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Shift Your Life

Spirit

Emotion

Body

Mind

About Us
Lula-Jill Abkay - Massage Therapy
Jill is a Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist specializing in Pregnancy Massage, Deep Tissue, Swedish, and Lomi Lomi. Also known as "Loving Hands", Lomi Lomi was derived from the master healers of Hawaii, creating a fluid wavelike motion allowing the break up of both physical and energy blockages in the body.

In her therapy, Jill also incorporates energy work into the massage using Reiki and Healing Touch, drawing on both Earth Energy and Universal Source Energy. Combining massage and energy work encourages the natural flow of our internal chi (energy), allowing our body, mind, and spirit to work together in harmony. Blending these modalities allows her to customize each session, catering to the individual needs of her clients, leaving each person feeling nurtured and whole.

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Lisa Holland - Yoga Therapy
Lisa's journey began with an interest in fitness and rehabilitative health care in the early 1990's. She graduated cum laude from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York and received national board certification as an athletic trainer in 1994. In 1996 Lisa completed her studies in Physical Therapy at Hunter College in NY and became a licensed therapist developing her orthopedic, neurological and manual rehabilitative skills. She has worked with: newborns, pregnancy, pediatrics, geriatrics, college and professional athletics, nerve injury, joint disease, joint replacement, neurological disease, soft tissue injury, cancer, and general pain management. After her initial Yoga teacher training in 2001 through Yoga Fit International, Yoga has been routinely incorporated into her professional practice. Through intuition, self-study, an eclectic mix of trainings and practical application over the past fifteen years, Lisa has been slowly creating her own style, referred by her as “The Belly Guru” style.

To further her practice, she recently completed her second teacher training, obtaining her credentials for her registered yoga teacher (RYT) with the Yoga Alliance and is a candidate for obtaining an internationally recognized Yoga Therapist certification (CYT) through Professional Yoga Therapy Studies.

Eager to bring the ideals of true yoga to children, Lisa has recently implemented Kid Guru yoga club into the Charlotte area grammar schools. In her private practice she is obtaining data for a future research study on the therapeutic applications of yoga for children and adults. In addition, she is certified in Basic Life Support and CPR and has held personal training and pre and post-natal exercise instructor certifications. Her mission is simply to package all of this experience and yogic philosophy into an adaptable, welcoming, safe, supervised and customized journey towards health and wellness.

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Kaliana Schmidt - Vibrational Energy Therapy
Kaliana is the vibrational energy therapist of our Shift Your Life group. She developed a unique approach to energy healing through application of European style aromatherapy. Based on natural botanical trace energy plant essences, her therapy works on the molecular level and is thus a natural extension of the topical modalities in our comprehensive therapy method.

Kaliana has a substantial scientific education with a 30-year background in nutrition, aromatherapy, herbology, homeopathy, kinesiology, color and sound therapy, reflexology and vibrational medicine.

Since 1995 she has specialized in assisting individuals and families in discovering a path towards happiness and better balance in their lives. Kaliana developed her first essence formula in response to a child that suffered from separation anxiety. Since then, inspired by personal requests, she has developed each of her emotional care formulas to nourish and strengthen the emotional body. Studies have proven that thoughts, emotions and negativity contribute to stress and illness. Energetic nutrients that assist a more positive attitude were first discovered in the 1930's. Since then, they have been used to support the body in restoring balance, health, and happiness. By balancing energetic systems, the body can release undesirable patterns such as anxiety, stress, behavioral issues and even illness. Kaliana's scientific comprehension of this link inspired her to create the vibrational energy applications you will encounter during our program.

She has shared her uniquely successful healing modality with a national audience. She has lectured and taught about alternative medicine to pediatricians, occupational therapists, health food stores and parent groups. Her insightful perspective has been featured on Conscious Talk Radio in Seattle, Progressive Radio Network in New York City and on National Public Radios Charlotte Talks with Michael Collins. Kaliana has participated in the Duke Energy Health Fair and has led many local healing seminars.

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Nicole Kershner - Program Coordinator
Nicole’s experience as a coordinator for many holistic events in the Charlotte community makes her a perfect fit to act as the Shift Your Life program’s personal coordinator. Think of her as your Concierge of the Soul while attending our lunch program therapy. Nicole is the person you will be able to go to with all your extra questions and needs. Her welcoming demeanor, vibrant personality and knowledge will make you feel comfortable and taken care of at all times.

