spiritdancer

Middle Eastern Dance and Healing

Raqs Sharqi, Bellydance, Reiki healing, Palmistry (Cheirology), Tarot, Therapeutic

Counselling, Indian Head Massage and Relaxation

Weekly Bellydance Class In Yeovil Suitable for absolute beginners up to improvers and also

intermediate levels. People with the basic moves will be given extra challenges. The class

includes technique, drills, improvisation and we will work towards a simple choreography.

Classes will be held every Wednesday 6pm to 7pm, excluding 15th and 22nd May and each

class will cost £6 each or £20 if 4 classes are bought upfront. Classes are at The Loft Fitness

Studio, The Emporium, 39 Princes Street, Yeovil, BA20 1EG.

Bellydance Trips to Luxor And Weekenders to Cairo 2012 and 2013. With Penny Walters of

Everything Egyptian bazaar. Lessons with professional bellydancers including Kharriya Mazin the sole

remaining Nawari Ghawazee dance performer.see the local sites, take a fellucca trip, ride a camel,

visit the bellydance warehouse, see a show at a hotel, and enjoy a hafla on the last night! Most

food, drinks and excursions included! Deposits need to be received asap if you want to book a place.

You will be met at Luxor Airport when you arrive. Click here for details of the next holiday dates

available including weekenders to Cairo!

Click Here for my article on Therapeutic Benefits of Bellydancing on Psychic Sahar's interesting online magazine

Raqs Sharqi including Bellydance and North African dance.

Workshop And Seminar Themes Information on workshops that I can be booked for.

Dance In The Community article by Carolyne Taylor

Photographs and Performances pics from some of my Raqs Sharqi and belly dance performances

Reiki Healing information and tips for healers and people wanting to try Reiki

Creative Page poems etc

Links Page Links For Dance, Costumes, Reiki, All sorts of things!

Click on the number to see how many people have been on the website!

Photo by Derek Lee at Planet Egypt

Therapies Page listing some of the therapies that I offer

Artwork by Erica Hemming www.slipperyjacks.com

You Tube videos Click here for one example or subscribe to Carolyne Taylor on You Tube.

You can also find videos of my performances at The Arab Quarterly in London in September

2011 on You Tube on Phillip Chohan's channel.

I am on Facebook, under my name Carolyne Taylor, an easy way for you to keep up to date

with events etc and I will be setting up a business page soon.

If you would like to go on my Mailing List click here to sign up for my email mailing list for

details of any workshops, courses etc that are coming up. Your details will not be given to

anyone else and I will not send you any spam. Please add me to your safe email addresses

or check in your spam folder if you don't seem to be receiving anything.

I have decided to change my Tarot course into a reasonably priced ebook. Details to follow!

To order bellydance music, DVD's, and books on any subject please do visit my new

Amazon estore! Just click here.

Reiki One Weekend course with me in Yeovil. This course will cover history of Usui Reiki,

Reiki hand positions, the Reiki healing session, meditations, and certificate and Reiki manual

covering all aspects of the weekend and more. Email me for details

Online Tarot Course I have decided to turn this into an ebook which will include a lot of

exercises to complete. There will be several modules so that you will end up with an

understanding of the Major Arcana, Minor Arcana, spreads, responsibility and professionalism,

basic counselling skills and lastly Tarot counselling. Watch this space for the details!

Next Hafla In Yeovil! Saturday to be announced 7pm to 10pm at the RAOB Club, Southville,

Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 4JA. Performers of all bellydance styles welcome. Men, women and

children welcome. £4 entry plus please bring food to share for the buffet. No need to bring

your own drinks as there is a bar with drinks at reasonable club prices. Bazaar and charity

raffle. Please bring a raffle prize if you have one. Perfect place to bring your unwanted

Christmas etc presssies! Email me if you would like to perform.

Weekly Palmistry Course Dates, times and cost To Be Confirmed At The Emporium, 39 Princes

Street, Yeovil, Yeovil, BA20 1EG. Please bring a notebook and pen to each class. If anyone

misses a class I will provide a couple of extra catch up classes. The classes can be paid for

individually or the whole course can be paid for which will work out cheaper. The course

will teach the building blocks of palmistry (cheirology) so that you will be able to give a basic

hand reading to friends and family. Subjects include the four elements and elemental

archetypes, what cheirology is, hand shapes, passive and active hands, skin texture, fingers

(lengths, bends, meaning of rings, joints, tips, fingerprints and flexibility), the thumb,

chronology in the hand and the major lines (earth, water, air). You will also take ink prints of

each other's palms. Please email me for further details.

