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HELPING OBI: Today Obi wanted to go all the way do

HELPING OBI: Today Obi wanted to go all the way down the driveway and he wanted to go into the woods. He trotted with a kind of determination that is very hard to disrupt, especially when I feel like his biggest fan. (I'm just so pumped for him and his will to live and I want to support him in that.) Going down and back was about 1/3 of a mile!

I'm not even sure if I should be letting him do that much. I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to!

Then we had acupuncture from Caitlin Isbister! After the treatment, he was so comfy... I've never seen him that comfy.

The GoFundMe has nearly made it to $5,000! We are 1/3 of the way to our goal, but I'm already feeling so much better. It is so relaxing, hopeful and safe. It feels like my heart can do what it wants to and freely offer him the help he needs.

Here are some pictures of Obi and Caitlin during the acupuncture treatment and of him after!

The GoFundMe link is in my bio if you would like to be part of helping Obi!

https://gofund.me/2a3bdc23

HELPING OBI | GoFundMe Link in Bio 6 days ago the

HELPING OBI | GoFundMe Link in Bio
6 days ago the neurologists told me that although Obi had shown lots of little improvements, he wasn’t where he needed to be at this point. They felt he should be able to stand on his own and walk on his own.

That day I tried seeing if he could push up into a sit. He tried a couple times but cried in pain. I stopped because, although he wanted to keep trying, it was hurting more with each try.

The next day, we tried again & he was able to push up towards a sit without pain... we pushed up & laid back down over & over. (like doggie push-ups!)

3 days ago the neurologists decided to up the dose of prednisone. Saying that this 3rd week is a critical week for him. He needs to be standing & walking by the end of it otherwise, it’s time to make some hard decisions.

First day on a higher dose of prednisone & he was able to stand! I had the “Help ‘Em Up” harness on him & I tried going outside with him... he mostly dangled from it, his legs, limp and lifeless... (the disparity between his gorgeous, courageous & willful heart and his empty legs made me have to face down, pillow cry, sob hard, for awhile)... Second day on the higher dose & he was up with a little help, standing on his own, walking on his own, trotting! I was just trying to keep up with him without getting in his way... Learning how to be there for him when he tips, but not get in the way when he is on a roll, is a steep learning curve.

This video is today!! He ROCKS. Look at him go!! He really wants to do this! Watching him work w/ what he has going on is powerful. He is my hero, 100%!

The GoFundMe has reached $3,815!!! The money is transforming our lives. For me, it feels like a big, heart-filled safety net. AND he needs it... pee pads, diapers, harnesses, PEMF therapy, the MRI ($6,000), good food, supplements, acupuncture ($200 for a home visit...he’ll need it 3x per week for awhile)... I am hoping to get him the cold laser therapy too, that thing is $800 to rent for three months to do “at home” treatments... I just don’t feel ready to put him in the car and take him somewhere yet... feels like staying comfy & safe at home is really important.

HELP ME | HELP OBI: I am fundraising for my sweet

HELP ME | HELP OBI: I am fundraising for my sweet Obi, who is in a crisis. A month ago, he started crying in pain w/ neck movements, struggling to get up & looking very wobbly on his legs. I took him in for an MRI & discovered he has Wobbler’s Disease.

The discs in his cervical spine are degenerating & the space around his spinal canal is narrowing. This is compressing his spinal cord & causing inflammation; the inflammation is blocking the communication path to his legs.

After the MRI he was completely paralyzed in all four legs & screaming in pain. We have prednisone to reduce inflammation & gabapentin to ease the pain. In 14 days there have been lots of little improvements. He hasn't cried in pain for many days now, he can move his neck in any direction without pain, he can move his arms & legs, he can flip himself over in his bed & crawl. Two days ago he pushed himself up almost into a sit & really surprised himself!

I give him Shiatsu treatments 3x per day. I have an "Assisi Loop." (PEMF therapy). He’s eating really good food w/ supplements to decrease inflammation. We play mind games, he is getting so good at them! I got him a special harness so I can lift him up without it hurting. He is trying, valiantly, to stand & walk. He understands that we are resting & he is in really good spirits. He is comfortable & happy, & I am, honestly, having a heart-breakingly good time with him.

