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Slow Sex
Slow Life
Slow Food
Awakened Life
Truth in all things
See Also, the New Main Blog: Poems From Now/ PoemsFromNow.com
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A Feldenkrais Class by Baby Liv from Irene Gutteridge on Vimeo.
About Me
- Name: chris elms
- Location: Austin, TX / Sonoma, CA/ Orcas Island
I've had a full life of love and learning and laughter.
The love of my life appeared on my mother and son's birthday, March 24, in 2015.
On March 5, 2016 we were married.
We are training in Co-Active coaching. Look it up. It's trained the most people in the world and is the most honoring of the client.
In Co-Active coaching we honor your need to go within, discover your strengths and values and resources and become even more amazing. No advice: just deep, deep, deep listening
In the past I've learned from and loved:
Being Present,
the Gurdjieff work,
the work of Byron Katie (60 days with her),
the Feldenkrais Method® & the Anat Baniel Method,
and Energy for Success, a 5000 year old system
Most of all, love has guided and blessed me. You can see it in the pictures.
If you want more love, more presence, more happiness, more success of a delighted and present nature, contact me.
And enjoy the blog, no matter what.
Cheers,
Chris
Address / Mailing:
1201B Marshall Lane
Austin, TX 78703
Year round: Austin, TX
Summer Fall Visits:
Orcas Island, WA
PO Box 1147
Eastsound, WA 98245
new Website
The JOY OF Divorce-ing Your Pain/ Re-NEW-ing your life and Re-NOW-ing your life (thejoyofdivorce.info)
2 other main blogs
On Mondays
SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN BLOG/'
Special Needs Children
lessons
ideas for steps small and gentle, that parents can take
on Wednesdays
LIFE POTENCY, HAPPINESS AND AWAKENING BLOG/
Using our brains, and bodies and Nowing and Awaring
to transform our lives
with many movement lessons you can do on your own
Website for the
total work of Chris Elms
WakingUp4LIfe.com:
Healing and Transformation
in
:
Back, Neck, Shoulder Pain
Special Needs Children
Professional and Amateur Musicians and Athletes, recovering from injury or hungering to improve and excel with ease and pleasure
"Anti-aging and Reverse the Clock people
Relationship Improvement
Depression and other emotional "stuck points"
Raw food, real food + awareness weight loss
Amazing Tai Chi and Yoga, for brain, longevity and "body"
Depression and Trauma upgrade
for GADS of BENEFITS of the Anat Baniel and Feldenrkrais Methods
CLICK HERE
Movement Lessons, many, from this site
Movement Lessons from Life Potency blog
Chris Elms, M.A., is
Certified in the
Feldenkrais Method®
(5 years training, 225 days) and
the Anat Baniel Method
(4 years training, 218 days). 360-317-4773
Previous Posts
- Relationship Heaven.. Talk and listen. A lot
- waking up to the now of love, the love of now, the...
- I want this for you... I want this for me... I wan...
- Waking Up to Now.... day 2
- love 'making"
- talking about sex
- a touching experiment: slow down and touch, take t...
- Will I ever come back to Sonoma?
- When there;s nothing to say
- asking each day, to find out who is real and what ...
for one example of the possible
miracles
awaiting us all
as we wake to real awareness and
real ACTION
watch this 8 minute tear jerker/ inspiration
Anat Baniel with Elizabeth:
Healing Where Medicine Could Not
Email me to begin taking
ACTION
toward fulfilling your capacities
IMPROVE MOVING, LEARNING, SATISFACTION NEUROLOGICAL UPGRADING LESSONS
PRIVATE LESSONS :
For
RADICALLY IMPROVING
ease, comfort and enjoyment of body, brain, feeling and soul
BRAIN INJURY
SEXUAL AND LIFE POTENCY
TRANSFORMING
back, neck, shoulder, hip, knee, etc pain
STROKE
Recovery and Revitalization
IMPROVING
golf, RUNNING, skiing, musicianship, tennis, WEIGHT LIFTING, any sport, performance skill, such as music, theater, singing, dance
CREATIVITY UPGRADING AND UNLEASHING
for artists, in nonprofit business, in families, in thinking, in having new and happier sets of feelings
RECOVERY
from Surgery, Injury, accident, TRAUMA
BREAKTHROUGH LEARNING
for
Special Needs Children
YOGA and the Brain
TAI CHI and the Brain
HIGH PERFORMERS, wishing to go the the next level or next next level in Any Field
all this
via
NEUROLOGICAL UPGRADING LESSONS
using, guided and inspired by
..........
The Anat Baniel Method
"Transform Your Life
by Accessing Your Brain:"
based on the Work
of
Links
- Brendan Elms Photo
- Silani's raw food blog
- Raw Family, Raw Foods
- The Byron Katie Work
- Katie also now has a blogsite ByronKatie.com that is even more fun than this one, if you can imagine such a thing.
- Sharing Nature
- Anat Baniel Method
- People change
- bodies heal
- skills improve
- good gets better
- stuck gets unstuck
- miracles and learning happen
- Children with specical needs , what the work is all about,
- Pain Relief ,
- Improvement for high performers.
