Archive for February, 2011
Help Odanadi put an end to human trafficking
Yoga Stops Traffick poster-click here
Tampa Bay Yoga Community Announces “Yoga Stops Traffic Event” Global event. Featuring a collective of Tampa Bay’s Yoga Instructors, Downtown Tampa, at the Tampa Museum.
I’m excited to be offering a Crystal Bowl Sound Healing and providing music for this event. It’s wonderful to be involved with this Tampa Bay community event and to be of service to the Odanadi Seva Trust.
The benefit event will take place on March 12th, 2011 beginning at 8:30 A.M. To 11:00 A.M. at the Tampa Museum located at 120 West Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL 33602. The event is free with donations being accepted to benefit the Odanadi organization.
Roll out your Yoga mats on March 12th 2011 for an around-the-world sun salutation, to take a stand against human trafficking in India and show your support to its millions of victims. On this day yogi’s and yogini’s across the globe will practice yoga and help raise money to help stop human trafficking in India.
Yoga Studio instructors from the surrounding Tampa, Brandon & St. Petersburg area will join
together in community to lead and assist participants through a full series of 108 Surya Namaskar Sun Salutations in support of this global effort. The event will be followed by a special Crystal Bowl Sound Healing offering and Yoga Nidra meditation relaxation. Let’s join together through Yoga and help Odanadi put an end to human trafficking.
About Odanadi Seva Trust
Odanadi is a pioneering anti-trafficking organization based in Mysore, South India, working for the rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of trafficked women and children. Over the past 20 years Odanadi Seva Trust has rescued and rehabilitated more than 1850 children, carried out 57 brothel raids and brought 137 traffickers to justice. With your help, compassion and cooperation, Odanadi will continue to provide a place of sanctuary for the survivors of human trafficking and offer them a chance to rebuild their lives.
Rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration
Odanadi currently runs two residential rehabilitation and reintegration centres in Mysore, housing up to 85 women and young people at any one time. Every resident has a different story to tell: many have been rescued from the hands of brothel owners and sex traffickers, others from abusive homes, child marriages or domestic and commercial servitude. At Odanadi residents are provided with the skills they need to heal, empower, educate and eventually reintegrate themselves back into mainstream society.
Odanadi’s unique psycho-social therapy programme has become accepted as best practice both within India and internationally. The Union Human Resource Development Ministry has adopted the Odanadi model, and many other Indian state governments have sent rescued girls to Odanadi to facilitate their rehabilitation.
Odanadi’s method is carefully tailored according to each individual’s needs and can entail a wide range of activities, from psychological counseling to art therapy, drama, karate to yoga and acupuncture. Research shows that almost a quarter of trafficking victims are re-trafficked, which is why it is so important for residents to be well prepared for life outside the walls of Odanadi. Odanadi’s aim is to reunite trafficking victims with their families, and to give them the necessary tools to face mainstream society as strong, confident, empowered individuals.
YOGA STOPS TRAFFICK is a one-day global yoga event created to raise awareness and funds for Indian anti-trafficking organisation Odanadi Seva Trust.
ONE DAY, ONE VOICE is our ethos. Last year’s founding event, on March 12th 2010, was led by a group of young Odanadi residents from the entrance gates of the iconic Mysore Palace – many of whom are survivors of slavery, domestic abuse and forced prostitution. Through the common language of yoga, 1,500 people around the world rolled out their mats in homes, beaches and mountaintops on the same day, in support of Odanadi’s work. And so from the home of Ashtanga in Mysore, a worldwide event was born.
ASHTANGA YOGA is of huge significance to the young people of Odanadi. As part of their rehabilitation program, it has allowed them to reclaim their bodies; build physical and mental strength, and restore a sense of peace, confidence and self-worth. By standing alongside them on March 12th 2011, you will be demonstrating your solidarity and support for them, as well as sending a message of defiance against a world which allows these horrific abuses to take place.
