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Holistic Healing Arts, est. 1992 Alvina Quatrano, LMT Florida License MA50896 Located in Ocean Grove, NJ 732-502-0514
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Current Events About Holistic Healing Arts & Alvina Quatrano, LMT In My Life: How I Incorporate What I Teach Zero Balancing:A Breath of Fresh Air Sampoorna Yoga The Yoga of Fullness Suggested Reading, Videos, Cassettes | ||||
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Holistic Healing Arts was established in 1992 to provide individuals with opportunities to explore a wide range of holistic and therapeutic experiences through the use of bodywork and massage therapy. Located near the ocean in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, it affords people an idyllic place for relaxation and escape from the hectic pace that many find themselves in. Many | ||||||
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clients spend the day shopping in the quaint and unique stores, eating in the eclectic restaurants or simply walking along the boardwalk enjoying the ocean air.
Alvina is a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist, Certified Process Acupressurist, Certified Zero Balancing Practitioner, and teaches Reflexology. Alvina is a Certified Teacher for Soul Lightening, Int'l, offering classes in Basic Acupressure, SEVA Stress Release, Immune/Lymph Booster and Chakra Tai Chi. She sponsors workshops regarding creativity and holistic healing, including a presentation on alternative health at the Liberty Science Center (April 2002). She is a regular at The Ocean Grove Flea Market twice a year doing chair massages with her crew. She holds a massage license in CT as well as certification in NJ. She is a member of the following professional organizations:
The American Massage Therapy Association The Zero Balancing Health Association The Trager Institute Rowe Conference Center (Mass) The Esalen Institute (CA) Tara Dayatu (HI) Traditional Acupuncture Institute (MD) Process Acupressure Unlimited (CA) \ now Soul Lightening Intl. Internatial Association Healthcare Practitioners (IAHP) 800-311-9204 National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork Peaceworks: International Network for the Dances of Universal Peace Yogi Hari's Ashram (FL)
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* Deep relaxation is induced by massage * Bursitis responds favorably to massage The release of tension in regular massage ses- ssions often enables the receiver to overcome * Sprains heal more easily long-standing emotional turmoil because renewed energy becomes available to aid in coping with them. * Fractures, breaks and dislocations take less time to heal * Greater achievements are possible with renewed energy and a cleared mind. * Adhesions can be prevented or broken down to effect greater mobility * Self-esteem improves * The function of every internal organ can * The body and mind can be stimulated without be improved, directly or indirectly, by the the negative side-effects of caffeine or drugs application of the many different techniques
* Mental and physical fatigue is relieved * Digestion, assimilation and elimination can be improved * Chronic neck and shoulder tension can be released * The detoxifying function of the kidneys is * Muscles receive and increased blood supply increased of nutrients that help to improve their functioning * Massage heightens tissue metabolism * Calf cramps and other muscle spasms can be eliminated * The lymphatic system is flushed by mechan- * Waste products that accumulate in muscles ically eliminating toxins and waste after vigorous exercise can be removed to prevent soreness and aching * Massage returns blood to the heart thereby assisting cardiac functions * Muscle tone can be improved, and muscular atrophy due to forced inactivity, can be reduced * Massage can benefit anemics by increasing the number of red blood cells * Massage is a form of passive exercise that can partially compensate for lack of exercise * Eyesight and hearing can be improved
* Chest pains related to tight pectoralis muscles * Nasal congestion and sinus conditions can be eliminated and a tension-causing fear improve dramatically and often totally disappear of heart attack alleviated * Sore throats can be encouraged to heal more quickly. If a sore throat is treated within the first * Fat stored in your tissues may be reduced hour, it can often be averted
* Massage dilates blood vessels to improve * All types of headaches(Gall Bladder, Liver, circulation Stomach,Large Intestine, emotional and migraine) can be eliminaated * Arthritis patients experience relief because improved circulation to the joint reduces * The balding process ca be stopped, reduced or inflammation and pain reversed through frequent massaging of the shoulders, neck, and head and by making * Directly massaging the hands helps to relieve contact with the neuro-vascular holding points and sometimes eliminates neuralgic, arthritic * Wrinkles can be lessened due to improved and rheumatic disorders circulation | ||||
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Holistic Massage Consists of a variety of hands-on techniques characterized by hypnotic strokes that enable inner focus to attain healing through integration of mind/body/spirit.
Swedish Massage Works with all or specific muscle groups to relax and release tension in addition to promoting blood and lymphatic circulation.
Shiatsu (gentle) Is a form of Acupressure that focuses on releasing tension and increasing strength and energy to weakened areas. It is ideal for cleansing the body and enabling healing from many chronic conditions through rejuvenating cell growth and improving organ function.
