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The Thinking Body-The Feeling Mind® Modality

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What is The Thinking Body-The Feeling Mind® ?

The Thinking Body-The Feeling Mind® (created by Linda Lack, Ph.D.) is  an interoceptive somatic movement modality and contemporary movement training acknowledged for its efficacy alongside Pilates, Feldenkrais, Alexander and Bartenieff.

TBFM® is a wonderful integrative mind/body ritual that reveals universal truths about Body– its issues, strengths, imbalances, and then helps to resolve them. TBFM as a therapeutic healing technique reduces pain, minimizes movement limitations and creates new possibilities for life and capacity for the passions that drive our aliveness.

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Some fundamental tenets of The Thinking Body~The Feeling Mind:

  • You are the expert of your own experience.

  • Muscular release is often referred to as the action of “letting go”. Letting go is a learned event; release takes practice and consistency to maintain access to muscles at rest. 

  • Seeing the body as a system and organization of parts helps debunk myths about how we operate and age. Along with range of motion and strength, cultivating release of the musculoskeletal system increases the body’s intelligence.

 

  • A sound relationship with the ground underneath can yield a sound relationship to oneself. TBFM tries to take us back into the beautiful primitiveness of the human body: squatting, stooping, to belly down crawling. 

 

  • Seeing the body as a marvelous moving architecture composed of sacred geometry (spirals, tetrahedrons, spheres, cylinders, triangles…)  that can shape time and space can change how we move about the world.

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  • The body can act as liaison between inner and outer worlds. How we speak to ourselves matters. Using the “right muscles for the right task” creates a better ride in the body.

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Note from Trinity:

TBFM is a long time beloved ritual and the main movement modality I practice as well as utilize to support and assess movement patterns in the people I work with. Please learn more about Linda Lack Ph.D and the technique itself at lindalack.com.

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