Moving Into Harmony

MOVEMENT & BREATH: HEALTH - FITNESS - WELLNESS

Medicine of Movement – Revolutionary ways to Harness your Health!

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“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional” – Buddhist proverb

I always remind myself of this powerful statement in my own life, and in the ways I can contribute to helping you reduce your own suffering. The oath of the healing arts practitioner – “first do no harm.”

Movements that ignites the health of the body invite the individual to journey just beyond themselves; to investigate the right kind of challenge in forgotten, or uncharted, territory that moves them toward their goals and draws their attention to what’s needed along the way. Movements that promote subtler aspects of vitality and power are key to sustaining the true health of the body. This is not about what you think in regards to fitness – going to the gym, or an exercise class, going for a run; rather it is about the dynamics within all movements you develop access through feeling, and skill to use according to the seasonalities of your body and life.

Moving Into Harmony offers you the opportunity to go to a place of not yet understood layers of support and collaborative activities in your body-mind ecosystem and we invite you, the attentive explorer, to step into a territory that: 

  • ignites discovery – opening doorways to natural unbound potential, 
  • inspires vivid integration of newly found freedoms and vitality,
  • animates achievements – the fruits of your efforts that are carried through life, and
  • emboldens your capacity to age gracefully.

*Note: Telehealth Discovery Sessions are available as free inquiry into the nature of what limits you. These are offered to help you decide your best path may be for your journey of health.

Over time, with your consistent playfulness and attentiveness to movements that promote and circulate health, you will not only feel the freedom from suffering and the limitations in your life, but you will also harness the capacities**: 

  • Develop strength from an internal layer of stability (not your muscles). 
  • Promote fluidity as the essence of flexibility. 
  • Connect and interactwith the subtle, natural phenomena within you, which signals and guides how you move in your life. 
  • Freely move your whole body in coordinated ways from a spacious balance-point. 
  • Gain agility and responsiveness, and experience your own sense of athletic accomplishment. 
  • Compassionately adhere and endure what life brings you.

This is why Moving Into Harmony emphasizes that Movement as Medicine is essential to harnessing your health. In my 26 years as a practitioner, I’ve come to understand and respect that one’s individual journey on the path of healing is based on the whole person – their body-mind ecosystem and it is this honorable opportunity that I gratefully serve. It provides me the lens to assist you with the best possible solutions.

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**Please join me in my series, Movement as Medicine where I expand on the concepts shared in this introduction.  

**Exciting news: This article was featured in a collaborative of health professionals – GoTherex. You can visit this post and find out more about GoTherex here.

The Fire, Cleansing & Transformation

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Thoughts of changing course in life or diet, transforming life, and cleansing ring inside and out. Many express the desire and some need to change, transform, cleanse. It is fall, nature and the body are giving signals of slowing down and releasing the results of the growing season – leaves turning color and falling to the earth. And friends, practitioners, and local communities are gathering to participate in cleansing. The focused necessities of what we eat, what are we going to eat, what supplements are we going to take to support our cleanse are missing one vital component.

How are you going to vitalize the fire for the cleansing process?

Do you know the state of your digestive fire (Agni)? or the transformative fires of all the tissues in your body that you are focusing your cleanse toward? Without a strong vital fire, anything you take or any diet you choose to follow will make minimal results at best.

I highly recommend you take care of and nourish the fire inside.

How?

Traditionally the Hatha Yoga system was a system of internal purification and health. Ayurveda is it’s sister science that focuses on lifestyle and diet that are the external realms of purification and health. Through cultivating the intelligence of the body with these, the body has the capacity to digest and transform all “food”. “food” means anything you take in……by mouth, by eyes, by ears, by hands, etc. The transformational fires (Agni) also have the ability to transform all toxins and impurities through its amazing alchemy – just like turning carbon to diamonds, lead to gold. The incredible wisdom of the Ayurveda and Hatha Yoga systems honor this and have a very effective way to stimulate, nurture, and stabilize the internal fire, Agni.
Please inquire if this resonates with your innate wisdom for self healing.

Here are concepts to consider regarding the transformational fire:

Agni, the fire, is dependent on your state of being. A harmonious balance of your autonomic system, your emotional and mental stability, and your ability to negotiate/tolerate the stressors that you encounter every moment of your life are key factors for mind and body healing.

    • Consider your ability to eat, digest, assimilate and eliminate. If you are in fight/flight/freeze mode of functioning in daily life you ability to perform any of these functions is severely diminished. Discernment, identifying what is appropriate for you and what is not is a function of the fire. If the body is unable to discern or digest, the undigested “food” is stored as toxins, or ama, usually in the form of fat. This can be the observable fat in the belly, around the belt rim, in the legs and arms as “cellulite”, and unobservable places such as in the organ (such as a fatty liver), and the bone marrow (as yellow marrow) limiting function of the system. Fat is the most stable substance, and the body can be trained to store and pack it away. The good thing is with a harmonious nervous system, the body can be redirected to burn and transform the fat; caution as the elimination process which requires fire, is necessary for the “release” of the toxins from all aspects of your mind and body.
    • Consider your state of stillness. Constant movement significantly affects the above functions. Movement is not just physical, as our emotional stability is essential – “e”motion. As one of my clients stated “Emotions are like a moving truck going downhill, once you get it moving it is sometimes hard to stop, especially when it is loaded.” Movement is associated with wind. What does wind do to a fire? Wildfire!!!! or lets put it another way…..Burnout!
      One of the best stances is Goat Pose for cultivating stillness. Click here to read about it.
    • Consider your ability to stay grounded, rooted in your center. The bones, especially of the legs, allow us to maintain spinal stability, balance and supported. If the nervous system senses it is not supported, it will pull the supportive tissue systems up to create stability, producing tension in the mid and low back which significantly disturb the fire. The leg bones also pull the fire downward, through the grounding force, apana vayu. Apana vayu, one of the subtle winds in the body, governs the health of the digestive fire, pulling it in a downward direction for proper digestion, assimilation, and elimination.
      See article on digestive fire.
    • Consider your tolerance to stressors. We adapt all the time to stressors. Our body has incredible capacities. And we have a threshold to the amount of stressors we can adapt to. This is a given threshold at birth. Some of us have more of a threshold than others. The key is to not go over the threshold, which is a state when the body begins to degenerate, and signs and symptoms of a dis”eased” body show up. You can prevent this with many modalities such as self care routines, working with a practitioner on supportive preventative means of health and well being, a routine practice such as Yoga, and of course the cleanse you are ready to embark on. See article on the body’s adaptability.
    • Consider the driving force in your body – Prana. Where you direct your attention, your mind, your senses, your intention . . . . Prana will follow. Prana is the driving force of life. AND it is in service to the transformative element of fire, Agni.

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From an Ayurvedic perspective all physical dis-ease (diseases) have their root cause in disturbance of Agni (S.Blossom). As stated by Dr. Robert Svoboda – “it is the condition from which all other disease conditions arise. In a sense indigestion, the inability to digest any physical, mental, or emotional input, is the sole disease of living beings. It usually begins in the mind as an “offense against wisdom” and is projected from the mind into the physical body.”

 

I wish you well in your transformative cleanse.
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