Autumn Patterns of Nature Session starts September 22nd. Join Now.

LearningMethods™ Ongoing Open Class
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Explore various paths within WIM, like braids woven together:
One common thread is a desire to free oneself from struggle:
  • Pain—physical or emotional
  • Enhance and hasten healthy recovery from injury or surgery
  • Aging with grace, fluidity, integrity, and joy—regardless of life's restrictions.
  • Change unwanted habits or patterns in posture, movement, or thought and feeling
Another thread is a longing to feel more connected with Nature and to heal from a long lineage of disconnection from the vibrant, animate Earth. This thread is about:
  • Belonging
  • Inter-being
  • Knowing one's place in the vast Universe
Our third thread: Leaders, educators, movement, and music practitioners engage in WIM to deepen their approach, gaining greater facility in:
  • Guiding through an exploratory process that invites discovery and awareness in learners
  • Creating 'physicalization'—making tangible the abstract or conceptual through embodied practices
We have developed a pedagogy for this kind of embodied leadership and education.

Another thread: Inhabiting your body beyond skeletal and muscular movement, to include, access, and nourish—and be nourished by—your spiraling, limbed Heart; your rich, lubricating, insulating fat; your woven web of connective tissue; your intelligent inner ocean of the extracellular matrix; the breath of cells—and so much more.
You need look no further than yourself to see a miracle every day.

Finally: As your wholeness work unfolds, the Patterns of Nature weave these threads into a tapestry of clarity, curiosity, practices, and awe—something you can wrap yourself in for a lifetime. There is a community here, supporting your journey.

I welcome you to experience WIM on your own terms. I am now offering a course I created for the Center for Sound Music Education (CSME) for free. While there is a slight emphasis on musicians, the content is easily translatable to other interests. I also direct you to the Resources tab, which has several drop-downs, all of which are free videos to explore WIM.
Meeting My Bones 
FREE Introductory on-line course!
I recommend clicking cc in lower right corner for subtitles for these videos.

If you need, right now, a quick dose of Wholeness go here.

I  acknowledge and deeply thank the wholeness wisdom holders around the globe whose cultures never lost their kinship with all beings and the clarity that humans are part of the Earth. I honor the many people whose courage and tenacity let them retain their wholeness worldviews & languages despite attempts to destroy them and their culture. As someone indigenous to the planet, a colonizer in my landscape, and birthed into a white Anglo Saxon protestant worldview, wholeness is something that comes to me as discovery, as new and enlivening. Babette Lightner