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IS THERE A PATTERN TO HEALING? “The first questi

IS THERE A PATTERN TO HEALING? “The first question is, not where will I get, but how do I walk? In the unraveling of human life, we see that each step opens up new possibilities… Unconscious trauma energy is destiny. Unconscious energy has no choice. Unconscious energy is destiny, like an unconscious energy runs me, because I am not aware of it so I will make decisions or do things or be addicted to something that is not in my control. So we say, in the mystical understanding, that unconscious energy is destiny, there is no free choice. Choice comes through consciousness. Consciousness allows new possibilities to come in. So in our understanding, the past is not what happened yesterday, the past is what stayed of what happened yesterday. When people go to exams at universities or they need to make a serious business decision and they say they are afraid, the fear has nothing to do with the exam, the fear has something to do with the past. And the fear might reduce my capacity to make decisions or take action in this moment because my past overshadows my present moment. That means that the past is only what is left, and what affects my present moment through bodily sensations and thoughts that have nothing to do with this moment and the future is not what happens tomorrow the future is a download of higher consciousness that changes my today. The update of myself today. Past has a cycle to repeat itself until it is conscious.” - Thomas Huebl #healing #becomingconscious #awareness #foundationtraining #possibilities #growthmindset #growth #trauma #spinalhealth #decompression #journey #opening #how #learning #empowerment #selfcare #selfhealers #stabilitytraining #mobilitytraining #strength #tensegrity #fascia #glutes #posteriorchain #anchor #sciatica #pain #jointhealth #movementismedicine #movement

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UNCERTAINTY: This week a student of mine, who is a

UNCERTAINTY:
This week a student of mine, who is also a teacher of mine, opened up our discussion saying, “Kendra, LIFE is uncertain.” Bam! 💥 “If you are able to live with uncertainty, even enjoy it… if you can become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life….Often the uncomfortableness lives in certain thoughts that tell you it’s not ok to be in this state, and then you have certain emotions which are the body’s reaction to those thoughts, so when these thoughts arise that tell you, “The way you are right now is not ok.” Realize that these are thoughts (not reality) arising in your mind, conditioned by the surrounding culture. You don’t need to necessarily believe each thought that comes and tells you it’s not ok not to know what to do… Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour. When you travel, you can take a package tour where everything Is already planned and there is no uncertainty. You can go to a nice hotel in an exotic country but not even know it’s exotic because your hotel room is the same as every other hotel room. You know exactly where you will be in 10 days… that’s not an adventure and it’s unlikely you will evolve internally through a trip like that. But if you went on a true adventure, a trip to an exotic country, thrown back on your own resources, then you would encounter true adventure and you would probably not be the same person when you came back. Why not? Because we are constantly faced with uncertainty. If you are able to accept that, you can actually enjoy the adventure. I’m giving this analogy of a trip because life is a journey. The person who cannot enjoy the uncertainty when the adventure comes is going to be in a continuous state of negativity, of fear (I don’t want to be here, I’d rather be at home) so, realize that life is an adventure and part of the adventure of life is being in that state you are in now. If everything were already clear to you now, if everything were already mapped out, there would be no evolution In yourself. “ Eckhart Tolle #adventure #acceptance #thoughts #emotions #uncertainty #willingness #foundationtraining #kneelingrotation #psoas #deepfrontline #core #backpain

