Lavinia Plonk – Kinēsa Process 2022

During this empowering 7-module course, you’ll:

• Dive deep into Kinēsa — Lavinia’s unique synthesis of the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, body language science, martial arts, and yoga — to reduce physical pain and cultivate greater tenderness, compassion, clear thinking, emotional fluency, and an expanded sense of possibility for your life
• Journey toward inner freedom as you recognize your perceived limitations and experience inner illumination
• Enjoy movement experiences and somatic learning each session to solidify and build on what you’re learning
• Explore the Kinēsa Process’ 4 powerful archetypes — the Healer, Warrior, Teacher, and Visionary — that offer tools for becoming the change you want to see in this world
• Become more emotionally fluent as you feel things more deeply — so your life becomes more fulfilling
• Improve your posture and relieve tension in your body
• Interrupt the pain loop with gentle, safe movements that direct your nervous system’s attention toward greater ease and improved function
• Understand your movement choices so you can reduce back pain and tension
• Experience your own anatomy and your sixth sense
• Learn how your posture, breath, and facial expression communicate feelings to yourself and others
• Become aware of how you move so you can become aware of habits and tensions that interfere with clear thinking and action
• Use imagination to move toward a goal with less struggle — and use movement to remove obstacles
• Open your throat, relax your jaw, and allow your voice to move with your energy to manifest the power of your word and release your imprisoned fifth chakra energy

Chronic pain, discomfort, and stiffness can sometimes make you want to shut down and escape. Yet sensation and movement are the keys to moving from pain to pleasure.

As your journey through this course begins, Lavinia will explain how the pain loop can be interrupted with gentle, safe movements that direct your nervous system’s attention toward greater ease and improved function.

She’ll share how understanding your movement choices can reduce back pain and reduce tension, introducing you to experiencing your own anatomy and your sixth sense. (And no, it’s not ESP!)

You’ll explore how tension affects your ability to perceive yourself, and how it affects oxygen and cellular structure. You’ll learn why so many people have emotional, mental, and physical tension that results in back pain — and how somatic movement can relieve pain and expand proprioceptive movement.

Lavinia will guide you to examine how the concept of rotation — the ability to turn and be flexible in the spine — affects your ability to respond, receive, and allow information to flow within your body.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• The relationship between sensation and perception and how that influences pain
• How hidden tensions influence your flexibility
• The statistics on back pain and why movement can help
• Mythbusters about your low back and twisting
• A powerful movement lesson that can help relieve back pain

Even when you don’t realize it, you’re using your body to communicate — not just with others, but also with yourself.

For instance, your head, which can weigh up to 15 pounds, rests on top of your spine. Or does it? If your head is forward, or hanging down, gravity pulls your spine down, rounding your back. This influences your mood and how others perceive you.

Lavinia will explain how your posture, breath, and facial expression communicate feelings to yourself and others. You’ll learn how the position of your head affects and reflects certain emotions, as well as strategies for putting your head “in its place” for optimal posture and ease.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• The concepts of flexion and extension
• How the position of the head influences your posture and emotions (and vice versa)
• A seated movement lesson for improving posture and relieving stiffness from sitting
• A fun exercise connecting positions of the head with emotional expression
• The relationship between posture and health

When you know what you’re doing, you can do what you want.
— Moshe Feldenkrais

To truly know yourself, you need to observe yourself.

As Lavinia will explain, your ability to attend to your thoughts, emotions, and sensations begins with a clear mind.

By becoming aware of how you move, you become aware of habits and tensions that interfere with clear thinking and action. She’ll share how to make a plan and follow it, observing the results and reflecting along the way — with clarity of thinking towards not just your movement, but also your life.

You’ll also explore the movement of folding and unfolding — how to expand yourself when tense thoughts cause contraction, affecting your body as well as limiting your choices and your ability to move forward.

Lavinia will explain how to visualize movements so you know ahead of time how you’re going to move (which reduces fear of the unknown), as well as how your life transforms as you follow them through.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• A movement lesson to improve mental and physical flexibility
• How unconscious tension in the face affects the quality of thoughts, emotions, and movement
• How to introduce intentional tension to discern whether it impacts your movement abilities
• A process for setting an intention and clarifying your goals
• A simple exercise for solidifying your priorities
• How to clarify your direction so you don’t have to grip

You’re a creator of your reality and your destiny. Whether you’re creating a product, a relationship, or an atmosphere for joy, the process is the same.

Finding yourself in an unexpected circumstance, novel situation, or a new position can be frightening or exhilarating! The ability to see what’s necessary, remain curious, and allow yourself to be in the unknown can make the impossible possible.

Lavinia will explain how strategy, imagination, and successive approximations lead to an effective creative act. You’ll explore how learning to let go, make mistakes, and play without judgment makes living itself a creative act.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• A movement lesson that challenges your perceived limitations while focusing on pleasure
• A practical exercise for exploring new possibilities in how you create your life
• How to use imagination to move toward a goal with less struggle
• How to use movement to remove obstacles
• The connection between curiosity, play, and freedom

Exploring Archetypes is a powerful and enriching way to go deeper into personal growth.

The Kinēsa Process focuses on four powerful archetypes that offer you tools for becoming the change you want to see in this world.

Lavinia will guide you to access the center of presence of the Healer Archetype — the power of your hands to heal yourself. From ancient traditions to modern science, you’ll learn about the power your hands hold for healing, harming, communicating, and impacting you as a whole person.

You’ll activate your hand energy for healing, helping you release tension in your chest, neck, back, and shoulders.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• The Healer Archetype’s power of the hands to support and heal yourself and others
• How the hands communicate your thoughts
• The paradox of the wounded healer
• How you can use your hands to help heal yourself
• A powerful movement lesson to use the hands to help with shoulder pain

Imprisoning the energy of the fifth chakra can constrict the throat, lock the jaw, and make you literally tongue tied…

This imprisoned energy of the fifth chakra can lead to TMJ dysfunction, headaches, a stiff neck, a weak voice, and more. As Lavinia will share, she often wonders whether she became a mime because she was told to shut up so many times as a child.

Lavinia will help you open your throat, relax your jaw, and allow your voice to move with your energy to manifest the power of your word.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• Two somatic explorations for freeing the jaw, tongue, and voice
• An exercise to anchor your authentic voice
• A meditation on vibration, sound, and the throat to reduce tension in the throat
• The surprising connections between language and the brain

The ancient alchemists used the transformation of lead into gold as a metaphor for inner transformation — preparing the self to access higher powers and a connection with the Divine.

At this point in your journey, Lavinia will have guided you to expand your self-image and your possibilities.

As these seven modules come to a close, you’ll be invited to experience your inner illumination. In the process, you’ll learn to recognize your perceived limitations and begin the journey toward inner freedom.

Along the way, you’ll receive guidance for moving from sorrow to joy, pain to pleasure, intention to action, and potential to possibility. You’ll also gain insight into how to expand yourself to embrace your highest worth.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• A meditation to experience transformation as you combine mind, sensation, and energy.
• A powerful movement session for “en”lightening your self-image
• An introduction to the presence process
• The Star, your personal link to the Tarot card
• A new meaning of the alchemical saying, “as above, so below”