Finding the True Harmony within you

Belly Dance Fusion at Yasmina's 15th Annual Swapmeet

Join Sherry Fragosa at Yasmina's 15th Annual Swapmeet January 23, 2010.

Sherry will be sharing the art of:

BellyDance Fusion at its Finest
with Sherry of True Harmony - 10:30 - 11:30 p.m.

...a little shimmy, slow and slithery, isolations, and fluidity - combine the elements together and you have Fusion! Learn the control and technique to begin your mastery of this style, plus take home a mini choreography to help you practice. Wear a coin belt to accent your shimmies in this class.

workshop is one hour - $5

About the instructor:  
Sherry Fragosa (previously VanGoethem ) is an experience Valley bellydancer and choreographer currently teaching at the True Harmony studio in Mesa. She specializes in Modern Bellydance Fusion, blending belly with hiphop and other forms of dance. She is also a renowned Bhangra Dance instructor in the valley. She is known for having and creating high energy, high intensity, fun and fabulous classes and choreographies.

 

Swapmeet information:

Mark your calendars for Saturday January 23, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Yasmina's 15th annual swap meet. 

Enjoy a day of shopping, workshops, networking with other dancers and  having fun. 

The event will be held at the Women's Club of Mesa - 200 N. Macdonald, Mesa, AZ 85201 (cross streets - University & Center) -- 

Full day of events includes (all classes are only $5 a piece!)

New Dance Combinations
with Yasmina - 9 - 10 a.m.

Fusion at its Finest
with Sherry - 10:30 - 11:30 p.m

Arm & Hand Movements
with Helena Vlahos - noon - 1:00 p.m.

Zumba
with Aradia Rose - 1:30 - 2:30

http://joyofbellydancing.com/swapmeet15.htm for more information.

To reserve your workshop spots please contact Yasmina - 480/962-6303 – yasmina@joyofbellydancing.com

The Best Holiday Gift for a Woman this year

The best holiday gift for a woman this year? That's easy... the gift of femininity. Giving your woman a group of BellyDance classes will open a whole new experience for her!

 

Basic BellyDance brings out every Woman's Femininity.... How?

 

Woman...curves, soft, sensual. Full of hormones, caring, creativity. Busy, responsible, too consumed to pay attention to herself.

 

Every woman can relate to these descriptions. Dancing, especially bellydancing, brings out the positive feminine aspects of everyone. Many women have trouble relating to all the positive aspects of being woman. Examples are feeling lovable, feeling sensual and flirty, feeling gently powerful, feeling graceful, feeling creative, feeling musicality, feeling rhythm, feeling sexiness, feeling empowerment, feeling luscious, feeling beautiful, feeling like a queen, feeling gentle while simultaneously feeling strong.

 

When a woman learns to bellydance, she learns a new body posture and she is taught muscle control. This means she learns a different way to hold herself. She is taught how to be aware of her muscles all over body, muscles she may not know that even exist! The small muscles in her arms and shoulders, the many different muscles holding her hips and waist, the team of muscles in her legs, ankles and feet. Learning about these muscles and finding new ways to 'hold' them and multiple ways to train them allows every woman the power to change her body! The shape of her body, the way it flows and moves with every step, the way it rests. Changing her posture, a woman carries herself differently. She can exude confidence and power with grace and softness. When exuding these new ways, she will feel them within her more too. All of these things working together, the physical with the emotional/mental, a woman can completely change her life simply by learning the basics of bellydance.

 

Asking any bellydancer, young or old, novice or professional, a woman will find that every dancer will answer in detail how bellydance has changed her life: improving her relationships, improving her job and work life, improving the way she feels about herself.

 

No rhythm is needed to learn to bellydance. No dance experience is needed to learn to bellydance. Every woman can learn to bellydance. She just needs to give herself the chance.

 

By Sherry Fragosa, Dance Instructor for the Center for True Harmony Wellness and Medicine inMesa AZ. www.trueharmonywellness.com. Bellydance and World Fusion Dance lessons are available lunch andevenings hours every day of the week at the Center for True Harmony and at private businesses and residences. Contact Sherry at sherry@trueharmonywellness.com or 480-539-6646.

 

Dance Dance Revolution!

Dance Dance Revolution! in Mesa Arizona. De-stress while having fun building your cardio.

 

In this day and age while everyone is handling major difficulties and life situations, important things like health and mental well-being get put on the back burner. This causes stress, ugly attitudes, wrinkles and weight gain. Sherry V. has found an innovative way to shake some of the stress and pounds away in a fun and high energy cardio dance workout class.

 

Music and dancing is a known stress reduction and cardiovascular training is the traditional way to burn calories and lose weight. Sherry decided to enhance her dance classes by adding an extra cardio bump and by gearing it into more of a workout class. She teaches Bhangra for the first part of class. This is a very high energy dance that originates from the Punjab region of Northern India. The music is driven by the dohl beats (a type of bass drum) and motivates even the tired participants to ‘pump it’ even a little bit more! She also incorporates African Fusion and Belly Dance into the 60 minute session.  Sherry has become well known in the Valley for her Bhangra classes. In the past three years, her classes have been featured in the Republic, the East Valley Tribune, the ASU’s paper State Press and most recently in the article “8 ways to reduce stress” in Business Week.com.