I’ve stopped working so I can have time with him, to help him, to see if it's possible for him & I to find a way forward. When this started, I called my dad & he said that if I don’t do everything I can, I’d regret it for the rest of my life. My heart agreed.

The path ahead is awfully uncertain, I have no idea if he will go on to live a really nice life or if I will eventually need to help him die. If this is it, I want every drop of time with him.

These funds will help me pay for the cost of the MRI, vet, equipment, supplements, good food, acupuncture, herbs, Assisi Loop, & they will help cover the cost of my life (rent, food, bills) so I can take the time off to help him.

We need some help, please donate if you would like to support us. 💗

https://gofund.me/2a3bdc23

WINTER FOUNDATION TRAINING SERIES! Here I am in th

WINTER FOUNDATION TRAINING SERIES!
Here I am in the Gorilla Lift. I just introduced this movement to my Tuesday night crew & one of the students asked about the purpose of this movement. It has a lot of amazing stuff going on but one thing I am excited about with this pose is that it’s actually a thoracic opener. You use the legs, glutes & lats to pull the ribs & spine into the biggest position possible & then you are breathing into it which is an epic way to create more lung volume. With the bigger-ness of the rib basket, the neck & shoulders get positioned to move with freedom. Then you practice reaching from the Lats (The largest muscle of the upper body, the primary mover of the arm & a stabilizing force for the body) When you get that down, you feel incredibly strong... It’s also a very functional movement & I use this movement in my life a lot. Last week, my beautiful friend, Obi, an 80 lb Doberman Pinscher was having a hard time standing & walking and he was crying in pain. A MRI revealed Wobber’s disease (cervical degeneration & some spinal stenosis, narrowing around the spinal cord) causing compression & inflammation in his spinal cord. He’s ended up paralyzed 💔😭… (God I hope this is temporary) The only way I can move him is to get into this position. I can do this & feel strong in my body, not hurt my back, & help him. FT is very meaningful to me.

SUN | LEVEL 1 | 4 PM
MON | LEVEL 2 | 5:45 PM
TUES | LEVEL 1.75 | 9:30 AM
TUES | LEVEL 1.5 | 5:45 PM
THURS | LEVEL 1.25 | 5:45 PM

INCLUDES:
- 90 min one-on-one lesson
- 15 min before & after class for q’s
- Optional home practices
- Class recordings

ONE-ON-ONE CAN BE:
- Foundation Training lesson
- Self-done muscle and fascial release
- Breath-work
- Shiatsu Treatment
- Processing limiting emotions & thoughts that are coming up through practice

IN STUDIO OPTION:
This is a hybrid class, you are welcome to attend class online or in person.

Winter courses start the second week of January! I hope to see you there! ❄️💪

#foundationtraining #correctiveexercise #breathwork #westernmass #prehab #rehab #functionalfitness #occupationalfitness #strengthtraining #spinalhealth #biomechanics #spinalhygeine

Symptoms of Inner Peace By Saskia Davis (© 1984)

Symptoms of Inner Peace
By Saskia Davis (© 1984)

• A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences

• An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment

• A loss of interest in judging other people

• A loss of interest in judging self

• A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others

• A loss of interest in conflict

• A loss of the ability to worry (This is a very serious symptom)

• Frequent, overwhelming
episodes of appreciation

• Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature

• Frequent attacks of smiling

• An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen

• An increased susceptibility to love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it

Warning: Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed, and it is possible that people, everywhere, could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition in the world. If you have some or all of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of inner peace may be too far advanced to be curable. If you are exposed to anyone exhibiting these symptoms, remain exposed at your own risk. #perspective

LEARNING TO OUTGROW EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY | HEIGHTE

LEARNING TO OUTGROW EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY | HEIGHTENED NEUROSIS: I had listened to a podcast from Eckhart Tolle titled: "Learning To Outgrow Emotional Reactivity," prior to teaching class this week and then, instead of outgrowing my emotional reactivity, I felt like I was having an outburst of emotional reactivity, in front class, (in front of everyone that I often find myself trying to be 'perfect' in front of.)
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I think this is normal... like when we bring our awareness to something and then, instead of it dissolving, we find that the neurosis actually gets bigger.

