshop you will learn a safe, gentle method of restoring movement to the neck. I call my method the “wobble head “. After a taste of being a wobble head we will do an Awareness Through Movement class that improves the use of the whole spine in relationship to the head and neck. Barbara Anderson has been teaching people to move better for 40 years. She calls her system “Movement like a kid again”. The best time to start moving younger is now. Do want to be strong and agile and energetic for a lifetime? Barbara’s awareness based movement classes will help you reach those goals. “

Enliven your spine: Mend & Mind your Back.

Sustainable movement for a healthy and happy back.

If you suffer from back pain, life can be pretty miserable. Beyond the discomfort and sleepless nights, there’s the disappointment of missing out on activities you love. If you’ve accepted your back pain as just a part of getting older, this presentation will give you new hope and inspiration. A practical approach to reconnecting with the inherent support of your skeleton, this program is a fusion of clinically proven strengthening exercises and pain science, presented through through the lens of mind-body movement. It can reduce back pain, increase your confidence to move and protect you from future problems.

Move Your Mood

“You can influence your mood. You can shift more towards enthusiasm and out of apathy, towards being more positive and productive and away from negativity and lethargy.

The key is in your movement and posture. You can use physical activity (or inactivity) and your stance to improve or worsen your mood. Science research proves your habitual postures and behaviours are shaping your emotions and energy levels every minute of your day.

My talk will explain how body and movement influence your mood and provide you with 3 simple yet powerful tools you can use immediately to “Move your mood”. You can spend more time being positive and productive by using these 3 tools.” 

Finding the potency in your human potential

Grow Yourself Tenderly

Growing Softer Becomes Stronger

Biologically we are in a constant state of growth, renewal and change. Yet often our sense of ourself is stuck in time.

We will discuss how we can stay gently listening, creating more possibility and expanding our potential as we move through life.

Becoming more of who you really are.