 

After the initial blast of cardio with Bhangra dance, she starts the toning section with the cultural dance of the middle east, bellydance. She has professionally performed in the US and the UK since 2004. This section of class helps isolate specific muscles groups in the arms, chest, back, abs and hips. All women love to learn the moves from this sensual dance style.

 

Then after the women in class catch their breath and connect with their internal sensuality, Sherry dives into the full body expression of African Fusion. She originally learned this mishmash of West African and Belly dance moves from her dance troupe director, Heidi Alexander, of the renowned Domba! 20 minutes of dancing to this heart pounding music fully opens the body, stimulates the endorphins and gets everyone breaking into a sweat!

 

Sherry teaches at her office at the Center for True Harmony Wellness & Medicine™ PC in Mesa AZ every Wednesday night from 6.10p – 7.10p and has recently added a Belly Dance Lunch Workout class held Tuesday afternoon from 11-noon. Contact info to sign up for class is: www.trueharmonywellness.com or phone 480-539-6646. The Center for True Harmony Wellness & Medicine™ PC is located at 2152 S. Vineyard #138, Mesa AZ 85210.

 

Patient Appreciation Day

November 7 from 11a-1p

Join Us November 7th for a Day of Celebration for all of our Patients and Clients -Both New and Familiar! The festivities will take place from 11:00am-1:00pm. 

 

The Day will Include:

· Mini Chair Massages

· Blood Pressure and Weigh-Ins

· Mini Table Massage

· Skin Analysis

· Mini Reflexology Sessions

·Yoga  

· Pampered Face: Homemade Skin Care Class

Come experience and learn the importance of natural skin care. In this class, True Harmony's licensed aesthetician, Jacqueline Gillam, will give you valuable tips and information about ingredients found in skin care products.

You will also create your very own custom herbal body oil or uplifting cold and flu bath oil.

(There will be a small cost for the product $5-$8. Cash & Credit Accepted)

 

Everyone is welcome! Invite your friends, family, and co-workers! RSVP is required to ensure that you receive the services you want for this fun event! Call 480-539-6646 today and let us know which of the above sessions you are interested in and we will get you signed up. Please RSVP by November 5th. We will give you your schedule when you arrive for the celebration! We'll see you there!

 

CALL NOW to RESERVE your

FREE SERVICES and CLASSES!!

LET US THANK YOU!

Reflexology can Help with Breast Milk

On a physical level, reflexology can boost hormone levels to stimulate more or better quality, breast milk. It encourages healing on every level: helping to stabilize mood swings, adjust to the body’s new sleeping and eating patterns all while energizing both body and mind.

New Moms- Join Traci Thursday October 15th from 11:00-12:00noon for her baby reflexology class and learn all kind of facts about Reflexology, and how to deal with common infant ailments such as colic and constipation in a natural way.  This class is FREE!  This class is held every other month, so if you would like to come but can't make the October class, check back in December!  RSVP to 480-539-6646.

Or, call to scheudle your reflexology session with Traci at 480-539-6646.

Botanical: True Harmony's Exclusive All Natural Skin Care Line!

Botanical is a therapeutic, handmade, all natural skin care product and facial line created by the Center for True Harmony's licensed aesthetician and botanical skin care expert, Jacqueline Gillam.  Botanical is effective for all skin types and is gentle enough for even the most sensitive skin. Botanical is 100% free of parabens, dyes, and synthetic fragrances and only uses the highest quality ingredients. 

 

The full skincare line and Botanical Facial is available exclusively at True Harmony.  For more information about Botanical or to schedule your Botanical Facial with Jacqueline Gillam, call 480-539-6646, today!

 

 

$8 Yoga Classes at True Harmony!

NEW! YOGA AND BREATH CLASS~

Experience all the benefits of a great Asana Practice (physical poses) AND take home mindful breathing and meditation techniques as Jezaree guides you through 40 minutes of therapeutic yoga and finishes with 20 minutes of breathing techniques and meditation to use in your everyday life off the Yoga mat.

For the month of September, every Tuesday from 9:00am-10:00am this class is only $8!  (The regular cost of the class is $15) Call to RSVP: 480-539-6646 or email: info@trueharmonywellness.com.

Your Center: How can you find it if you don’t know what it is?

Your Center: How can you find it if you don’t know what it is?

Astara Robinson, RN, LMT, RYT

Finding your center isn’t some magical or mystical term meant to be achieved by only the practiced, devoted yoga student. Finding your center stems from the act of connecting with your breath. You’ve done it in traffic before, taken a deep breath when someone cuts you off and then let the breath out slowly to calm yourself. See you’re a natural!