THE ARCHER: "A Zen master was watching an archer t

THE ARCHER: "A Zen master was watching an archer try very hard to win an archery competition but he just couldn’t do it. Someone asked the Zen master, "What’s he doing wrong?" The Zen master said, "His need to win drains him of power." His need to win is him wanting some future moment where he’s going to be fulfilled, so his attention is not totally in the now. The NOW is where all power resides. This power that resides in the NOW cannot flow into what you are doing if you are not fully here in the present because the openness to it isn’t there. To have mastery in any endeavor, whatever it is, you need to be total in what you do. The more you are focused on where you want to get to, the more the passion will degenerate into stress. You may still have high energy but there is a lot of negative energy that comes in. So, if you want to remain truly in your power, then you need to be total, and this applies to the smallest thing that you do during the day because even great endeavors consist of small steps. One needs to be present, that’s where the power comes from, and not look to some future moment that promises some greater fulfillment. You can have a plan but the focus and intensity of energy is in the present moment." - Eckhart Tolle … Here I am in The Archer from @foundationtraining feeling the connection between my right adductors and the left shoulder, feeling strength in the full range of motion of the hips, feeling space in all my joints, and width come in between my shoulders as the breath moves them into a strong position, feeling that left SCM taking the weight of my head, both creating space around the brain stem and facilitating the breath at the breastbone for a full lung expansion. (Full life expansion) #foundationtraining #thearcher #movementismedicine #assymetry #adductors #crossbodypatterns #spiralline #anatomytrains #selfhealers #spinehealth #backpainrelief #posture #posturetraining #relievepain #chronicpainrelief #hippainrelief #neckpainrelief #shoulderpainrelief #biomechanics #protectyaneck #thisshitworks #presence #power #now #wakeup #breathwork #correctiveexercise #bodyresurection #innateintelligence #biohacking

WORRY: Last night I was up in the middle of the ni

WORRY: Last night I was up in the middle of the night worrying. I can really get caught up in worry, almost addicted to it, but this time, after an hour of imagining a horrible future, I remembered what Eckhart Tolle said about worry and I just dropped it. I went to my breath and in an instant was disillusioned and back to sleep. This was a big moment for me. “Worry is a problem for many people. What does it mean to worry? It means there is an unconscious mind movement and usually it is projecting into the future. From there, you see how dreadful the future is going to be; you see outcomes that are negative. Many things are going to happen, however, you are not going to worry your way out of a problem. It is impossible because "worry" means to manufacture more problems. To worry means that you are just continuing the same thinking over and over. You need a different kind of consciousness. Einstein said. 'We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.' Worry pretends to be necessary… You have to see that it serves no useful purpose. Once you see that it serves no useful purpose, then you can step out of that and get into the present... Worry is a form of resistance. What you fight, you strengthen, what you resist, persists. This world works in polarity. Whatever you fight, you strengthen its opposite. This suggests a different way of working with things. Instead of worrying, come into the present, make peace with it, come into acceptance, then the action comes out of a different state of consciousness, it comes out of presence. The action is no longer a reaction. The action is much more powerful and effective when it is not a defense or a reaction." - Eckhart Tolle #eckharttolle #selfhealers #presence #thepowerofnow #worry #addiction #addictionrecovery #consciousness #awareness #control #surrender #skillfulaction #mastery #mentalhealth #returntoyourbody #breath #selfregulation #nervoussystem #nervoussystemregulation #flexiblenervoussystem #foundationtraining #doafounder #backpain #correctiveexercise #functionalfitness #powerpose #rehab #spinalhealth #strengthtraining #stabilitytraining

Engaging the transverse abdominus, giving him a li

Engaging the transverse abdominus, giving him a little extra cue with my fingers. I can see my smile there because he was already working so hard, juusssst one more thing! #foundationtraining #decompressionbreath #transverseabdominus #core #diaphragm #stablespine #longspine #decompressedspine #hipmobility #hipstability #glutes #hamstrings #periformis #sciaticarelief #lungcapacity #musclesofrespiration #lats #sternocleidomastoid #movementismedicine #movementculture #movement #eccentrictraining #posteriorchain #balance #posture #correctiveexercise #practice #selfstudy #selfcare #affordableheakthcare

