This will emulate a therapists cranio-sacral hands/hold under your occipital ridge/back of head/skull.

Take two tennis balls and put them in a tub sock.
Tie a knot at the end on the tub sock, close to the balls so the balls don’t move in the sock.

For 15-20 minutes a day, or as many time during the day you would like, typically easiest before you go to sleep at night, place the balls under your head where the occipital ridge, the hard bony edge of your skull, meets the softer part of your neck muscles…you’ll feel where it sits right.

Relax and enjoy!

I’m so glad you asked!

Shake Your Soul is the creation of Daniel Leven of the Leven Institute For Expressive Movement. Dan Leven reinvented his own original creation of Kripalu Danskinetics, now Kripalu Yoga Dance, of which Vivian Taormina is certified in both Shake Your Soul and Kripalu Yoga Dance.

Taormina has completed a 100+ hour certification program which spanned 7 months.

In a nutshell: When you participate in a SHAKE YOUR SOUL MOVEMENT CLASS GREAT MUSIC INSPIRES YOU TO MOVE AND DYNAMIC MOVEMENTS STRENGTHEN AND ENERGIZE YOUR BODY WHILE RELEASING TENSION!

Moving in concert with your breath the Shake Your Soul® experience is restorative and reconnecting. The expressive, celebratory and joyful possibilities inherent in our bodies and souls are brought out when we dance. Inhibitions can melt away and newfound aliveness sparks! Dance is our common language that crosses over all our differences. We find ourselves dancing with our own souls and with the richness of others.

Shake Your Soul® is a moving experience where music inspires your spirit, dynamic movements free your body, and entrancing rhythms call forth the power of your soul! Shake Your Soul® draws from modern and African dance, Body-Mind Centering, yoga, qi kung and Body-Centered Expressive Therapy. All of these influences merge into a seamless whole that evokes spirited movement that’s healing for your physical and emotional heart.

TYPICAL CLASS:
Barefoot? Yes
Yoga Mat? Yes
Time? 60-90 minutes
Fun? Unquestionable!

Now this class is typically done with a minimum of 4 people..the bigger the class the better! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are more pictures:

Shake Your Soul will be part of The Anjali Women’s Health and Wellness Collective retreat “The Women Gather: Music, Movement and Meditation” at Stella Maris Retreat Center, Long Branch. For information and reservations call 1-888-734-4557.

This is an overnight retreat that will include activities both for fun and for nurturing body, mind and spirit. The gathering will take place at the Stella Maris Retreat Center, on the ocean in the Elberon section of Long Branch, Friday and Saturday, June 13 and 14 .

After Friday night’s opening circle, which will include music, storytelling and dance, the evening will conclude with a time for greeting old friends and meeting new ones. Come Saturday, participants are welcome to join in morning classes in yoga, Qigong or walking meditation.

A panel discussion, led by Dr. Carol Penn and health and wellness practitioners will lead into the midday meal. Panel members will include Rubenfeld Synergist, Joy Principe; Chinese Medicine practitioner and Acupuncturist, Julie Simser; therapist Margaret Moro, Qigong insturctor, Maxine Guenther and Tiffany Gale, integrative nutritionist.The discussion will focus on creating health, wellness, balance and vitality in everyday life. Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Doula, Childbith Educator and producer of the recently completed film, “Orgasmic Birth,” will also be on hand.

After lunch and some free time to take a swim, walk on the beach or just hang out, everyone will be invited to participate in a workshop including music, chanting and healing sounds, offered by composer/pianist Laura DuBois. You can explore the healing sounds of vocal toning with singer and teacher Lisa Baker. Core of Fire, the shore’s own inspirational dance ensemble, will bring movement to the weekend with an afternoon performance. And massage therapist Vivian Taormina gets everyone moving with her workshop, “Shake Your Soul.”

