IreneLyon

About Irene Lyon

Irene Lyon, MSC. and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives. To date her online work has reached people in over 57(!) countries – but you can often find her teaching with Elia Mrak at their signature Up & Down workshops or hiking in the mountains or along the Pacific ocean in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. She has her Master’s in Biomedical and Health Science and also has a knack for making complex info easy for ALL of us to understand and apply to our lives. She has extensively studied and practices the works of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, Peter Levine (founder of Somatic Experiencing) and Kathy Kain (founder of Somatic Practice).

An Exercise in Attention to Safety, Senses & Breath (aka: Re-Setting Your Nervous System to the Here and Now)

2024-04-26T23:05:13-07:00Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Nervous System Resiliency|

It’s likely that sometime soon you’ll encounter some stress that will rev up your body’s physiology. It’s also possible that you’ve got some stress that’s still sitting in your system from yesterday, last week, last year, or a decade ago. Here’s the thing, our body getting hit with stress [...]

Produce the conditions so that you can learn. Industrial vs agricultural models of education

2024-04-30T15:32:59-07:00I'm Smitten-With..., Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Movement. Awareness.|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LelXa3U_I Click here to re-tweet "Produce the conditions so that you can learn: Industrial vs agricultural model of education" Two Lectures. One Message. Today I had the pleasure of listening to a lecture given by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in the early 80's during his last North American Feldenkrais Training [...]

Get healed, or (better yet), facilitate your own healing. Musings on the word “healer”.

2024-04-26T23:11:48-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Pain & Chronic Illness, Unabriged Musings: Anecdotes from personal life|

In my life, two major (health-related) events have catalyzed my quest for learning very detailed ‘stuff’ about my own body and various healing modalities and medicines. The first were a handful of pretty bad knee injuries that weren’t getting better with conventional therapies (actually the knee pieces got fixed [...]

Feldenkrais and Musical Performance: Andrew Gibbons talks about finding skeletal support for better piano playing.

2024-04-26T23:13:57-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Movement. Awareness.|

For Pianists and ANYONE who sits and uses their arms and hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UohDzxnEqHc Andrew Gibbons, Classical Pianist and Feldenkrais Practitioner in New York City, describes the process of discovering whole body awareness from a Feldenkrais perspective and how to produce better musical sound by finding greater skeletal support in sitting. [...]

Feldenkrais and Kids With Motor Disorders: Sheryl Field and The Field Center

2024-04-26T23:14:44-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Movement. Awareness., Parenting & Child Development|

Sheryl Field is the founder of The Field Center: For Children’s Integrated Development. What she does and the remarkable impact she has made on the lives of many families who were given very little hope for their children’s disabilities must be shared with other families in similar situations. Video Clip [...]