Checking Daniel Rainwater’s form. 🧐 He’s do

Checking Daniel Rainwater’s form. 🧐 He’s doing pretty good! 🤩 Love him. #foundationtraining #bodyresurrection #doafounder #backpain #psoasrelease #correctiveexercise #westernmass #movementismedicine #functionalfitness #functionalmedicine #occupationalfitness #strengthtraining #spinalinjury #spinalhealth #spinalhygiene #decompress #tensegrity #lungcapacity #lungvolume #breathwork #musclesofrespiration #biohacking #affordablehealthcare #empowered #locusofcontrol #getripped #structuralintegrity #lovehim #vikingbeardclub

PROJECTION: From Latin, proicere, to ‘throw fort

PROJECTION: From Latin, proicere, to ‘throw forth’
Joseph Goldstein gave a talk about judging everyone he saw during a meditation retreat, then mentally replacing the word "judging" with "seeing."

"An example of energy expressed in polarity is judgment and its exalted counterpart discernment, which are both constantly being confused with each other. The struggle has never been more real as when telling judgment from discernment. Discernment is the intuition of the brain. It is the hard won clarity from learning a life lesson and the transmutation that occurs once the fruit of knowledge has been consumed and fully digested into wisdom. Judgment on the other hand is the ego's way of protecting it's own superiority or lack of info. Judgment takes from our past experiences and superimposes them onto the present verbatim. Discernment learns from the past experiences but allows the present to be totally new and work in unknown ways." @the.alchemist - Sarah Elkhaldy

Is this projection coming from a judgment that is seperate from the present moment? Am I in the weeds? Is it coming from actually seeing & amplifying what is seen so another can see it too or see it in a new way?

Projection Definitions:
- Estimate or forecast of a future situation or trend based on the present
- The presentation of an image on a surface using light (a movie screen)
- The ability to make a sound, like the voice heard at a distance.
- The presentation or promotion of someone or something in a particular way.
- A mental image viewed as reality.
- The unconscious transfer of one's own desires or emotions to another person. (we protect the self w/ defense mechanisms, including repression and projection)
- Geometry, the action of projecting a figure.
- A method for representing part of the surface of the earth or a celestial sphere on a plane surface. (the use of different map projections) …. “It takes unbelievable courage to go within. To be willing to see yourself: all parts of yourself (the “good,”the “bad,” + the ugly)” @the.holistic.psychologist #learningtosee #projection #bodyreading #selfhealers #perspective #perception #beingseen #clarity #discernment #foundationtraining #spine

THE TAKE-AWAY: I got to chat with one of my highsc

THE TAKE-AWAY:
I got to chat with one of my highschool best friends last week on Thursday. He was always coming up with wild ideas and I was always game for the execution of them! We had some really fun times together and since that time, he became a successful enterpreneur who, sometimes, when I'm struggling through something, will drop a beautiful and helpful bomb of creative growth in my lap. Last week, after I told him about some things that played out differently than I had wanted, he said, "So what was your take-away?... Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently next time?" That instantly turned a mistake / a "throw-away" into compost because now that I "got to" make that mistake, I have direction for moving forward. Then today, I discovered that I've been teaching something “wrong.” I felt upset about that because I want to have the most integerity in my teaching and sharing. I really value the trust of my students and would never want to send them in a direction that creates problems. But, I went right to this question that Chris asked me... When I keep growing, I'm bound to have to change the way I've taught things... I'm grateful for that... I'd rather have an ego / identity that is able to make mistakes than to have an identity resting it's worth on always getting things right. AND that brings up a deeper thing aroung teaching and the power structure that can get hidden in that... It's becoming more and more important to me that students are in charge... that I may be leading, but I'm leading by sharing the tools to help them discern what's right for them so they are making their own choices, not giving their power to me. Getting the lessons, getting the lessons.... #foundationtraining #reversearcher #spiralline #anatomytrains #iliotibialbandsyndrome #trainingthetendons #lessons #mistakes #growthmindset #lettinggo #gettingthelessons #fall #metalelement #spinalinjury #injuryrecovery #lumbarspine #stability #mobility #movementismedicine #functionalfitness #cervicalspine #protectyaneck #direction #vision #creative #breath #diaphragm #musclesofrespiration #exhale #inhale

