The Benefits of Functional Integration
The Benefits of Functional Integration (FI)®
Addressing the puzzles we often feel, then how to develop a process to allow the pieces of the puzzle to come together. Speaking personally, I am renewing as I reconnected with a dear colleague and reaped a most appreciated FI exchange through the afternoon. Experience a skilled practitioners ability to allow you to feel a gentle clarification along a trail through your spine. Finding those little places undetected and then, a felt experience of noticing, the ability to sense through sensations and release, puff, a little puzzle, unrealized muscular patterns unfold as connections from bottom up align. It’s the intentional sensing of ourselves that allows our brain and nervous system to make connections. Now that’s a feeling I am so thankful for, and grateful to share with you this Thanksgiving season.
In order to truly understand, one needs to actually experience. So I invite you to experience for yourself and explore an FI as well as any of my Awareness Through Movement (ATM)®. The saying that you give a lesson, you also get/give yourself an FI or ATM, functioning so much more optimal, to feel that alignment naturally, without having to do anything, Magnificent!
“I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning.” — Moshe Feldenkrais
Make it a daily practice, your personal practice with ATM, FI, virtual zoom sessions, anything can be explored, even in your imagination, can you picture it? Rest for a moment, maybe come to your bed or the floor and rest out long, legs comfortably spread, arms rest long beside you. If this doesn’t feel comfortable, what would you do to make yourself more comfortable? Begin to imagine a center line, your middle from top to bottom, or build from the bottom up, a “Primary Line”. It’s a process, learning how to turn your attention to sense and feel your middle, subjectively as well as objectively. Then once you slowly come up to stand, can you find your Primary Line in the vertical, walking… You get to create an easy, daily practice, little steps to notice and explore. Just love the quote and makes me laughand it’s a good habit.
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last, well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily!” – Zig Zigler
I hope I have earned the privilege of your time and attention and wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.
Warmest,
Peggi
