The Kinēsa™ Process with Lavinia Plonka, RSME
Arichive : The Kinēsa™ Process with Lavinia Plonka, RSME
Lavinia Plonka, RSME, Body Language Expert and Guild-Certified Feldenkrais® Teacher, Launches New 7-Week Live Video Training on Thursday, July 21, 2022
Can’t make it to the end? Following each lesson, video and audio recordings are made accessible for download and viewing at any time.
Experience gentle, yet powerful, somatic movement, astute insight, and guided meditations to help you move more freely, create emotional fluency, and transform your own feelings into a powerful approach to heal.
The way you move your body determines how you go through life. It is a holy vessel containing a world of possibilities.
If you’re like many of us, you go about your days with little comprehension of how your body works.
As a result, your emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual elements may be out of sync, causing bodily discomfort as well as emotional and spiritual upheaval.
Using the keys of embodiment and connection, you have the ability to unlock your body’s life-changing secrets.
You may then fully occupy your body as your vessel, realizing your dreams, connecting with your emotions, and sparking your knowledge of your own potential in this world.
Join us for a 7-week journey through Lavinia Plonka’s brand-new Feldenkrais-inspired somatic approach, the Kinsa process, which is her own synthesis of many other disciplines, including Moshe Feldenkrais’ work, Emotional Body®, martial arts, yoga, and G.I. Gurdjieff’s teachings.
Each week, as you experience Lavinia’s Kinsa-based knowledge, exercises, and guided practices to help you fulfill your aspirations, somatics and spirituality will collide.
Lavinia has been a Feldenkrais teacher, Alba Method teacher, and Emotional Body lead instructor for over 35 years, helping individuals better their movement, behavior, relationships, and professions. Her distinct expertise bridges the gap between posture, movement, emotions, and the mind.
Theater, dance, yoga, and martial arts have all been part of her education. Students of Lavinia frequently describe a restored sense of optimism, self-awareness, and re-engagement with their bodies. One of the most dramatic benefits people experience is leaving “chronic pain in the dust,” as one participant put it.
Whether you’re a healing professional, personal coach, yogi, Feldenkrais Practitioner, movement instructor, or personal spiritual seeker, Lavinia’s Kinsa method will help you completely inhabit yourself in an embodied sense, allowing you to interact with yourself and the world around you more effectively.
Experience firsthand how Kinsa may help you achieve emotional and spiritual freedom within your body — so you can have more sensitivity, compassion, clarity of thought, emotional resilience, and a tremendous sense of general well-being as you extend your life’s possibilities.
What Exactly Is the Kinesa Process?
Going Beyond Traditional Body Concepts
Using the Movement Prism
During this new 7-week course, you will:
Dive deep into Kinsa — Lavinia’s one-of-a-kind synthesis of Moshe Feldenkrais’ work, body language research, martial arts, and yoga — to alleviate physical discomfort and build more gentleness, compassion, clear thinking, emotional fluency, and an expanded sense of potential in your life.
As you identify your apparent limitations and experience inner light, you will progress toward inner freedom.
Enjoy weekly movement experiences and somatic learning to help you reinforce and expand your knowledge.
Explore the four powerful archetypes of the Kinsa Process: Healer, Warrior, Teacher, and Visionary, which provide tools for being the change you wish to see in the world.
As you feel more profoundly, you will become more emotionally fluent, and your life will become more satisfying.
Improve your posture and relax your muscles.
Interrupt the pain loop with mild, safe exercises that draw your nervous system’s attention away from pain and toward greater comfort and enhanced function.
Understand your mobility options to decrease back discomfort and strain.
Discover your own anatomy and sixth sense.
Discover how your posture, breathing, and facial expressions transmit your emotions to yourself and others.
Learn to be aware of how you move in order to become aware of habits and tensions that obstruct clear thought and action.
Use your imagination to get closer to your objective with less effort — and use mobility to get rid of impediments.