A MORE RESOURCED PLACE: Over the last 3 years I’

A MORE RESOURCED PLACE: Over the last 3 years I’ve gotten more into breathwork, doing multiple practices throughout the day, using the decompression breath in my Foundation Training Practice, and working with a teacher using conscious hyperventilation. (This was big for me because I had done a lot of pranayama in the 15-20 years teaching & practicing yoga and had physical + emotional discomfort come up with the practices.) Some of my work has been on the muscles of respiration and their links to the rest of my body, some has been with increasing lung volume, some on elongating the inhale, elongating the exhale, and breath retention, some has been emotional and spiritual, and quite a lot on learning to apply my breath to my life… The breath is a link to our nervous system and is a powerful lever to work with, not in “state-chasing” from an ego-ic place, but it can be incredibly helpful for coming into challenging situations from a more resourced place. This has allowed me to move beyond my previous limitations and step into possibility. That’s a type of autonomy that’s really important to me.
“Where sympathetic and dorsal vagal states activate an either/or experience constricting the ability to see beyond limited options, the ventral vagal state at the top of the hierarchy brings alive the expensive world of both/and that is filled with possibilities and choices. The ventral vagal experience is one of being a part of the world, connected to self, able to reach out to others, open to change and willing to look at possibilities. Here, solitude and social connection, excitement and rest, joy and sadness, and frustration and flow are found. The glue for the diverse ventral vagal experience is a sense of safety.“ - Deb Dana #foundationtraining #decompression #decompressionbreath #musclesofrespiration #healing #spinalinjury #injuryrecovery #autonomy #ventralvagal #nervoussystem #nervoussystemregulation #selfregulation #empower #breathretention #conscioushyperventilation #transformationalbreath #inhaleexhale #connected #possibilities #choice #flow #safety #plantarfasciitis #anklestability #balance #nervepain #nerveflow #correctiveexercise #posture #glutes

REST: There are different types of rest because th

REST: There are different types of rest because there are different types of energitic output. Sleep, laying down all day, eating food, or watching Netflix for hours could be the answer, it could also still leave you feeling empty. I just listened to Saundra Dalton-Smith talk about different types of rest and it helped me realize what I need!

Rest Types:
Physical: Using the body in restorative ways to reduce muscular tension and promote really good sleep. (Hot shower / Bath, Sauna, Accupuncture, Bodywork, Cranio-Sacral, Feldenkrais, a Breathwork Practice... Hot water bottles, relaxing herbs & tonics... quality & nutrition filled food, I love to take a melatonin which helps me stay super comfy in my bed & wake up feeling nice.)

Mental - Quieting cerebral chatter and focusing on the things that truly matter... (Sprinting, Cold Showers, Singing...)

Emotional - If you are leading groups of people, teaching, performing, or working one-on-one with people, getting the time and freedom to authentically express feelings and eliminate people-pleasing behaviors.

Spiritual - If you feel a lack of meaning / fulfillment, getting a sense of peaceful contentment (For me, teachers like Adyashanti or Eckhart Tolle, the great Indian Sages, an Elder / mentor / guide... conscious hyperventilation/transformational breathwork practices, bodywork...)

Social - Getting alone time / recognizing relationships that revive from ones that exhaust)

Sensory - Downgrading endless onslaught of sensory input received from electronics, fragrances, and background noise. (Turning off the phone, dimming the lights, getting into nature)

Creative - The experience of allowing beauty to inspire awe and liberate wonder. (Could be watching 🌅looking at the ✨ , going to see art, reading poetry, seeing a performance... visiting the arboretum... watching a master)

Which ones do you need? What's your personal favorite boost for these categories? #foundationtraining #rest #mastery #needs #givingandreceiving #energy #boost #lit #inspiration #fillup #posturecorrection #spinalhealth #recovery #inspiration #resilience #breath #bodywork #mastery #rehab #strength #buildyourselfup #functionalfitness #movement

