You can begin a bodymind listening session from ANYWHERE and at ANY POINT and during ANY MOMENT of your life. It doesn’t matter if you are laying still, sitting still, standing still, or actively moving. In fact, I even highly recommend getting into the practice of doing a body-mind listening session WHILE you are actively engaged in whatever you are doing.. while you are waiting in a waiting room to while you are doing the dishes or cleaning something to while you are interacting with the people around you, and MOST especially when you are exercising or doing anything with your body or with your mind.
I always recommend either beginning with your breath OR with awareness of your body alignment.. aka your posture and each part of your body’s positions relative to one another.. (for example right now.. this very second.. check in.. what’s your posture like that. whats the position of your head, your neck, your wrists.
Next depending on what is going on or where you are, next I recommend going through the “12 senses” and throughout your body-mind listening session keeping in my mind and periodically checking in quite often with each of those “12 senses.”
I also would also highly recommend throughout your body-mind session periodically trying to make sure you do “A Four Part Breath or Breathing exercise. ”
Throughout this website I hope to provide tips and ideas of how to help you do your own body-mind listening sessions including tips on how to make listening and caring for your own body easier. But also in learning how to use these skills to better listen to the people around you.
Although I can do “one on one” sessions to assist, my main goal on here is to help you do your own. But, I thought I would still leave on here a brief glimpse as to what a body-mind session would be like if I was assisting in person, or over the phone, or online.
Getting an assisted Body-Mind Listening Session over the phone or online will probably be more focused on going through a relaxation session to come to a place of stillness and connection to oneself, but since this is not something i do very often and usually leave it for moments of emergency, it will tend to be tailored to the situation as it is.
Getting an assisted Body Listening Session with me in person is probably most similar to a getting a reiki or rosenmethod like style massage mixed in with passive joing movement and other massage styles incorporated… in that we will be working with your muscles, but it is NO
T at all like your typical formal massage session of getting undressed and laying on a table.
First of all, there is NO TABLE, Second of all, your CLOTHES STAY ON
We will begin each session by your sitting or laying on the floor (if possible) or in a chair (if it is too difficult for you to be on the floor) while you put your hands on your stomach or resting gently while I have my hand on your back (or stomach if you are laying) and listening to your breath. Once we have connected to your breath, we will start connecting to the rest of your body. Be prepared to move around and stretch.
I also hope to be learning more about some other new styles of massage that incorporate stretching movements, and as I learn those, I will probably incorporate them in as well.
Each session is most likely going to be unique and different, tailored to each moment in ones life, and definitely tailored to each individual person and what is going on in their body that particular day/hour.
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