Greetings!
Libraries, Dance and Healing are 3 of my favorite things and nothing makes me happier than when they intersect!
I'll be offering Acupressure Mini-Sessions to benefit the Greenfield Public Library on Monday July 15. In honor of "EveryBody Deserves a Massage Week" July 15-20 I will donate 50% of all first time appointments to the Friends of the Library of your choice.
In case you need a reminder, summer heat and activity can be exhausting and hard on the body. Your acupressurist recommends that you drink plenty of water and take some time to lie in a hammock and look at the sky. 
be well, stay cool, come and see me, Karen
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EveryBody Deserves a Massage
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Belly Dance your way to a pain free back
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If I could teach you just 3 belly dance moves to improve your posture, strengthen abdominal muscles and take the strain off the low back they would be:
1. Pelvic Tilt- Lie on your back with your knees bent. Flatten your back against the floor by tightening your abdominal muscles and bending your pelvis.
2. Hip circles- best done sitting on physio- ball. Move hips in a circle, let your knees and upper body help with momentum then isolate just the hips.
3. Shimmy- standing, bend one knee then straighten and bend the other, go back and forth faster and faster, must be relaxed. Do it while washing dishes. Releases hip joints and connective tissue, strengthens bone.
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Dance the blues away
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Sufi Whirling Dervishes and trance dances like the Guedra and Zar from North Africa have long used dance to channel the Divine for blessings and healing. I've always enjoyed the big production musicals of the 1930's and 40's but hadn't thought of their emotional importance to the morale of the country. Now neuroscience has discovered that music stimulates the release of dopamine in the part of the brain that responds to rewarding stimuli like food, sex and cocaine. Dancing is fun, free and good for you- so put on some music and dance!
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