United against human trafficking The purpose of this worldwide sponsored sun salutation is to unite yoga practitioners across the globe in support of Odanadi. By taking part on March 12th 2011 you will be helping to spread awareness about the serious, rapidly escalating exploitation of women and children in India and also raise funds to support Odanadi’s crucial work in the field of prevention, rescue and rehabilitation.
http://www.yogastopstraffick.org
Below is a list (so far!), of the events taking place for YOGA STOPS TRAFFICK on March 12th 2011.
INDIA - Mysore, Goa, Chennai
ENGLAND – London x5, Bournemouth, Cornwall, Oxford, Reading, Sussex, Nottingham, Leeds, Liverpool
USA - Austin TX, Friendswood TX, Boston MA, Washington DC, Chicago IL, New Orleans LA x2, Hawaii, Carslbad CA, Los Angeles, San Franciso CA, Miami FL, Clearwater FL, Tampa FL, NYC x2, Malibu, Orlando FL, Seattle, Ashville, Florence MA, Cleveland OH, Islamorada FL, Bristol VT, Georgetown CT, Dekalb IL, Kalamazoo MI, Colombus OH, Great Barrington MA, West Bloomfield MI, Dallas TX, Virginia Beach, South Sound, Davenport IA, Ottowa, Philadelphia, Milwaukee,
AUSTRALIA – Sydney x2, Adelaide, Melbourne x3, Dunsborough
CANADA - Victoria, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto,Montreal, Ottawa
IRELAND – Dublin
FRANCE – Perpinghan
ITALY - Milan
BELGIUM – Brussells, Antwerp,
DENMARK – Copenhagen
SLOVENIA – Ljubljana
GERMANY - Berlin,Munich, Frankfurt
SWITZERLAND – Geneva
NETHERLANDS – x2
POLAND - Warsaw
NORWAY x2
SWEDEN – Stockholm x2
SPAIN – Barcelona, Madrid x2
HUNGARY – Budapest
JAPAN – Osaka
CHINA – Hong Kong
THAILAND – Bangkok, Koh Samui
INDONESIA - Jakarta
PHILIPPINES – Manila
PORTUGAL – Lisbon, Cascais
BRASIL – Sao Paulo
CHILE - Santiago x2
BALI -
PUETO RICO -
What’s the Buzz? Sound Therapy
Written By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
Published: November 24, 2005 in The “NEW YORK TIMES”
Photo: Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times
(Photo Left) Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor, a New York oncologist, strikes one of his Tibetan singing bowls with a mallet to produce soothing tones; he might add rice to change the sound. Dr. Gaynor, the author of a book on sound healing, considers it a complement to traditional Western medicine.
CAROL HARADA lay on her back, eyes closed, on cushions strewn across the floor of a studio in Emeryville, Calif. Several people, some clutching musical instruments, quietly gathered around. It was her turn to receive a group healing. One person held her feet. Another touched her head. Someone placed a hand on her shoulder. Ms. Harada, 40, then stated that her intention was to release the dull pain in her left shoulder.
“The physical touch was important, to remind me I was safe and directly connected to people doing healing work on my behalf,” she wrote in an e-mail describing her experience last spring.
Then, using their voices and acoustic instruments – bowls made from crystals, an Australian didgeridoo, bells and drums – the participants gently bathed Ms. Harada in sound.
When the sonic massage ended several minutes later, Ms. Harada’s eyes fluttered open. She felt grateful, peaceful and when she stood up, found that the range of motion in her shoulder had increased.
For decades people have relaxed and meditated to soothing sounds, including recordings of waves lapping, desktop waterfalls and wind chimes. Lately a new kind of sound therapy, often called sound healing, has begun to attract a following. Also known as vibrational medicine, the practice employs the vibrations of the human voice as well as objects that resonate – tuning forks, gongs, Tibetan singing bowls – to go beyond relaxation and stimulate healing. “It’s like meditation was 20 years ago and yoga was 10 to 15 years ago,” said Amrita Cottrell, the founder and director of the Healing Music Organization in Santa Cruz, Calif., and the leader of the class that Ms. Harada attended.
