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WELCOME
to the Free Birds Family( F.B.F)
F.B.F is a community of people who ARE, or want to be artists of life, who see life as a gift we are here to enjoy. There is no membership and no special rules. I, Bente Marcussen, like the term Free Bird, not because I claim to be completely free, but because I believe that it is our birthright to be free as the bird.
Every baby bird has to risk to jump out of the nest, in order to experience that it has wings and can fly. So also with us: We have to risk some jumps in life, to discover our deep potentials, If I want to fly - to get the great overview, I have to jump out of my nest, into the unknown. That means to let go of the safe, habitual, known and go into the new, the insecure.

When my wings carry me, I am free to experience the adventurous, new life. The horizons gets wider, the understanding deeper.

I have been jumping, many times in my life. I have had some bad crash landings, a couple of times. Then I had to rise up from the ditch, start all over again and fly on. I experienced that old, habitual ways of thinking and living did not serve me well any more. As a free bird I do not need to identify with inherited belief- systems and opinions. I have often felt a conflict between the voice of knowledge in the head, and the voice of wisdom in the heart.
I have started to live, more from the heart than the head, and I can see that Life is new, every movement. Now I go for the WAY OF THE HEART. For me, this is the way of courage. It is to live in confidence, with uncertainty. It is to live the way of love, with awareness, every movement. It is to live like a river, that lets new water flow, that gets new every moment, The logic of the mind is to live securely, focusing on the past and the future. The less I identify with my mind, the easier it is to follow the way of the heart.
“At the Free Bird University there is only one Subject” : The art of Living – Every student choose his own curriculum, and the teachers share their experiences. One learns to fly high, but without losing the grounding.
Do you want to join me and my friends on Life’s adventurous journey?

When the Free Birds meet, we share what makes our hearts sing. We are all teachers and students. We give space for life to be lived through us – to live as joy and love, which is our deepest core.

Body Awareness
is essential for free birds. The body is a wonderful instrument, and the better tuning, the more beautiful tones. Many people have all their attention on the head, some include the torso, but few are aware of the lower part of the body. Bente is in touch with her feet. Are you ? Bente ‘’parks’’ her shoes in May, and receives constantly reflexology from Mother Earth.

Yoga, Massage, Liberating Breathing and Dance are good tools to get better body awareness, and to prevent stress and sickness from building up. Bente Marscussen is qualified in breathing therapy, massage and yoga. Her main focus is group-process-work, but she can also give individual consultations.

1. Yoga
is a way of self realization. The world Yoga means Union. In Hatha-Yoga, the old original form, the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual get united. Through physical postures (asanas) and breathing (pranayama), you get :

- a soft, flexible and strong body
- a balanced mind (stress reduction)
- a relaxed mind and nervous system
- better concentration and body awareness
- improved breathing function

2. Liberating Breathing
is a useful tool to be aware of your emotional part. The way you breath, point to how you are doing. Feel for yourself, how you breathe, when you are stressed, angry, happy or relaxed. Superficial, irregular breathing is due to a high stress level. Through liberating breathing, you will get aware of your breath pattern - release blockages from your energy system, and release emotional tensions (eg. suppressed feelings ) This deep breathing help you to get in touch with your core qualities, inner peace, joy and love.

3. Liberating Dance
help you to land fully in your body, all the way down to your feet. With closed eyes you explore within, and let the rhythm move your body. When you meet others, in new ways on the heart level, you can get in touch with your playful, inner child. You share your joy and playfulness. You embrace whatever feeling showing up, and share it, without words.

4. Massage gives
- a deep relaxation
- pain release
- stress reduction
- a feeling of well being.

The whole system gets vitalized. Bente teaches simple relaxation massage in groups. This is the most natural way of giving warmth and loving relaxation and compassion (like parents give their children). Bring a partner or friend, and continue enjoying massage at home.

5. Stress Management in everyday life.
Our Western life style is a stress producing one. Bente Mascussen shares how to get a stress less, harmonic everyday life:

- Beware of why, and how stress is building up.
- Tools for stress reduction and relaxation.
- Prevent new stress building up.
- Ways to avoid ‘’burn out’’ ‘’and burn in.’’

Bente offers stress management programs to leaders in the business life.Many leaders report that the company benefit from investing money in their workers well being, because the time of sick-leaves are reduced. Stress-reduction gives a better atmosphere, and better capacity for work

6. Sinai Tour, 2 weeks in November
This is a journey of discovery, both on outer and inner level. A wonderful different holiday in a cold and dark season. We stay near Nuweiba by the Red Sea . The Hotel and disco is replaced by small bamboo huts on the beach, live music and dance under the starry sky. We get enriched by the wisdom of the Beduins, and the singing and drumming of the Sudanese workers. We enter the Moses mountain, and continue a 3 days camel/ jeep safari.
In Sinai, their is plenty of time, just to BE
Bente offers Yoga, relaxation, sharing, massage etc, morning and late afternoon. We visit Beduin families. We enjoy the red seas coral rives and colorful fish. Together we create a healing, nourishing community, where body and soul regain balance and joy. When we are meeting each other at the heart level, new doors open, within and without.