Roots of Resilience
Feel more grounded, centered, and resilient as you explore movement that helps refine coordination. Video courses allow you to proceed at your own pace. Add on a package of private sessions with me to support you through the process.
This class opened a whole new world for me. It was a more comfortable first step than meditation, or yoga — this was a lot less intense. Overall the classes brought me into the present and changed my thinking in regards to tuning into how I feel without getting overwhelmed. – Chana, 2023
The Roots of Resilience offers a trauma-informed approach to Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement classes, created and taught by Dan Rindler GCFP, SEP. Each video course offers a safe-feeling entryway to tuning into your body sensations and using those sensations to fine tune your movement and posture. The result is feeling more settled, centered and connected – more the way you’d like to feel in your everyday life and in more challenging moments too.
Roots of Resilience Course Offerings
Centering: Getting centered in the body influences feeling centered in our thoughts and emotions.
8 1-hour classes plus bonus content
Ground/Flow: Improved groundedness becomes a source of feeling capable and resilient. Improved flow brings new potential for feeling unstuck and more at ease.
8 1-hour classes plus bonus content
False Alarm: Quieting Panic Attacks
Coming soon in early 2024
“Dan is very passionate about it in his quiet but enthusiastic way and cares deeply about students learning. After a few sessions I began to feel like I was far more present in my body which helped to ease my anxiety which was quite high before the course.”
– Stella Robertson, Creativity and Mindfulness Guide
In this program we focus on three roots of resilience.
1. Coming home to the body
Find huge relief and more clarity for what you’re thinking and feeling. It comes when you succeed in finding a safe experience of your sensations and we’ll try several paths toward that embodied homecoming.
2. Tapping into Inner Resources
You’ll find how to have more access to feelings of calm when you are wound up or freaking out. And actually build capacity for being with difficult sensations or emotions.
3. Knowing Yourself
Begin to clarify the specifics of your coping and override patterns. What stops you from appreciating being present in moments of life that are going well? Knowing yourself this way can help you both appreciated the good moments, and to weather the challenging ones.
“I joined the course because I was looking for an ongoing group to find and practice regulation.The sessions are full of opportunities to notice what’s going on for me, how I feel and move in my body with pauses for journalling, quotes, stories — all while working at my own pace.
Grounding and being grounded are such commonly used terms but physically quite alien to me. In one session, dedicated to exploring our feet, I actually found the feeling of being grounded. It was fleeting but powerful.
The sessions are all organized around supporting me to make choices, doing as much or as little as I feel. I’ve also made use the recordings to support me in times of stress when I want to practice in my own time. I’m really glad to have had this experience.“
– Michelle, 2023
Am I ready for this?
Feeling more present in the body is within your reach — it isn’t only for other people! To make progress means we’ll need to delve deep, but we’re not jumping into the deep end of the pool! We’re starting on the shallow side and we’re taking the stairs one at a time without rushing. Because measured incremental change which feels safe is what usually leads to real, lasting progress.
This course won’t do it all, here’s some of what it does not do:
1. It isn’t guaranteed to always relax or center you. Sometimes the movement sessions will be profoundly relaxing or centering, and…sometimes they won’t. Those times when they’re not so calming are important learning experiences if you can bring curiosity to the experience. (And I will try to help everyone with that.)
2. It isn’t a comprehensive approach to process each person’s individual trauma history. It’s important to have support in place (or on call) if things come up for you during the course. That might be a therapist, a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, a spiritual leader, or whoever you prefer. We simply can’t get as specific in a group course about your experience in the way those individual sessions can and sometimes both are needed.
3. It cannot provide appropriate support for people struggling with addictions, suicidal ideation, or mental illness. These are outside of my scope of practice. If any of these are challenges you’re facing, there are many other groups out there that will be helpful in ways I don’t know how to be.
4. It probably isn’t the right thing if you feel you’re at your darkest hour (You’d be better served right now by the personal attention of a therapist)
I’ve spent years working toward creating and refining these Roots of Resilience courses. The course beginning June 7, 2023 will be my 5th offering of the The Roots of Resilience. It’s what I needed when I first learned Feldenkrais Method 30 years ago: A trauma-informed approach to Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement classes, providing support to help you along the way toward feeling a bit more settled, centered and connected – more the way you’d like to feel in your everyday life as well as in challenging moments.