In Vajrayana Buddhism this is called "heightened neurosis"... like we might assume that as we train ourselves into this more open state that our habitual patterns will start to unwind; day by day, month by month, we'll be more open minded, more flexible, more of a warrior... but what actually happens with ongoing practice is that our patterns intensify.. and this inches us towards experiencing our full-blown neurosis (our methods of looking for ground)... and that's the fire that cooks us into interrupting the cycle.

INTERUPTING:
"When we start to interrupt our ordinary ways of calling ourselves names and patting ourselves on the back, we are doing something extremely brave. Slowly we edge towards the open state, but let's face it, we are moving toward a place of no handholds, no footholds, no mind-holds." - Pema Chodron

NOT PRACTICING: I always hesitate in suggesting do

NOT PRACTICING: I always hesitate in suggesting doing a home practice because it can trigger incredible students, who I love sharing this material with, who are growing changing & making discoveries in class, into this shame spiral. It's a thing where we have resistance to practicing, so we don't, then we feel bad about ourselves for not doing it & then start thinking we should quit because it's not good enough. This thing, which we were feeling alive & inspired in, turns into a thing that torments us. We feel so stuck with the “feeling bad about ourselves” feeling that it seems like the only way out of this feeling, is to quit.

"Why is it that you are so self-aware but so stuck? There are 2 types of awareness, loving awareness & shameful awareness. With loving awareness, change happens easily, there is really no stuck-ness. With shameful awareness there is a whole lot of stuck-ness... Think about school... you probably experienced adults using shame to try to change behavior, but really, shame is a tool our subconscious uses to ensure that things stay the same. If you are highly self-aware & you are aware in a shameful way, your awareness is really just about you collecting evidence about yourself to fuel your shame, which makes you stay stuck." @flynnskidmore

Is popular opinion that we'll all descend into being incompetent-pieces-of-shits if someone doesn’t shame us or scare us into doing things in our lives? Do these voices get internalized & run our lives without us being conscious of them? Last year I had a therapy session about my fatigue & jealousy of other successful practitioners. I was keeping myself separate from others through feeling “less than," but I felt like I was missing out on relationships I could have w/ people who inspired me. When we dug into the pattern, I realized I felt "not good enough,” so was always pushing beyond my limits = fatigued. While I was feeling fatigued, I would see other practitioners who were doing well, then compare myself & feel shame & jealousy. I then used jealousy to push myself to work harder, instead of meeting the need of rest. Dude. Stuck. Cycle.

GUT HEALTH = SPINE HEALTH: This is Obi, my best fr

GUT HEALTH = SPINE HEALTH: This is Obi, my best friend. He just turned 10! In April we were out hiking in the morning, he was galloping uphill, leaping over branches, & just being his black-stallion-super-athlete self. Then, that afternoon he looked really disturbed & when he tried to get up he fell down. He progressively lost control of his body as the hours wore on. I took him to the vet twice that day, but when we showed up at the vet’s office, he puffed himself up & looked fancy to show off to the other dogs there, so they turned us away… he looked fine, to them. I took him a third time that evening because he really lost it… this time they took him… it was obvious. He spent two nights at the emergency vet getting flushed out from something poisonous that he ate. He really hasn’t been the same since… when he walks he drags his back toenails, he looks like he thinks his back legs will move & they just don’t cooperate & he lost his ability to run, then about three weeks ago he got really bloated & started having a hard time pooping & also started crying out in pain & falling down more…. (I was fucking freaking out inside, like my mind was going in every direction like… are we going to get a doggy wheel chair? Am I going to have to put him down because he’s in too much pain? Where will I burry him?… back home in Wisconsin where I could visit his grave? Here, someplace meaningful that we spent hours romping around? 😭💔) Everyone said that it was probably arthritis & a spinal injury and to accept that he is getting older… I put him on some pain medication… but that was freaking me out because he was obviously still going downhill, just without the pain. I called another vet, he took him off the pain meds & wanted to treat his gut… He reminded me that the nerves that innervate the organs come out of the spine & if you have an organ or gut issue it can affect the spine & the nerves that come out of the spine that are responsible for moving the limbs etc… We started treating the gut, like I mean within hours, I saw improvement & as the hours have added up, it’s like 6 days later & he’s RUNNING! He isn’t dragging his back legs, he’s JUMPING, he isn’t in pain.

