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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.

#foundationtraining

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/

#foundationtraining #hipmobility #hipstability #movement #movementculture #movementismedicine #movementpatterns #posture #powerful #bodyweighttraining #selfhealers #breath #breathwork #correctiveexercise #biomechanics #neckpain #shoulderrehab #spinalhealth #plantarfasciitis #sciatica #footstrength #kneepainrelief #lowbackpain #carpaltunnel #nervoussystem #diaphragm #selfregulation #stressresponse #hormesis #endogenouscannabiniodsystem

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/

FALL FOUNDATION TRAINING COURSES BEGIN SEPTEMBER!

FALL FOUNDATION TRAINING COURSES BEGIN SEPTEMBER!

Learn:

How to see your body as a web of interrelated parts that are in relationship with each other, not isolated parts, labeling them as “good” or “bad.”

How this web shifts, breaks down, tightens & how these compensations create imbalances.

To understand where symptoms are coming from, their origin, & how the imbalance that creates those symptoms occurs.

To recognize habitual patterns of posture, breath, and movement that cause unnecessary stress & strain, that compromises our joints, weakens our muscles & restricts organ function. (Patterns that lead to plateaus in performance, spinal compression, musculoskeletal & nerve pain, joint problems, fasciitis, inflammation, & challenging psycho-emotional states.)

Somato-sensation: The skill of translating symptoms. Our ability to feel and sense our body so that we don’t have missing pieces or places of ourselves that we lack feeling or have incomplete feeling, but instead, we are aware of and have a complete “body map.” Through that we can create meaning about sensation and formulate skillful & effective action related to the sensations.

How to retrain movement patterns from ones that steadily break the body down, to ones that build the body up.

How to build strength into places that are currently weak spots, allowing other strengths to become better balanced and how to provide systemic, large, integrated movement patterns that protect joints, protect the spine, give space to the organs, nerve pathways, lymphatic systems, and keep the head held high in a position that creates healthy tissue surrounding the brain stem, cervical vertebra, cranial nerves, and vagus nerve.

How to perpetuate those strong movement patterns and postures inside of our life.

This practice is an “adjunct” practice. It is designed to help your body feel and perform better at whatever it is that your heart desires.

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/

#foundationtraining #selfhealers #movementismedicine #posture

SHIATSU: Here I am with this sweetie pie! It was t

SHIATSU: Here I am with this sweetie pie! It was the first time he ever had shiatsu! He could feel all the channels. Kids can always feel it! I could press on his upper leg and have him try to feel the channel going down the leg and he would tell me which toe it went to! Then I’d have him try to feel where it went through his arms and he could trace the path and tell me which finger it went to. I often end up accidentally teaching kids shiatsu just because they can feel it all so well. Every place I pressed reminded him of a story of something that happened and I heard em all! It’s all there! Every memory, every feeling, every emotion, it’s all in the body! Shiatsu, in particular is so helpful for integrating what one is working though emotionally or spiritually… sometimes we have really processed something intellectually or seen through a belief about ourselves but the pattern is still alive in our body and life… this form of bodywork just really bridges that gap and a new way forward can come alive in an embodied way… the pattern that is held from the old beliefs and attachments can be transformed. #shiatsu #shiatsutherapy #shiatsutreatment #channels #meridians #chi #ki #qi #bodywork #zenshiatsu #masunaga

LESSONS FROM STRESS: Here I am with Molly, it's t

LESSONS FROM STRESS:
Here I am with Molly, it's the 10th squat in a series of squats in which I've been relentlessly cuing her & holding her in each one. We are laughing & I'm cheering her on because, at this point, it's getting really hard but she is still nailing it and I am sooo pumped for her!! We are working on endurance. Strength is important but healing is not about just strength, but about our ability to sustain alignment. It is actually a stressful process. The stress builds resilience because, then, in your life, even when you are tired & challenged more than usual, (physically or emotionally) you find a way forward with integrity & alignment. One reason I got into @foundationtraining was because I was struggling when giving bodywork. I hurt everywhere during it & felt horrible after. I was strong but it wasn’t balanced. In fact, maintaining alignment felt like fighting the pattern that was in my body. When I got tired, I used patterns w/ my body that felt easier in the moment but then later I'd feel terrible... This practice retrains movement patterns, brings the body into balance biomechanically & teaches you to move in a way that builds you up. That’s “good” stress. Taking myself into stressful situations & working to maintain something instead of collapsing into my patterns, has given me that option inside of life... I built a trust in myself through blowing my own mind inside my practice over & over again.... It’s also important to not push past the moment when I can maintain that integrity or alignment. "Quit when you still have two good reps in the tank." Respecting our limitations. It's not about repetition, it's about technique, stopping before the alignment starts to fall apart. Life lesson right there! Embodiment is essential for me. I need to be in a situation where the stress is alive, where I am inside the feeling of the moment and making the decision on which direction to turn, that's when it becomes real. Until then, it's just a concept...