Nicole is a founding member of the JWC Social Committee, an organization focused on community building, and she was a coordinator the Life Path-Co-Op, an organic and natural foods monthly buying cooperative. She has been active in the Lake Norman Holistic Moms Network as well as the Healthy Living Expo.

Nicole is active with the Your Community Connector service, an event organizer company hosting national and local speakers and vendors in the field of natural living.?

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Eva Templeton - Massage Therapy
Eva Templeton was born in Spain and came to the USA in 1991 on a college internship. After “laboring” for 9 years in the corporate world, she became a licensed and nationally certified Massage Therapist following her graduation from The Edmund Morgan School in Cornelius where she became certified in Neuromuscular Therapy, specializing in pain relief and stress management.

Adding to her existing repertoire, Eva has been certified as an Integrative Reflexology Practitioner (by Claire Miller) and as a Rossiter Coach by Richard Rossiter, a “rolfer” himself and author of the “Rossiter Work Outs” technique.

Furthermore, she has been certified as a Medical Massage Practitioner and has also received training in Movement Therapy, Advanced Myofascial techniques in Spine and Low Back, Facial Massage and Healing Stone Massage as well as Reiki first and second degree.

Eva's core belief is to provide a healing environment focusing on improving her client's overall state of being. Often, an improvement of emotional and mental harmonies can be achieved through the treatment and mending of the physical body.

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Jennifer is the Acutonics® Vibrational Sound Practitioner of our therapy team - she uses sound frequency vibration in a therapeutic way. Jennifer started her journey with sound by becoming a Registered Vascular Technician as well as a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer generally referred to as an ultrasound technologist. For 6 years, Jennifer used sound as a diagnostic tool in a traditional medical setting before using sound as a transformational healing modality.

Acutonics® Sound therapy is an energy-based, non-invasive treatment comparable in its scope to acupuncture. In contrast to acupuncture treatments, sound healing is applied by using tuning forks on acupuncture points of the body. When the tuning forks are applied to specific acupuncture points, the vibrational sound frequencies of the tuning forks activate and balance the body’s energy fields, fostering both healing and inner harmony. The vibrations of the forks alter the body’s biochemistry and bring the nervous system, muscles and organs into a more harmonic balance. Benefits include instant deep relaxation, reduced stress and enhanced immunity response. All of these benefits culminate in a state of unification and vibrational healing in the patient’s body. The sound wave frequencies of the tuning forks travel deeply into the body along energy meridians, influencing human physiology and traveling to places not effectively reached by traditional Western medicine. This healing approach is transformational - it alleviates chronic and debilitating diseases for which traditional Western medicine often cannot treat.

The main effect of this non-traditional vibrational therapy is to bring the entire nervous system into balance and integrate mind, body, emotion and spirit. There are thousands of case studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of this modality.

Jennifer Thompson - Vibrational Sound Therapy
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Thomas Andollina-Mueller - Program Coordinator
Thomas is the only male of the group. As a veteran trader and risk manager for a variety of leading trading firms in the commodity and finance world, such as Merrill Lynch, Stahel Hardmeyer, Otto Stadtlander and the Econo-Matrix Hedge Fund, he understands first hand the unyielding pressures and stresses that bear down on financial professionals and traders battling for financial supremacy and profit.

Recognizing the potential for a collapse of the banking and economic system as a result of the substantial over-leveraging of the global financial system, Thomas understood that a very unique approach was needed to create a path for people to overcome the profoundly negative economic consequences that would envelop people from Wall Street to Main Street.

Thomas realized that it was imperative to find ways of mitigating the mental and emotional aftermath of the collapsing economic landscape. Fear over job loss, economic displacement and substantial personal life changes would trigger a mental, physical, spiritual and emotional process manifesting itself initially by a stage of denial, followed by a grieving process, which would finally result in acceptance. Thomas decided to form the Shift Your Life therapy group of holistic healers in order to assist as many professionals as possible, both executives and those who work for and with them, in their own work environment to become proactive and transformational agents of their own lives, gaining a better balance of body, mind, emotion and spirit in these unquestionably difficult times. The ultimate goal of the Shift Your Life therapy is to enable a shift of consciousness that will lead to a more positive approach towards life and to an improved sense of community both at work and at home.

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© 2009 ShiftYourLife
Lula-Jill Akbay
Lisa Holland - Yoga Therapy
Kaliana Schmidt
Nicole Kershner
Eva Templeton
Jennifer Thompson
Thomas Andollina-Mueller