Tracy Dixon Structural Integration
201-175 East Broadway & 318 Homer Street V5T 1W1 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Land and Water Protectors I stand with you. This is where I would be if I wasn't working today. 20% of my profits today will go to the watch house - Kwekwecnewtxw - and the ongoing indigenous led opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline. You too can support, with food or supplies, or financial contributions to the legal fund for the arrestees. Go to @protecttheinlet and follow the links. Or show up at Whey-Ah-Whichen (Cates Park to support the flotilla! All my love #protecttheinlet #flotilla #Kwekwecnewtxw #salishsea #coastprotectors #tsleilwaututh #coastsalishterritory #waterissacred #waterislife #landandwaterprotectors #waterprotectors

Classroom. Bonework #sharonwheeler #bonework #structuralintegration #integraçãoestrutural estrutural #sopaulo #brasil #winterinbrasil @ São Paulo, Brazil

Community and corporate change makers, and anyone interested in understanding and practicing decolonization, consider taking this workshop. Kimi Haxton is a phenomenal human with a huge, fierce heart and deep wisdom. <3

Its official! I am now a MOVNAT Certified Level 1 trainer!!!!! That was hard! And - I just love this practice and all the folks Ive met so far in the Movnat family & I cant wait for Level 2! Biggest shout out to my most fabulous and inspiring coach @captainstefano for so much support. THANK YOU!!! (P.s. dear clients, sessions with me just got more valuable! Come hang from trees with me !) #movnat #movnatwomen #movementheals #movnatcertifiedtrainer #rolfmethod #structuralintegration #moveyourfascia

This Movement Retreat in Mexico with Darcy McMurray looks so goooooooood. I would go if I could. Through a synergy of Pilates, yoga, somatics and dance, Darcy will guide participants of all levels toward greater freedom of motion, and a sense of joyous awareness in the body. This retreat is an opportunity to gain insight into your postural tendencies and develop a personal practice that supports ongoing core connection and healthy alignment of the spine

Land and Water Protectors I stand with you. This is where I would be if I wasnt working today. 20% of my profits today will go to the watch house - Kwekwecnewtxw - and the ongoing indigenous led opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline. You too can support, with food or supplies, or financial contributions to the legal fund for the arrestees. Go to @protecttheinlet and follow the links. Or show up at Whey-Ah-Whichen (Cates Park to support the flotilla! All my love #protecttheinlet #flotilla #Kwekwecnewtxw #salishsea #coastprotectors #tsleilwaututh #coastsalishterritory #waterissacred #waterislife #landandwaterprotectors #waterprotectors

Classroom. Bonework #sharonwheeler #bonework #structuralintegration #integraoestrutural estrutural #sopaulo #brasil #winterinbrasil @ So Paulo, Brazil

Join me in the Yoga Outreach fundraising challenge! Its easy and good for you! 21 bucks for 21 days, 21 minutes a day to celebrate 21 YEARS of providing trauma-informed yoga programming across BC! @yogaoutreach @vanplots @thedoghouseyoga #yogaforaddiction #traumainformed #yogaoutreach #yogachallenge #traumasensitiveyoga

So excited to announce the birth of Kimberly Ann Johnsons podcast! Shes a daredevil who tells it like it is, asks all the right questions, and has a great laugh. Listen up!

Sweet sit shot. #ibme #teenretreat #pnw

We be iBme! Our amazing staff getting ready for the arrival of 45 teens tomorrow for our pacific northwest retreat. Deep wisdom, deep compassion, and deep fun!!! #inwardboundmindfulnesseducation #teenretreat #mindfulness #meditation #pnwteenretreat @ibmeretreats @stayfreedharma

And were off! 43 teens set to meditate. #inwardboundmindfulnesseducation #pnw #teenretreat

"Its possible to be touch hungry and not even know itor even to mistake your symptoms for poor mental health. "People who are touch hungry usually present as being depressed individuals," Field says. "Theyre withdrawn; their voice intonation contour is flat." She adds that people suffering from clinical depression may also often suffer from touch hungerand this can be seen in an area of the brain called the vagus. "When you massage these people, their depression levels go down and their vagal activity goes up."

Better alignment = more power

Theres a strong case for organizing movement from the periphery to the center, rather than the idea of starting from the center, she says. This is based on a developmental idea that once weve learned to do movements from our own volition, rather than reflexively, its most efficient to start at the most distal points, hands and feet, because we can calibrate the amount of effort required to do the task, and we do not have to work any harder than necessary.

Buddhist practice & anger. A course on one of my favourite pairings from one of my favourite organizations, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Totally affordable, NOTA. Sign up by midnight tonight. <3

Dont we look good....