Zero Balancing Is a simple, yet powerful method of aligning the body's energy with the body's structures. It focuses on the whole person, even when there are specific areas of focus, so to enable effective release of stress and increase in the body's ability to heal itself. ZB techniques allow for letting the extraneous fall away, being left with your core energy in alignment with your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Suggested initial treatment is three times within three weeks.This work is done clothed.
Reiki I & II Is a process of hands-on healing that uses energy to help open and balance the body, releasing negative energy patterns that might be stored in the body.
CranioSacral Therapy I & II Is a light-touch method around the head and spinal cord area to improve and enhance your | |||||
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Central Nervous System.
Somato Emotional Release Is a process by which touch is used to assist you in letting go and releasing emotions that may be stored in various areas of the body causing stress and ill-health.
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Is an ancient practice based on the belief that pressure points in the feet when touched and manipulated can relieve illnesses, stress, and other ailments throughout the body by stimulating the body's own healing mechanisms.
Process Acupressure Is a light-touch centered therapy that is designed to work with the various pressure points in the body to stimulate self-healing and spiritual growth through the alignment of the chakras and meridians.This work is done clothed.
Trager Bodywork Is a type of movement-oriented bodywork to help the body align itself and begin the self-healing process.
Esalen Massage Is a type of massage that functions with similar intentions of the various other massage styles, but is separated by it's use of long, flaring strokes to invigorate and stimulate the body.
Chair Massage Is a form of a relaxation massage done while sitting in a chair and fully clothed. Ideal for the workplace or group events.
Announcing Alvina's association with www.tachyon-partners.com/alvinaq , check it out!!!!or call. The Session
The typical session is usually an hour and a half, and consists of an evaluation of present difficulties or symptomlogies and your wants and needs. In addition, pulses may be taken for the Chinese traditional diagnosis of meridians and general flow of energy. Everything can be tailor-made to suit your needs, including home visits. Clothing may be kept on or off, depending on your level of comfort. First Session includes free interview and consultation with one-hour bodywork session.
Hour session: $80 Hour-and-half session: $135 Two-hour session: $177 Home visits start at: $107 Gift Certificates are available
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"Holy Cow! That was excellent!!!" MC..financial analyst... after massage
"Oh, I feel so much better", J.K...nurse.. after Zero Balancing
" My headache? I don't feel it now! I feel so much better!" VB..marketing excecutive.... massage
"You know why I come here? You calm me down..you relax me... It's your touch!!!" TM...demolition man... massage
"I feel good. I feel different. I'll be back!!!" LM....graphics designer .....Massage & Process Acupressure
"I feel lighter. Let's make another appointment." CM...nurse.....massage
" My blood sugar goes down 50 points after a treatment with you invariably!!! LM, Printer, severe Diabetes, after massage.
"I could go anywhere to get a massage, but this is ALVINA!!" MC..esthetician
"The best in The Village!!, ......T.L. commercial realtor
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In fact, your body holds all the information that's happened to you during your whole life. It's your living file system. And as a kind of storage space for memories, it's one of the best ways to heal and align the mind/body/spirit connection. And when these aspects of self are aligned healing pathways are found.
It's a delicate proposition: healing the self through accessing information stored in the body. And as such, must be handled with gentleness, compassion, and caring. A safe and comforting way to do this is through Process Acupressure.
With Process Acupressure, you find yourself supported by the bodywork experience and the bodyworker to explore yourself unconditionally. And when this is done, wondrous things can happen.
Each session is created to enable creativity, imagination, and enlightenment--yet is deeply grounded in the here-and-now through the body dynamic, the protocol of acupressure, and touch itself.
Holding "acupoints" that relate to specific areas of difficulty or points throughout the body, clear the energy pathways and support strengthening in your being and encourage you to develop a sense of entitlement "to be who you are".
By working with the body in such a manner as Process Acupressure you can enrich your own unique being through support of spiritual compassion and nonjudgement--in the end you will access your truth and in that, "the truth will set you free."
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Upcoming Events, Workshops, Classes, & Links Alvina's workshops are slated to run at different times . Call to find out about dates and locations.732-502-0514.
Alvina is available to teach 1- 6 hour classes and 2 -4 day classes
Sampoorna Hatha Yoga Level 1 The Yoga Of Fullness: Chant, Energize, Stretch, Breathe, Warm-up, Asana, Relax. Tuesdays 9:30-11:30 $10 The Chapel at Francis Asbury Manor (5th Floor), 70 Stockton Avenue, Ocean Grove, NJ
Seva/Stress Release Protocal--developed by Aminah Raheem and the PA Teachers No prior experience needed Learn acupoints to help self and others. NCBTMB Continuing Education Credit Immune/Lymph Booster Protocal: Addresses Flu & chronic fatigue.Anyone can learn. NCBTMB Continuing Education Credit
Reflexology:Release stress from the whole body through the feet and hands.