While many people are only just discovering it, sound healing is actually a return to ancient cultural practices that used chants and singing bowls to restore health and relieve pain. It is often introduced at mind-body or wellness festivals. Thousands of healers from almost every state and many countries have created Web sites about sound healing.
Schools for certification have sprung up too, though certification is hardly standardized. The healers include medical doctors, academics and people with no medical or scientific background at all. What they have in common is a belief in the potency of sound to not only promote relaxation, but relieve ailments, from common aches and pains to the anxiety that accompanies chemotherapy.
People who have tried sound healing say they like it because it is noninvasive and relaxing. And lying on a cushion, exercising only the ears, is decidedly easier than stretching into the downward dog pose.
But can chanting “om lam hu” or blowing into a didgeridoo really loosen a stiff neck?
No controlled clinical trials have been done to show that sound healing works, said Dr. Vijay B. Vad, a sports medicine specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan and a doctor for the P.G.A. Tour. But those who try sound healing may feel their pain diminish, because pain is notoriously subjective, Dr. Vad said. Some 35 percent of people with back pain find relief from a placebo, he noted.
Sound healing, like other mind-body treatments, he said, could act as a placebo, or it may distract the mind, breaking a stress cycle. “Even if it breaks your cycle for 15 minutes, that’s sometimes enough to have a therapeutic effect,” Dr. Vad said.
Sylvia Pelcz-Larsen of Boulder, Colo., an acupuncturist who was suffering from excruciating back pain, tried a form of sound healing called Acutonics, which involves applying tuning forks to acupressure points on the body.
“I got a 10-minute session, and my back was about 80 percent better,” she said. “It changed my life.” Ms. Pelcz-Larsen now teaches classes through the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, which is based in New Mexico but offers classes throughout the world, and has incorporated tuning forks into her acupuncture practice, along with Tibetan singing bowls, planetary gongs and chimes.
Using forks and bowls for anything other than dinner may seem to some people like New Age nonsense. But healers, sometimes called sounders, argue that sound can have physiological effects because its vibrations are not merely heard but also felt. And vibrations, they say, can lower heart rate variability, relax brain wave patterns and reduce respiratory rates.
When the heart rate is relatively steady, and breathing is deep and slow, stress hormones decrease, said Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor, an oncologist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York and the author of “The Healing Power of Sound.” That is significant, he said, because stress can depress every aspect of the immune system, “including those that protect us against flu and against cancer.”
Ms. Cottrell pointed out that ultrasound, which employs vibrations in frequencies above the range of human hearing, has been used therapeutically. “When the body is sick – it could be a cold, a broken bone, an ulcer, a tumor, or an emotional or mental illness – it’s all a matter of the frequencies of the body being out of tune, off balance, out of synch,” she said. “Vibration can help bring that back into balance.”
Sound healing works like the cry you make when you stub your toe, said Jonathan Goldman, the director of the Sound Healers Association in Boulder, and the author of “Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics.” “Have you ever been able to stub your toe and not make a sound?” he asked. “It hurts a lot more.”
The cry, he suggested, may stimulate endorphins or create resonance with the part of the body that is in pain and lessen it. Or, he said, the cry you emit may simply distract you from the pain.
Dr. Gaynor distinguishes between curing and healing. To “cure” means physically to fix something, whereas “healing” refers to wholeness, a union of the mind, body and spirit, he said. Dr. Gaynor, who has an oncology practice in Manhattan, considers sound healing integrative medicine: not an alternative to science but a complement to it.
He leads free biweekly support groups for his patients that involve chanting and playing Tibetan singing bowls. The bowls are made of several kinds of metal; when struck gently on the rim with a wood baton, they vibrate at different frequencies, making sounds not unlike church bells.
