‘Workshops beginning this week’

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Sleep Sweet Sleep

  • May 15th to June 19th, 2012 –  7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

If you’re tired of not sleeping and of being dependant on sleeps aids this course is for you. Sleep Sweet Sleeps supports you to re-learn habits and patterns to become successful for longer and sounder rest periods, reducing or even replacing sleeping aids. Learn how we think, speak, act and move helps to create and support our conditions to break free from being trapped in this cycle of worry and concern over not sleeping. Based upon well-known methodology’s to improve and increase your life style experience: Feldenkrais Method, Nonviolent Communication and Urban Feng Shui. Includes a Sleep 101 Workbook.

$140.00/6

Register @ Monterey Recreation Centre – 250-370-7300 - Class 1049245

Stress Connection

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Connecting stress, adrenal glands, empathy, movement and sleep sweet sleep

I received a paper discussing  Adrenal Function that focuses upon cortisol and hormone testing.  Cortisol is the major stress hormone produced by the adrenal glands. It followed immediately after two of my workshop/classes.  One of these two classes focused upon Sleep Sweet Sleep and the second was building empathic connections and awareness in relationships.  Glancing at this paper that was written to support the testing for hormone levels I was intrigued by how it supported what I had just addressed in my classes from another perspective.  My viewpoint was on calming  from physical movement and from having a deeper understanding of the stimulus that created the stress in the first place. This paper  promoted hormone testing for assessing the results of long-term stress.

For more info see Renee’s post  – http://wp.me/p17H3e-aL

Stress of Not Sleeping

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Find ways to stop worrying about the sleep your not getting!  Recognize that this concern may be adding extra tension and creating the conditions for not sleeping.  Accept that you are not sleeping.  It has taken years for your to develop the habits to not sleep.  It is going to take time to undo this and retrain your self to sleep.

TMJ

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Improve sleep by reducing anxiety and stress through your jaw!

Support healthy jaw function and break free From pain by experiencing:

  • Primary Movements of the Jaw
  • Shoulder, Neck and Jaw Connections
  • Head and Jaw Integration
  • Eyes and Jaw Integration
  • Cheek and Tongue Integration

Relax your jaw and lessen your TMJ pain using the Feldenkrais Method. For chronic conditions begin with a consultation and personal functional integration sessions. Additional integration through movement lessons support increased posture and flexibility.

Nerves connect the muscles of the face, jaw and neck to the cervical spine. If these muscles are tense, pain can be felt in the face, neck and ears.

Jaw and neck pain can be both acute and chronic and result from trauma or slowly with structural issues.

  • Thoracic Outlet Syndrome – shoulder, jaw and neck pain with sinus infections on one side. Compression of neurovascular structures may lead to tense muscles and referred pain throughout the head and neck.
  • Muscular and Nerve Issues – Temporamandibular Jaw problems and anterior repositioning.
  • Nodes, Salivary glands, and Dental Problems and Lymph Glands – grinding teeth abscess, infection

SOME POSSIBLE CONDITIONS CREATING JAW PAIN:

  • The jaw muscles are controlled primary by the trigeminal nerve (C5) – pressure on this nerve through the spine, muscle cramps, or inflammation can lead to poor function of the jaw.
  • Abnormal posture. The major muscles that hold up the head ar in the neck and jaw. These are assisted by smaller muscles at the tope of the spine. Fatigue of these smaller muscles places greater strain on the neck and jaw causing the neck to hyper-extend. The cause of most neck and jaw pain is the trapeze muscles which extends from the head to the shoulders.
  • Stress also causes the muscles in the neck to tighten, which can lead to many types of neck and jaw pain itself.
  • Fibroymyalgia – The positioning of the head and the neck could create chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction.
  • Whiplash – the disc in the jaw joint being pushed out-of-place, leading to severe neck and jaw pain
  • Temporamandibular Joint Syndrome – Nerve inflammation and structural abnormalities. headache, shoulder pain, right-sided or left neck pain.

Renee with Inside Awareness has been offering TMJ relief in Victoria since 2007 through personal integration and through organized group classes. For more information – renee@insideawareness.com

“Bedrooms”

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“We spend a large portion of our time in our bedrooms to relax and rest for the next day.  The one area that could be our place of nurturing and regeneration has for many become a place of dread. Environments are as important as willpower.  If your bedroom is not set up to support you, you will struggle with sleeping.” Renee Lindstrom

Awareness and Potential

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“These methods offer a system that supports you in other medical treatments, finding restful sleep, therapy, or fitness programs by increasing your understanding of self when in movement.  This increased awareness improves your ease of motion, flexibility, and body awareness.  It is meant to reduce effort and increase your awareness of your body’s potential as you become more aware of your moving parts. ”   Renee Lindstrom

Nonviolent Communication Works

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April Awareness Month:

On Wednesday Nights in April the Church of Truth for Conscious Living in James Bay will be hosting some members of the Nonviolent Communication Community for their ongoing program called, “Oneness Wednesdays.” Spanning the month of April this inspired the seeds to create an Awareness Campaign for nurturing the knowledge that, “Nonviolent Communication Works!”

Vision:  The goal is to remind, renew and invigorate the roots of those who have participated in earlier study and practice and encourage new shoots as we enter into spring.

Oneness Wednesday – Victoria Church of Truth:

The details or dates, times and topics for April’s Oneness Wednesday are:

7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Church of Truth http://cotvictoria.ca/
111 Superior St, James Bay
By donation

  • April 4th – Introduction with a focus on Relationships

Host Facilitator – Carol Keene, Current Member Board of Director – B.C.N.C.C., Past Member Bay Area Leadership Training and Current Education Support Bay Area Leadership,
Role Play and Facilitation Support for Breakouts: Valeria Almedia – Brazil Community Integration of Restorative Justice & NVC, Bay Area Leadership Training, Laurel Collins & Renee Lindstrom

  • April 11th – Moving Beyond Right and Wrong

Host Facilitator – Laurel Collins University of Victoria Degree Candidate with interest in thesis on NVC,
Role Play and Facilitation Suppor: Valeria Almedai, Renee Lindstrom, Carol Keene

  • April 18th – Activism for Social Change

Host Facilitator – Renee Lindstrom, Past Member Board of Director – B.C.N.C.C., Current Victoria Task Force – 15th Gandhi, King, Chevez Season for Nonviolence,
Role Play and Facilitation Support: Valeria Almedia, Laurel Collins and Carol Keene

  • April 25th – Resolving Conflict

Host Facilitator – Michele Favarger, International Certified Trainer – Nonviolent Communication,
Role Play and Facilitation Support: Valeria Almedia, Carol Keene and Renee Lindstrom

If you have a program to add connect through email @ renee@insideawareness.com to get it on this community social media campaign.