Fun Bellydance Combinations Part One And Advanced Combinations Part Two Saturday to

be announed 2013. Two workshops for belly dancers teaching some fun combinations of

movements, some static and some travelling, suitable for both traditional and cabaret

bellydance. Some notes will be provided but please bring a pen and notebook! The first

workshop will be suitable for all dancers as long as you know the basics. The combos range

from slow to fast and from easy to more advanced. This will be a repeat of the workshop I

taught on 24th November 2012. The second workshop will be more advanced variations of the

combos taught in the first workshop, these may include add-ons, layering, more complex arm

positions, shimmies and more. The second workshop will be most suitable for dancers with at

least one year's experience so expect it to be more challenging. The workshops will take place

in a lovely new dance studio with sprung wooden floors and mirrored wall. Please bring your

own water and your usual practice wear. There is ample parking in the school car park, by the

dance studio. Preston Community School/1610, Monks Dale, Yeovil, BA21 3JD. This workshop

will cost £30.

Mirage Student Troupe This is a bellydance performance group for my students, created to

perform at haflas, for charities and at small events to bring the joy of dance to more people

and to give experience and confidence in performing to troupe members. Please email me if

you would like us to dance for you or if you are interested in joining the troupe. We rehearse

on Tuesday evenings between 7.30 and 8.30pm with some dancers staying until 9pm.

Latest News And Classes

Therapies And Readings That I Offer

Photo by Maani at The Arab Quarterly

I am situated in The Emporium, 39 Princes Street, Yeovil, BA20 1EG. Please email me to

book a reading or therapy. I am usually at The Emporium 2-5pm Weds, Thurs, Fri and 11-5pm

Saturdays.The therapies and readings that I offer are as follows. Please click here to learn

more about them all:Reiki Healing (60 Mins) Reiki Blast (20 Mins) Therapeutic Counselling

(50 Mins) Indian Head Massage (30 Mins) Indian Head Massage Plus Reiki (40 Mins) Tarot

Reading (60 Mins) Short Tarot Reading (20 Mins) Palmistry (Cheirology) Reading (60 Mins)

Short Palmistry Reading (20 Mins) Relaxation (Autogenics) (30 Mins)

I have been studying palmistry (Cheirology) since the 1980's and during the 1990's was

very lucky to receive one to one teaching in this. A few years later a lady asked for a hand

reading and offered to teach me Tarot so again I was blessed with one to one teaching. I

went on to teach both palmistry and Tarot in Glastonbury and later on in Yeovil where I now

life. Between 1995 and 1996 I completed one year's shamanic training where I learnt about

regression and soul therapy amongst other things.

Being interested in teaching, I also completed a Teaching English As A Foreign Language

course in July 1997, which has been very useful in all of workshops that I teach.

I began learning Reiki in 1997 and became a Reiki Master and teacher of this in June 1998. I

like to work both on the body and in the aura when I give Reiki.

I wanted to add some sort of body work to my skills and studied Indian Head Massage in

Glastonbury during 1999 to practitioner level. I work to a routine during a massage but if

there is a particular area of tightness I spend more time on that. Counselling has always

interested me and at Strode College I studied this and received my Diploma In Therapeutic

Counselling in 2000 after doing the RSA Certificate In Counselling In The Development Of

Learning in 1996, the CPCAB Certificate In Therapeutic Counselling in 1998 and the CPCAB

Advanced Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling in 1999. The kinds of issues I have worked

with include low self esteem, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, addiction, grief,

transexuality, coping with change, helping clients find solutions to short term issues, sexual,

physical and emotional abuse, anger management, negative thoughts and feelings and long-

term problems.

Coming from a largely "person-centred" integrative approach to both the therapies and the

readings that I do, the focus is on the client and it is my belief that every person can find

their own healing and their own solutions to whatever is holding them back, and that the

therapist or reader is simply there as a catalyst who is there to enable the client to become

more fulfilled, more healed and more whole. In counselling, simply listening and reflecting

back what the client is thinking and feeling, without judgement is vital to the client's healing

process and this used in combination with therapeutic tools, can enable the client to improve

their life from the mind outwards.

In giving readings, the person's hands or the cards that they choose reflect processes going

on both now, in the past, and potentially in the future, and I believe the client has the power

to change an outcome if they wish to. Often simply by altering the way that we see a

situation is enough to begin the process of positive change. This is a very different approach

to the "fortune teller" type of reading where the client is told that something will happen as

if it is set in stone.

New Pamper Hour Due to the interest in this, I am keeping this going for the time being.

This is one hour of pure indulgence which includes an Indian Head Massage, Reiki Blast

and Tarot or Palm reading. The Indian Head Massage and Reiki are shortened treatments

and you will be sat on a chair for those and the Tarot or Palm is about a 20 minute reading.

The hour will be catered to your individual requirements and will cost just £25! Email me to

book.

My therapies and readings Facebook page is up and running, click here to go to it