Laura Hames

Balloons follow me and energy dances

Laura Hames Franklin — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:39:54 +0000

This evening didn’t go as I expected and I ended up in the room where Eric and I got married two weeks ago. It has to be an energy vortex in there! I feel it. Dancing blindfolded and feeling the energy moving though- so really not dancing at all, but being danced. Quite simply. With stillness and mudras that evolve out of the space…

I was reconnected with one of the balloons from our wedding. He was floating around in the kitchen and happy to see me and come home! He is now flying in our bedroom.

Rainy day in Brooklyn

Laura Hames Franklin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:55:22 +0000

I have enjoyed the rain in Brooklyn today more than I ever thought possible. My apartment is so wonderful and sunny even when it’s gray out, it’s such a joy to be in. The rain has also clearer the skys and the trees and the pollen. It’s still raining and I love it :)

We are nearing the end of April. Where did it go!? I have shyed away from my blog again during this time of big change in my life. The past couple of weeks have been incredible.

I am now a married woman. Crazy and amazing. I never imagined that I would be or how incredible it is. I feel very different- in an amazing way. Our wedding was the most special and perfect occasion that I have ever attended and convayed the truth with simplicity and beauty. It was a pure intension of love, trust and commitment to ourselves and our growth together.

My inspiration and passion and love and life have all culminated and blossomed as one, unifying my life and experience. It’s all real and it just gets bigger, bolder and more elevating.

Thank you to all the wonderful people that I have around me- in person and via spirit. It’s such a gift.

It’s all trust and belief. If I could write some of the unfoldings from these past weeks it would be so apparent of that.

But now it’s towards the forwardness whilst engulfed in and enriched by the present moment.

Waiting with flowers

Laura Hames Franklin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:35:04 +0000

Sitting on the street waiting. I feel like a kid again on those warm summer days when you notice all the little things like bugs and twigs and the patterns on the trees. The birds start talking to you and the breeze is so very comforting and enveloping.

Today I have been getting many signs, messages and reminders all over the place of the magic and possibilities of this existance. I’ve had 4 people send me messages of amazing BodyTalk experiences, and inspirations from every corner.

It’s just all about belief. If you believe. That’s all it is. So simple. When you believe, others believe too. Cos they are just an aspect of you anyhow.

Still waiting. Still believing.

Relocating femur heads

Laura Hames Franklin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:07:45 +0000

Today in class was a totally new experience to any I’d had before ever! My two weeks of intensive Franklin Method is settling into my body, mind, being.

My muscles are a completely new dynamic of floating elasticty. They felt individually clearer and yet more unified. Like my bones were just floating in a sea of supportive…. what’s the word? It’s kinda like gloop! Like the ocean with waves that create the movement. The interesting thing is that as I feel my muscles, fascia, liquidness sail my bones into movement the lines of muscle action feel clearer and more direct and supportive. Everything feels as if it can settle closer to the midline and then everything else is catapulted from there.

As I walk out of class I can feel my femurs have rearranged themselves and are able to nuzzle more softly into their hip sockets. It feels like the support from them gives my spine a new length and easeful space.

So as the body becomes more intelligent it moves with more ease within the structure. When you have clear structure, the energy can flow more easily- intensely, and then your structure is just the container. It’s all geometary and movement.

Do all of you agree?

Laura Hames Franklin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:32:11 +0000

If there’s a part of you that says yes, and a part of you that says no- then you will end up in a muddle! It’s like snowboarding, or dancing, or speaking, or anything- if you’re clear on where you’re going then what you get back is clearer. If you have contradictions, it’s like driving with the brakes on- it’s going to be a bumpy ride!

Each day we have opportunities to explore and embrace the aspects of ourselves where we don’t all agree. It’s all over- our lives, bodys, careers, relationships… So we can learn to embrace finding these conflicts so that they can have their discussion and find an agreement. Because after all, if they’re all made of the same love, geometry, light, information container then there is an agreement by which all the parts unify by. So, therefor if our hand agrees with our big toe, and psoas muscle and hair, then our whole person is going in one direction. It’s not going to think one part is right and another wrong. It just carries itself as a wholeness. As we see we are part of the same substance, we see we can’t have compromise, because it’s like itself wanting two opposite things.

Which brings us back to the beginning. Are we in agreement with ourselves!? Let’s start there.

Liberated shoulders lead to an easeful life

Laura Hames Franklin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:01:57 +0000

Transformation is instantaneous. How incredible is that!? When the mind and the body are in agreement, there is no contradiction or argument and possibilities become endless. Simple flow and allowance just carries each moment into the next…

I just explored my shoulders and enveloped supportive images to transform what they are.

Teaching Franklin Method is magical. It’s all already there- you just have to discover it. Feeling the support in the structure, the systems of design that convert compresion into energy means that nothing is lost or held- just redirected and reused. We’re these brilliant recycling beings.

