Friday, April 23, 2010

Open House: Could Massage Therapy Create a Miracle Result?

Poster: The Art of Life Community Health Centre Open House: Could Massage Therapy Create a Miracle Result? Toronto, Don MillsPoster: The Art of Life Community Health Centre
Open House: Could Massage Therapy Create a Miracle Result?

The ART of LIFE Community Health Centre

Invites you to attend our OPEN HOUSE

Day: Friday, April 30, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

You will get a FREE 15 min. massage, info about our unique diagnostic and treatment programs, coffee, tea, cookies, and a traditional education lecture:
Can Massage Create A Miracle?
Time: 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Lecturers:
The lecture will cover the following topics:

[ V ] A variety of massage techniques and approaches are available to help you in your healing process and recovery.
[ V ] How to choose the right kind of massage therapy for a specific problem?
[ V ] Why massage can help you to feel active and young again?

Let massage therapy become your fountain of youth!

Don’t lose your chance to win 3 FREE 30 minute massage sessions!

Location: Suite 121, 885 Don Mills Road
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3C 1V9

Entrance to the free parking is from Gervais Drive via Wynford Drive

Get a map and/or directions:
http://www.theartlife.ca/contact.html
Google Map: 885 Don Mills Road
At the North-East corner of Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue East

Taking public transit?
Take the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line to the Eglinton station and transfer to the Eglinton East (route 34) bus. Get off at Don Mills Road.
Or, take the Bloor-Danforth subway line to the Pape station and transfer to the Don Mills (route 25) bus. Get off at Wynford Drive.

Our neigbours are the Ontario Science Centre and Celestica International Inc. manufacturing site.

If you need more information,
give a call to Ludmila at 416-449-6747
or send us an e-mail at office@theartlife.ca
or check our web-site: www.TheArtLife.ca

Please come when you like, learn about our community centre, meet our doctors, ask questions. We can help you to verify if certain massage therapies really work for you.

Feel free to pass this on to friends and colleagues.

Friday, April 9, 2010

The Art of NIA Dance

Photo courtesy of Jane Markowitz for The Art of Life Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, NIA DancePhoto: Jane Markowitz for The Art of Life

The Art of NIA Dance with Jane

Her father was a legendary healer. Her mother was a great and artistic beauty. In Nia, Jane has found her place in her generation and community.

She was dancing in utero, reports her mother. As a child, she was invited to study with the little boys and girls at the Royal Ballet School in London, England, but preferred to stay at home in Toronto to train. As she matured, her body departed from the standards required by the National Ballet, and she spent years nursing dance injuries and grieving the loss of her greatest hope. Later, as a career schoolteacher, she was instrumental in bringing Dance to the Ontario school system as a secondary credit course. She has since served as Head of Dance at the prestigious Claude Watson High School for the performing arts, and authored a pedagogic textbook for teachers of dance in Ontario.

Enter Nia…..Neuromuscular Integrative Awareness…..the merging of magic, music and medicine into a single alchemic practice. Nia embraces all aspects of holistic, systemic movement, delighting practitioners and changing lives.

While in her forties, Jane found a Nia class in her local community centre, and began to study, train and teach in realms she had only imagined. Currently she has achieved the highest level of teacher training, with the earning of a Nia Black Belt in July of 2009. Her classes synthesize music, movement, kinaesthetic mindfulness, sensory awareness, and poetic readiness; she explores both form and freedom with her students, who come in search of fun, fitness, healing, self-knowledge, and community.

Jane’s students meet every Thursday evening for a class at 7:30 pm. Classes finish with silent personal reflections on world, community, and calendar events. Recent themes have included self-love, vision, flexibility, and the nature of giving - all evolving from mindful, transformational dance. Thus, lively movement is taken inward to influence the neurochemistry of daily experience, thus healing mind, body, heart and spirit. Jane calls this The Work of Nia, and it is being done all over the world.

"Love is in the air", she smiles. "I love all my classes, and my Art of Life Nia sessions are really special for me."

Photo courtesy of Jane Markowitz for The Art of Life Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, NIA DancePhoto: Jane Markowitz for The Art of Life


links:
nianow.com: Jane Markowitz's Page: A sensory-based movement lifestyle that leads to health, wellness and fitness
niac.ca: Jane Markowitz's Class Schedule
facebook: Jane Markowitz