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Audio readings and lessons
☆ Less is More (7 of 18) Audio
☆ Making Room (8 of 18) Audio
Informal audio from Katarina Halm
shorter version (m4a) 2008
and a longer version (mp3) 2005
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Slides
☆ FSPM Two Body Processes Interoception‘ and ’Neuroception’ from ©2025 Jan Winhall
‘ancient patterns, symbols, and rituals’ (Gendlin 1986)
☆ Tao Te Ching ‘Less and less’...
☆ Tao Te Ching ‘Less and less’…
Less and less do you need to force things
until finally you arrive at non-action.
When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.
—Tao Te Ching Stephen Mitchell, trans.
Discussion
Recording and Notes for Sept 15. 2025
Here is a link to the recording of Sept 15th at Help for Helpers:
Sleeping and Waking – Finding our Rhythm with Katarina Halm, HELP for HELPERS Sept 15, 2025
Noting Astrid’s article: Stillness and Awareness from Person to Person by Astrid Schillings, Cologne discusses how Carl Rogers’ “Therapeutic Core Conditions” can assume a meditative character in psychotherapy.
Slides
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Prospectus for Nov 2025
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Sleeping and Waking ~ Finding our Rhythm
with Katarina Halm
Easy steps for coming closer to our natural rhythm ~ we will explore our patterns and the anthropology of sleep.
Description:
Sometimes people need to stretch themselves, work very long hours and not sleep enough. An example is Farmers who work in the fields to get everything ready during the Spring and Summer growing season, then work to harvest and take the crops to market. During the winter some Farmers find more resting time.
With Focusing we may develop ways to adapt to long working hours.
During the Sept 15 workshop, we will practice becoming more and more attuned to our natural rhythm.
Bio:
Dedicated to practical applications of Eugene Gendlin philosophy of the Implicit and furthering the work of Moshé Feldenkrais.
Katarina Halm, CFT, GCFP, M.A. Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Resonance and Dissonance in the Learning Process. Focusing Teacher; Feldenkrais® Practitioner; Sounder Sleep System™Assistant Trainer;
Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM) Facilitator; Taijiquan Teacher.
Registered Somatic Movement Educator: The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)
Writings https://independent.academia.edu/KatarinaHalm,
Websites: thinkinginmovement.ca and feldenkraisinclusioninitiative.org
Resources
https://thinkinginmovement.ca/somatics/sounder-sleep/
Warmest greetings,
Katarina, Volunteer: Help for Helpers Planning Committee
Katarina Halm, M.A. GCFP (Feldenkrais®), CFP (Focusing)
Email: [email protected]
Gmail: [email protected]
Telephone: 1 604 263 9123 (Vancouver BC Canada)
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HELP FOR HELPERS TIME LINK:
Help for Helpers: with Lynn Preston on Mondays 8:15 a.m. New York time *90 minutes
- the above time link will be good until the clocks change
- å new time link will appear for Nov 2025 onwards
HELP FOR HELPERS ZOOM LINK
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91630143362?pwd=OUNQaDQ0NnVCcG92dkp0TkwzUExldz09
Meeting ID: 916 3014 3362 Passcode: FOCUS
MORE ABOUT HELP FOR HELPERS: an online weekly gathering that was originally created as a response to the overwhelming stresses of pandemic life, especially for those in the helping professions. It developed into a flourishing, ever-growing wellspring of learning and connectedness.
WE ARE:
1. INTERNATIONAL, INCLUSIVE, WELCOMING
We prize the contributions of all those who attend.
2. FREE!
All the organizing and facilitating is donated.
3. COMMUNITY-ORIENTED
We are developing and expanding our project together.
4. DIVERSE
We encourage varied points of view and approaches woven together with respect, openness, and embodied listening.
5. ENRICHING
Each week, we have a reflection drawn from a wide variety of speakers and a broad spectrum of approaches (meditative, academic, personal, social/political, therapeutic) given by experienced teachers and those presenting their ideas for the first time.
