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WHAT IS A SHIATSU TREATMENT WITH KENDRA RENZONI LIKE?  In this episode I share about what a shiatsu treatment with me is like! With all the training, studying and ongoing discovery that I have through my experiences with my own healing and through sessions with others, my shiatsu treatments have been undergoing some change. This is currently what shiatsu treatment is like with me! A Session:  Sess...

This is a recording of a class I taught as an opening class to the winter Foundation Training series of 2024. I talk about why I have decided to start the 2024 winter courses with a class purely on self-regulation tools before getting into any of the physical practices. I share personal stories of self-regulation in some heated moments, all about each practice, and how these practices can really i...

This is a recording of a class I taught as an opening class to the winter Foundation Training series of 2024. This episode starts with the class settling in and getting all the comfy blankets and supplies out to really sink in together. Then I talk about why I have decided to start the 2024 winter courses with a class purely on self-regulation tools before getting into any of the physical practice...

In this episode I talk about what the structure of a Shiatsu treatment is currently like when you come to see me!  Check in - What's alive in life right now? Coming into the "Felt Sense" Resourcing Reflecting back: What I hear from an elemental perspective What organs / channels I think I may treat and why Getting comfortable Guided meditation to settle in Holding diagnostic areas Working the chan...

In this podcast I link our ability to let go with our relationship to uncertainty and our sense of self worth.  Where we are in the cycle of 5 elements Uncertainty The nightmare Bringing consciousness to the unconscious Worry Fear and anxiety Becoming present Opening up to possibility Letting go Past Failures, rejections, abandonment Value Good enough Re-defining failing Re-defining winning Kobaya...

TRANSFORMING RESISTANCE TO STABILITY: In this podcast I talk about the opportunity inside of feeling resistance. How resistance can be a door opening instead of a door closing. The role of the nervous system The breath Creating a bullet-proof nervous system The process of training ourselves to allow and to relax into discomfort Working with fear. The parts of ourselves... the part that is sort of...

IN THIS PODCAST I TALK ABOUT: – Our difficulties are our best teachers, but only if we know how to learn from them.  – Wounding in Childhood, being disliked – Conscious engagement with our pain – The heart and the mind – How to use experience as fodder for the work – Taking the lessons from our practice out into life – Resistance, preferences, acceptance, allowance, process & the pillars of practi...

DISEASE: IT'S AN INSIDE JOB. In this podcast I talk about realizing that the locus of control is on the inside and how we can affect our health and life through emotions /  internal conditions. I explore how we can affect things like cancer, disease, and sickness through emotional processes by linking emotions to cellular health. I explore the importance of developing a practice and a process to d...

In this Podcast:  Feelings have a beginning, middle, and an end. Exhaustion can come from a feeling that hasn't been fully felt. Our body is our unconscious, any good practice will reveal what is there.  When the unconscious comes up to the surface it is an opportunity for healing. We often experience resistance to feeling this stuff and develop strategies to avoid it. We can also develop a proces...

CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY:  In this episode I talk about working with resistance in a way that can put us in touch with the feelings that keep us stuck and feeling dead in our lives. These feelings can keep us stuck in suffering or they can be a flood gate into coming alive. Learning to feel things we "don't want to feel" can put us in touch with our truth and living in alignment with ourselves.  In t...

PAIN AS A BRIDGE: WAKING UP Reacting and responding What's under the story Inside and outside Experiencing the pain Becoming sensative Resistance and Acceptance Pema Chodron on Warrior Slogans Ezra Bayda on the "Substitute Life" Sealskin / Soulskin  Using pain to bring ourselves back home

In this podcast I talk about developing the kind of strength that makes us consistent, dependable, and gives us integrity as human beings. It is the strength to keep on keeping on. It involves mastery as well as stability. You become like a rock or a mountain. You feel grounded in the world because you are grounded in your own self. A quality that indicates this in your life is the presence of rhy...

THE PATH OF THE WARRIOR:  In this podcast I bring the work of Foundation Training for Posture together with Chogyam Trungpa's work on The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Talking: Posture, Breath, Science, Emotions, and Being a Fully Human Being Make a transformation or die Vipassana 10-Day silent meditation retreat life lesson Foundation Training with Eric Goodman The impacts of compression on the bod...

