Lavinia Plonka – The Shift Network – Unlock Your Archetypal Strengths With the Feldenkrais Method

Lavinia Plonka – The Shift Network – Unlock Your Archetypal Strengths With the Feldenkrais Method

Learn somatic movements, mind-body exercises, and meditations that call you into profound awareness of the archetypes within you to dramatically elevate your self-perception, intuitive vision, potential, and wellbeing.

• The Warrior’s energy evokes courage and power — helping you ground and show up as a leader.
• The Teacher’s energy inspires compassion and wisdom — showing you how to listen deeply and respond from your heart.
• The Healer’s energy offers you the ability to… well, heal — focusing your attention on the power in your hands to nourish yourself and others.
• The Visionary’s energy gives you insight and forethought — allowing you to see beyond literal vision to the clarity you need to understand your needs and those of others.

In these seven transformative sessions with Lavinia, you’ll:

• Experience a powerful approach to emotional and physical healing that melds the gentle, mindful movements of the Feldenkrais Method with awareness of the archetypal energies within you
• Dive into 4 key archetypes — the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary — where their energies constellate in your body, and how they can help you release painful patterns and embody new, empowering ways of being
• Discover how subtle movements and awareness of the body’s somatic cues can awaken the archetypal powers to release physical and emotional blocks to self-love, wellbeing, and living life fully
• Develop the capacity to show up, take a stand, and lead through example
• Connect with your inner wisdom to repair your past and prepare your future
• Connect your fears to your possibilities
• Enhance your capacity for flexibility and your ability to be responsive rather than reactive
• The power of your hands for self-healing
• Ways to increase focus and clarity
• Create an archetype map of your chosen qualities

In Unlock Your Archetypal Strengths With the Feldenkrais Method, you’ll begin to see the story your physical body tells… beyond the verbal stories you have about yourself.

Through Lavinia’s Feldenkrais-inspired subtle movements, you can transform your stories, come into heightened self-awareness, expand your repertoire of movement, and improve the way your full system functions — bringing your life into physical, emotional, and spiritual alignment.

Join us and discover simple, yet powerful, mind-body practices… to move you into whole-being wellness.

What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules

In this 7-part transformational intensive, Lavinia will guide you through the fundamental body-mind-spirit skills and competencies you’ll need to elevate your self-concept, vision, physical and emotional wellbeing, and potential.

This course will feature teachings, training sessions, and experiential practices with Lavinia. 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 and dramatically elevate your self-concept, vision, and potential — through movement, exercises, and meditations that call you into profound awareness.

Module 1: Your Somatic Story — A Personal Adventure Into the Lessons of the Archetypes

In this module you’ll:

• Experience a movement lesson connected to cosmic and archetypal experience
• Release back tension connected to habitual patterns
• Learn how your spine tells others your story
• Explore your personal mythology through a guided meditation
• Connect your body map with your self-image and your life’s journey

Module 2: The Warrior — Unleash Your Courage & Feel Your Power

In this session: you’ll:

• Liberate your power center through a simple yet profound movement lesson
• Connect your core with your temporomandibular joint (TMJ)
• Take on the breath, posture, and facial expression of courage
• Explore the dimensions of the Warrior in your life experience
• Develop your Warrior capacity to show up, take a stand, and lead through example
• Access the embodied Warrior’s tool chest through movement: Orientation, Timing, Attention
• Experience relief from pelvic floor and back pain, as well as TMJ issues

Module 3: The Teacher — Lead With Embodied Wisdom & Compassion

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

• Experience a movement lesson that frees the ribs, improving breath and self-compassion
• Connect with your inner wisdom to repair your past and prepare your future through a powerful personal writing exercise
• Enjoy a unique mirroring game
• Identify and embrace your role as Teacher
• Access the embodied Teacher’s tool chest through movement: Compassion, Listening, Mirroring,Responsiveness
• Develop your capacity for flexibility and your ability to be responsive rather than reactive

Module 4: The Healer — Give & Receive Needed Healing

In this class, you’ll discover:

• The power of your hands for self-healing
• Identify the unique healing gifts resulting from your wounds
• A powerful meditative practice connected to your hands
• How your hands and arms are a conduit for healing
• The link between mudras, Western sacred gestures, and healing
• Access to the embodied Healer’s tool chest through movement: Energy, Presence, Love
• How to work with carpal tunnel and painful wrists

Module 5: The Visionary — The Art of Seeing With Insight & Forethought

In this session, Lavinia will share:

• The skill of “Slow Looking” and how it increases intelligence
• A powerful “inner movement” lesson for improving your eyesight
• “In sights” about your personal mythology
• A meditation that connects inner vision with sensation and perception
• Access the embodied Visionary’s tool chest through inner movement: Insight, Perspective, Intuition
• Ways to increase focus and clarity

Module 6: The Shadows — Find Freedom From Fear & Replace It With Love 

During this class, you’ll learn how to:

• Identify shadow aspects of each archetype
• Connect your fears to your possibilities
• Learn a seated (chair) movement lesson that relieves tension from hidden habits
• Use compassionate inquiry to understand your shadow
• Make your shadow your ally
• Look at the feeling of gratitude and the sense of being good enough

Module 7: The Power of Choice — Integrating & Enacting the Person You’re Meant to Be

In this final module, you’ll

• Enjoy a movement lesson that connects all the parts: pelvis, ribs, hands and eyes into an empowering spiral
• Experience a meditation that calls each archetype into your posture
• Discover and explore the many ways these archetypes manifest in the world
• Create an archetype map of your chosen qualities
• Receive tools and ideas for going deeper into this fascinating exploration
• Work through primal to more refined emotions

An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Unlock Your Archetypal Strengths With the Feldenkrais Method Online Training

We feel honored that Lavinia Plonka has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a body language expert and Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Teacher whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world

If you’re serious about elevating your self-concept, vision, potential, and wellbeing, 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 evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.