When Marisa Harris of Manhattan first saw Dr. Gaynor with one of his Tibetan bowls she thought he was going to prepare pasta. But when he began to play them, she said, it was the first time since she had been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer that she could hear something other than the words “you’re going to die.”
“It was as if all of a sudden there was room for possibility,” she said. The sound, Ms. Harris said, penetrated her body and made her feel as if it were not only her thoughts about death that were breaking up, “but these poisonous cells, these cancer cells, were breaking up and I experienced something very healing.”
More than seven years later she plays her own singing bowls every day, often chanting the names of her three children, her husband and other loved ones. The bowls, she said, helped her express feelings she had bottled up inside. Sometimes, she said, she talks to the bowls about her fears. “The sound would take them away,” she said, “out of my being, out of my existence.”
Mr. Goldman draws an analogy between sound healing and prayer. Many cultures, he said, believe that vocalizing a prayer amplifies it. By the same token, he said, expressing what you want a sound to accomplish (Ms. Harada’s wish to release the pain in her left shoulder, for example), can help you heal yourself – or someone else.
Dr. Gaynor likens sound healing to music therapy. In “The Healing Power of Sound” he cites studies indicating that music can lower blood pressure, reduce cardiac complications among patients who have recently suffered heart attacks, reduce stress hormones during medical testing and boost natural opiates.
But not everyone who partakes in sound healing is in need of medical treatment. Ms. Harada’s husband, Greg Bergere, attended the sound healing classes in Emeryville even though he had no physical ailments. They left him feeling refreshed. “It felt like I just had a really relaxing night’s sleep,” he said. For some people, that alone may be worth the price of a singing bowl.
Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Journey with Eluv
Friday Feb 25th 7- 8.30pm
Live Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Journey with Nada Acupuncture Option by Eluv & Dr Mike Pagani
Please note: In March we return to the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
Dr Mike Pagani and Eluv bring you this combination of Nada Acupuncture and Sound Healing to accelerate and enhance healing, relaxation and pain relief.
Sound Healing with Crystal Singing Bowls
Sound Healing literally takes our energy as it is and re-organizes it into a higher vibrational state of being. When we use the crystal singing bowls for sound healing the positive effects can be profound. The sound does not discriminate, it simply does its job of re-organizing and balancing our “out of balance” frequencies, creating a more harmonious state of being. Powerful yet simple. One single sound journey can have profound effects on the body, mind and spirit.
You may choose with or without Nada Acupuncture.
The Acupuncture is done with Ear Seeds, no needles.
Combining sound healing with Nada Acupuncture accelerates the healing process, and also extends the healing process as the ears seeds can stay in your ears for several days.
This special Acupuncture is done with Ear Seeds, No needles!
Combining sound healing with Nada Acupuncture accelerates the healing process, plus extends the healing process as the ears seeds can stay in your ears for several days. Ear seeds are like time -release acupuncture. The sound vibration from the crystal singing bowls resonates with the ear seeds, stimulating every meridian and organ to better health.
Energy Exchange:
*Sound Healing Only: $20 pre pay / $25 at door
*Nada Acupuncture w/Sound Healing:
$40 pre pay /$45 at door
Please pre- register for this event as this intimate space is limited to 15 people.
Location:
Raydiance Helio Spa & Wellness Center
120 S. Howard Ave,
Tampa, Florida 33606
Ph: (813) 258-0458
http://www.RaydianceWellness.com
Eluv:
www.radiantsol.com
Eluv on You Tube:
www.youtube.com/eluvmusic
Immerse Yourself in the Positive Frequencies of DJ Eluv and Ultrasounds Radio Show
Music For Your Mind Body & Soul…
Opening the Pathway to Enlightenment Through Music
Music Producer, recording artist and DJ Eluv, was born and educated in Melbourne, Australia. Eluv’s eclectic musical taste and style has been greatly influenced by her Egyptian, Greek, and French heritage
DJ Eluv ‘s music is a sublime celebration of exotic beats from around the globe…Featuring Exotic Chill Out & Lounge, World Beat, Beautiful Electronic Dance Music, Lush Ambient, Atmospheric Dub, Drum & Bass, and music for healing. Eluv’s unique approach to her Dj mixes incorporates using music as a healing modality. Her music is an uplifting Soulful Journey into the Spheres of Electronic World Music. She tunes into the energy of love and brings forth a musical mix to match this vibration. The result is profoundly positive and inspiring.