In honour of the elegant activist and artist Harry Belafontes 90th birthday, shake shake shake your body Line. Shake shake shake. Shake it all the time.

The other side of this sign says "dont talk to strangers". I disagree wholeHEARTedly. There is no such thing as strangers and we can always, always, always fall in love. Pretty much any moment of any day. #love #loveftw #valentinesdayeveryday #talktostrangers #inlove

The Buddha in the backyard either got stolen the other night, or dissolved into ultimate liberation. I was sad for a second, then was struck by the auspiciousness. I have created an altar to emptiness in his place. Altar to emptiness photos to follow ;) (P.S. No doubt whoever took him is receiving teachings right now, possibly in the form of herniated disc from carrying him off. He weighed a lot...maybe one day the Buddha lifter will come to me for healing of his back...) #byebuddha #backyardbuddha #totalliberation #auspicious #altar #emptiness #emptinessisform #formisemptiness #gategateparagateparasamgatebodhisvaha

Permission to be overwhelmed...remember what you are good at...write it down... <3

Looking for a skillful way to channel anger, fear, or love for the world? Or just want to meditate and hang out with cool folks? Come to this daylong retreat and learn practical mindfulness-based techniques to enable skillful action and prevent activist burnout.

Love FTW #lovetrumpshate #womensmarchonwashington #womensmarchvancouver #loveforthewin

More research supporting the good health of putting activity into everything you do. And I do love the idea of gardening aggressively... "Is there a way for Westerners to design an equivalent exercise to tuber digging? "Maybe if you garden aggressively," Pontzer says. But he advises against mimicking the exact patterns of Hadza lives and instead recommends thinking about what you can learn from them. "What the Hadza study says is that you dont block out an hour. You put a bit of activity into everything you do. Forget this artificial distinction between exercise and life. Try to change things so youre doing them more actively," Pontzer says."

The Holidays might be coming to an end but its always the season for holding space for yourself. "By creating an energetic container through physical presence skills, we hold space for ourselves. We create a bigger vessel for the internal experience, a slightly larger flight path for the hummingbird inside our chest, one could say. This creates the feeling of being able to handle feeling instead of being overwhelmed, or worried that it will spill over. This container becomes a safe and healthy boundary that honours your experience, allowing it to come up, expand, and release or become integrated."

Deepen your dharma with this winter with Shelby Leighs six week online Buddhist Meditation Retreat. 10 days left to sign up. http://shelby-leigh.thinkific.com/courses/deepening-dharma/

A little aprs-snow meditating?? http://shelby-leigh.thinkific.com/courses/deepening-dharma/

Read all the way to the end to get a discount on an online meditation course, and hear Leonard Cohen sing to our nervous systems.

well this looks good... Rolf practitioner/yoga teacher Ruthie Frasers got a book out... "Improve posture, alleviate pain, and create balanced strength and flexibility with 100 simply presented exercisesbody biomechanics made easy! Bodywork meets mindfulness in Stack Your Bones, comprised of 100 movement lessons and visualizations. Longtime bodywork clinician and innovative movement teacher Ruthie Fraser developed these secular sutras to acquaint us with the basics of how ...we moveessential for anyone who lives in a body. A minimalist, evocative illustration accompanies each of the thoughtfully articulated exercises (Strength Is Balance, Buoyant Shoulders, Legs as Columns, Order Creates Freedom). Grounded in the Structural Integration principles of Dr. Ida Rolf (18961979), Stack Your Bones is complementary to yoga, dance, acting, running, golf, martial artsphysical activity of every sort. Readers will reap the benefits of heightened body awareness, improved core strength, and enhanced movement mechanics.

new hours for FALL. you can now come and see me on FRIDAYS. so come and see me.

This is a really amazing training for really important work. Please share with any westcoast yoga teachers.

Do you have friends in Kitimat? Please share and help us spread the word. We will be providing trauma-informed yoga for women fleeing violence and accessing Tam...itik Status of Women services in Kitimat - but we need qualified yoga instructors willing to be trained and to volunteer! More information: http://yogaoutreach.com/reaching-out-yoga Kitimat, British Columbia #KitimatBC #Kitimat #Kitimatyoga

Free Yoga @ Dude Chilling Park seven days a week 10-11:15am & 6-7:15pm Beginners and all levels welcome. Like & Share!... !!! See more

Renee is amazing, as is this therapy - Mayan Abdominal Massage <3

There are no words. My deepest love, acknowledgment, and solidarity to the LGBTTIQQ2S and POC communities, and all those whose hearts are broken by this devastating tragedy.

Happy Birthday, IPR!