- Price-Pottenger Nutritional Foundation (ppnf)
- Prairie Home Companion
- Feldenkrais Guild
- Search for almost anything:
- Also, a nice Overview of the Feldenkrais Method®:
- Desk Trainer
- ThePeaceAlliance.org
- alternatives2toxics.org
- This Green Life
- Natural Resources Defense Council Another super group .
- Sonoma Ecology Center
-
SYNERGY
(aka SuperFood, almost magical, nonSupplement - Not a pyramid, but we get 25% off our next purchase if you mention my name.
- Bones for Life
- Defenders of Wildlife
- Wake Up Feldenkrais
- Sonoma Valley Healthcare Coation
- the Black Vault
- Counter Punch
My son's website. Do you need a photographer?
Feldie buddy Silani on a yummy role here. Watch, read, enjoy
Two teenagers, two adults, amazing changes in health by going raw (including one person losing 120 pounds, and others getting over asthma, diabetes and arthritis).
4 questions to turn your life around. END EMOTIONAL SUFFERING. (Really.You have to "work," but it's a lot easier than all the work that goes into our suffering.)
See also, if you wish, my essay Byron Katie, WakeUp Feldenkrais, and Happiness
A site dedicated to helping people of all ages experience their oneness and harmony with all Life
Cuting edge new technology, building from the Feldenkrais foundation, and taking it to a new level.
My primary trainer the last several years,
Anat has taken the possibility of creating miracles
by using our brain's ability to learn,
and our body's ability to thrive,
into actuality
Information on
Her Back DVD and Neck CD are both highly recommended
If we are going to be healthy
a return to healthy eating from
habits that give short term gratification and long term illness
is in order. These people can help show how to change to health.
Sometimes old fashioned entertainment
is close to heaven.
For example, the Feb. 3 Joke Show
Beautiful New Site.
You can
Including articles exploring Feldenkrais and a specific theme, such as Pilates, The Elder Citizen, Creativity, Chronic Pain, the Workplace, Martial Arts, Balance, Yoga, . And many more. Check it out, there's probably something for you.
Mini-lessons, from
Anat Baniel and the Feldenkrais mode
to undo stress
and to help necks, backs, eyes, hands at the computer.
or in tennis,
or in skiing,
or in.....
anything.
Fun,
one free lesson,
a little cartoon guy leads you.
And
then it's inexpensive and
wonderful.
Great on its own, and great between lessons. Only 5 to 8 minutes.
Try it. Or not. For ease, it might help a lot.
If we are going to wake up and change our useless and harmful habits, a
Department of Peace
is a very good idea, indeed.
and, to get jazzed, see this movie:
THE SHIFT
Californians for
Alternatives to
Toxics.
Good people,
good cause,
good information.
Monthly journal of the
Our local heroes.
The only "supplement" (in quotes, because this is the best food you could give yourself) Marlie and I can both completely recommend. Devised by Mitchell May, after he cured himself of an incurable accident and found all the foods at the health food stores not really the caliber he wanted.
It's full blast healthy, full of Eastern and Western herbs, seaweeds and mushrooms, spirulina and greens. You can feel it when you take it, and it's not an "ugh, this is good for me" feeling. It's a, "Wow, this feels great/ I feel great!"
See the essay Start the Day off with a Super Smoothie to find a list of all the amazing ingredients.
An adjunct training I'm taking with Ruthy Alon, to help us stay strong and flexible and increase bone density as we age.
You might enjoy this:
Running before and after a week of
Bones for Life
A U tube video.
Cool animals. Great cause
Another Site: Waking Up and Transformation via WakeUp Feldenkrais, which is...? Come find out.
Trying to get the hospital thing together. A big and bighearted project.
Crusade to find the truth inside government documents. Started when he was 15, and going for ten years.
Mucking raking journalism with a heat.
His
Links
A charming knitting blog that leads to many others.
Cooking, knitting, life, thinking, writing, New York City: Marlie likes
and me, too
Good questions, good answers, good vibes. Several online lessons. Sweet Overview.
She's in her twenty somethings. Life on Earth in spades. Not afraid to hate as well as love. My, my. Or: Wow. Enjoy.
Site of my 160 day trainer, Dennis Leri, another foremost teacher in the field. Of note is an article on Moshe Feldenkrais and G.I.Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic/ philosopher/ psychological genius, who posited humanity's greatest weakness: going through our lives in a state of "sleep."
His article, Learning How to Learn, copyrighted 1997, on the essence of the Feldenkrais Method, is superb. Worth reading several times.
This goes to book reviews at Amazon.com.
An attempt to resurrect a Dream Month. Oh, well.
Intuitive inner healing for the Whole Self
Whole systems approach to the Whole Earth
Permaculture in action. Farming with Nature.
High power, magical Indian (continent) guru.
( See
the Guru Papers, to balance the guru thing.)
Young. Likes the elements: Earth, Fire, Sky, Water, Air.
Has an Indian version of Feng-shui, called
Vaastu.