IMAGINATION: In Bessel Van Der Kolk's book "The Bo

IMAGINATION: In Bessel Van Der Kolk's book "The Body Keeps the Score," He was researching nightmares, but ended up exploring how trauma changes people's perceptions and imagination. In the study he gave participants a Rorsach test. "Unlike tests that require answers to straightforward questions, responses to the Rorschach are almost impossible to fake. The Rorschach provides us with a unique way to observe how people construct a mental image from what is basically a meaningless stimulus: a blot of ink. Because humans are meaning-making creatures, we have a tendency to create a new image or story out of those inkblots, just as we do when we lie in a meadow on a beautiful summer day an see images in the clouds floating high above. What people make out of these blots can tell us a lot about how their minds work." The Veterans had two responses to the test. One was to react as if they were experiencing a wartime trauma. They interpreted the card with descriptions like, "These are the bowels of my friend Jim after a mortar shell ripped him open." The second response was one of blankness. "This is nothing, just a bunch of ink."... "We learned from these Rorschach tests that traumatized people have a tendency to superimpose their trauma on everything around them... We also learned that trauma affects the imagination. The five men who saw nothing in the blots had lost the capacity to let their minds play. But so too, had the other men, for in viewing scenes from the past in those blots, they were not displaying the mental flexibility that is the hallmark of imagination. They simply kept replaying an old real... When people are compulsively & constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of imagination, a loss of mental flexibility."

Feeling grateful for all the possibilities this day may bring! What's going to happen?! Here's to noticing when replaying an old story, opening up to the present, imagining possibilities & working the mental flexibility! #foundationtraining #supinedecompression #trauma #thebodykeepsthescore #imagination #mentalflexibility #movementismedicine #nervoussystem

OUR BODIES CHANGE OUR MIND: In 2013, 8 years ago,

OUR BODIES CHANGE OUR MIND:
In 2013, 8 years ago, I was working with an Iyengar Yoga teacher on the depression I felt. We were following the classical sequences that BKS Iyengar used to treat depression / anxiety with a phrase in mind that he shared, "You cannot be depressed if your armpits are open." The sequence included sun salutations, standing postures that incouraged "big-ness" like trikonasana and the warrior postures, zillions of backbends, and some work with shoulderstand and bridge poses because of their impact on the vagus nerve and settling of the whole nervous system. Then Amy Cuddy came out with a Ted Talk - "Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are," which explained why what we were doing was working in a scientific way. The opening of the armpits actually causes a hormonal change in the body. There is a raise of testosterone and a lowering of cortisol which helps us feel assertive, confident, comfortable... Specficially the lowering of cortisol is important because feeling powerful is 1/2 about how we react to stress, so freeling powerful, confident and willing to take risk needs this piece of not being very stress-reactive, but being laid back.

"And what are nonverbal expressions of power and dominance? So in the animal kingdom, they are about expanding. So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space, you're basically opening up. It's about opening up. And this is true across the animal kingdom. It's not just limited to primates." - Amy Cuddy

I haven't done yoga for a couple of years because I needed to heal up some compression patterns in my spine and joints. I turned to Foundation Training and it taught me how to get really big... tensegrity big. LIKE BIG on the inside. Expansive. I just finished my morning practice and I'm so glad I did it because I've not been feeling particularly powerful or like taking risks.. and I feel so much more like myself a lot more laid back, ready to take some risks and so much more grounded and centered. These really are "power poses." #foundationtraining #doafounder #tensegrity #fascia #muscles #big #expansive #powerposes #feelpowerful #lungs #lungcapacity #selfcare #functionalfitness

FEAR: I just reached out to a mentor of mine and s

FEAR: I just reached out to a mentor of mine and she shared that she could hear a sense of needing to prove something in my voice. She said that comes from self-doubt. Without doubt there isn’t a need prove or explain anything…. What a relief to not have to prove anything.

“Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt…but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death…For example, even such a seemingly trivial and ‘normal’ thing as the compulsive need to be right in an argument and make the other person wrong – defending the mental position with which you have identified – is due to the fear of death. If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.… Once you have dis-identified from your mind, whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all, so the forcefully compulsive and deeply unconscious need to be right, which is a form of violence, will no longer be there. You can state clearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it. Your sense of self is then derived from a deeper and true place within yourself, not from the mind. Watch out for any kind of defensiveness within yourself. What are you defending? An identity, an image in your mind, a fictitious entity? By making this pattern conscious, by witnessing it, you dis-identify from it and the unconscious pattern will quickly dissolve.” Eckhart Tolle in his book: The Power of Now #presence #fear #emotion #thoughts #power #strength #being #now #foundationtraining #woodpecker #deadliftprep #glutes #periformis #sacroiliacjoint #nervepainrelief #hipmobility #hipstability #footwork #nature #decompressionbreath #brachialplexus #space #nervoussystem #selfregulation #liberation #lettinggo #pause

SHIATSU: I'M OPEN! Shiatsu is a Japanese form of b

SHIATSU: I'M OPEN!
Shiatsu is a Japanese form of bodywork therapy based on thousands of years of Eastern philosophy and methods of healing. It’s roots come from Five Element Philosophy and Chinese Medicine. It has the same range of benefits as Acupuncture, but is achieved entirely through touch. The word “shiatsu” translates literally to mean “finger pressure,” but we use palms, elbows, fingers, knees, forearms and more.

WHY HAVE A SHIATSU?
STRESS:
Shiatsu is very effective in conditions where emotional disturbance or stress is an underlying factor. While this could be said to include all ailments, the following are the conditions most widely regarded as stress-related:
- Insomnia
- Anxiety and Depression
- Muscular Tension
- Headaches
- Digestive Disturbances
- Menstrual Challenges
- Low Resistance to Infection
MUSCULOSKELETAL:
Shiatsu is also an effective treatment for the musculoskeletal system. It works directly on the tissues involved, stimulating healing and relaxation responses. It is effective in the treatment of:
- Backache
- Synovitis
- Sprains and Strains
- Neck and Shoulder Stiffness
- Joint Pain
OTHER COOL REASONS:
The localized physical effects Shiatsu also relieve:
- Sinus Congestion
- Retention of Fluid in Tissues Come see me in Shelburne Falls, I’ve got a big gorgeous studio! #shiatsu #meridian #chi #ki #energy #stress #nervoussystem #healing #backache #jointpain #fascia #musculartension #insomnia #anxiety #depression #headaches #digestivesystem #menstrualcycle #hormonebalance #neckpainrelief #shoulderpainrelief #sinusrelief #fluidretention #spirit #organs #emotionallandscape #spiritualintegration #injury #changes #support

PRESENCE: I have been really caught up in thoughts

PRESENCE: I have been really caught up in thoughts about the past and future, regrets, fears, and dissatisfactions. Yesterday it became so intense that a breaking moment hit. I have felt so attached to this stuff because it gives me some sense of control around a feeling of helplessness, but it doesn’t actually offer any control and creates great amounts of suffering. So, now, I’m letting that go because it doesn’t work… and today I’m just wondering what will life bring and feeling grateful that I don’t know! “The Buddha’s simple definition of enlightenment is, ‘the end of suffering.’ The definition is incomplete. It only tells you what enlightenment is not; no suffering. But what’s left when there is no more suffering? The Buddha is silent on that. His silence implies that you’ll have to find out for yourself. He uses a negative definition so that the mind cannot make it into something to believe in or into a superhuman accomplishment, a goal that is impossible for you to attain...When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the now, BEING can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally. To regain awareness of BEING & to abide in that state of ‘feeling-realization’ is enlightenment.” Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now #foundationtraining #woodpecker #glutes #piriformis #sciaticarelief #sciatica #nervepainrelief #iliotibialband #autonomicnervoussystem #selfregulation #posture #correctiveexercise #awareness #beingness #satisfaction #riches #wealth #treasurewithin #sacroiliacjoint #foothealth #plantarfasciitis #kneehab #hipmobility #hipstability #hike #corestrength #superfiscialbackline #selfbodywork #breath #breathwork