ORDINARY: I was listening to Eckhart Tolle speak a

ORDINARY: I was listening to Eckhart Tolle speak about enlightened folks often being quite ordinary. He said, wanting to be enlightened might come from an urge to be better than others / be special / make a difference in the world, but how what changes when you are enlightened is actually in an okay-ness to just be whatever your are in the moment & this partly comes from knowing that everything changes, nothing ever stays the same, things come & they fade away… “This Too Shall Pass” ….

So if it’s intense anxiety and we think, oh I shouldn’t be feeling this anxious, let me do breath work or focus on something positive to change this experience, instead we pause the urgency to change the feeling, accept that we are anxious, and feel the anxiety in the moment… I think as a student I had a lot of teachers who acted like they had it all figured it out & didn’t have intense emotions, get afraid or have self doubt anymore & that class or our time together was about me and all my problems with my feelings… but not about them… and I started thinking that someday I wouldn’t have these feelings anymore, someday, if I worked hard enough, I’d be like them…but that’s not true… like we are human… so we will always have these feelings… the change is in our okay-ness with having the feeling…

Eckhart said enlightened people are ok with being ordinary!

“In practicing, we are not trying to live up to some kind of ideal. We are just being with our experience, whatever it is. If our experience is that sometimes we have some kind of perspective, & sometimes we have none, then that’s our experience. If sometimes we can approach what scares us, & sometimes we absolutely can’t, that’s our experience. ‘This very moment is the perfect teacher and it’s always with us’ is really a most profound instruction. Just seeing what’s going on – that’s the teaching right there. We can be with what’s happening & not dissociate. Wakefulness is found in our pleasure & our pain, our confusion & our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary lives.” - Pema Chodron

Cheers to being ordinary🍁#ordinary

COMMITMENT TO A PRACTICE & THE IMPORTANCE OF LIMIT

COMMITMENT TO A PRACTICE & THE IMPORTANCE OF LIMITS:
Commitments can feel limiting in a certain way, but the real secret is that working with limitation is how we learn to create the most freedom for ourselves. It is through the creativity and adaptation that has to happen in order to keep the commitment that we grow tremendously in our capacity to be creative and free in the world. It is actually the tether / the grounded-ness of the limitation that teaches us how to cultivate incredible freedom. That’s transformation.

Having a commitment is sort of like taking a drug because the drug shifts your perspective and suddenly you are free of things because you see a new way. Taking a drug also helps you make a commitment because you know that while you are on that drug you don’t have a choice to do something else, you are going to be inside of a certain experience for a certain amount of time whether you like it or not. The drug helps you set aside your preferences and get really present with just what is because you know there is no way out. You can’t run from your experience so you find a way to go into it deeper.

A practice, makes you do this on your own without the help of a drug, you have to choose to be present and to stay committed with every breath. That process of doing it on your own is empowering and makes it grounded; it is slower but it makes it integrated because the process you go through to get there, is it. The transformation happens through the process. For example, the process of learning a pose, is the pose… sometimes we get fixated on the end result looking a certain way and we forget that the attempt IS it. The pose is just a tool / structure that we commit to that helps us do the internal transformation work. Without that limitation and structure, we can’t concentrate our personal power to do the transformational work. The practice provides a structure that is like a talisman. #foundationtraining #affordablehealthcare #practice #commitment #limitations #creative #presence #talisman #functionalfitness #endurance #longgame #injuryrecovery #injuryprevention #backpain #breathwork #correctiveexercise #spinalhealth #organhealth #biomechanics

DEVELOPING ENDURANCE: With back pain, it is not st

DEVELOPING ENDURANCE: With back pain, it is not strength alone that brings healing, it is the endurance to hold ourselves with integrity over longer and longer durations of time. Developing endurance is partly about the ability to keep moving towards what we want even with success and failure. We learn what distractions are and to not give our energy or attention to things that pull us away from our center or just leave us feeling emptier. We learn how to actually work with our pain in a way that creates a bridge for the way forward instead of losing heart and giving up on our hopes and dreams. We stop complaining about what we have to work with as it compares to others and we put our attention on our work and see what we can create with what we have. We lose interest in abandoning ourselves in a search for a different experience and assume this experience is as good as any to be present with and it might even be that, although it’s challenging, it could be just what we need. We learn to watch our emotional reaction to the pain and instead of panicking or imagining a terrible future, we use our pain as a reminder to get present, to be curious, to notice and feel our physical and emotional experience. We are able to use the pain as a reminder to come back to, or maintain center, to concentrate and make the adjustments internally or externally to our aim for what we want to create. This is endurance. I personally think endurance is one of the most emotionally challenging, transformational and beneficial qualities to work towards. It has immense payoff because we find ourselves blowing our own minds with what we are capable of and therefore, what we imagine is possible for ourselves. We become our own biggest support system. #endurance #foundationtraining #personalgrowth #pain #emotions #energy #functionalfitness #spinalhealth #biohacking #affordablehealthcare #selfcare #investinyourself #strengthtraining #alignment #aim #heart #capable #practice

