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A Year to live

3/23/2019

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I have committed myself to a year long workshop and life experiment entitled “A Year to Live”. A small group of us are meeting monthly for one calendar year to discuss our fears, desires and attachments regarding the notion that ‘none of us gets out of this alive’. I’ve only gone to two sessions so far; and yet, I know it’s changing my life. I’m changing my ways.

With two small children, this concept rocks me to my core. With enough Buddhist-y type study, I am fascinated and excited. I am thrilled to be saying ‘yes’ to digging deep inside myself to examine ALL. THE. THINGS. By that I mean that I am appreciating the level of angst, fear, and overall avoidance that I witness surfacing. I am also simultaneously adoring feeling an increasing sense of immense gratitude for what my life has been.

Stephen Levine, who I was first introduced to with Who Dies, wrote A Year to Live as a guide in teaching us how to live each moment, hour and day mindfully, as if it were all that was left. In Who Dies, he writes “When you begin to recognize that you are the path, that all of life is but a reflection of the mind, then each experience becomes an opportunity to free yourself from your prison. At this point, you begin to see that life is an opportunity for wholeness, for opening to the truth. You start investigating ‘What closes me from this essential spaciousness of being? Who am I, really?’”

Now, I realize that this isn’t an easy task but nor does it have to be arduous. At least this is what I’m telling myself. I have known for years that there is no destination, that it’s all about the journey. That’s why I love this excerpt...I am the path. What matters is how I choose to act and how I choose to be in any and all given moments. That I can stand in integrity breathing, or counting if I need to :) , when my 4 year old is not listening to me. That getting to school or the store or wherever on time, would not matter if this were my last year to breathe this beautiful earth air with him. I do however admit that I am so grateful to be doing this with a group of people, because what does feels arduous is the process of improving my consistency in this intention. I look forward to going to this workshop to confess my transgressions. I look forward to being held accountable to change these habits of stinginess, hurriedness, anxiety, impatience, and intolerance. It’s hard to keep forgetting and then remembering and then processing the emotional tax of feeling badly for not doing better.

I am going to die. Someday. We all are. It’s the one thing we all have in common. Being mindful of this helps me live my life in a more extraordinary way. It helps me appreciate each moment differently. It helps me know when to choose my battles. And it might even help me realize that there aren’t any ‘battles’ in the first place. Being mindful of my mortality is turning out to be a dear companion who is guiding me down the path of love. I am this path. I can be this Love.

Please come join me this Thursday as the next Investigation: Community at One Being Wellness Revolution is just this topic - Death and Dying: The Impact on Our Living. Panel discussion members are Pavandeep Kaur, Death Doula, Lisa Goedert, Natural Death Care Intern and Karen van Vuuren, co-founder of The Natural Funeral.

Thursday, March 28th, 2019
7-8 pm
One Being Wellness Revolution
409 S. Public Rd. Lafayette, CO 80026 Suite B

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Ground the system in gravity - becoming you again

3/11/2019

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Rolfing Structural Integration is different from a typical massage in that it’s not just about adjusting your structure when you are lying down. We live in gravity. And those of you who have ever experienced back pain or hip pain know that how you position yourself alters your experience of pain. Your structure, your tissue, YOU are affected by gravity. We need to make sure that the changes we make while you are horizontal will translate to when you are vertical, when you are standing, sitting, getting up, moving around, walking, working, laughing, sportzing :) (see upcoming blog on sportzing) and playing.
In Rolfing, we have a process of tracking the body in space. Most often, it is around the joints of our body. I will position your body to be in optimal balance and I will ask you for movement. Often, I will ask you for a knee bend - for you to allow your knees to float forward while your tail reaches back, sinking into your feet, letting your feet open up to the ground. Then I will ask you to push the earth away to stand up. My hands will be on a certain joint or tissue space, guiding the soft tissue in the position of this new balance. This process “grounds” the system into the new experience of your body.  It is an opportunity for your brain and your entire neural network to recognize the new pattern we established during the soft tissue work on the table. We repeat it until you have the felt sense of the newly ordered balance, until you feel in your awareness the ‘ahhhh’ of more space, ease, lightness and integration.
We are facilitating a change in your habitual way of being. We are anchoring in your body memory the knowing that “THIS IS ME NOW.” So then, when you are in gravity living your life, you can access this new pattern again and again, initiating a long-term shift toward increased alignment and freedom.  

You are living in the process of Becoming You each new moment of every day!


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i love rolfing

3/5/2019

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Why Rolfing?

3/5/2019

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Because it changes bodies. It changes lives.

Rolfing Structural Integration is about feeling good in your body. It is about this passion of mine, of becoming absolutely, over and over and over again. Our bodies are not stagnant. The cells in our body die and get replaced. We shed our skin, we shed weight, we gain weight, we feel feelings, sometimes all the feelings. We stress out, get wired, break down, fall down, get back up, hurt, feel better, move on. We change. And I fully realize that this is argued. People tell me all the time, “Well, y’know, people don’t change.” I disagree. As humans, we have an entire lifespan through which we can learn and grow.  A person who has had a stroke re-patterns their nervous system, brain and body. A person who has not had a stroke can re-pattern their nervous system, brain and body.


​We all know the benefits of massage: increasing blood flow, aiding relaxation, boosting immune function, improving sleep patterns. With Rolfing, when we add intentional and mindful activation of the musculature, i.e. “keeping your leg heavy on the table, slide/reach your leg toward the wall” while simultaneously being hooked into the fascial network, it allows for a stretch and release of the myofascial system into a new opportunity for connection, health, and freedom. We involve the nervous system, we practice firing the neural network in a different way that the body will remember later. Here is a new pattern for your body to try out. This is a new and different OPTION for your body. This is often primarily accomplished in the typical horizontal position on the table but then I get you up into vertical, into gravity, and here, we ground the system in gravity. I guide you in owning this new option, this new you. We anchor you in this new becoming.


For more on what this means, stay tuned for the next episode....
……………………………....………..Grounding the System in Gravity - Becoming You Again


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So what is rolfing anyway...

3/1/2019

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You’ve heard of it, but really, REALLY, what is Rolfing?  

I’ve been answering this question, and answering this question differently every time (ha!), since 2001. That’s when I started my training at the Rolf Institute. This is true because Rolfing encompasses so many aspects, some of which are hard to explain in words. Sometimes you just have to experience it to really understand, but here we go…
Rolfing is bodywork that is designed to empower you to live in a more comfortable and balanced body.
It is soft tissue mobilization with the goal of aligning your structure within gravity. We want your head on top of your shoulders, your shoulders on top of your hips, your hips balanced over your knees and your knees in line with your ankles. This is the way to be efficient in your human body with the least amount of stress and tension.
Rolfing is different from massage in that it, as Ida Rolf is quoted to say, “calls on the spirit of man to take over.” What this means is that on the table, in the session, I am teaching you how to live in your body in a way that yields less tension and strain. We’re not just working together to lessen the body’s pain and stress, we are working to find a way for you to naturally change your habits and patterns so that you live in a more easeful body. What this means is that you participate in the work. You take an active role in moving your body with my direction being mindful of connecting to a sensation of “a-ha, this is how this part of my body relates to that part.” You are learning how to be in relationship with your body so that you can be more aware of what it is telling you BEFORE a major breakdown. Rolfing teaches you how to BE in your body.

At least those are my answers for today. Stay tuned......... :)

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