LETTING GO: We can come to great places, “but th

LETTING GO: We can come to great places, “but the mistake often made is that, at a later point, when the synchronicity or the wonderful experience is not happening, we think we’ve lost something… That’s an interpretation that is rarely examined… Remember the experience of moving into adolescence, and you’re not there yet, you’re leaving childhood behind? That which in childhood seemed so wonderful is no longer available. The things that had been fun aren’t so much fun anymore, but the new ways to enjoy life aren’t obvious. It’s awkward and you make mistakes, if they can be called that. You can look back on that time with a clear understanding; it wasn’t that you fell away from childhood, it’s that you were outgrowing it. As you were outgrowing it, you were leaving it behind. It was uncomfortable because that’s how you knew to live life. And yet you still hadn’t moved into full adolescence. The same thing happens in moving from adolescence to adult… In retrospect, these are seen to be developmental stages. You outgrew childhood and adolescence rather than falling away from them… You may come to wonderful places & it doesn’t feel good to leave them behind because that’s where you’ve been comfortable, and the new hasn’t been revealed yet. The misinterpretation that’s usually made is that you’ve fallen away from, rather than reached the limitation of, the realization that you had before. When you mature, it’s time to leave earlier stages behind. It is harder to leave if you say that you have fallen away from it rather than matured out of it. These are completely different interpretations. With one, you’re trying to grasp or get back to what was before. With the other, you look back over your shoulder and bid it goodbye as a nice experience, realizing something more mature is coming.… That context shows how vital the interpretation you give to your experience is, and you see that the mind is conditioned to give interpretations that usually aren’t correct… If you know that, then you’ll stop grabbing behind you for what you once had and get more interested in the unknown, into which you’re moving.” - Adyashanti #unknown #lettinggo #movingforward #foundationtraining

A LARGER WAY OF BEING: “People come to us with q

A LARGER WAY OF BEING: “People come to us with questions we can’t possibly answer. Life has just blown their world to bits. They’re hurting, scared, and uncertain, miles beyond the borders of the world they’ve known and trusted until now. They feel disoriented, panicky, and hopeless, and we want to offer something that helps their head stop spinning and their heart stop hurting. But what can we offer? What is there to say, with certainty, about matters of mystery?… What’s important, of course, is not having answers. Most of the time there just aren’t any of those anyway. What’s important is accompanying the strugglers into the unknown, staying with them while their world is reeling, validating and normalizing their experience, resisting whatever temptation we might feel to offer some easy but false answer, asking good questions, being a calm voice that lets them know they’re not alone, and staying with them while they learn to integrate the struggle into a larger way of being in the world.… Accompaniment instead of answers.“ - Russell Siler Jones in his Book: Spirit In Session #healing #founder #spinalinjury #nervoussystem #nervoussystemregulation #resilience #possibilities #accompaniment #growth #expansion #lettinggo #grief #openmyworld #foundationtraining #posteriorchain #plantarfasciitis #anklemobility #stabilitytraining #mobilitytraining #expansion #breathwork #decompression #functionalfitness #movementismedicine #mindfulness #awareness #iliotibialband #adductors #diaphragm #shoulderrehab #protectyaneck

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM: DORSAL VAGAL PATHWAY:

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM:

DORSAL VAGAL PATHWAY:
Under cues of life threat, its unique survival response is immobilization. It developed 500 million years ago, is a part of the Parasympathetic Nervous System (the vagus nerve is the major component of the parasympathetic system)and was the first distinct pathway developed in service of survival. We share this pathway with our reptilian ancestors. It runs in the background, regulating organs below the diaphragm, including the digestive system.