FROM REACTIVITY TO SENSATIVITY: SAFETY INSIDE & TR

FROM REACTIVITY TO SENSATIVITY: SAFETY INSIDE & TRUSTING OURSELVES

In a practice there are moments of bliss and moments of misery. Sometimes weeks and months of bliss and weeks and months of misery. But, if we manage to stay committed, even through the experiences we would rather not be there for, then experiencing our misery can also become generative. We have to feel our pain in order to heal it. We can box it up, talk about it from the outside & live our life avoiding it & anything that reminds us of it, but that seems to mean that we have this ball & chain that follows us around all the time and dictates the experiences we can and cannot have, and even causes us to lose trust in ourselves and our ability to accept / allow / grow / and transform hard things… it’s like an internal prison. If we can find a way to feel our feelings, move through our resistance to experiences, to allow “what is,” even little bits at a time, then we find incredible fortitude & deep trust in ourselves to be able to be with hard things.

This is how we open the door for ourselves. It’s weird, but the door doesn’t open by us running away from our experience or even trying to transform our experience because both of those are forms of resistance. The transformation can’t happen if we aren’t open. The key to the lock is to welcome our experience in and allow it. In this welcoming, we surrender even trying to get the door open. We begin to see that all things come and go, everything has a beginning, middle, and end… that “this too shall pass.” It is through the letting go that the door opens. It’s an internal shift of allowing our experiences. We begin to trust ourself to be able to be with our life and our pain. We become open again, to life and all the possibilities that each day brings. This can build a sense of safety internally. There is empowerment in that because then we have choice. Then we don’t have to run if we don’t want to. We can stay or we can go. That is stability. #safety #selfregulation #strength #stability #openness #resistance #foundationtraining #endurance #commitment #choice #empowerment #transformation #possibilities #createwhatyouwant #practice #dailypractice

UPCOMING FOUNDATION TRAINING COURSES! MON | L2 |

UPCOMING FOUNDATION TRAINING COURSES!

MON | L2 | 5:45 PM | SEP. 12 - DEC. 5 | $350

TUES | L 1.5 | 9:30 AM | SEP 6 - DEC. 6 | $374

TUES | L 1.25 | 5:45 PM | SEP 6 - DEC. 6 | $374

THURS | L 1 | 5:45 PM | SEP 8 - DEC. 8 | $350

INTRO | TBA | EMAIL ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED!

Sign Up is Due Before AUG. 22!

INCLUDES:
- 90-Minute One-on-one lesson
- 15 min before / after class for q
- Optional home practice
- Class recordings

ONE-ON-ONE LESSON CAN BE:
- Foundation Training Lesson
- Muscle & Fascial Release Work
- Breath-work
- Shiatsu Treatment
- Byron Katie worksheet on limiting thoughts / beliefs that are coming up in practice

IN STUDIO OPTION:
You are welcome to attend class in person.

MISSING CLASS:
Try to attend all classes. Make up classes by doing the recording / attending other classes I am offering that are your level.

SIGN UP:
- 10 Student Limit
- First-Come-First-Serve Basis

PAYMENT OPTIONS:
For the upcoming series I'd like to offer sliding scale & payment plan options to anyone who would like to take a course but the price is out of your budget. Email me to request that if you need it!

info@kendrarenzoni.com

NO REFUNDS

https://kendrarenzoni.com/foundation-training/

#foundationtraining #spinalhealth #spinalinjury #spondylolisthesis #stenosis #shoulderhealth #hipsurgeryrecovery #hiprehab #sciaticarelief #sacroiliacjointdysfunction #functionalmedicine #functionalfitness #bodytherapy #plantarfasciitis #jointhealth #liveyourdreams #kneerehab #carpaltunnelsyndrome #nervepain #vagusnerve #diaphragm #nervoussystem #breathwork #knowyourbody #anatomyandphysiology #somatichealing #interroception #chronicpainrelief #newneuralpathways #selfdiscovery