SUMMER SERIES:
Sign Up B4 July 11!

#foundationtraining #stressresponse #goodstress #hormesis #scoliosis #movementpatterns #posture #posturecorrection #biomechanics #selfhealers #selfregulation

ANCHORING & DECOMPRESSION: Here I am with Hannah d

ANCHORING & DECOMPRESSION: Here I am with Hannah doing the Walking Stride Decompression from Foundation Training and we were really working the anchor to get an incredibly expansive rib basket with such great elongation of the torso too!! The anchor amplifies the expansion of that axial skeleton and the amount of movement and breath you can get! You can open up so wide and deep and long and feel the lungs expand all the way!! I actually experience it the most in this walking stride decompression. That’s a really cool thing about foundation training is learning the connection between your feet and legs up to your diaphragm and ability to open all that tissue up to receive breath. Hannah is such an awesome student, she asks me questions about everything, all the details, and she has really transformed!! She’s one of those people that keeps me excited about teaching. 💗

SUMMER SERIES:
Sign Up Due Before July 11!

MON | LEVEL 2
5:45 - 7:15 pm
July 25 - Aug 8

TUES AM | LEVEL 1 +
9:30 - 11 am
July 26 - Aug 9

TUES PM | LEVEL 1
9:30 - 11 am
July 26 - Aug 9

#foundationtraining #hipmobility #hipstability #movement #movementculture #movementismedicine #movementpatterns #posture #powerful #bodyweighttraining #selfhealers #breath #breathwork #correctiveexercise #biomechanics #neckpain #shoulderrehab #spinalhealth #plantarfasciitis #sciatica #footstrength #kneepainrelief #lowbackpain #carpaltunnel #nervoussystem #diaphragm #selfregulation #stressresponse #hormesis #endogenouscannabiniodsystem

Here I am with my sweetie! He is very good at Foun

Here I am with my sweetie! He is very good at Foundation Training and exceptionally good at shaking off the tension between poses!! (Check it out!! At the end!) He practices nearly every day and having the energy of him practicing alongside me really keeps the energy, growth and inspiration for the practice alive!

SUMMER SERIES:
Sign Up Due Before July 11!

MON | LEVEL 2
5:45 - 7:15 pm
July 25 - Aug 8

TUES AM | LEVEL 1 +
9:30 - 11 am
July 26 - Aug 9

TUES PM | LEVEL 1
9:30 - 11 am
July 26 - Aug 9

#foundationtraining #hipmobility #hipstability #movement #movementculture #movementismedicine #movementpatterns #posture #powerful #bodyweighttraining #selfhealers #breath #breathwork #correctiveexercise #biomechanics #neckpain #shoulderrehab #spinalhealth #plantarfasciitis #sciatica #footstrength #kneepainrelief #lowbackpain #carpaltunnel #nervoussystem #diaphragm #selfregulation #stressresponse #hormesis #endogenouscannabiniodsystem

BREATH: “What bodily form depends on is breath (

BREATH: “What bodily form depends on is breath (chi) and what breath relies upon is form. When the breath is perfect, the form is perfect (too). - Chinese adage from James Nestor’s book: “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” …. Here I am in the @foundationtraining Forward Bend, breathing space into my thoracic spine and inflating my ribs to have space between each one. There are many nerves coming out of the spine and going between the ribs. Breathing the ribs into an expanded position makes space for all those nerves to function well. Working the breath here opens up the entire body but especially the thoracic spine. Also, creating space and width in the ribs allows so much length to happen in the spine. In this practice I have really felt the breath re-shape my structure and my structure change to allow more space for the breath and as my structure has changed, my breath rhythms, patterns, and volume / capacity has opened up too. There is a band of muscle near the base of the ribs that hugs around the kidneys called the inferior posterior serratus, it’s very close to Ming Men and the kidney points along the spine, there is a whole thing in Chinese medicine about the Kidney’s ability to grasp the lung chi. This practice has really opened up that tissue for me and I do feel that my Kidneys CAN grasp the lung chi because the structure is making way for that to happen!

SUMMER FT SERIES!

Mondays | Level 2 | 5:45 - 7:15 pm | July 25 - Aug 8

Tuesdays | Level 1+ | 9:30 - 11 am | July 26 - Aug 9

Tuesdays | Level 1 | 5:45 - 7:15 pm | July 26 - Aug 9

Sign Up Due Before July 11!

