Linda Ciotola

Linda’s Classes

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Linda is no longer teaching classes due to gym closure but you can arrange private, semi – private and small group classes at your location.

Linda Ciotola, of Healing Bridges teaches Yoga and other fitness classes:

Linda teaches Hatha Yoga. Experience the mind-body benefits of Hatha Yoga. Improve flexibility, strength, and balance while experiencing deep relaxation. Learn how to modify the poses (asanas) to meet your needs. An excellent class for beginners. More advanced students will also benefit from personal attention given to alignment, enabling them to deepen their practice.

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Linda Ciotola

Honoring the ‘front line’ – “Shining Thru”

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Dear Readers ,
This week there is something to listen to rather than to read . My dear friend Alison Gatwood who spent decades teaching music to thousands of students in school (as well as private piano lessons – it was thru taking private piano lessons with her that we met and became friends ) composed a song called “Shining Through” 25 years ago to celebrate my husband Joe and my 25 th wedding anniversary . After hearing of his work as Health Officer & EMS Medical Director during this pandemic she re-worked that song to honor him and thank him and other of our family members -and all those on the ‘front lines’- for their service and sacrifice.

Linda Ciotola

Coping Through Hard Times

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This week I am posting this excellent source of info and inspiration from my dear friend and colleague from Maine , Kathy Amsden . Kathy is a licensed social worker and certified psychodramatist as well as a gifted singer / songwriter . She works in the field of home hospice and palliative care . If you are interested in obtaining one of a remaining handful of CDs of her album “Awakening”, contact me by email and I will see what I can do 😊Blessings of health , peace , serenity and love to all , Linda

Coping Trough Hard Times

 

Linda Ciotola

The Sleeping/Awakening Child

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This poem was one I read recently as part of an online workshop sponsored by The Therapeutic Spiral tm (of which I am a trainer) This workshop brought together professionals from across the states and around the world to share our strengths and vulnerabilities in this very challenging time.

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Linda Ciotola

Weekly Blog: Give yourself an immunity boost.

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[This is for informational purposes only – just like everything on this website – and not intended to prevent, treat or cure any disease.  Always be sure to consult your licensed healthcare provider and / or pharmacist.]

If you read last week’s blog on putting the Serenity Prayer into Action then you are already boosting your immune system.  In case you missed it click here.

Since stress impairs the efficacy of the immune system it is highly important to help minimize and / or counter the effects of stress on the immune system.  Please review and practice the suggestions from last week’s blog.

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Linda Ciotola

Living the Serenity Prayer ~

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In this challenging time, I want to encourage all of us (including me!) to live the Serenity Prayer ~ let’s accept what we cannot change, have the courage to change what we can and the wisdom to know the difference.

What we can do, in addition to following all recommended Guidelines:

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Linda Ciotola

The Healing Power of Arts

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Recent research regarding the healing power of the arts reveals how deeply the arts can affect us in a positive way.

My personal background includes writing “poetry” at age 8 and beyond to express what was unsafe and reveal what was otherwise repressed; my years in dance and theatre provided outlets for my body and voice to express what otherwise could not be said; hours at the piano and coloring “in the lines” and painting “by number” provided safe “containers” for feelings that were unprocessed.  Those who know me have often heard me say, “The arts and God’s grace saved me”.

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Linda Ciotola

The Healing Power of Art

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What if you were able to reduce the stress in your everyday life just by looking? Or what about improving one’s mood? How would you do that?

The answer may be Art!

In my journey as an artist, I believe that Art and Healing are connected. Through my gift of art, I have found a way to convey this belief. For me, “looking at nature” is an amazing way to de-stress, and change one’s mood. It’s a way of taking the natural environment and using it to transcend the hustle, and bustle. Our busy lives don’t often allow us time to get away, but I find that “looking at a beautiful piece of Art”  can produce these results, too.

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