EMOTIONS IN PRACTICE: When I first started teachin

EMOTIONS IN PRACTICE:
When I first started teaching Foundation Training, I was surprised at all the emotions flying around the room. I'm an empathic person & as a teacher I am aware of what is happening for everyone. I've got this thing about "group heart" & I extend that field of heart space throughout the entire group, keeping everyone included, especially when they are going through something hard. Over 6 years ago I had found the 12-minute video online and started to practice it, I felt so good from it that I wanted to share it with my students. I had an amazing group of students who had been with me for several years already. (6 years later we are all still doing Foundation Training together!) Because I was teaching yoga at the time, I shared yoga & Buddhist philosophy for guidance when difficult emotions came up during the practice. Suddenly we needed those teachings more than we had ever needed them during our yoga practices! Foundation Training asks you to inhabit your body with awareness everywhere to a whole next level while breathing so big. It's often described as a biomechanical approach to balancing out the body, which it does, but it can end up being much more.

“Your emotions are born in your nervous system–the system that physically runs up & down your spine & branches to every organ, limb & digit of your body. These emotions trigger neurochemical changes in your brain, hormonal releases in your endocrine system, blood flow changes in your circulatory system, & airflow changes in your respiratory system. We experience all our feelings, thoughts, actions and reactions through these connections between our nervous system and our musculoskeletal and fascial system. Every emotion we experience leaves a trace throughout the brain and body. Those exact emotions can be re-triggered by anything we experience, whether it is in the real world (through our senses) or purely in our minds, that seems similar to those memories that are written into our cells" - Vicky Vlachonis: The Body Doesn't Lie

#foundationtraining #practice #issuesinthetissues #comingupforhealing #evolution #personalevolution #personalgrowth #emotions #somatichealing #thebodydoesntlie

WHO IS FOUNDATION TRAINING FOR? - An athlete who

WHO IS FOUNDATION TRAINING FOR?

- An athlete who wants to improve performance

- Someone with injuries

- Anyone with pain: plantar fasciitis, sacroiliac joint pain, back pain, bulging or herniated discs, spinal injury, degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, scoliosis, knee pain, hip pain, nerve pain, sciatica, frozen shoulder, shoulder injury & limitations, carpal tunnel, neck pain, headaches & migraines

- Anyone who has tension or limits in range of motion

- A therapist who works with somatic experiencing

- A chiropractor, physical therapist, occupational therapist, doctor, or bodyworker who needs tools to pass on to their clients so they can take a more active role in their own healing

- An office worker who is experiencing pain and limitation from sitting and working on a computer

- Someone who is experiencing degeneration and limitation with aging

- Someone who wants to be strong and present in their body

- A mom who is ready to strengthen and re-center their body after pregnancy

- Yoga, Movement, Dance, Martial Arts, Rock Climbers, Cyclists, Cross Fit Athletes, Runners and teachers who want to feel their bodies inherent strength and suppleness come online daily, as well as have tools to help facilitate their bodies capacity to heal itself and bring their body into that place when it doesn’t feel that way

- Someone who is hyper-mobile and needs to create strength and containment within their range of motion

- Physical laborers like farmers, gardeners, landscapers, builders and construction workers, who need to re-train their movement patterns so they are moving in a way that is building their body up instead of causing a steady break down; developing the capacity to finish a long work day feeling pain free.

- A bodyworker that needs to strengthen their alignment so that, when they work, they don’t cause overuse and compression injuries to their own body

- Someone who wants to increase their breath capacity

- A practitioner who needs something else to help with pain that their practice isn’t resolving

- Really strong and mobile, yet still having pain

- Everyone

MINDSET & PAIN: Yesterday @stopchasingpain posted

MINDSET & PAIN: Yesterday @stopchasingpain posted an article about people w/ multiple personalities—their different personalities reporting different levels of pain. It illustrates how our perception of pain has to do with what we are thinking & feeling about the pain.