Two teenagers, two adults, amazing changes in health by going raw (including one person losing 120 pounds, and others getting over asthma, diabetes and arthritis).
Raw Family Recipes.
Or:
Living-Foods.com/recipes.
Seeing someone looking better as they get older is nice.
If you spend time
on the COMPUTER,
or a MUSICAL INSTRUMENT,
or have
CARPAL TUNNEL ISSUES,
you might enjoy
giving yourself the gift of :
Desk Trainer
Photo: R. Dale
The Benefits of
WAKE UP FELDENKRAIS
Email me
or call
360-317-4773
and begin to transform,
faster than you might ever have imagined.
This a prologue,
to the About Me Section.
to the About Me Section.
- Long, long ago, as is now a respectable move, I graduated a fancy school, Stanford, and went off to be a "Community Organizer" in the black and Puerto Rican section of Brooklyn New York.
- Learned a lot more than I learned at the fancy school.
- Then taught school.
- Then tried to create a commune and learned building.
- Along the way learned organic gardening.
- Taught the Fischer-Hoffman Process and meditated a lot, and ended up in the Gurdjieff work and took on design/ building and landscaping as meditation in action ways of working.
- Learned to love working with mind body wood plant design create beautify the world tools and materials.
- Lived in Berkeley long enough to have two kids graduate high school.
- ' As part of the "Berkeley experience" came to see bicycle riding as my main way to transport within any town in which I was living.
- Then time to move, wanted to grow more of my own food, breathe more the country air.
- I moved to Sonoma, a town north of San Francisco, in 1996, to become one of these "organic farmers" whose produce I so loved to eat via the Berkeley farmer's market
- One summer of raising organic tomatoes at 50 cents an hour showed me that wasn't quite what I wanted.
-
The Garden's Produce
Photo: Richard DaleThe Sonoma Ecology Center had some land that had been donated to the city and they were floundering, and I, fresh out of a Permaculture Training
- (maybe see Permaculture Activist Magazine, it's a way of thinking about the Earth, People, Rain, Water, and so on as one big happy family that could and should be working together)
- could not pass up a chance to make something wonderful happen.
-
It took five years, but in the end, I designed and created a three acre public Garden Park in Sonoma, which incorporates fruit trees, flowers, herbs, perennials, fun pathways, permaculture concepts, and amazing arbors.
Come visit it if you are ever in Sonoma. East Seventh Street at Denmark. Best days are Wednesday and Saturday mornings. And Friday evenings in the summer.
Among the amazing things that happened via this garden was a volunteer inviting me to a yoga class, an activity I'd thought was just for pretzel people.
Apples in the Garden (R. Dale)-
I was terrible and
enjoyed the idea of pursuing something that I
was bad at, and that led to meeting
a fine person,
and that led to us wandering into the Feldenkrais
world, and that has been an amazing adventure.
- I love being outdoors, being in the present and being in love. with as much of life as is possible for myself and my awareness and my awakeness in each and every moment
- I love assisting and being around anyone and everyone who wishes to come alive in the present.
- and here's this thing again
- Name: chris elms
- Location: Austin, TX / Sonoma, CA/ Orcas Island
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- Relationship Heaven.. Talk and listen. A lot
- waking up to the now of love, the love of now, the...
- I want this for you... I want this for me... I wan...
- Waking Up to Now.... day 2
- love 'making"
- talking about sex
- a touching experiment: slow down and touch, take t...
- Will I ever come back to Sonoma?
- When there;s nothing to say
- asking each day, to find out who is real and what ...
Pathway, Lavender, Beauty and Grape Arbor in Background (R. Dale)
About Me
I've had a full life of love and learning and laughter.
The love of my life appeared on my mother and son's birthday, March 24, in 2015.
On March 5, 2016 we were married.
We are training in Co-Active coaching. Look it up. It's trained the most people in the world and is the most honoring of the client.
In Co-Active coaching we honor your need to go within, discover your strengths and values and resources and become even more amazing. No advice: just deep, deep, deep listening
In the past I've learned from and loved:
Being Present,
the Gurdjieff work,
the work of Byron Katie (60 days with her),
the Feldenkrais Method® & the Anat Baniel Method,
and Energy for Success, a 5000 year old system
Most of all, love has guided and blessed me. You can see it in the pictures.
If you want more love, more presence, more happiness, more success of a delighted and present nature, contact me.
And enjoy the blog, no matter what.
Cheers,
Chris
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Enhance Vitality
Increase Sports Skills
Special Needs Children
Anti-Aging
Brain Plasticity
Eliminate back, neck, shoulder, hip, knee, wrist, etc. pain
via
NEUROLOGICAL UPGRADING LESSONS
Price-Pottenger Nutritional Foundation (PPNF)
If we are going to be healthy
a return to healthy eating from
habits that give short term gratification and long term illness
is in order. These people can help show how to change to health.
The Work of Byron Katie
I find the Work of Byron Katie invaluable.
You can do it on your own.
Or hire me to get you started.
A wonderful adventure of liberation
and joy
might await you.