IN THIS PODCAST:  Prep talk for my Fall Series The Tao Spacial Imagination Facilitating Healing Working with emotions during practice Equanimity  Breath work as part of the warm up Warm-ups... and why

SPRING BIRTH / RE-BIRTH: FALL / METAL  WINTER DREAM SPRING RE-BIRTH THE ALCHEMIST COURSE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED WITHIN ARMS REACH TURNING BASE METALS TO GOLD TRANSFORMATION - WEAVE TOGETHER TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW THE PHOENIX RISING OLD WOMAN PORCUPINE GARMET MYTH RESILIENCE WITH PROCESS OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION FOUNDATION TRAINING THE SUPPLE LEOPARD THE READY STATE CATCHING AN ANTELOPE

IN THIS PODCAST:  I cover the story of the 5 elements, what each element is associated with psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually, and how that relates to life.  I also cover traits of each element as they are found in ourselves and the people we know. This is very storyteller style with personal experience of living the elements. Yay!  Water Wood Fire Earth Metal  

CHANGE AND COMMITMENT:  GOING BEYOND GOOD ENOUGH, VALUE, WORTH, RIGHT & WRONG   IN THIS PODCAST: GIVING YOURSELF THE SPACE TO GO THROUGH CHANGE INTROVERSION & EXTROVERSION IT GETS SO BAD WE OPEN UP TO MAKING A CHANGE CLINGING TO SAFETY BUT BEING DEAD INSIDE VULNERABILITY INITIAL STAGES OF MAKING A CHANGE COMMITTMENT WHY MAKE A COMMITMENT THE ISSUES THAT ARISE WHEN WE COMMIT EMPOWERMENT VERSES DISE...

IN THIS PODCAST:  Water Element Wood Element Comparison & Measuring Sticks Monkey Experiment  Giving Others Power Inner Critic Alignment with our Heart Shame  Sharing our story Healing is Strength / Power Developing Equanimity Faith Money Abandonment & Existential Loneliness Inadequacy and Unavailability Oneness Willingness to take risk Opening up

This podcast covers: Knee Dislocation The ways we get stuck Getting clear on intention Working with pain Trusting yourself more than "experts" Working with Despair Recovery capacity greatly increases when moving forward with heart "Demon Voices" Recognizing it in ourself Gaining capacity to work with bigger and bigger traumas Trauma Letting Go Attachment / Aversion The Leg Chakras Taking The Leap...

LIFE TAKES PRACTICE: SUTRA 1.5   THIS PODCAST COVERS:  Sutra 1.5: vrtayah pancatayya klistaklishta There are 5 states of mind, some create suffering and some are born of insight and they culminate in liberation Definitions of each sanskrit word Specific feelings that tell us we are either using detrimental or liberating thought patterns The Five Klesas, from which all the detrimental mind states c...

This Track Covers: - Getting to the Roots of Beliefs - Equanimity - Faith - Shenpa, Getting Hooked and Our Ego - Samskaras - "Wrong" Mind Frame - Leaning In, Instead of Avoiding Pain - Using Triggers as a Doorway / An Opening - Yoga Sutra 1.4 - Understanding Yoga Philosophy on how the mind works - Beingness - Identifying as Awareness or Identifying as the Ego and Sense Data - Using Non-Violent Com...

Talking about Impermanence before class last night PLUS beautiful John O'Donohue Poem.        

This is an excerpt from classes this week on both the water element, fear, letting go into the unknown, and loneliness, as well as the role of the heart, connection, boundaries, and being held by the universal group heart. "Your heart has a great connection to the universal group heart, way bigger than the small personal circles of humans. Letting go of the vine does not mean disconnecting from so...

In classes this week we explore the how getting your needs met makes it easy to let go of attachments that don't serve your heart as well as looking at ourselves through our hearts and not through judgment and how doing this helps us digest our lives. In class we are doing twists to help the body digest and move through things too!

In class today we talked about how beliefs change how we see reality... then on conditional love, insecurity, judgements, and THEN on what is most important and aligning with that.