In the “Tell Me About Your Pain” podcast I listened to last year on a road trip home after visiting my childhood home & having a re-awakening of sciatica & gut issues, I learned that if you look at your pain with a lens of fear, your mind amplifies the pain even though there isn’t greater damage to the tissue. I realized that every time I felt the pain in my gut & my hip, I was thinking about what I could have done “wrong,” criticizing my food choices, imagining my future going poorly because of what I had done, criticizing myself for not doing my practice right & afraid that I had been teaching my students something wrong if I was turning out like this…Self criticism, guilt, shame & fear were all layering around that pain & lacing the pain pathway w/ their messages. These emotions create stress hormones.

Stress hormones increase the level of cytokines (inflammatory messengers) in the body. That systemic inflammation causes more pain & can even make old injuries flare-up. Whatever we are imagining, our body experiences as a reality. If we get into a dark loop in which negative emotions lead to bio-chemical changes that interfere with our bodies natural healing mechanisms, which leads to less self-care, which creates physical pain, which leads to more dark emotions, which causes low self-esteem & sometimes leads to self-destruction…we’ve stumbled into a negative feedback loop, which amplifies the pain.

I realized I was in this & paused to really feel the pain… it’s location, was it moving? radiating? contracting? expanding? How big was it on a 1 - 10 scale? The more I looked for the pain, the more it disappeared.

“When you give your full attention to your knee or your back or your head, whatever hurts, and drop the good/bad, right/wrong story line & simply experience the pain directly for even a short time, then your ideas about the pain, & often the pain itself, will disolve.” -Pema Chodron

COURSES | CONNECTION, GROWTH, & DEPTH: As a teach

COURSES | CONNECTION, GROWTH, & DEPTH:

As a teacher, I want to be continually challenged & learning from my students & my practice. Teaching is an important part of my life. I see it as an education for me, as well as a way to pass on what is most meaningful to me.

“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding.” - W.A.W

Understanding is an experience. One has to see it. One has to feel it. If I understand something & I tell you, the moment I tell you, it becomes a lie. For me, it was the truth because it came through my own eyes, experience, & felt sense. For you it is a borrowed thing, a belief... a knowledge-not a knowing. If you start believing in it, you will be believing in a lie because truth has to enter through your own eyes and your own embodied experience.

Courses are a series of classes designed to fit together, cohesively, into a course. In a course, the same group of committed students come on a weekly basis and learn in a progressive and cumulative sequence of instruction. This format leads to truly phenomenal growth & understanding.

This platform invites the learning process to take place because students commit to themselves & to a practice. Through this commitment, the practice is given an opportunity to integrate into life and creates a dialogue and inquiry into the ways in which we can grow; where knowledge goes from being facts and words to true embodied knowing through the integration that happens over time. This structure is an opportunity for physical and emotional insight. A course is the place for a student to make leaps and bounds in their practice.

Courses are set-up to build, which helps both the students and the teacher to develop a strong relationship and witness growth in their personal practice. The students and the teacher get to experience the depth that comes from learning with each other year-round. It also opens up the joy of a shared language, experience, and consistent class environment. This is one of the best platforms for a teacher to truly connect and help their students.

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FALL COURSES: Here is a peak at the class structu

FALL COURSES:
Here is a peak at the class structure inside the series that I am offering this fall! This has been working so well!

CLASS STRUCTURE:

BEFORE CLASS:
15 Minutes Prior to Class = Open Office / Question Time

- Ask questions
- Check-in
- Personal requests needs
- Optional - You do not need to come for this

CLASS BEGINS:

OPENING PRACTICE:
First 45 - 60 Minutes = Foundation Training Practice

- Breathwork for energy and focus
- Movement Practice
- Movements / Postures we already know
- Minimal Cueing
- Flowing from one to the next

Break: 2 - 5 minutes

- Shake Off
- Drink Water
- Go to Bathroom

15 Minutes: Growth

- Growth Points
- Movement Drills
- Pose Break Downs
- Anatomy Lesson
- Learn New Material

Last 15 - 30 Minutes: Integration

- Integrate / use anatomy lesson, growth points, movement drills, pose break downs to improve your practice.
- Practice the new material
- Cool Down / Breathwork to calm the nervous system / Savasana
- Philosophical Readings

CLASS ENDS

15 Minutes After Class = Open Office / Question Time

- Ask questions
- Check-in
- Personal requests needs
- Optional - You do not need to stay for this

