FULL OF MYSELF
Whole Self * Moment by Moment * Empowerment
for Women and Girls
...and he said: you pretty full of yourself ain’t chu
so she replied: show me someone not full of herself
and i’ll show you a hungry person
Nikki Giovanni
so she replied: show me someone not full of herself
and i’ll show you a hungry person
Nikki Giovanni
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Full of Myself is an Alexander Technique project designed to empower women and girls to respond to their daily challenges with integrity, courage, compassion and genuine power and be the leaders in making the changes this world desperately needs.
The re-definition of “full of yourself” that Nikki Giovanni uses represents what women through time has always had to do, and fight for the right to do – define ourselves for ourselves. The feminist process of re-defining language and reality to include women's point of view is paramount for constructive forward moving change, for the integration of the masculine and feminine in all of us in the world today. To care for ourselves, to receive and connect to the knowledge and wisdom that we all carry with us, to express ourselves fully allows us to stay strong in the face of hardship - it keep us from falling into looking at ourselves through the gaze of others and be molded by how others define us. We need to continually find new ways to fully say yes to ourselves and the change we want to see in our lives and the world. The Alexander Technique is a tool that enable us to train our ability to respond to our inner and outer oppressors with freedom of movement and choice. It is a process of learning about ourselves and understanding how to interpret the feedback that we get from our own system, as well as the outside world in order for us to live authentic and fulfilling lives. As women of this world we are still fighting for our human rights and we are often painfully aware that none of us are truly free until all of us are free. Therefore this project is also designed in the following way; whenever you spend your money building your own skills, you automatically help someone else, less privileged, do the same. There is no reason to wait! Move forward for change now! |
JOIN THE MOVEMENT!
* Organize a group class for yourself and your female friends, or colleagues! You can either come to me or I can come to you! * Donate money to the project specifically to bring the AT to a group of women/girls you know need it but can't afford it, or to whom you simply want to gift this tool! You automatically donate 10% of what you pay to the organization Half the Sky that turns oppression into opportunity for women and girls worldwide! And remember to... *Share with all and everyone you know! |
Integrated...
...Self-Care
Learn how to take care of yourself in the continually moving now. Do you often think there is something extra, something more, A LOT more perhaps, that you have to do to take care of yourself. We all need that me-time separate from everything else sometimes, but more often we need a way to take care of ourselves in whatever we are doing right now. It saves time and a whole lot of trouble.
...Self-Knowledge
Learn about your human design, i.e how you are built to function, and how to listen to your system. Do you feel like you often ignore yourself and the messages you receive? Later, after the fact, you think 'oh, I remember receiving that but I didn't listen'! Here we cultivate the ability and habit to respond to and, if needed, translate the message we are receiving. We practice asking for what we need from ourselves and others and make choices based in who we are and what we want.
...Self-Expression
Learn how to coordinate and express your beliefs, values and desires through your whole self; from conscious thought-to-action. It results in more freely being able to choose how you want to respond to stimuli in your life, moment by moment. We create plans, rehearse them and update as we go along so that eventually the destructive patterns you have been preoccupied with simply cannot compete with your new plan. We get more immediate access to our creative and playful selfs, which will help us to be more easeful and deliberately constructive in our expression; movement, behavior and performance.
The more we practice fully saying yes to ourselves the more we replace stuckness with freedom of movement and choice!
STUCKNESS is any pain, stress, stiffness, confusion, overwhelm that you experience that keeps you focused on tension instead of forward moving action.
...Self-Care
Learn how to take care of yourself in the continually moving now. Do you often think there is something extra, something more, A LOT more perhaps, that you have to do to take care of yourself. We all need that me-time separate from everything else sometimes, but more often we need a way to take care of ourselves in whatever we are doing right now. It saves time and a whole lot of trouble.
...Self-Knowledge
Learn about your human design, i.e how you are built to function, and how to listen to your system. Do you feel like you often ignore yourself and the messages you receive? Later, after the fact, you think 'oh, I remember receiving that but I didn't listen'! Here we cultivate the ability and habit to respond to and, if needed, translate the message we are receiving. We practice asking for what we need from ourselves and others and make choices based in who we are and what we want.
...Self-Expression
Learn how to coordinate and express your beliefs, values and desires through your whole self; from conscious thought-to-action. It results in more freely being able to choose how you want to respond to stimuli in your life, moment by moment. We create plans, rehearse them and update as we go along so that eventually the destructive patterns you have been preoccupied with simply cannot compete with your new plan. We get more immediate access to our creative and playful selfs, which will help us to be more easeful and deliberately constructive in our expression; movement, behavior and performance.
The more we practice fully saying yes to ourselves the more we replace stuckness with freedom of movement and choice!
STUCKNESS is any pain, stress, stiffness, confusion, overwhelm that you experience that keeps you focused on tension instead of forward moving action.