Workshops and Lectures

Do you throw your hands up after five minutes of giving a massage? Then sign up for couples massage training!

In this three hour introductory Workshop you will learn how to:

• Reduce pain and tension
• Better your connection
• Save you hands from exhaustion
• How to give and receive a relaxing body massage

what to bring - Set of sheets and a towel

what to wear - Bathing suit or tank top and shorts

Massage table, oil and massage cream provided. Class size limited to seven couples.

Interactive engaging Workplace Wellness Workshop on helping to reduce stress and gain more energy during the day.

Sample outline:

• Intro to topic:
  Q & A on How do you get through a slump at work?
• Introduce new techniques
  1. Breathing for stress relief
  2. Breathing for energy
  3. Simple stretching exercises at your desk
  4. Tennis Ball technique
  5. Wrap up

Length of workshop varies from 30 to 60 minutes depending on number of employees in attendance

An Oceanfront Retreat in beautiful Long Beach Island, NJ
September 19th—21st, 2008
Time: Friday 7pm—Sunday 1pm

Experience a deeper connection to your true self thru the healing power of yoga. Balance your chakras with creative visualization and Kundalini yoga. Enjoy the sounds of the ocean as your guide in meditation. Relax into the softness of the sand as we stretch and breathe in the healing sea air & exhale the tension with gentle yoga. Cleanse physical toxins through raw juices and food and move like water on land through Vinyasa Flow. Let go of old blockages and come into the freedom of being in the now with movement meditation.

• Gentle yoga
• Kundalini Yoga
• Vinyasa Flow
• Meditation & journaling
• Myofascial Unwinding
• Saturday evening entertainment

Malia Murphy is a Certified Massage Therapist, Reiki Master and director of Island Wellness Center in LBI. She is certified in Radiant Child Yoga, pre-natal yoga & Let It Go Yoga. She has been practicing for 30 years and teaching since 2002. Malia’s intention is to create world peace through yoga.

Sue Walker, RYT, CMT: Sue has been practicing yoga, massage, & reiki for over 12 years. She has been teaching yoga since 2003. Her practice integrates Sivananda, ashtanga, & vinyassa flow. In 1996 Sue founded BodyZen Massage Therapy & Yoga in Lawrenceville, NJ where she practices her own signature form of integrated bodywork. Sue’s intention is to raise self-awareness & spiritual vibration thru the practices of yoga & massage.

Lauren Ramos, Vegetarian Chef: "My husband, Rob and I have owned “Living on the Veg” for 4 years.. I've been cooking and preparing meals since I became vegetarian over 15 years ago. We believe a cruelty free diet is an important part of one's health. We are grateful to have an opportunity to be a safe haven for people who share the same ideas."