Allow your voice to move with your energy to create the strength of your word and free your imprisoned fifth chakra energy by opening your throat, relaxing your jaw, and allowing your voice to flow with your energy to manifest the power of your word and release your imprisoned fifth chakra energy
What You’ll Learn in These 7 Weeks
Lavinia will take you through the foundational skills and competencies you’ll need to explore her Kinsa process, advanced Feldenkrais-inspired movement for heightened physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, throughout this 7-week transformative intensive.
The Influence of Livestreaming Video
You’ll interact with Lavinia and learn from her through livestreaming video from any connected device. This link is simple to utilize and will increase the effect of Lavinia’s communications. You may also listen to simply the audio over the phone.
(Unable to make it live? Not to worry! Following each lesson, the video and audio recordings will be made available for you to download or stream in high quality at your leisure.)
This course will include LIVE lessons, interactive training sessions, immersive exercises, and questions and answers with Lavinia. Each session will build on the ones before it, so you’ll have a comprehensive holistic grasp of the practices, skills, and principles you’ll need to explore Lavinia’s Kinsa process, advanced Feldenkrais-inspired movement for heightened physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.
Module 1: Your Physical Body — Learn the Nervous System’s Language to Reduce Pain and Increase Flexibility (July 21)
Chronic pain, discomfort, and stiffness might cause you to shut down and flee. However, feeling and movement are essential for transitioning from pain to pleasure.
Lavinia will explain how the pain cycle may be broken with moderate, safe exercises that shift your nervous system’s focus toward better ease and enhanced function as your trip through this course begins.
She’ll explain how knowing your movement choices may help you minimize back discomfort and stress, as well as introduce you to your own anatomy and sixth sense. (And, no, it isn’t ESP!)
You will investigate how stress impacts your capacity to perceive oneself, as well as how it alters oxygen and cellular structure. You’ll discover why so many individuals experience emotional, mental, and physical strain, which leads to back pain — and how somatic movement may heal pain and expand proprioceptive mobility.
Lavinia will lead you through an investigation of how the idea of rotation – the capacity to turn and be flexible in the spine — influences your ability to respond to, receive, and enable information to move through your body.
In this module, you will investigate:
The connection between sensation and perception, and how it affects pain
How do hidden tensions affect your flexibility?
Back pain statistics and why movement can help
Mythbusters regarding low back pain and twisting
A strong movement instruction that can aid in the relief of back pain
Module 2: Your Emotional Body – Improve Your Mood While Practicing Posture (July 28)
Even if you don’t know it, you’re communicating with your body – not just with others, but also with yourself.
Your skull, for example, may weigh up to 15 pounds and rests on top of your spine. Is that correct? Gravity pushes your spine down, rounding your back, if your head is front or hanging down. This affects your mood as well as how others see you.
Lavinia will discuss how your posture, breath, and facial expressions transmit your emotions to yourself and others. You’ll discover how your head position impacts and reflects different emotions, as well as techniques for placing your head “in its place” for ideal posture and relaxation.
This module will teach you:
Flexion and extension are concepts.
How your head position affects your posture and emotions (and vice versa)
A seated movement instruction for improving posture and alleviating sitting discomfort.
A fun practice that connects head postures with emotional expressiveness.
The connection between posture and health
Module 3: Your Mental Body — Use Intelligent Decision Making in Your Actions (August 4)
You can do whatever you want when you know what you’re doing.
Feldenkrais, Moshe
To genuinely understand oneself, you must observe yourself.
Your capacity to attend to your thoughts, emotions, and experiences, as Lavinia will describe, begins with a clear mind.
You become aware of habits and tensions that interfere with clear thought and action by becoming aware of how you move. She’ll show you how to establish a strategy and stick to it, observing and reflecting along the way – with clarity of thought toward not only your movement, but also your life.
You’ll also investigate the folding and unfolding process – how to expand oneself when stiff thoughts induce contraction, impacting your body and restricting your options and capacity to go forward.
