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 North American Sponsor of Bones for Life®, Walk for
   Life
, Mindful Eating and Bones for Life with Chairs

  Foundation for
    Movement
       Intelligence

         Posture, Locomotion, and Personal Ergonomics


 
















 
Mindful Eating —
The Inner Game of Chewing

 




















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Ruthy Alon
FMI Founder and President

 
Incorporated in the state of Maine in 2007, the Foundation for Movement Intelligence is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization dedicated to promoting the world’s best movement practices in the service of osteoporosis prevention and reversal.

  Our current Board Members are:
 
  Ruthy Alon, President and Founder
  Doug Boltson, Webmaster
  Melissa Cook
  Jileen Russell, GCFP
  Elinor Silverstein, P.T., GCFP
  Tyr Throne, GCFP, Secretary
  Sheila Zangara, GCFP, Acct Treasurer
 
  Past members: Karen Chwe,
  Kelly Feder, Gail French,
  Linda Howell, Gretchen Langner,   Hélène Lévesque, Carol Lingman,
  Deborah Lotus, Richard Rogers
  and Cici Runge

FMI oversees activities of the North American instructors of Bones for Life® in the U.S. and Canada. We are a proud member of ISMETA — the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association.
 

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Healthy, Innocent Eating
& Moving as Nature Meant

If you would like to eat whatever and how much you desire, without losing lightness in shape and movement, then this workshop experience is for you.

Mindful Eating: The Inner Game of Chewing provides a strategy to retrieve the original sense by which every living being in nature lives; the sense which knows what supports life, what to eat, and when to stop.

This inner knowledge might have been dimmed by the abundance of food and the hasty pace of our daily lives. It is one where an experiential highlight is worth retrieving for a simple moment.

Like any movement habit, our personal style of chewing can become a fixated mechanical pattern of gestures and attitudes. This habit serves to conceal the addiction of losing control over eating.

We can learn to approach our loss of control not through the hard effort of conflict with our organism by discipline, but rather, through the ease of listening to our own awareness. It is our awareness that is able to identify the natural signal of satisfaction, and to spontaneously accept it.

Experimenting with guided options of non-habitual ways of eating and moving offers the opportunity to detach from the indirect neuro-motor aspect of our individual habits. The learning environment awakens and restores trust in our inner compass. This inner compass knows how to navigate us to the authentic urge of balanced nourishment.






In this supportive, creative, fun workshop you will:

• Practice movement processes that optimize your eating and moving style

• Discover your organic signal of satisfaction

• Receive guidance to shift your movement coordination and its mirrored body image to its original liveliness

• Inspire your biological optimism of reclaiming the beauty and intelligence of your body

The Equation that puts this all together is:

. . . where M = Mass
and V = Velocity

We can reduce our body mass by:
– decreasing intake of food
– decreasing the speed at which we eat
– increasing our pleasure in eating
. . . or by using any combination of these three strategies.

Come break bread with us, and find out for yourself how it works!








































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