Throughout the weekend, practitioners will be on hand for massage, reflexology, Rubenfeld Synergy, Reiki and other healing modalities. The retreat begins at 3 PM on Friday June 13, with a light meal at 5 PM, followed by the opening celebration at 7 PM. The cost for the entire retreat, ending Saturday at 8 PM, is $295.00, which includes meals and private room. A day stay, for Saturday only (9:00 AM to 8:00 PM) is $195 and includes lunch and dinner. An early bird discount of $240.00 for the overnight and $160.00 for Saturday will be offered for registrations received by May 13, a savings of $55.00 or $35.00, respectively. Final registration date is June 6.

For information and reservations call 1-888-734-4557 or visit www.Carollifedance.com.

We are going to “wing it”! Saturday night! Shake Your Soul hits Asbury Park Saturday night at the Shoppes at the Arcade for the eZENtail Living Grand Opening celebration! Come out to dance and/or listen to M’zume! LIVE drumming, an awesome Afro-Brazilian Carribean CARNAVALE music band! If all goes as planned they will play from 7-9pm and my class will start at 8pm inside the Shoppes upstairs across from Charlene’s new store eZENtial Living!

Before my class starts I will also be giving chair massage as part of the event. Earlier in the day I will be on Cookman Avenue with Organic Style.

C-U-There!

I find it interesting that a client of mine from IRELAND is turning into a regular! She may even come more regularly that my local locals! Tsk Tsk on my locals!

After her recent massage she did share this, “it was worth coming the 3,000 miles!”

Shoulder stand for yogis has been dubbed “natural yogi botox” …well here is more news…massage and facials are a little secret weapon to looking younger!

Proof positive.

Today I received a phone call from a client, “D” who works with a regular clientèle. On two separate occasions a client of D’s complimented D on her skin complexion and how great she looked. Much to D’s amazement, theses compliment came BOTH within a week after receiving her massage at TaoMassage! Needless to say D’s somewhat regular appointments at TaoMassage “are working” according to D! I’d say! We can’t be more pleased!

Here’s how to Look Younger Without Plastic Surgery
Five strategies for shaving years off your appearance from MSN.

One of the FIVE…you guessed it…MASSAGE! Who needs all that expensive anti-aging products when you can anti-age your whole body (mind & spirit!) with massage! Much more worth it!

It seems like a “no-brainer” to me..but now research is backing up WHY things like diet soda is bad for you. I’m sure there are other articles like this out there for “non-fat” “low-fat” claims as well. It just supports the age old adage, “everything in moderation”. You are better off eating REAL butter, REAL sugar, etc than some artificial substitutes that trick your body into thinking you are eating something else!

TaoMassage will host Tea Master and Top Duck, Jane Sandlar, of Ducky Life Teas, to lead a spiritualiTEA MEDITATION and tasting.

Delight in the “agony” of the leaves and ponder a deep spiritual question at this tea meditation ceremony. Fashioned in part, after the great tradition of Eastern Tea Ceremonies (Japanese, Korean and others), this ceremony is designed to teach you a little about tea and a lot about
yourself. Every great culture has a tea ceremony, except America, until
now.

JOIN US
spiritualiTEA MEDITATION and tasting.
Wednesday April 16th from 6:30-8:30pm
program cost: $45
learn, taste, breathe in the aromas, cleanse, connect

As the evening, and tea leaves, unfold we will:

• receive a brief introduction to organic, loose leaf tea–its history, mysteries, health benefits, origin and properties of black, green, white, oolong, and pu-erh teas, blends and tisanes
• feel warmed and enriched when drinking the tea accompanying the questions you will ask yourself and silently answer
• have fun selecting one from a variety of Ducky Life Tea tins to take with you!
• choose a winner for a special door prize
• get ducked!
• Learn the ways tea can enhance your life through drinking it, cooking with it, and experiencing this ceremony

Advance registration and payment in full ($45) is required to participate
PAY ONLINE NOW with any major credit card or PayPal to secure your spot!
or send check to TaoMassage 2002 Sunset Avenue, Ocean, NJ 07712
spiritualiTEA Meditation
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 6:30-8:30pm
$45
*
a minimum of 12 participants is required to run this wonderful evening. Last day to register is 3/19.

