The 6 CORE Lessons

Awakening to Your Cellular Intelligence

We explore how to awaken and be aware of your cellular intelligence, cell health. This interactive course takes you into the design, activities and innate wisdom of your cellular life. Discover how you and your cells communicate, what stresses them and how to better manage life’s challenges. Our cells’ unique architectural design – the connective webbing of tubes and strings – provides a tangible place where energy, sound and movement engage cellular activities, including our genes. By embodying the information through sensory awareness, your knowledge, skills, memory and health are enhanced. By exploring your amazing cellular wisdom, you gain a new relationship with your body, can better manage stress or illness, experience numerous self-care healing practices and be more in the NOW.

In this program you get acquainted with your cells as a tangible physical part of you, the living stuff that makes up your muscles, heart and liver, skin and brain and everything else. Every part of you that’s alive is made of invisible very smart cells. You have trillions. Get to know how they work and manage all the activities of you and your life. Discover your role in communicating and nurturing your cells. Explore strategies and skills for living and aging well as we uncover the science underlying our responses to threat, danger, and pleasure. Transform your perceptions and experience of stress, enliven your life, and activate your inner healing powers.

Suggested reading Secrets of Your Cells: Discovering Your Body’s Inner Intelligence by Sondra Barrett, PhD. (Sounds True 2013)

 The intent of this course is to provide you with these benefits:

• Have a new relationship with your body
• Better manage your challenges and stress responses
• Experience how sound, qi and movement are effective healing strategies
• Use your senses to instill new habits, behaviors, and memory
• Appreciate the ability of your brain to change (neuroplasticity)
• Feel more gratitude for life and your inner wisdom

Each lesson builds on the previous lessons. The online course provides videos of the knowledge and skills for you to embody. Most lessons include a guided visualization to get you deeper into your cells and self. Many lessons also include supplementary audio and video files to support your experience. In addition, the overview PDF supplies a summary of the lesson’s content plus detailed descriptions of explorations and reflections to do at home. Starting with Lesson 1, a Daily Practice is offered, with new practices are added to each lesson.

The in-person presentation of this program incorporates these various modalities plus discussion and support.  

 Lesson 1. Awakening to Your Cellular Universe

• Understand what Awakening means for your life
• Awaken Awareness to Your Cellular Intelligence – what is intelligence and where 
• Cell intelligence, how smart are we 
  • The Anatomy of a Cell- Architectural Design, recognition and the container                         
  • The body physical – Boundaries, Cells and Self
  • Cell receptors and cell communication
• What is necessary for Life? Food, air, movement, nourishment, and connection
  • Danger (real or imagined): Your Cellular Universe Responds
  • Stress: chronic and acute
• Decide what outcome you would like from this course and how you will know that you’ve achieved this

Lesson 2. From cell to Self: I Am Sanctuary

• Creation Myths – from science to the sacred
• The Cell as the Container of Life: Sanctuary
• Anatomy of the Cell: the Cell Membrane, flexibility grows with maturity         
• Who am I at a cellular level – Immune cells recognize self and other
• Immune health – balance – less stress – hum
• Accessing the Self through Sound and the Senses

Lesson 3. It’s All Energy

• Be aware of the many dimensions of energy – molecular, physical, life force, qi
• Realize that our attitudes affect our choices, behaviors and energy levels
• Experience how to cultivate qi
• Mitochondria and your energy
• Cellular legacies: Cellular Energy
• Transformation from food to molecules and energy
• Mitochondria, ATP energy molecules and breath
• Compromises to Energy and Resources for Refueling

Lesson 4.  How Cells Learn:  Senses, Networks and the Brain

• The brain doesn’t know the difference between what’s real or imagined: Where’s the evidence?
• The brain learns through repetition, novelty and reward
• Using the senses to condition new healthy behaviors
• Discover the power of imagination and visualization
• Symbols in healing
• Programming gratitude and new behaviors
• The Heart of the Mind

Lesson 5.  Guardians of Our Genes

• Gene structure
• Gene integrity, damage and repair
• Repair genes influenced by stress
• Epigenetics – changing the expression of our genes
• Cancer, genes astray

Lesson 6. Legacies. Pleasure and Renewal: Aging Well

• Aging and our legacies
• Healing with our awakened inner intelligence: nourish, replenish, and connect.
• Elemental Symbols within our Cells and Molecules: The Trinity, Sacred Spiral and Connection
• Universal Principles of cell architecture: Building blocks and arrangements
• Daily rituals for change ,pairing repetition with the sacred and intention. Embodying your Legacy, giving back.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Sonoma State University 

 

 

 

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