Focusing on your breath and clearing your mind at the beginning of a yoga session is vital. Inhale completely stretching the spine long towards the ceiling. Exhale completely slowing down the breath, listen to it as it passes your throat. By focusing on your breath you become present in the moment. Your mind cannot wander to your to-do list or a conversation that you had with a friend. The breath takes you into the now and as you follow the breath in and out you become more mindful in the present.

The mind begins to empty itself of any thoughts except thoughts of what is happening with your body and breath as you sit still apon the mat beneath you. Centering means that you draw breath/energy within while releasing all distractions. This is a practice in itself! New students usually find this to be the most challenging aspect of beginning a yoga practice.

As you find your center it may feel like calm awareness to the present or possibly a more grounding sensation. However it is expressed to you is purely subjective. Allowing yourself to come inward, you are leaving the hustle and bustle of the outside world. Leave it for this moment and the rest of your yoga practice. By becoming centered and consciously trying to remain so thought the duration of your practice, you will notice you can concentrate better on the poses. You’ll notice you can find your center of gravity more easily. You will, with practice, notice which isolated group of muscles need to be engaged in order to move to the next pose. Staying centered will also protect you from ego induced injury.

Trying to find your center and quiet your mind may or may not come easy as you sit still with yourself in the yoga class room. It may or may not become more of a challenge to remain centered with your breath as you move through difficult poses as the class progresses. The goal of a yoga practice is to keep a centered life style on and off the matt. To stay present, connected, grounded, balanced, aware and calm throughout daily life. Yoga’s centering side effect is therapy for mind, body and soul.

You can join Astara Robinson for a Therapy Yoga Basics Class at The Center for True Harmony every Thursday from 9:00am-10:00am.  $15 per class.  Discounts available with the purchase of a class card.  Class is complimentary for first time students at True Harmony. 

The hCG Diet & Me

Here is one persons daily account of how being on the hCG diet went for them.  This is Days 1-17.  To see how the rest of this diet goes, follow up to read more of "the hCG Diet and me".

Day 1 & 2

The 1^st injection is a little scary, especially if you have never injected yourself before. It doesn’t hurt at all; just the thought of it frightened me. I took and deep breath and did it. Today you begin the fat loading part of your diet and you think "all right, I can eat anything I want." That is true, but halfway thru day 2, you are tired of the junk.

Day 3 & 4

Today is my 3^rd injection and it is a piece of cake. You start the 500 calorie diet and it isn’t bad. The injections help you not to be hungry. Weight gain - 2 pounds, from fat loading on day 1 & 2

Day 5

Okay, so day 5 is a little bit harder. You are very tired and your leg muscles ache, similar to doing squats for days. Based on my experience, I will tell you to rest as much as you can. It doesn’t last long and it will be better by day 6. 4 pound weight loss.

Day 6 & 7

You are still a little tired but the leg cramps are gone. 4 pound weight loss.

Day 8 – 11

Are great days, still not hungry thanks to the injections, you understand the caloric intake & feel satisfied all day. 3 pound weight loss.   Met with Dr Grobe, total weight loss to date 11 pounds.

Day 12

You are past the half way mark, Yippie! My only concern on this day was I would like to have another choice of food to eat. It is more of a mental day.  1/2 pound weight loss.

Day 13 & 14

To tell the truth, these days were harder. I began swimming laps, I haven’t done any exercise before day 13, wasn’t feeling strong enough. After swimming, I noticed I was hungry all day. No matter what I did, if I drank more water, ate slower, took a nap, I was still hungry. The support of my husband & family was helpful in keeping me going these days.  No weight loss or gain.

Day 15

Strange but true, I’m back to normal. No cravings, no hungry pains just enjoying the day. Mental clarity is back. 1/2 pound weight loss.

Day 16

Nothing much has changed, not hungry, just enjoying the day. No weight loss or gain.

Day 17

Still feeling great, not hungry and have a lot of energy.   Weight loss – 1 pound.

 

If you are interested in learning more about this Diet, come to hCG Questions & Answers with Dr. Quance Grobe!

August 27th 6:00-6:45pm OR Sept 9th 11:00-11:45am

The Center for True Harmony Wellness and Medicine will be hosting an educational session to answer all of your questions about the hCG diet, help you determine if this diet is appropriate for you and fill you in on the wonderful benefits you will receive by embarking on True Harmony's Transformational hCG Diet Program.

We Will Discuss:

• The Theory Behind the Diet
• Pros and Cons
• Alternatives
• Risks
• With a Q & A to follow

This Class is FREE! RSVP is required. Class is held in the Community Room at the Center for True Harmony Wellness & Medicine™ PC. 2152 S. Vineyard #138, Mesa AZ 85210. Call us to reserve your space: 480-539-6646.

Cranial Sacral Can Help Get Rid of Migraines

Cranial Sacral Unwinding can assist with getting rid of migraines by allowing the muscles in the neck to unwind, naturally relieving tension. This will also help by allowing more space in the cranium for increased blood flow.

To schedule your appointment with Traci Fors, Licensed Massage Therapist, at The Center for True Harmony, call 480-539-6646 or email info@trueharmonywellness.com.