#foundationtraining #lungcapacity #lungvolume #posture #chi #channels #flow #fascia #organhealth #nervepainrelief #sciatica #sacroiliacjoint #decompression #pranayama #spinalhealth #plantarfasciitis #kneehab #posteriorchain #rotatorcuffrehab #gripstrength #vagusnerve #diaphragm

SUMMER SERIES! MONDAYS! LEVEL 2 TIME: 5:45 - 7:15

SUMMER SERIES! MONDAYS! LEVEL 2
TIME: 5:45 - 7:15 PM
DATES: JULY 25, AUG 1, AUG 8
LENGTH: 3 WEEKS
COST: $111
LOCA: ZOOM / HYBRID
PAYMENT DUE: PRIOR TO JULY 11

INCLUDES:
- 3 weeks of classes
- Class Recordings
- Home Practice
- 30-minute one-on-one
- 15 min before / after class for q’s

SIGN UP:
You can sign up by sending payment through Venmo, PayPal, or Square.

FULL SCHEDULE:
Take a look at the full summer and fall schedule here.
https://kendrarenzoni.com/scheduleclasses/

Hope to see you there!!

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#foundationtraining #doafounder #posteriorchain #spinalhealth #mobilitytraining #strengthtraining #posture #posturecorrection #chronicpainrelief #breathworktraining #chiropractor #physicaltherapy #occupationaltherapy #bodyweighttraining #fascialfitness #footstrength #anklestrength #kneepainrelief #plantarfasciitis #hippainrelief #backpainrelief #thoracicmobility #lunghealth #biomechanics #diaphragm #nogym #movementculture #movementismedicine #shoulderstability #shouldermobility

SUMMER SHORTY FT SERIES! MON | L2 | JULY 25 - AUG

SUMMER SHORTY FT SERIES!
MON | L2 | JULY 25 - AUG 8
TUES | L1.5 | JULY 26 - AUG 9
TUES | L1.25 | JULY 26 - AUG 9
WED | L1.75 | JULY 27 - AUG 10

ABOUT:
- Three online live classes
- 30 min one-on-one sesh
- Time for questions
- Optional home practice
- Ongoing support
- Option to attend classes in person

ONE-ON-ONE CAN BE:
- Foundation Training lesson
– Muscle / fascia release work
– Breath work
– A chat about how it’s all going

Sign up through my website:
https://kendrarenzoni.com/scheduleclasses/

In this photo I am working with Molly and she is doing a gorgeous woodpecker rotation! In the woodpecker rotation we are lengthening the glutes under tension and learning rotation initiated at the hips instead of at the spine. I’m helping her lengthen the side of her waist, pulling the QL and psoas into a longer position while breathing the ribs expansively away from the pelvis and work she is doing in the glutes. This movement pattern is awesome for tight IT bands, tight periformis issues and hips with limited mobility. It teaches the body to absorb and disperse forces away from the low spine, sacroiliac joint and lumbo-sacral plexus of nerves. Learning hip centered movement patterns is of great help to a spine that is having compression or stability issues because you can train the glutes to take the load in a way that generates space and stability rather than compressed tightness, while strengthening the muscles that stabilize and support the spine. This process re-patterns isolated glute clenching into posterior chain muscle chain integration! #foundationtraining #gluteworkout #sciatica #sacroiliacjointdysfunction #hipmobility #hipstability #corestrength #breathwork #expansion #doafounder #backpain #functionalfitness #biomechanics #affordablehealthcare #strengthtraining #posture #diaphgragm #nervoussystem #movementismedicine #injuryprevention #injuryrehab

THE PROPER CUP OF TEA: “Hold the sadness and pai

THE PROPER CUP OF TEA: “Hold the sadness and pain of Samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the great Eastern sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.“ - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. #foundationtraining #gorillalift #thoracicmobility #thoracicexpansion #breathwork #decompressionbreath #brachialplexus #intercostalnerves #celiacplexus #solarplexus #sciaticnerve #lumbosacralplexus #nervoussystem #grief #expansion #meaning #life #balance #patterns #squats #hipstability #hipmobility #hinge #eccentric

NEW SPIRITUALITY VS THE OLD: I grew up in a religi

NEW SPIRITUALITY VS THE OLD: I grew up in a religious town. My family didn’t go to church or follow religion. The other kids wondered what religion I was a part of. I lied; told them I was Catholic. I wanted to be liked. I felt scared of social shame and being an outsider. I went to churches to see what was happening there… I tried to connect with it, I didn’t understand & couldn’t integrate it with my personal experiences. I decided not to follow religion but still yearned for a process of personal growth & meaning… a lot of my life has been dedicated to that.