Chakra Tai Chi:Developed by Aminah Raheem, simple, traditional movements paired with chakra conciousness work in motion. Clearing, energizing,strengthening.Video avail.
Intro to Zero Balancing:Developed by Dr. Fritz Smith a powerful hands-on method for aligning body energy with body structure.Book:Inner Bridges by Dr. Fritz Smith.
Enneagram, Insights Into Your Personality & Life: An ancient Sufi teaching that describes nine different personality types and their interrelationships.
Intro To Process Acupressure:Developed by Dr. Aminah Raheem a method of combining bodywork(acupressure and Zero Balancing) with psychological processing (Arnold Mindell). Book: Soul Return by Aminah Raheem
Check with Alvina for new classes...Immune Booster. a six hour class.. Basic Acupressure I--a four day class through The Upledger Institute and provides NCBTMB Continuing Education Credit
Also visit these sites
Rowe Camp and Conference Center, Rowe Massachusetts Tai Sophia Institute, Baltimore, Maryland The American Massage Therapy Association The Zero Balancing Association Process Acupressure Unlimited (CA) Internatial Association Healthcare Practitioners (IAHP) 800-311-9204 National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork Peaceworks: International Network for the Dances of Universal Peace Yogi Hari Ashram Miramar Florida
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BASIC ACUPRESSURE CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
Developed by Aminah Raheem PhD., originator of Process Acupressure
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May 15-18th
This powerful acupoint system supports a self process. It can be used on
yourself or for your clients, family members or friends and is performed on a fully
clothed body resting on a massage table.
Course Features
Energetic principles of bodywork
Introduction to the special touch method of interface, as taught in
Zero Balancing and Process Acupressure
Introduction of more than 40 special acupoints
Learning how to read 40 specific formulas for parts of the body or
symptomatic conditions
A clinical handbook with these powerful formulas and background
information
Course Fee: $695, discount for early registration
25 CEU's available through the Upledger Institute
You can register by calling Alvina at 732-502-0514 , 48 Main Ave, OG,NJ 07756
or by email
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Level One Hatha Yoga The Yoga of Fullness
Chant, Energize, Stretch, Breathe, Warm-Up, Asana, Relax
Tuesdays: 9:30 AM Meditation 10-11:30 AM YOGA
Location: The Chapel at Francis Asbury Manor, 5th Floor; 70 Stockton Avenue, Ocean Grove, NJ
$10
Contact: Alvina Quatrano
732-502-0514
From the Sivananda Lineage and Yogi Hari, Miramar Florida Suggested Reading: Sampoorna Yoga by Yogi Hari and Sampoorna Yoga DVD Available at 1-800-964-2553
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ZERO BALANCING .....A Breath of Fresh Air
Hypopnea/Hyperpnea. I love those words. They have a lot of character. They are medical terms used to describe a breathing cycle that occurs frequently during a Zero Balancing session. Hypopnea is the quiet state before a hyperpnea or "big breath." Hypopnea is mysterious since it is the silent, quiet, nonexistent breath. Where are you? It's as if you're in a dream state. Yes, that very rich state where you can connect with your soul. Your breath opens your body to receive the gentle healing energy of the treatment and you are forever changed. You are gifted graciously with buoyancy, which brings a new consciousnes to forgotten ideas and areas of the body, which awaken as if from a long sleep to be clarified, enlightened. Hyperpnea: an invocation that excites every cell, stimulating the organs to wake up and seize the moment. And what a moment! The cobwebs are blown away and pure juice remains. Fresh oxygen supplying the body, reaching to every crevice and fold of skin and tissue. Feed tension, delighted senses, a rested state...You are supported by the practitioner's touch, a simple, yet profoundly deep connection that unlocks the treasure of who you are. Hyperpnea: permission to expand yourself to be who you are more strongly, an act of entitlement to inhabit your own space more fully.
"Alvina," asks Colleen,"What would the world be without ZB?". For she has known Zero Balancing to create confirmation of herself; to support her in clarifying her needs and wants by the simple richness of bone on bone. Bone released from stress via Zero Balancing to simply support us as the skeleton was intended to; unfettered by burdens of anxiety, predjudice, shame, abuse, illness, confusion, etc., to be as it was intended to be: pure energy moving with grace; pure structure connected with the ground. Alignment happens!
There is a Pyramid Meditation which Dr. Fritz Smith (the originator of Zero Balancing) teaches. It utilizes the chakras and our connection to heaven and earth providing energetic alignment for all within the pyramid. Usually a prayer is said to include the earth in our healing efforts for it is she who is supporting our lives here and we need always to be gracious and honor her for allowing us to use her paths, her air, her water, her warmth and her coolness. She provides our environment, our home. We make ourselves more at home by our practices, living harmoniously and vigilantly with and for the earth.
