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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: ellied on March 24, 2012, 06:42:16 pm
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Today I took my practical, written and oral exams for the Diploma in massage therapy and unexpectedly we got results today rather than tomorrow morning - and I passed ;D
So now I can also charge for massages as well as psychotherapy, counselling, reiki, coaching, shamanic drumming workshops, firewalking, personal development workshops, breathwork, conflict mediation and a number of other things ::)
Maybe now the income will come from more than the excess eggs which is my current highest earner ;) But who knows, there may be a queue of paying clients by next week ;)
Meantime tonight I am enjoying a celebratory glass of red wine, tomorrow will be an enjoyable day learning full body routines and receiving as well as giving them.. and I hope to sleep well tonight now the stress is over :)
Or maybe I will sign up for the remedial and sports course in September and start over again at the next level ;)
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Well done. Emjoy your glass of wine, you deserve it. :thumbsup:
Sally
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Congratulations Ellie :trophy: :thumbsup:
I'll maybe talk to you about the shamanic drumming sometime, I would love to have a go at that ;)
Enjoy your wee vino :-*
Karen :wave:
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I wish you were in France. I could do with most of what you are now qualified to do. Congratulations. Im sure it wont be long before you have built up a substantial client base.
Mary. :thumbsup:
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Well done, Ellie, hoping to come over next week sometime - just say when. Enjoy the wine, you deserve it, you've :bouquet: worked hard for this!
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Thanks - happy to visit Normandy sometime ;)
Annie I'm free tues and thurs from about lunchtime ??
There's a drumming circle 2pm Sat 7th April at Strathmiglo in fife £20 for 2-2.5 hours or a full residential weekend near callander 4-6 May for £130 + £100 food and shared accomm depending how much you want to try Karen ;). 7th there may be a firewalk in the evening depending on numbers, there's a minimum of 10 to make that viable but both drum events will run anyway.
Just finished 2nd large glass of wine and thinking I would rather have the hour than lose it tonight ::). Ah well, at least I'll get a full body massage tomorrow :)
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Congratulations :trophy:
What's shamanic drumming?
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congratulations :thumbsup:
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Well done, :trophy: sounds wonderful......love the idea of the drumming!!!!!
A relative married a Shamans daughter some years ago as he saved his life, they were Inuits and nearly died of flu!!!!!
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Congratulations :trophy:
What's shamanic drumming?
Read all about it! http://shamanicdrumming.com/ (http://shamanicdrumming.com/)
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What's shamanic drumming?
Read all about it! http://shamanicdrumming.com/ (http://shamanicdrumming.com/)
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Hm.
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Congratulations :thumbsup:
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Well done that girl :trophy: :thumbsup: I would imagine that drumming is the oldest method of stress relief. What do we all do when stressed or impatient? Drum with our fingers! Would this mimic a heatbeat do you think, Ellie?
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Congratulations! Shame, you are a bit too far from me to just pop over for a treatment...
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well done ellied congratulations :bouquet:
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I'd never seen that site and it isn't quite how I work with it but it's interesting reading ;)
I teach therapists and generally, using the 160-180 beats per minute that enhances high alpha low theta brain frequencies and helps us access our creativity and awareness, which is why it works for journeying incidentally ;) What drumming also does is act as a wordless voice with which we can express a range of experiences, emotions and memories in community without judgement or projection. It is indeed a way of relieving stress amongst other things, we can also use vibrational rhythms for healing, use the sound to help people (often women) who don't have permission to be loud, vocal, expressive, angry, powerful etc. I use some ancient ritual forms and some I have developed in tandem with my psychotherapy training, to build a sense of power in the self, freedom in expression, expression of emotions (past and present) and above all to build a community or drum circle where we all hold the rhythm for each other and work together even when we are doing individual work that nobody else can tell what it is..
It's a passion I have had for the last 7 years - I developed the workshop from a half day to whole day and now a full weekend, tho I still run 2-3 hour drum circles on a monthly basis as not everyone wants to commit to the whole thing without at least a first bash ;) Oh and yes I also do teach shamanism and work as a drummer for other practitioners in ritual and ceremony, but you don't have to buy into the spiritual aspect or the lineage of shamanism in order to benefit. 8)
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Might I have a try at it sometime?
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Well one :trophy:
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Quote from Ellied
I teach therapists and generally, using the 160-180 beats per minute that enhances high alpha low theta brain frequencies and helps us access our creativity and awareness,
Can you point me towards the evidence for the above please?
I am not sure what you mean by high alpha activity as the band width of alpha is very tight around 8-11 Hz - it can be seen in the occipital region of the wake brain when the eyes are closed and across the cortex in sleep if in pain or stress. Alpha intrusion into sleep is not good.
Interesting.
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Please, I was trying to celebrate my exam success with "friends" of the online variety and only explained the drumming in response to a query so wasn't actually soliciting business or inviting a debate on the merits or methods of accessing different brain states ::)
Spirituality isn't everybody's cup of tea but more of it seems to be gaining credibility as scientific research catches up with what practitioners and clients over around 30-40,000 years seem to have taken on trust, namely that it works.. I am not one of those involved in the research, but there is plenty on the internet if you care to google it - Dr Melinda Maxfield (PhD not medical) is one, just a small study for Stanford as I recall but there is also Dr Jeffrey D Thomson at the Centre for Neuroacoustic Research and the University of Birmingham for starters.. I'll try and look it up if you want but sadly I've not the memory for scientific data that I might like - I do know it works for my clients and that it works amazingly for me under the most diverse set of circumstances across a period of 8 years to date..
As for alpha during sleep, I've never advocated that - as I understand it alpha is associated with internal processing and theta with meditational and trance states, intense creativity etc. Beta is the thinking alert state and delta (waking) has been linked to the experience of long term expert buddhist and yogi meditation that goes way beyond my ability ;) The kind of thing Zen Buddhists practising "no mind" techniques might achieve. This is a layman's understanding, I have my MSc in psychotherapy not in neuroscience or music research, but I apologise if I offend a pure scientist by quoting what I have been taught inaccurately - consider it the response of an ageing brain coming down from major week long sleep deprivation, exam stress and the effects of 2 very large glasses of vino rosso ::)
Can I please just be happy for a bit now? I had a major piece of remedial work done on my shoulders yesterday afternoon by one of the tutors after giving her a combination of relaxation massage, reiki and shamanic fire energy (no I can't explain that in research either but she got it despite being a microbiologist!). My healing response - professional term for "it gets worse as a part of getting better" is quite severe to the point moving is a problem but I will be drumming tonight for my group no matter what, because it works and I am passionate about it, sorry again if that isn't ok with anyone but that's how it is.
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Well done, Clan House where I stayed in Aberdeen while going through my cancer use a few things that you have passed in and most of us felt a benefit. It was up to the individual if they wanted to take up the treatments on offer. Don't knock it unless you have tried them. :wave:
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I have no idea how any of this works, but if it works for you, go for it ;D
I was dead sceptical about reiki before my old Pilates teacher put her hands either side of my head (I was expressing my scepticism at the time) and wow, I was officially freaked. I loved reiki sessions with her - no idea how it works but it did for me.
I think it's great that folk explore these things - if everyone was like me, we still wouldn't have discovered America ;D
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Perhaps Mak would like to expand on his/her knowledge base/experience/qualifications on alpha in sleep?
Not on my massage exam thread please - I am too tired to take up the discussion. Wish I'd kept my trap shut, and not for the first time ::)