How we move our bodies is a reflection of how we move through life.
Easeful movement reflects an inner coherence that empowers us to move through our daily lives with less effort and more flow — free from held patterns of stress and tension and open to a greater sense of possibility.
Too often, however, our movements have become constrained by the pains of the past and habituated behaviors…
… which trap us physically, mentally, and emotionally through increased rigidity and discomfort, decreased function and performance, and a sense of hopelessness around how we can actualize our goals and dreams within these restrictions.
In fact, holding on when life keeps moving on can cause all sorts of ailments, including chronic aches, pains, and conditions — and even illness and disease.
As Lael Keen, instructor at the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute teaches, much of the pain and tension that we feel in our bodies comes from held mental, emotional, and physical patterns that have morphed into sub-optimal movement and postures over time.
Realigning with the natural movement and postures of our bodies can reorient each of us to our own authentic flow state — relieving pain and stress.
And it only takes three steps.
During this 7-week journey with Lael, you’ll explore these steps and rediscover your optimal body movements and postures to release and prevent tension, stress, and pain — and learn how to move as an expression of your wholeness.
Under Lael’s guidance, you’ll move meticulously through your body’s musculature, bones, tissues, and joints — from the soles of your feet to the top of your head…
… offering new information to your body that overrides the pains of the past — or the old story of how you are supposed to feel in your body, mind, heart, and spirit.
Lael will help you harness the power of intention and body awareness, pre-movement techniques, and hands-on practices that realign your daily movements to their optimal function, fluidity, and authenticity.
In doing so, you’ll activate the power that bidirectional orientation (ground and space) has to balance your body and being in a practical and compassionate way to create ease, balance, stability, and enhanced flexibility.
As one of the founding members of the Brazilian Rolfing® Association, Lael was part of the development of the Brazilian double certification in Rolfing that integrates Rolf Movement with structural Rolfing.
She has practiced and taught Somatic Experiencing®, a body-based approach to healing post-traumatic stress, worldwide for almost 25 years, and is also a co-founder of the Brazilian Trauma Association.
As such, she teaches that you’re never more than a minute away from a movement that can dissolve old patterns of tension… and potentially change your life.
Instead of fighting against pain, stress, and tension, you can send kindness to the places where you desire change, feel the problematic pattern and the gesture that is behind it — and allow your body to make the change in the manner that works best for you. Join us to learn how.
In this 7-week transformational program, Lael will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to release tension and stress from your body and increase ease, strength, stability, and mobility.
You’ll connect with Lael and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Lael’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Lael. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to prevent tension and stress from being stored within your body and increase ease, strength, stability, and mobility.
Breathing, which by far is our most repetitive movement pattern, supports all other movements and determines our overall wellbeing. As human beings, we breathe an astounding 17,000-25,000 breaths per day.
In this opening week, you’ll explore the deeper connections between breath and movement, some of the different perceptual patterns that determine our pre-movement…
… and how easeful movement is influenced by a balance of orientation to ground and space.
Before we move, our body prepares to move, and in doing so determines the quality of movement that will occur.
You’ll also discover the three steps to changing a movement pattern, and apply this new knowledge to one of your most basic daily movements — breathing.
During the first week of class, you’ll:
The feet are structures of marvelous engineering, with 26 bones and 34 joints. The movement that happens (or doesn’t happen) in the feet sets up either freedom or restriction, stability or instability throughout the rest of the body.
You’ll explore how to optimize the functions of your feet, including understanding the relationship of the different arches…
… and learn how to use your feet to allow the double function of 1) stability and mobility, and 2) grounding and support/impulse up through the rest of the body.
This week, you’ll:
For comfortable movement that revitalizes the joints in your legs instead of breaking them down, all the joints in the legs need to work together in harmony with each other, and with the pelvis, spine, and upper body.
You’ll take the next step in this harmonious coordination by deepening your understanding and experience of the knees and hips… and then integrating the balance that you find with your feet for a fluid, balanced lower body.
This week, you’ll:
Ida Rolf called the pelvis “the seat of the soul.” The pelvic bones and the sacrum, which sits between them and joins them at the sacroiliac joints, create a bridge between your upper and lower body — and between your spine and legs.
When movement flows harmoniously from and between your legs and pelvis, not only do the daily activities of walking and sitting become pleasurable, but they contribute to your long-term wellbeing.
You’ll learn how to allow movement to pass through your pelvis between the legs and the spine…
… automatically finding and activating the deep intrinsic muscles of core stability that keep your back healthy and stimulate the nerves to your abdominal-pelvic viscera.
This week, you’ll:
Your arms connect to every vertebrae in your spine — from above to below. When used in daily movement, some of these connections bring tension and shortening of the muscles in the neck and shoulders, while others bring length and ease.
You’ll explore the balance of your upper weight center — the upper thorax and rib cage, and how your breathing supports your arm movement.
You’ll learn how to connect your arm and hand movement to your spine to help your chest stay open and your neck to stay long, relaxed, and comfortable while you use your arms.
Lael will also share how aligned posture that comes from within as a result of your balance and presence far surpasses the “good” posture that has been imposed upon you from the outside, e.g., “pull your shoulders back, push your chest out, and tuck your chin in.”
This week, you’ll discover:
You’ll work with what Ida Rolf called “The Upper Pole” — the organization of the head, on the neck and spine, differentiated and free from arm function, and supported by an open breathing function and adaptability in the chest.
You’ll explore the different functions that allow the most easeful balance of the head with the rest of the body and the vestibular system, the use of your sense organs, and the coordination of neck and jaw muscles.
Lael will also share practices that optimize the function of each of the above components, including new ways to release the jaw and even stop nighttime clenching and grinding.
Ultimately, you’ll experience the sense of lightness and effortless uprightness that occur when your head, neck, and spine are balanced.
This week, you’ll:
During your final class, you’ll bring together everything that you have learned into a sequence of explorations designed to activate two-way lengthening, stability, grace, and ease throughout your body from head to toe.
You’ll also explore the core stability system and its vital importance to the health of your spine and joint system.
At this point, you’ll have enough somatic understanding of ground and space orientation to be able to touch into a new level of the two-way lengthening and bring it into your daily movement.
This week, you’ll:
We feel honored that Lael Keen has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with an instructor for the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute and the Somatic Experiencing International Institute whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about optimizing your body movement and posture to prevent tension and stress and increase ease, strength, stability, and mobility, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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.
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