Living Better With Ida Rolf Inspired Healthy Movement Techniques
If you could change anything about yourself or your life right now, what would it be?
I’ll bet you didn’t answer focusing on how you move your body. More often than not, that answer doesn’t come to mind. However, it is important because it can have a positive impact on your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. By learning to move with ease, you can release stress and tension and live as your authentic self, aligning with the greater flow of possibility for your life.
In fact, as Lael Keen, instructor at the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute teaches, the changes that we seek within ourselves and our lives often have a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual component.
Learning how to move in a way that creates ease throughout all of those components is key to moving through life as your authentic self — free from held patterns of stress and tension, and aligned with the greater flow of possibility for your life.
On Thursday, February 2 with Lael, you’ll realign with the natural postures of your body and your inherent flow state to relieve pain and stress — and allow the life-giving essence within you to take precedence.
You can register here for Ida Rolf’s Inspired Techniques for Healthy Movement: Establish New Habits to Improve Your Posture & Release Tension & Pain.
In this interactive online event, you’ll:
- Explore movement as a reflection of who you believe yourself to be, and how you relate to the world — and as a tool for positively changing your life
- Use bidirectional orienting to bring more ease and comfort into your body within a few minutes
- Experience a guided practice to help your body find an upright posture that doesn’t require stress and tension — letting go of effortful postural patterns and finding an easy and natural upright posture
- Learn the powerful role of pre-movement — and how it is determined by emotion and perception
- Discover how movement is like a wave that moves through the body — and how through your daily movement you create and recreate the body that you have
- Experience a guided breathing meditation to experience breathing as an act of willingness — and discover the potential this holds for your health and life
Go here to watch a short introductory video by Lael.
You’ll experience Lael’s dynamic approach to somatic movement firsthand, including a breathwork practice to experience breathing as an act of allowing, and practices to relieve the stress that is held within your head, neck, and shoulders — all of which brings awareness to counterproductive patterns of movement.
She’ll also share how movement is connected to self-image and how we relate to each other and how conscious movement can foster a more meaningful, productive, and easeful way of being in the world.
Live long, love life and be well!
Harold
P.S. In Ida Rolf’s Inspired Techniques for Healthy Movement: Establish New Habits to Improve Your Posture & Release Tension & Painwith Lael Keen you’ll explore how your daily physical movements express your deepest self through Rolf-inspired teachings and guided practices that create mind-body fluidity and bring awareness to held patterns of tension and stress — and your body’s ability to release them.
We hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available. You can RSVP for free here.
About Lael Katharine Keen
Lael Katharine Keen has been an ardent student of human movement throughout her life. She started her studies with the practice of Aikido when she was 17 years old, and continues practicing and teaching Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido to this day.
As an Instructor of Rolfing® and Rolf Movement® for the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute and the Brazilian Rolfing® Association, she has taught Rolfing at the beginning and advanced level in Brazil, the U.S., Japan, and Europe. As one of the founding members of the Brazilian Rolfing Association, she was part of the development of the Brazilian double certification in Rolfing that integrates Rolf Movement with structural Rolfing.
She is an instructor of Somatic Experiencing® for the Somatic Experiencing® International Institute and the Brazilian Trauma Association, which she co-founded. She has practiced and taught Somatic Experiencing, a body-based approach to healing post-traumatic stress, worldwide for almost 25 years.
Lael also holds certification as a Bates Method of vision educator and is an Anthroposophic art therapist. She is a member of Aurora ABTAA (Associação Brasileira de Terapeutas Artísticas).
Lael’s experience is that our daily movement — the movement that creates and recreates the body that we live in — flows from who we believe ourselves to be and how we perceive the world. Therefore, changing our movement patterns also involves touching these other dimensions. How we transform ourselves and the world around us is intricately connected with becoming conscious of and transforming the way that we move.
