Integrative Relaxation -Shannon Miller, Licensed Massage Therapist

08/17/2023

Both my Shine On essential oil blends are now available @ Jiva Yoga Center on Hilton Head Island as well as @ my massage practice.

Thanks Jean Rioux for your support and for giving them another place to be purchased and enjoyed.

For those using the Lymphatic Support Blend, to reduce puffy eyes, I’ve included a short instructional video to my website.

Click the link below and scroll to my YouTube video.

PLEASE take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube channel. I am so grateful for your support.

Watch for upcoming information, techniques, ideas, fun and my thoughts on massage, bodywork, health & wellness.

Shine On✨

Essential Oil Blends Handcrafted, in small batches using high quality ingredients. Made with love for my clients, friends and family.

05/05/2023

Join me @ Jiva Yoga Center this Sunday May 7th @ 5:15 for Yoga Nidra.

Yes! Lying down and doing nothing for 45 minutes IS YOGA!

Together we CAN stop the glorification of “too busy” & “stressed out”
You are invited to lie down, be still and do no-thing.

Deep relaxation.
For true relaxation we must do nothing.
We must allow the brain to rest and the body to restore.
We must give our nervous system, our body chemistry to come back into balance.
And we must do this consciously, and often, with awareness.

Yoga Nidra is a state of consciousness and a sublime practice of divine sleep.
Though sleeping is not actually encouraged.

On the most basic level Yoga Nidra is a guided journey to stillness and conscious relaxation.

On a deeper level, it is a profoundly spiritual practice.

Shine On✨

03/29/2023

When I run after what I think I want
my days are a furnace of stress & anxiety.
If I sit in my own place of patience
what I need flows to me, without pain.
From this I understand that what I want
also wants me.
Is looking for me & attracting me.
There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.
~Rumi

Shine On✨

02/05/2023

For me, yoga is so much more than and actually much less about the physical practice, than it is about self inquiry, expansion and openness of heart.

The physicality is always the conduit for a deeper experience.

I so enjoy going to Mary Polite’s Soulful Sunday class @ Jiva Yoga and today was no exception.

I sat in my car after class and cried.
Not because I was sad but because I was and am “everything” and feel everything.

I cried because someone I love deeply is doing so great!
I cried because another is struggling,
I cried because I’m loved and am not holding back in sharing that I love.
I cried because another friend is sick.
I cried for collective joy & pain.
And then I cried a little more because I like it.
It makes me FEEL alive.

I remembered this:

They say you are emotional.
I say you are all the way alive.
Life is an emotion.
Feel it.
~ Jaiya John

Shine On✨

11/16/2022

Hey Hilton Head Islanders
Join me this Sunday @ Jiva Yoga
Did I mention that we’re going to dance?
( one of the best “pumps” for lymphatic system)
Shine On✨

11/06/2022

10/29/2022

Sweater weather has arrived in the Low Country which means shorter days, lower temperatures and snuggling into the evening with a warm blanket.

For some of you it might mean snow has already arrived.

For all of us winter is a time of restoration, turning inward, a time of rest and stillness.

Sounds just like I’m describing Yoga Nidra!

I’m going to be offering a 4 week session of Yoga Nidra via Zoom In January. ( more on that later)

But until then, and for those who have never tried Yoga Nidra, I’m offering a few free sessions here on Facebook ( Live)

That’s right! You’d didn’t know there was a style of yoga that just involves lying down and relaxing?

Interested now?!

Yoga Nidra / The Art of Non Doing.
Facebook Live

Tuesday November 1 @ 8:00-8:30
Tuesday November 8 @ 8:00 - 8:30
Tuesday November 15 @ 8:00 - 8:30

No yoga or meditation experience required.
Just show up here, with some pillows, a blanket in a quiet, comfortable space where you can lie down, and won’t be disturbed.

If you have participated in Yoga Nidra with me before please share this post with friends, coworkers, family who you feel may benefit from the practice.

Shine On✨

10/26/2022

https://www.jivayogacenter.com/upcoming-events-workshops-2/yoga-for-the-lymphatic-system

08/31/2022

Save The Date & Join Me

A gentle practice to support your immune system as we transition into winter.

During this class you will learn a series of breathwork, postures, movement and simple self lymphatic drainage techniques that you can do at home.

This workshop will address a generally healthy lymphatic system.
Please contact Shannon with any questions or concerns.

Integrativerelaxation@gmail.com
(315)244 3550

Please bring a large towel to class.

https://facebook.com/events/s/yoga-for-the-lymphatic-system/418524497039305/

03/12/2022

By touching a body, we touch every event it has experienced.

For a few brief moments we hold all of a client's stories in our hands.

We witness someone's experience of their own flesh, through some of the most powerful means possible: the contact of our hands, the acceptance of the body without judgement, and the occasional listening ear.

With these gestures we reach across the isolation of the human experience and hold another person's legend.

In massage therapy we show up and ask, in so many ways, what it is like to be another human being.

In doing so we build a bridge that may heal us both.

~Tracy Walton

Shine On✨

01/24/2022

So grateful for the “Nice Things People Say”

Gifted & Skilled. Shannon Miller is hands down one of the best massage therapists I have ever been to. Vacations should help restore mind and body and massage therapy is a ice way to round out a Hilton Head vacation. Do look for Integrative Relaxation. Her space is lovely, pristine clean, and calming. It is tucked away on Arrow Road.

On my first trip to the Bluffton, South Carolina area from my home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I was healing from an open fracture and broken leg and ankle in the winter. I needed manual lymphatic drainage to reduce swelling and scar work to heal. I felt transported and it really aided my healing. My husband even said my eyes were brighter after. 🙂 Shannon talks to you beforehand and really listens for a more holistic experience.

A few months after my first trip to the low country I could not wait to visit my in-laws again to find my way to Hilton Head for a restorative massage with Shannon Miller. This time I brought my husband. It was his best massage ever as well. Shannon did some ankle manipulation, lymphatic work, and Reiki. I can’t say enough.”

- Constance Colthorp- Communications Manager @ University of Michigan-

01/08/2022

Welcome to 2022,

A brand new year, of incredible YOU!

I’m offering a 4 week Virtual YOGA NIDRA Series via Zoom

-Living 2022 with Intention-

Wednesdays @8:00pm
February 2,9,16 &23
$50

You will be invited to create an intention, (we will work through that together at the beginning of the first evening) and will use that same intention and same practice throughout the series.
You’ll also be invited to express your thoughts/experience or drawing/doodles in a journal after each weekly practice as well as keep a daily word list for the month of February.

Spaces will be limited so please let me know by January 19th if you are interested.

I look forward to “seeing” you!

Shine On✨