Eluv also produces a weekly radio show called “UltraSounds” on WMNF 88.5 FM Tampa every Thursday evening 11pm-1am. Listeners can tune in online at http://www.wmnf.org/programs/ultrasounds
A graduate of Melbourne Radio School in Australia, Eluv was Senior Creative Programming Director and On- Air Talent / DJ, on The Womb.com Radio Station located in Miami Beach, Florida (since its beginning in 1997). She is known as “The Voice of the Womb” as her voice was featured throughout the website, CD compilations, video productions and on-air for all voice over tags. Her daily radio shows “Lovevybes” “UltraSounds” and “The Frequency Launching Pad Show” were broadcast live worldwide, to over 2 million people each month via “The Womb”, “Terra.com” and “Prime Stream.” Eluv’s DJ mixes and Voice-Overs became part of the Womb’s signature sound, and can also be heard on radio, television commercials & websites all over the world.
It is Eluv’s mission no matter what style of music she is singing or composing, spinning, is to emanate love, positivity and healing vibrations. With this intent infused into her whole being, Eluv’s quest to spread love through her words and music continues to manifest in every way, every day.
“Music is my vehicle for sharing universal love and light, with others”.
“I believe music and sound healing is the medicine of our future” Eluv
Eluv’s Website: http://www.radiantsol.com
Moxy Women is pleased to announce the upcoming production of Heartbeat…
Where the Great Mystery Begins, an extraordinary journey of music and dance!
Join our host, TV personality, author, and speaker Michelle Phillips for this blissful journey with the fictional goddess Aiyana portrayed by Italian born singer Rossana Spallino. Ascend and be enlightened as ancient myth and personal transformation are revealed through dancers, vocalists, and musicians evoking the presence of goddesses Aphrodite, Isis, and Hecate who inspire and guide Aiyana on her journey.
Producer, Director, and Founder of Moxy Women, Jean Harper commented, “I began working on the script for this show in 2009 and when I was ready to move ahead, the cast of this production came together easily and effortlessly. It was as though the goddesses directed me in selecting members of the cast,” she replied in a half jesting way. “Aiyana’s awakening is a reminder to all of us that life on earth is a gift to be celebrated,” Harper concluded.
The star of the production, Rossana Spallino began formally singing at age 13 when she was chosen to perform solos in the musicals “Caino e Abele,” and “La Barunissa di Carini.” Both musicals toured throughout Sicily and Rossana made her television debut when "Caino e Abile" was aired on the Italian radio/television network, RAI-Radio Audizioni Italiane. Her successful career was put on hold when she met her husband and moved to the United States several years ago to start a family. Ms. Harper said “Rossana has played infrequently in Florida and Chicago, but will have her return debut in the starring role in Heartbeat. I first heard Rossana sing when she was near term of her first pregnancy; it sent chills up my spine watching her hit those high notes. When the time came to pick the featured new age goddess, I chose Rossana without hesitation. Watching her sing brings viewers joy as she is as beautiful as her amazing voice and has the inner beauty as one would expect of a goddess!”