6. PARTICIPATORY
‘The group focuses on and responds spontaneously to what is offered in the reflection. Focusing conversations are facilitated by the large group discussion and small breakout-room sharing.’
VIDEO CHANNELS & PLAYLIST
Help for Helper’s YouTube channel with recordings of the meetings:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRc14k8fFbFCdrbrPzjLwOg
Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIFGjfFRNXb_6Uj8UHeRq1azCjvffW-nw
Lynn Preston’s YouTube channel, where recordings continue to be published:
https://www.youtube.com/c/FocusingRelationalPsychotherapy
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Titles ~ six audio tracks (1-6)
CHAPTER 3 RELAX YOUR BODY …… * Relaxing Mini-Move #1: The Pelvic Rock … * Relaxing Mini-Move #2: Unlocking Your Rib “Cage” … * Relaxing Mini-Move #3: Lengthening One Side of Your Trunk … * Relaxing Mini-Move #4: Slouch and Recover … * Relaxing Mini-Move #5: Painting the Air (Freeing Your Arms for Action) .. * Relaxing Mini-Move #6: To Banish Neck and Shoulder Tension: Hang Loose!
Titles ~ six audio tracks (7-12) w/notes Sept-Oct 2025
CHAPTER 4 CALM YOUR MIND ……* Calming Mini-Move # l: L.E.S.S. Is More (For Deep Relaxation, Breathe Fully Rather than Deeply) * Calming Mini-Move #2: Making Room (For Fuller, Freer Breathing) * Calming Mini-Move #3: Things Are Looking Up! * Calming Mini-Move #4: Main Squeeze * Calming Mini-Move #5: A Twist of the Wrists (Movement Meditation for Daytime Relaxation) * Calming Mini-Move #6: Touching Your Heart
Titles ~ six audio tracks (13-18)
CHAPTER 5 LULL YOURSELF TO SLEEP …… * Lulling Mini-Move #l: Breath Surfing 1 * Lulling Mini-Move #2: Breath Surfing 2 (Going Deeper) * Lulling Mini-Move #3: Rocking the Cradle * Lulling Mini-Move #4: Tongue in Cheek * Lulling Mini-Move #5: The Ziggurat * Lulling Mini-Move #6: Welcoming Sleep with Open Arms (Instead of Pacing the Floor)
Titles ~ eighteen audio tracks (1-18)
* Table of contents ~ MK book:
18 Lessons from The Insomnia Solution by Michael Krugman ©2005
Audio recording pages 4-8, Introduction, On The Brighter Side
CHAPTER 3 RELAX YOUR BODY …… * Relaxing Mini-Move #1: The Pelvic Rock … * Relaxing Mini-Move #2: Unlocking Your Rib “Cage” … * Relaxing Mini-Move #3: Lengthening One Side of Your Trunk … * Relaxing Mini-Move #4: Slouch and Recover … * Relaxing Mini-Move #5: Painting the Air (Freeing Your Arms for Action) .. * Relaxing Mini-Move #6: To Banish Neck and Shoulder Tension: Hang Loose!
CHAPTER 4 CALM YOUR MIND …… * Calming Mini-Move # l: L.E.S.S. Is More (For Deep Relaxation, Breathe Fully Rather than Deeply) * Calming Mini-Move #2: Making Room (For Fuller, Freer Breathing) * Calming Mini-Move #3: Things Are Looking Up! * Calming Mini-Move #4: Main Squeeze * Calming Mini-Move #5: A Twist of the Wrists (Movement Meditation for Daytime Relaxation) * Calming Mini-Move #6: Touching Your Heart
CHAPTER 5 LULL YOURSELF TO SLEEP …… * Lulling Mini-Move #l: Breath Surfing 1 * Lulling Mini-Move #2: Breath Surfing 2 (Going Deeper) * Lulling Mini-Move #3: Rocking the Cradle * Lulling Mini-Move #4: Tongue in Cheek * Lulling Mini-Move #5: The Ziggurat * Lulling Mini-Move #6: Welcoming Sleep with Open Arms (Instead of Pacing the Floor)
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