SYMPATHETIC BRANCH:
Under cues of danger, it’s unique survival response gives us options of mobilization, fight or flight. It developed 400 million years ago, 100 million years after the Dorsal Vagal pathway, and was, through the course of evolution, the next system to arrive. It also works to circulate blood, shape normal heart rhythms, regulate body temperature, respond to changes in posture, and provide energy to the system to support passion and play.

VENTRAL VAGAL BRANCH:
Brings the ability for connection and social engagement. Where sympathetic and dorsal vagal states activate either/or experience, constricting the ability to see beyond limited options, the ventral vagal state brings alive the expansive world of both/and that is filled with possibilities and choices. It developed 200 million years ago, 200 million years after the Sympathetic Nervous System and is the most recent of the three pathways to arrive on our evolutionary journey. The Ventral Vagus primarily influences organs above the diaphragm, is unique to mammals, and is tasked with overseeing the autonomic nervous system, metaphorically holding the sympathetic and dorsal vagal systems in a warm embrace, when this pathway is directing the system, healthy homeostasis is the result. #autonomicnervoussystem #selfregulation #posture #correctiveexercise #decompression #spinalhygiene #spinalhealth #sacroiliacjoint #foothealth #plantarfasciitis #kneehab #hipmobility #hipstability #iliotibialband #transverseabdominus #corestrength #superfiscialbackline #anatomytrains #latissimusdorsi #shoulderhealth #protectyaneck #breath #breathwork #movementismedicine #functionalfitness #resilience

DEVELOPING A FLEXIBLE NERVOUS SYSTEM: A practice

DEVELOPING A FLEXIBLE NERVOUS SYSTEM:
A practice can bring many things from our unconscious up to the surface. As you practice, notice your state changes and see if you can map out all the reactions / responses your body moves through, noticing each experience as a feeling or state, not as “you.” Be the being inside these experiences, witnessing their coming and going, with curiosity, as the broad spectrum of experiences move through you. Also, notice if you have flexibility with each state? Do you get stuck in one more than others? Do you have preference for one more than another? Do you move through each state or get caught, attached or have aversion to one more than the others? Can you find a way to relax with each experience / find a way to get comfortable with discomfort and travel back into homeostasis or do you ramp up in response and get even more upset? What happens to your breath?

DORSAL:
Absent, Blank, Collapsed, Despairing, Exhausted, Foggy, Grim, Hopeless, Impenetrable, Judged, Knocked out, Lost, Missing, Numb, Overwhelmed, Pathetic, Queasy, Retracted, Shutdown, Terrified, Unloved, Void, Without, expressionless, Young, Zoned out.

SYMPATHETIC:
Alarmed, Buzzing, Claustrophobic, Deranged, Envious, Frightened, Grasping, Harried, Irrational, Judgmental, Knotted, Looping, Manic, Nasty, Overdoing, Pressured, Quick, Raging, Stuck, Troubled, Unwanted, Vibrating, Worried, extreme, Yearning, Zigzagging.

VENTRAL:
Awesome, Benevolent, Courageous, Devoted, Eloquent, Free, Grateful, Happy, Joyful, Kind, Loving, Mellow, Nice, Open, Playful, Quiet, Relaxed, Skilled, Trusting, Uplifted, Vibrant, Whole, Extraordinary, Yes, in the Zone.

These autonomic descriptor words are from Deb Dana’s book: Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection #nervoussystem #flexible #selfregulation #practice #foundationtraining #kneelingrotation #empowered #vagusnerve #parasympathetic #sympathetic #ventralvagal #possibilities #open #posture #correctiveexercise #mobilitytraining #stabilitytraining #buddhism #unconscious #consciousness #sovereignty #lettinggo #healing #journey #movementismedicine #functionalfitness #jointhealth #reactions #abletorespond #responsability

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