Hyperpnea!...Oh!...Yes!...I'm alive! A radiant Being who stands with others. Here, on earth!
MAIN MENU Check out the Zero Balancing Article in Summer 2002 Vol 41,No.2 Massage Magazine!!! | ||||
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The Enneagram | ||||||||
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The Enneagram is an ancient form of personality typing devised by the Jesuits to get along better together in the monastaries. It was notoriously passed down verbally until the 1970's when Helen Palmer, PhD, Stanford University, brought it out in her book, The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life. There are numerous teachers and writers and workshops on the Enneagram today, even a newsletter. Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson of New York City have an excellent book called, The Wisdom of The Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological andSpiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types.
To take a free Enneagram test click here: RHETI test
The I Ching
A fun tool to help focus and find guidance in the moment
The Wilhelm-Baynes Edition (classic) The I Ching: A Guide To Life's Turning Points, Brian Browne Walker Tiger and Dragon I Ching,Rowena Kryder
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Are we all as gifted as Raheem? She would have us think so. She does say that not everyone is a "teacher". It is a question of whether or not you want to be. Seek and you shall find, otherwise you stay in the dark. Or, perhaps a lightning bolt will come and wake you up to your destiny---your purpose---your soul. Ask the questions and the answers will come. This book is about healing. Healing our inner child (soothing her). Healing our adult (to forge on). Healing our world (which is in danger of being destroyed by ignorance). Raheem presents a carefully laid out explanation of man's condition (armoring, cocooning which are ways of protecting oneself from the forces which offend from childhood on) and a solution--the task of awakening soul consciousness. For Raheem this is a lifetime journey. She goes on to say that although the awakening process is usually gradual and follows a practice of some kind but can often be abrupt or unexpected. I quote, "In my experience true spiritual development and soul consciousness only become accessible in one way or another (abruptly or deliberately, painstakingly). A stronger force is required. The Dalai Lama has traveled the world conducting Bhuddist initiaitons that have undoubtedly helped open the world to it's soul.". Follow Aminah through her knowledge of, and ultimate dissatisfaction with, psychology, to the development of her own practice of Process Acupressure and her many stories of enightenment and the encounters and practices that bring it. She says in her introduction that she hopes the stories stimulate memories of our own soul lightning and indeed upon asking it does. Aminah quotes the Bhuddist sage Joko: " There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being. Eventually, we see that we are the limitless, boundless ground of the universe. Our job for the rest of our life is to open up into that immensity and to express it.".
Alvina Quatrano July 2005
Soul Lightning Awakening Soul Consciousness, by Aminah Raheem, 318 pages, published by iUniverse, Inc, 2005. | ||
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Soul Return: Integrating Body, Psyche & Spirit. Aminah Raheem, PhD. Aslan Publishing: Fairfield, CT.; 1987,2000. {New book: Soul Lightening July 2005 }
Soul Lightning: Awakening Soul Consciousness, Aminah Raheem,PhD, iUniverse, Inc. can order through Soul Lightening .com
Inner Bridges: A Guide to Energy Movement and Body Structure. Fritz Frederick Smith, MD. Humanis New Age: Atlanta, GA; 1986, 1990.
Zero Balancing: Touching the Energy of Bone. John Hamwee, forward by Fritz Smith,MD., illustrations by Gina Michaels. Frances Lincoln Limited: Great Britain, 1999.
Working with the Dreaming Body. Arnold Mindell. Clays Ltd, Penguin Group: England, 1985.
Movement as a Way to Agelessness. Milton Trager, MD, with Cathy Hammond,PhD. Station Hill Press, 1987, 1995.
Moving Medicine: The Life and Work of Milton Trager. Jack Liskin. Station Hill Press, 1996.
Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing. Balch & Balch. Avery Press.
Healing with Whole Foods: Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition. Paul Pritchford. North Atlantic Books: Berkely, CA; 1993.
Asian Health Secrets. Letha Hedady, D. Ac.. Three Rivers Press: NY, 1996.
Eat Right For (4) Your Type. Peter J. D'Adamo with Cathy Whitney. GP Putnam Sons: NY, 1996
The Macrobiotic Way of Zen Shiatsu. David Sergel, forward by Mishio Kushi. Japan Publications, Inc.,1989.
Healing Your Rift with God. Paul Sibcey. Beyond Words Pub, 1999. Sampoorna Yoga, Yogi Hari, Nada Productions, 2004, 1800-964-2553 Videos & Casettes
Chakra Tai Chi. Aminah Raheem. Distributed by The Upledger Institute ; 800-233-5880 or pau@processacupressure.com
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Whatever you love, you are.
--RUMI
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