Enjoy beautiful music performed by classically-trained violinist, vocalist, and awarding-winning composer Rebecca Zapen who has appeared with the Hollywood Philharmonic Orchestra. Heartbeat will also feature Harpist, Dr. Sue Carole DeVale who has performed with the Chicago Symphony at Orchestra Hall and Carnegie Hall and spent eight years as a solo harpist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. De Vale has also performed solo with stars such as Placido Domingo and in musical theater with Henry Mancini, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. and others and has recorded with the great, Dionne Warwick. “We have a special harp solo planned in which Ms. Devale will perform what may best be described as an “otherworldly” piece that is sure to marvel viewers” Harper said enticingly.
Heartbeat will blend classical musicians with jazz, rock, and blues with the addition of performers such as award winning singer/ songwriter, guitarist and actress, Lois Greco whose credits include the lead role in the Broadway production of “Grease” and one of the most popular solo artists in the Southeastern United States and Scotland, Gale Trippsmith who has opened for acts such as Leon Russell and Pat Benetar. “These ladies will rock the house with their musical performance of the popular song, Stairway to Heaven as they are joined by the amazing and gifted contemporary vocalists, New York born Jennifer Realmuto, who effortlessly performs as a 4 octave vocalist and Canadian Born Chantelle Ashby Misera, who was nominated for Best New Artist of the Year in Canada and whose powerful voice has been compared to Tina Turner” said Harper.
Dance members include Evelyn Tosi portraying the goddess Hecate. Evelyn has toured internationally and was a principle dancer in the movies Grease 2 and A Chorus Line. “Evelyn will mesmerize audiences with her weighted veil and bullwhip dances” said Harper. The goddess Isis will be embodied by Middle Eastern Dancer Najmah Nour who has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, and R U the Girl Reality Show. The captivating and sensual Middle Eastern dance artist Mystika will star as the goddess Aphrodite.
Vladislav Markov, a native of Moscow, Russia will perform two duets with Rossana Spallino. Vladislav performed at various concert venues including Carnegie Hall and sings Bass in Master Chorale of Tampa Bay as well as the Richard Zielinski Singers. He has performed at the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstaedt, Austria and with the Saint Petersburg Opera as well as with the Florida Orchestra.
The audience will be hypnotized with the ethereal performance of Australian Born recording artist and WMNF radio personality on “Ultrasounds” Elise Zotos (Eluv). Eluv’s eclectic musical taste and style has been greatly influenced by her Egyptian, Greek, and French heritage. Eluv worked as a freelance model and chorus member for the Victorian Opera Company and performed as a cast member regularly on Saturday Night Live. “Eluv travels worldwide performing her Sound Journeys and will use her talent in performing the Calling of the Goddesses which will evoke the goddesses to the stage in all of their mystery and beauty” said Harper.
The list of talent goes on to include singer, musician, and gifted songwriter Leslie Kille, musician, percussionist Linda Wallis, the Jacksonville duet -Marilyn Wilson and Lynn Curtin of Blondes Drum 2, multi-faceted dancer and vocalist Rose Stauffer and Yoga artists Lori Bushey, Corinne Clynes, and Lana Menna who will blend Ashtanga Yoga with graceful body artistry.
Join us as we connect with the past, celebrate the present, and unite for a brighter future.
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, February 18th at the Palladium Box Office or on-line at http://www.spcollege.edu/palladium/boxoffice/
Phone: 727-822-3590
About Moxy Women:
Moxy Women™ is a comprehensive on-line magazine for women igniting the flame of passion within all women to Find, Keep, and Share their Moxy through inspiring stories, empowering events, and worldwide community.
Women Taking Care of Business ® the parent corporation was founded in 2003 and launched the website in September 2007. The inspiration for the website came to Founder Jean Harper after the death of her beloved sister Ann in April, 2005.
The website features inspiring stories of Moxy Women and has recently
organized the International Association of Moxy Women uniting women
around the world to inspire and work for continued transformation and
shared enlightenment.
For Full Details on this Event go to: http://www.MoxyWomen.com
Interviews Available by Request. Send an email to: info@MoxyWomen.com
Sponsorship Information. Send an email to: info@MoxyWomen.com
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Moxy Women
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