“Religion can be an open door into spirituality or a closed door that prevents you from going deeper. The important thing is that religion doesn’t become an ideology: “I believe this ___.” The moment you say, “only my belief is true” or “only our belief is true,” and you deny other peoples beliefs, that means you’ve adopted an ideology.” - Eckhart Tolle

“The old way was “The hierarchy has the authority.” The church authorities tell you how to worship in church & how to behave outside of church. The new is, you are your own best authority & as you work to know & love yourself you discover how to live a more spiritual life. The old way is, “God & the path to worship ‘him’ have already been defined & all you need to do is follow the direction. The new, is being able to listen within for your own definition of spirituality; your deeper longings are your compass. The old, says that there is only one path, one right way and all other ways are wrong. The new says many paths lead to spiritual freedom and peace. You have a rich array of gems from which to draw illumination, the world’s religions traditions, mythologies, psychology, healing methods, scientific wisdom, your own experience that you can begin to string a necklace all of your own.… etc” - Elizabeth Lesser

I think “The Old Way” can be found in student-teacher, & doctor-patient dynamics. To me, the most successful teachers are teaching principles, the “why” and the “how,” so we aren’t just doing a cue to do a cue perfectly, to be liked, to feel “right,” or to belong, but so that everyone can forge their own path.

BELONGING: This year I decided to take a week off

BELONGING: This year I decided to take a week off every 3 weeks for🩸🌕. A deep pain in my life has been feeling like I don't belong. Growing up in Medford, Wisconsin was an exercise in being an outsider. In Malidoma Some's book on Africa, he writes that when a baby is born, the entire tribe cheers. They believe the baby takes birth there w/ them because it is bringing something invaluable to the tribe. It is born, needed. Born, belonging. This struck me because, in being self-employed, my fears about scarcity were combining with this fear that I truly didn't belong & to me, it meant that what I cared the most about & what might be considered my "gifts" were actually not needed, not valuable, not even gifts, more like some weird nothingness's that weren’t even seen or knowable to me. So I never took time off which created more of that outsider feeling because I was always in the role of the "professional." So I have been taking time off & seeing friends & getting surprised by how much more I feel like I’m a part of something.

TAKE-AWAY: Many of my teachers & mentors from my parent's generation got so captured by capitalism's idea of "professionalism" that they conditioned themselves out of authenticity. I got messages about how you need to do your hair, dress, to hold posture, to talk without saying the word "like,” to write according to rules of language but not use language as a tool to write as we would actually express ourselves... Will my mess be my demise? Will it be an opening to belonging? This idea that we can control other people's thoughts is definitely not real. In school, I became terrified of social shame & kept myself hidden. I've come out a lot & am now seeing parts that I've kept private in such a sneaky way that they are even private to me! My judgements blocked these orphaned parts which are now giving me connection with MYSELF & others who previously threatened my carefully packaged identity, but share my interests, values, passions, & willingness to go in & heal. What about the belonging that comes from not having a facade separating us from others? I feel like I'm rubbing a fog off of my eyes & seeing who has been right there all along!

GETTING IN OUR OWN WAY: UN-DOING: There is an undo

GETTING IN OUR OWN WAY: UN-DOING: There is an undoing required in order to learn to be. It’s not so much the “being“ itself, it’s more about coming out of hiding our being. Coming out of the closet as "beings" rather than "doings." Allowing that being-ness to shine through. Being loving or honest come through un-doing. Yet, being human is an art and through practice we can become more natural….For many of us, in the journey from childhood to adulthood, in developing our nervous system, gaining skills, growing up, learning to adapt to our environment, this “being“ somehow seems too innocent, vulnerable, too naïve to be allowed to run things. Then, this part of us shows up that wants IN and wants to run things. This part actually starts to get in the way.

The emotional process of "unlearning" is perfectly paralleled in the process of physically healing. For example, in the beginning of our lives, we need to learn to walk. Through instinct, support & a lot of experimentation we learn to walk. Then we let it go and it becomes a natural thing for us. It becomes unconscious, like we don't have to think about it.

But in that, we might learn some habits of walking that are actually working against our skeletal system and our movement system and trauma can get stuck in the movement system so we might be avoiding certain positions, movements and postures. This avoidance can initially create some respite, but often, in the longer path, it creates more limitation & pain. To move forward, we begin to unlearn or change some of those movement patterns, removing tensions and habits, in order to let the authentic walking show through more. We learn to use our bodies in a more optimal way by unlearning and then learning some specific movements that light up the innate and natural way of our body's inherent intelligence. Perhaps, if we were a simpler animal, we would walk optimally because we wouldn't get any of these impediments or problems in the system but we do because of our complexity… The complexity that allows us the sensitivity to the world, which is so wonderful, is also what gets in the way and when we bring consciousness to that we can access a profound simplicity.

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