UPCOMING FOUNDATION TRAINING COURSES:

MON | L2 | SEP. 12 - DEC. 5
TUES | L 1.5 | SEP 6 - DEC. 6
TUES | L 1.25 | SEP 6 - DEC. 6
THURS | L 1 | SEP 8 - DEC. 8

Sign Up is Due Before AUG. 22!

https://kendrarenzoni.com/foundation-training/

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PHYSICAL & EMOTIONAL PAIN: I have seen a pattern i

PHYSICAL & EMOTIONAL PAIN: I have seen a pattern in my practice that many people recognize their physical pain & have no problem asking for help with that but if they are experiencing emotional pain, there is a divide. Some come in really open to digging deep, having a big emotional release & feeling their physical pain diminish or transform to mirror that emotional shift & some come in w/ emotional pain & not only refuse help, they may resist even really feeling the pain.

“While Eastern medicine has tapped into the mind-body connection for thousands of years, only recently has Western medicine proven that the mind & body are not just connected – they are one in the same. Scientists at the University of Michigan did functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans on the brains of 40 people & found that, whether people were burned by hot water or looked at photos of people who’d broken up with them, their brains showed an identical pattern: Two parts of the brain – the secondary somatosensory cortex & the dorsal posterior insula – registered physical pain. The exact same brain patterns occurred whether the test subjects felt a burn against their skin or felt emotional pain – the brain simply did not know the difference.” - Vicky Vlachonis: The Body Doesn’t Lie

I think this feels like relief & is supportive to those of us that are open to the connection between physical & emotional pain, but could feel scary, pushy or unsafe to those of us who haven’t felt the connection yet or who have been judged, shamed, or labeled as bad or wrong after revealing our emotions to someone. I like to talk about this stuff so that the door is open, but I don’t want to push anyone to do this work if they don’t want to, aren’t ready to yet, or feel that what they have going on is purely physical. It’s just a tool. Since emotional and physical pain are one and the same, we can stay with the physical and end up impacting the emotional without ever even talking about it!

UPCOMING FOUNDATION TRAINING COURSES:
MON | L2 | SEP. 12 - DEC. 5
TUES | L 1.5 | SEP 6 - DEC. 6
TUES | L 1.25 | SEP 6 - DEC. 6
THURS | L 1 | SEP 8 - DEC. 8

https://kendrarenzoni.com/foundation-training/

THE MELTING POT: A melting pot is a place where d

THE MELTING POT:
A melting pot is a place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc. are mixed together. My Foundation Training classes are full of artists, writers, therapists, movement practitioners, teachers, farmers, physical laborers, bodyworkers, herbalists, doctors, athletes, office workers, grandparents, elders, mothers who are prepping for birth and healing after birth, film-makers, acupuncturists, meditation practitioners… right now, my youngest student is 16 and my oldest student is approaching 80 years old. It’s a real melting pot. When I look at the list of people who come to my classes I feel admiration, respect, and inspiration. Like, I have these phenomenal relationships with each one of them!

Foundation training is an adjunct practice. It is designed to help you do whatever it is that your heart desires. It’s not about getting good at doing a “Founder” or being someone who does “Foundation Training.”… It’s about being yourself fully... it's this full on resurrection process that addresses all the imbalances physically but also emotionally… like, there are reasons why we hold ourselves the way we do, reasons why we are in the patterns that we are in…they all serve a purpose and at some point those patterns start to get in the way and actually become really limiting and we need to find a way to let them go and build a new way forward that is more in alignment with our full expression. So, we do this physical practice and end up healing our relationship with ourself too. (Which is sometimes really fun and sometimes really hard.)

Maya Angelou: You are only free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

Bill Moyers: Do you belong anywhere?

Maya Angelou: I haven’t yet.

Bill Moyers: Do you belong to anyone?

Maya Angelou: More and more… I belong to myself. I’m very proud of that. I am very concerned about how I look at Maya. I like Maya very much.

UPCOMING COURSES:
MON | L2 | SEP. 12 - DEC. 5
TUES | L 1.5 | SEP 6 - DEC. 6
TUES | L 1.25 | SEP 6 - DEC. 6
THURS | L 1 | SEP 8 - DEC. 8

Payment due before Aug 22!

https://kendrarenzoni.com/foundation-training/

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