ABOUT GINGER CARNEY

Be vibrant, active and soulful, doing the activities you love while fulfilling your innermost desires

This is what I’m about in my life—in my personal life and in the work I do with others. To be honest, the vibrant aspect has eluded me during much of my adult life, or at least, it has waxed and waned. Ironically, that is coming to life in me more now in my elder years.

My personal practice of tremoring through TRE® (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) over the past 5 years has uniquely opened up the quality of vibrancy for me and has precipitated further explorations into the healing effects of sound and the movement to which music gives rise.

Recent forays into drumming with frame drums and into belly dancing (but without the garb associated with the latter) are powerfully awakening the sense of rhythm within me. Often playing a variety of drum beat music tracts from around the world quietly in the background enhances my focus along with giving rise to subtle, but energizing spontaneous movement, even as I work at the computer in sitting or standing. At other times I play classical music.

The forerunner of the healing effect of movement goes back to my earliest experience with the movement approaches of the Trager® Approach and the Feldenkrais Method®, through which I  became more mindful in my movement and found my dancer within, discovering with delight my potential to move with so much greater ease and pleasure in everyday life than I ever imagined. During this period of time in the 80s, I became fascinated with how the word grace is commonly used to refer to an effortless and elegant way of moving, while also, to the life of God within. For me, moving with a sense of grace, even in ordinary movement—and even if only in a very subtle way—uplifts my mind, heart and whole being, imbues me with a feeling of vibrancy, and draws me to wonder at the source of my life.  Hence, my thrill in coming up with sensing grace as my website address and business logo, as it is what my work and my life are about on the deepest level. Now, my more recent experience with just very basic belly dancing movements, in and out of my day, with and without music, further enhances my sense of grace.

Along the road to activating the more vibrant aspect of my life, I became immersed in the Energy Blueprint Program, an online program which explores the scientific findings related to a broad spectrum of lifestyle choices.  I enrolled initially as a regular participant in 2016, looking to reboot my energy levels for the outdoor activities I love, like kayaking and hiking in the mountains, and to fuel my independent daily activities well into my 90s. After a few months I was invited to do Coaching within the program, which kept me intensely engaged for nearly 3 more years. The progressive implementation of healthier lifestyle measures has been integral to my becoming more vibrant, active and soulful in recent years.

I also want to highlight here a fundamental thread throughout my life and work – helping people to help themselves. In one word -- empowerment! My personal empowerment has come through education and action. I empower others, first and foremost as an educator, whether it be through my words, my hands or my whole body through movement.

Now, you may be wondering, what about the pain I’m experiencing? What does all this have to do with my pain and stiffness? In so far as these get in the way of your ability to feel vibrant and do the activities you love, my focus will be on helping you to resolve your pain and stiffness, mostly through pleasurable, gentle and natural means.

I look forward to drawing from the breadth of my training and experience in a variety of approaches empowering you to be vibrant, active and soulful, doing the activities you love while fulfilling your innermost desires.

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