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).

Got Tight Achy and Cranky Hips? (and why it’s not the glute med’s ‘effin fault!)

2019-04-30T13:06:36-07:00

Here’s a great story and testimony from one of my clients about getting rid of tight and cranky hips.  // “I wanted to ski a few days before letting you know...just to be sure it wasn't just a one time thing. Well I have to say THANK YOU!!! I noticed a very big difference, [...]

Got Tight Achy and Cranky Hips? (and why it’s not the glute med’s ‘effin fault!)2019-04-30T13:06:36-07:00

Lessons from a Stubbed Toe: “Accident-Trauma-First Aid”

2019-04-30T13:06:36-07:00

 Stubbing my toe in Berkeley. I was walking quite fast through the residential area of Berkeley, California, this past October. I was wearing my open-toed Birkenstock sandals when BAM! “Ouch, #!^*…Oh, that REALLY hurts...” An uneven slab of sidewalk had put an abrupt stop to the forward motion of my second toe on [...]

Lessons from a Stubbed Toe: “Accident-Trauma-First Aid”2019-04-30T13:06:36-07:00

Melt away chronic tension by finding your perfect posture in only 10 minutes! An audio exercise to start you out.

2014-10-29T12:48:10-07:00

Everyone OBSESSES about their posture. Do you? The trouble is, Western society has some crazy ideas about how to find good posture. It’s a huge problem, actually, because many of those ideas screw us up. In fact, more often than not, they’ll actually make your posture worse, and your functional daily activities [...]

Melt away chronic tension by finding your perfect posture in only 10 minutes! An audio exercise to start you out.2014-10-29T12:48:10-07:00

Re-Routing My Wiring: Back to Whole-Self Neuroplasticity (and not having to pay for parking…)

2019-04-30T13:06:38-07:00

Click here to Re-Tweet about Re-Routing My Wiring-Back to Whole-Self Neuroplasticity (and not having to pay for parking) I've been away in Seattle for a few days, doing a few Feldenkrais sessions with my main Feldy mentor Jeff Haller. This last weekend's few lessons were good for a few reasons: [...]

Re-Routing My Wiring: Back to Whole-Self Neuroplasticity (and not having to pay for parking…)2019-04-30T13:06:38-07:00

I’m “Smitten-With” David Zambrano. Imagine replacing normal PE class with this kind of movement?

2019-04-30T13:06:38-07:00

Every now and then, I come across a person that I get a smitten with. Their writing, ideas, art, creativity and basically their guts to do what they love, go for it, and never look back. I've met a lot of these people and am blessed to have them in [...]

I’m “Smitten-With” David Zambrano. Imagine replacing normal PE class with this kind of movement?2019-04-30T13:06:38-07:00

Awareness or Survival: What came first?

2019-04-30T13:06:39-07:00

Survival would be the answer to that question. If you are joining for the first time, this is a series I am plugging away at titled "Creating Your Own Personal Instruction Manual" . I'm going to look at this survival idea from a very brain-oriented fashion. And rather than write [...]

Awareness or Survival: What came first?2019-04-30T13:06:39-07:00

Create some new instructions for you: What actually is self-help & health?

2019-04-30T13:06:40-07:00

This is the beginning of a series that I am plugging away at titled "Creating Your Own Personal Instruction Manual" . The breadcrumb trail to go with these series of post are here ("what stands between you & that more effortless version of you") & here ("reverse engineer your health: become [...]

Create some new instructions for you: What actually is self-help & health?2019-04-30T13:06:40-07:00

I have a favour to ask. Become your own medicine. It’s time to try.

2019-04-30T13:06:40-07:00

I want to cultivate a tribe of folk who are truly interested in becoming 'curators' of their own bodies. I've written more about this idea here, but in essence, here's the shortened version: When we actually understand how our body works, what its default states & grooves are, how to listen [...]

I have a favour to ask. Become your own medicine. It’s time to try.2019-04-30T13:06:40-07:00

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

2019-04-30T13:06:41-07:00

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 is [...]

An Exercise in Attention to Safety, Senses & Breath (aka: Re-Setting Your Nervous System to the Here and Now)2019-04-30T13:06:41-07:00