“A man who holds a cat by its tail will learn something he can learn in no other way.” –Mark Twain

Our lives are largely habitual. We learn from what we attend to, and we become what we practice. When we do not attend to our actions, we are being habitual. Very often our movements, thoughts, and behaviors are all running on old learning, old assumptions, old beliefs.

“We learn from what we attend to, and we become what we practice.”

Many of our most powerful “core beliefs” were formed when we were young children and have never been updated. These childish beliefs about ourselves and our world we originally created to protect us from unpleasant feelings; but now, years later, many of our habitual defenses limit our ability to be in relationship and cause us emotional and physical pain. Using techniques and insights from the Feldenkrais and Hakomi Methods, these lessons will improve your body awareness, promote relaxation and an easy, balanced posture, and relieve stress, anxiety, and chronic tension. You will learn to use mindful awareness to become more comfortable in your body and more effective in your life.

“Flowing Body movement lessons are a highly developed language for compassionate communication with the unconscious through movement.”

As we age, our histories manifest in our bodies as physical pain, poor postural habits, emotional stress, and limited mobility. Although our mental and physical efficiency can actually increase under moderate amounts of stress (read “challenge”), chronic stress is toxic and causes mental and physical harm. We need improved body awareness and relaxation techniques that calm, reset, and reorient our nervous systems. By becoming aware of our unconscious patterns of thinking and being, we release the hold of our habits.

“The common association of good posture with poise–mental and physical tranquility–is an excellent criterion–neither excessive muscular tension nor emotional intensity is compatible with good posture.” –Moshe Feldenkrais

Flowing Body movement lessons lead you through a wide range of fascinating movement explorations which bring you back to your center, improve freedom of movement, relieve stress, promote relaxation, and restore an easy, balanced posture: you will feel and function better in ways you have forgotten were possible.

Guarantee: If Flowing Body lessons do not improve your everyday sense of well-being, by whatever standard you want to apply, simply return them for a full refund.

“We make the impossible possible, the difficult easy, and the easy elegant.” –Moshe Feldenkrais

The full set of Flowing Body, Flexible Mind audio tapes consists of ten 50-minute lessons on ten CDs (or seven audio cassettes). Through a systematic sequence of interesting and unusual movements, these lessons integrate every part of your body into new patterns of moving and being, giving a welcome sense of spaciousness in your body and in your life. The entire set is $75 plus postage.

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“Feldenkrais is the most sophisticated method I have seen for the prevention and reversal of deterioration of function.”
–Margaret Mead

Each lesson provides integration at three levels. First, each complete lesson contains several parts which work together to integrate your whole body through a particular movement pattern (a typical Feldenkrais lesson). Second, the sublessons within each whole lesson organize the same parts of your body smoothly into different movement patterns. And third, by using the ten “Rolfing” sessions as a template, the entire set of ten lessons is carefully designed to integrate the whole body into more comfortable patterns.

The lessons have gone through three editions since 1993, in a continuing effort to make them even more effective.

What is HYPNOSIS – NLP?

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a technique used to provide clients with the tools to overcome certain life obstacles. NLP is in short, a way of helping people help themselves to reach a state of excellence, happiness and peace of mind.

NLP is a learning model devised by two American academics (Dr Richard Bandler and John Grinder) in the early 70s, who were fascinated by the relationship between language behaviour and excellence. They believed that by analysing the unconscious linguistic techniques used by successful people, they could produce ‘a recipe for excellence’ in which other people could consciously learn to apply said ‘successful techniques’.

What is NLP?

NLP stands for neuro-linguistic programming.

Neuro – All of our experience is gained from the neurological processes that govern our five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight and sound.

Linguistic – We make sense of these experiences through a set of filters, including language. The language we use can also affect the way we experience things.

Programming – This is a way of controlling the outcome of something. A person can use NLP to ‘predetermine excellence’ by adjusting the language we use.

To break it down, the science aspect is the process of extracting and learning the techniques. The art aspect is the act of applying the techniques to our own lives.

There are four ways NLP techniques are most commonly used:

to teach effective communication
to ensure continual personal development
to enhance learning
to encourage a greater enjoyment in life
NLP is used to teach us how changing our perception of the world can lead us to adjust and adapt our behaviours to live the life we want.

NLP and hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapists aim to induce a relaxed and receptive state (trance) in their clients in order to access the subconscious. Many of the obstacles that prohibit or limit a person’s experiences are deeply embedded in the subconscious, so by accessing the thought processes that usually remain hidden, hypnotherapists can work with clients to change the restrictive thought pattern and make room for positive development.

An NLP practitioner will look at your attitude, your language and how you use it, your understanding of relationships and your ability to build rapport, as well as the physical and emotional states that are best for accomplishing a task. Effective communication and perception of others and ourselves, will also be key focuses. All of these will be analysed and examined by the professional, so that a strategy for improving understanding, motivation, learning and memory can be formed.

Many hypnotherapists train in NLP to help improve their ability to communicate more effectively with their clients, as well as to help their clients communicate more effectively with themselves.