The question is ‘is what we’re recycling the most supportive?’ If the compression gets stuck in tension and doesn’t flow to elastic rebound then we don’t experience the sustaining, energy producing mechanism that we have in place and instead we experience effort.

Hmm. So when shoulders stop being a tension catcher and instead are liberated and able to be a transducer of energy, they become instantaneously different- and life flows.

Kissing, knowing, speaking

Laura Hames Franklin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:14:23 +0000

Back in NYC after 2 intense weeks of Franklin Method. It’s so wonderful to be home in my space and in a new state of being with my body, thoughts and purpose. Every time I take a Franklin Method class, and especially at teacher trainings, there is a huge shift in my knowing- both physically, mentally and spiritually… and really how the three are one. It beautiful that when I am in a place of simple presence in my physical being, and mentally pushing myself to realize the wonder that already exists, there is a simple flow and peace that propels me through all types of situations.

Today, it feels like everything is settling and evolving into new spaces. As things unpack themselves, I observe a new me in this new space. I just did a BodyTalk session with a wonderful woman who owns a local healthy eatery, and it filled me with such love. To be the observer in the movement towards self support and balance, I feel the reflection in my own life and the magic of the time/space creation is word-less!

One ‘link’ integrated into her lips with the definition of kissing, knowing, speaking. It felt really powerful, and I could literally see the book being written. Some day all this is going to seem so silly. Just write it. It’s that simple. Of course it is…. but when you forget, the illusion of ‘doing’ can feel so real. Hmmm. It’s losing its power more each day. And here I am writing it, so it must be true :)

Overweight bags and bones

Laura Hames Franklin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:59:45 +0000

It was beautiful to be woken by the sound of the rain this morning instead of my alarm. The light was soft and nourishing flowing through the shutters. Getting up was not top of my list of desires but the voice said ‘get up now!’ We lost an hour last night, so despite less sleep I am happy at the prospect of longer daylight.

So, we’re off to Milwakee today. I’ve been on a lot of flights recently and I’m getting used to this bag packing thing- although despite my intensions my clothes to weight ratio is sometimes off! The guy at the counter didn’t quite know what to make of it after I pulled out two pelvic halves, a sacrum and a femur to bring my bag under 50 pounds! He looked a little alarmed that I was going to take them on board.

Yesterday I could feel very strongly my pelvis, legs and feet re-organizing themselves. In the bones and how the bones relate to each other. My plié seems to have changed this morning and my legs feel different. Interesting! I’m looking forward to seeing why this week will bring in terms of re-working my pelvis legs matrix even more. Wow. Support like I’ve never experienced before!

Flight delayed. Hmmm. Time to theraband!

So much potential in one spiral

Laura Hames Franklin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:04:48 +0000

Yesterday I was experiencing the bubbling up before a ‘shift in reality/perspective’. (This seems to happen quite consistantly with me!) When you put energy into a system or substance it becomes more erratic and less coherent until it moves into it’s new state where it finds it’s coherance and stability again. This is such a brilliant way if describing (thanks Nassim) what happens with people as they are about to experience a transformation by way of new health, perspective or insight. The old pattern needs to be challenged so that the body can choose a different more efficient path of communication. Only if this happens can we start to become they new way if being, or else we would quite simply go back to the old (more familiar) way if doing things.

Wonderfully, this ‘shaking up’ of the old doesn’t gave to be painful or scary, but instead liberating and exciting. When we can embrace the process of change it becomes far more easeful and we can find fun even in the challenges as we know there is a brighter perspective on the other side!

Today i am feeling totally new and exhilarated. I can feel the old paradigms from yesterday falling away and space for new possibilities.

I felt light and dynamic in class. I could feel and see my sacrum in a whole brighter relationship to my illiums- really being propelled up by them. It was amazing. I could really feel the spiral in my illio- sacral joints and suddenly everything is easier and lighter than ever before. Everything us so incredibly easy and fun when you embody the function and allow the body to do what it is supposed to do.

So much fun!

Hello again

Laura Hames Franklin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:27:33 +0000

I’ve enjoyed taking a break from blogging for a while but I feel it’s time to come out again :)

I had the most amazing experience today imaging on the subway. It was crowded but I was able to focus fully on feeling my breath spiralling into my lungs and supporting my ribcage like warm air balloons. Once my breath was flowing more, it allowed a huge release of tension and ‘force’ to be released, just allowing things to ‘be’ the natural ease that they are designed to be.

Franklin Method is just amazing. When you feel the brilliant design within, suddenly everything is so simple and light. Yesterday in Franklin Method class we were feeling the bone rhythms of the pelvis, femur and tibia all spiralling and dancing with each other. everyone felt so amazing, it was beautiful to observe. It’s like we have all of these wonders inside of us to be discovered and experienced and they love being seen!