Lavinia will demonstrate how to picture motions so that you know how you’re going to move ahead of time (reducing fear of the unknown), as well as how your life alters as you follow them through.
This module will teach you:
A movement instruction designed to increase mental and physical flexibility.
How unconscious facial tension influences the quality of ideas, emotions, and movement
How to use deliberate tension to see whether it affects your movement ability.
A method for determining your intentions and establishing your objectives.
A simple activity to help you clarify your priorities.
How to Make Your Direction Clear So You Don’t Have to Grip
Module 4: Your Creative Body — Being Open to New Opportunities and Spontaneity (August 11)
You are the architect of your own reality and destiny. The process is the same whether you’re developing a product, a relationship, or a joyful environment.
Finding oneself in an unexpected circumstances, unique environment, or new position may be both terrifying and exciting! The ability to recognize what is required, to be interested, and to be comfortable in the unknown may make the impossible attainable.
Lavinia will demonstrate how planning, imagination, and successive approximations lead to a successful creative endeavor. You will investigate how learning to let go, make errors, and play without judgment transforms living into a creative endeavor.
This module will teach you:
A movement class that pushes your perceived limits while emphasizing enjoyment.
A practical activity for experimenting with different ways of creating your life.
How to utilize your imagination to get closer to your objective with less effort.
How to Use Movement to Get Rid of Obstacles
The relationship between curiosity, play, and liberty
Module 5: Your Archetypal Body — Discover the Healer Archetype and the Healing Power of Your Hands (August 18)
Archetype exploration is a strong and fulfilling technique to move deeper into personal growth.
The Kinsa Process focuses on four strong archetypes that provide you with tools to help you become the change you wish to see in the world.
Lavinia will bring you to the Healer Archetype’s core of presence – the ability of your hands to heal yourself. From ancient traditions to modern science, you’ll discover how your hands can heal, harm, communicate, and impact you as a whole person.
You’ll use your hand energy to heal, releasing tension in your chest, neck, back, and shoulders.
This module will teach you:
The ability of the Healer Archetype’s hands to support and heal yourself and others
How your hands express your ideas
The wounded healer’s paradox
How you may use your hands to help yourself heal
A strong movement instruction for using your hands to relieve shoulder discomfort.
Module 6: Finding Your Voice, Speaking Your Truth, and Unlocking Your Jaw
Imprisoning the fifth chakra’s energy can constrict the throat, lock the jaw, and literally tie your tongue…
This trapped energy of the fifth chakra can cause TMJ dysfunction, headaches, stiff neck, a weak voice, and other symptoms. Lavinia often wonders if she became a mime because she was told to shut up so many times as a child.
Lavinia will guide you through the process of opening your throat, relaxing your jaw, and allowing your voice to move with your energy to manifest the power of your words.
This module will teach you:
Two somatic explorations for jaw, tongue, and voice release
An exercise to help you find your true voice.
A meditation on vibration, sound, and the throat to relieve throat tension.
Surprising links between language and the brain
Module 7: Your Alchemical Body — Unlock the Inner Transformation Power
The transformation of lead into gold was used by ancient alchemists as a metaphor for inner transformation — preparing the self to access higher powers and a connection with the Divine.
Lavinia will have guided you to broaden your self-image and possibilities at this point in your journey.
You’ll be invited to experience your inner illumination as these seven weeks come to a close. You will learn to recognize your perceived limitations and begin the journey toward inner freedom as a result of this process.
You’ll get advice along the way on how to transition from sorrow to joy, pain to pleasure, intention to action, and potential to possibility. You’ll also learn how to stretch yourself to embrace your true worth.
This module will teach you:
A meditation in which you combine mind, sensation, and energy to experience transformation.
A dynamic movement session for “enlightening” your self-image.
An overview of the presence process
The Star is your personal connection to the Tarot card.
A new interpretation of the alchemical phrase “as above, so below”