*You will be directed to the TaoMassage website where you may use the online BUY NOW button to place a deposit or pay in full for this evening. Copy & paste this text into the item line: “TEA MEDITATION”. A receipt for you will automatically generate and I will receive an e-notice
telling me you have paid once the transaction is “cleared/completed”

ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUEST
JANE SANDLAR—Certified at the highest level awarded by the Specialty Tea Institute, Member of the Specialty Tea Institute and the Tea Association of the USA.

Jane’s love for tea has been a consuming passion for 30 years. It has led her to learn
about and experience teas from all over the world. She has studied the Japanese tea
ceremony and, working with tea masters and master artists, created its traditional vessels in clay.

A successful businesswoman and winner of the acclaimed “Entrepreneur of the Year&rdquo award, a mom, and a breast cancer survivor, Jane started Ducky Life Teas to sell the teas she loves and share the tea lifestyle that allows her “create balance when the world seems wacky!”
With intelligence and enthusiasm, she encourages all to “drink tea to have a ‘ducky life’".

It was a snowy, icy weekend, yet another fulfilling SHAKE YOUR SOUL workshop. Just 3 more weekends to go and I can debut the Shake Your Soul dance classes. I can’t wait. This weekend we dabbled in some somatic processing, the SomaSoul at The Leven Institute, working with animal guides, embodying words through movement, using color crapas and paper for expression.

But before diving into that weekend on the way up Lenox, Massachusetts, I intentionally left earlier than usual to stop in at Hawthorne Valley Farm, a BIO-DYNAMIC! farm in Ghent/Harlemville NY. I got as far as the Farm Store as there isn’t much else you can do in the snow. While there I FINALLY purchased a crystal for my cell phone that turns harmful EMFs (electro magnetic frequencies) into beneficial frequencies. While reviewing the website of the manufacturer EMFBlues.com I ran into several other interesting links…which sent me into an EMF tailspin! WOW who knew…read up!

Interesting to read how we are bombarded by electromagnetic and geopathic stress–something we generally don’t feel, see or hear, and how it affects us. Now I better understand why people protest/object to cell phone towers in their neighborhoods, are those really “cell phone boxes” on the curb?; why we may experience headaches after talking on the cell phone for too long; satellite radio emfs and the “no more bees=no more food for humans=no more humans” connection. EMFs are real.

Interesting about air plane travel! Once somebody told me of an air line pilot who was dying of a debilitating disease…my guess was from the controls in the cockpit…but seems as though air travel is filled with more radiation than a chest x-ray…interesting.

BELOW IS SOME OTHER EMF web info that I found compiled on this one website…good links to important info…EarthRainbowNetwork.com

Cell Phone Tower Search : Find Cell Tower Locations - Towers By Major U.S. Cities

Cell-Phone Towers and Communities: The Struggle for Local Control
“Consumers point out that those who use the cell-phone handsets are engaging in voluntary exposures, even though handset safety also remains unresolved, according to the FDA and many industry insiders. But those who live near the towers are being forced into involuntary exposures, often after incurring great legal expenses in trying to stop the installations.”

Millions of Bees Die - Are Electromagnetic Signals To Blame? (March 6, 2007)

When Bees Disappear, Will Man Soon Follow? (Apr 5th, 2007)

Ecological Apocalypse: Why Are All The Bees Dying?

I’d like to visit the Lucky Chocolate shop one day…ROAD TRIP!

ORGANIC CHOCOLATE and chocolates made by Lady Luck! I’m just calling her that!

The Lucky Chocolate Lady on YouTube.

While looking for luck in all the right places…I also came across these websites you might like: