Learning Conversation Landscapes for Learning: Tutor & Consultant

8 min
Today's word is:  Embodiment
Today's Learning Practice is with Jen Bleier, a somatic educator.  She offers up the perfect word!  Embodiment.  
Join us in this exercise of practicing conversation on Learning Conversation.  :-)
Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.  
If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites.
Landscapes for Learning
YogaHEALS

38 min.  
Interview:  Jen Bleier, Somatic Educator
Maureen and Pierre interview Jen Bleier, friend and somatic educator.  Trained in Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Pilates, Somatic Experience practitioner, and small "d" dancer.  
Jen’s work spans different modalities, hence her self-description as a somatic educator.  Jen said: “when you work with bodies, you can’t not work with emotions.” Maureen and Jen are on the same team - working to heal, working to educate, integrating Mind Body Spirit health.
So what is Gyrotonic?
Officially:  the Gyrotonic Expansion System. Gyro - meaning rotating movement that heals - hence tonic. Those who do yoga and work with bodies, those who suffer with lower back issues, sciatica, know the pain that comes from our skeletal system impinging nerves. Better support, better flexibility and expansion of the skeletal system can relieve that pain. Increased space in the skeletal system promotes synovial fluid, whose principal role is to reduce friction between cartilege and bones in joints. Improved flexibility in the body, for instance through an expanded skeletal system that is being compressed everyday by gravity, walking, standing and sitting, can produce improve health.   . 
Gyrotonic started out as "Yoga for Dancers." It was started Juliu Horvath. There are over 6,000 Gyrotonic trainers worldwide.  Perhaps you didn't know that?  We certainly didn't until Jen educated us.
Check Jen out at:   https://jenbleier.offeringtree.com
Check out Gyrotonic:  https://www.centergyrotonic.com/about/gyrotonic_expansion_system/
In a similar vein, Ido Portal:  Movement Culture. https://www.idoportal.com
Healing through movement. At the beginning of the podcast, Maureen says: "we're all waiting for the medical world to catch-up." Meaning, catch-up to practicality and success of somatic paths to improved health.  And to some extent it is. Physical therapy after surgery - get up and move. Medical imaging's improved understanding of healing and body mechanics, brain function. And, yet to some extent it isn't because movement therapy is difficult to monetize.
Nonetheless, through sharing and learning pathways, courtesy of podcasts, streaming videos, worldwide web interconnectivity, it's happening. We're delighted you are along for the ride in Learning Conversation.  Enjoy!  

Response-ability training is an online educational program to provide people with knowledge and skills to respond to their experiences, as opposed to merely reactiving and over-reacting chronically and unconscoiously. When you can respond to what life presents you with regulation and mindfulness, you save yourself from chronic stress which makes you better and your relationships with others better. The Becoming ResponseAble program is a foundation for learning about mental health as mindbody health and discovering inner resources and outer resources you may be unaware of!
 
 

5 min
Today's word is:  Happy
Maureen references a documentry on Happy - 2012 movie. Is happy a good goal?
Join the conversation.  
Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.  
If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites.
Landscapes for Learning
YogaHEALS

Resource:  Dr. Jordan B. Peterson Maureen begins the pod energized having just taught a yoga class. 
With over 175 published podcasts on resources, practices, discussions, interviews, reflections, we've somehow not talked about Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. Peterson is a pivotal figure in 'Learning Conversation,' not just for this podcast but for so many who have followed his lead in examining what words mean and how they can be used for good or harm. Peterson's opposition to Canada's speech legislation in Bill C-16, an amendment to the "Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code," catapulted him to a larger audience.
Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist who early on saw the danger of progressive cultural change.  He recorded his views in 2016. The recordings went viral. Peterson spoke what few dared. His reaction to the Bill C-16 was not the substance of words but the dynamic of the bill which essentially compelled speech - designating what can and cannot be said and making that part of the criminal code.
In other words, his objection focused on the foundational principles of free speech. Government should not legislate what can and cannot be said. In objecting, Peterson became the grain of sand in the oyster around which other layers of conversation formed. Peterson's podcasts and interviews became the epicenter of conversations, teachings, discussions which were not being had in other parts of Western society, parts that were tamed and shamed and remained silent on Progressivism's righteousness. 
With cultural support and power, political correctness began to be legislated. Today, we find ourselves on one side or the other of 'political correctness' with varying degrees of consequence. Cancel culture. Job security or insecurity. Political divides. Social discord.
The binary application of 'for and against' is, unfortunately, part of the political correctness movement. Wielding and leveraging cultural power is key to its change management; no room for discussion, debate, nuance, learning, conversation. Winning is not based on persuasive argument. Of course, speech issues, cultural change, progressive thought, conservation thought are multi-faceted subjects, but without room to examine and discuss facets, discourse is course or dismissed. Shouts and protests are memed and mimed into binary slogans. Black Lives Matter - good, appropriate.  All Lives Matter - not good, inappropriate, disrespectful.  
How fitting this podcast is released now. In the aftermath of a heinous genocidal assault that has been building over decades and is embedded in political and religous agendas through the charter of Hamas. We are witnesses to digusting binary barbitry that dehumanizes our collective society, and  breaks down civilized conversation and actions. Just what Jordan Peterson talks about.  
Our hearts go out to all who suffer. 
Peace through grace, and let it begin with me.  
Live to learn and learn to live.
 
Landscapes for Learning
YogaHEALS

5 min
Today's word is:  Suffering
Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.  
If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites.
Landscapes for Learning
YogaHEALS