Shake It Up: Refresh and Rediscover Yourself Through Wonder and Body-Mind Adventures

By Oxana Holtmann and Audrey Hazekamp

Groundbreaking explorations that maximize your creativity, vitality, and robust sense of wonder. Become smarter, more resourceful and innovative, and enjoy life as a magnificent adventure.

Audrey and Oxanas Shake It Up! Journal offers up the big questions and explorations right to your creative doorwaymaking living life as an adventure easier than ever. In Shake It Up!, Audrey and Oxana introduce stimulating day by day invitations to experience life as a creative adventure. Open to any page and dive in to discover new ways to live life to the maxyour way!
------- Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., Author of The Big Leap

With great creativity and imagination, this journal/book invites us out of limiting patterns of thought and activity, and enhances our capacity to live and love fully.
-------Tara Brach, PhD., Author ofRadical AcceptanceandTrue Refuge

Shake It Up! is a journal-book for anyone and everyone interested in reclaiming their creativity. In the process of engaging with these daily activities, wonder and thriving are nourished, and readers open the doors that lead to self-discovery in all friendly ways.
------- Gunnar Lovelace, Founder, co-CEO, Thrive Market

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504356985

Oxana Holtmann

Audrey Hazekamp is a Master coach and the founder of Tall Poppy Inc.. www.tallpoppyinc.com Oxana Holtmann is a life coach and an advisor to globally mobile professionals and international families. www.oxanaholtmann.com

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-5697-8 (sc)

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-5698-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016906937

Balboa Press rev. date: 07/06/2016

Contents

Praise For Shake It Up!

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Foreword

Six Reasons You’ll Love The Shake It Up! Journal

How It Works

Why Shake It Up?

Five Shake It Up! Tools For The Best Results

Five Master Skills To Practice With Each Activity

Wonder And Body-Mind Adventures

Powerful Outcomes

Really Happy Surprises

Spontaneous Insights

Reflection Collection

Celebrations And Next Steps!

Stay Connected

Special Thank You!

PRAISE FOR SHAKE IT UP!

The essence of life is activity, change, growth, while death’s agenda is stasis, stuckness, stagnation. Shake It Up is a summons to stir your juices, and get the process rolling forward. Changed attitudes lead to changed behaviors which lead to changed consequences. Holtmann and Hazekamp provide thoughtful challenges to our thinking and practices which, if one follows their promptings, leads to a reinvigorated life.

- James Hollis, Ph. D., Jungian analyst and author

Daily life can pull us away from the soul nurturance that makes life worth living. Shake it Up! is the perfect companion for the ongoing journey back in again, to your essential nature, your true self. Rich with activities and invitations, this journal provides the bridge from the contraction of Reactive Brain to the infinite possibilities of the land of Creative Brain. Pick it up and Shake it Up!

- Julie Colwell, Ph.D., psychologist and author

This exciting new journal of inspiration and wisdom will open your eyes, deepen your heart, and fill your spirit with wonder. If you’re ready to energize your life, and grow in ways you never expected, Shake It Up is for you!

- Mark Matousek, Author of When You’re Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living

A true come-as-you-are toolkit that will expand your understanding of your beautiful self and your appreciation of your extraordinary life. With simple, thought-provoking questions, this workbook is both a warm hug and a sparkly invitation to your truest, best self.

- Samantha Bennett, The Organized Artist Company

At some point in our lives, it seems like we stop doing what brings us joy. We stop asking powerful questions and accept the status quo. Thankfully Audrey and Oxana have the perfect remedy to create a positive shift in your personal or professional life with the appropriately named book, ’Shake It Up!’. This book is chock full of nuggets of wisdom, creative activities that offer new perspectives, and most importantly, an all to forgotten reminder to not only appreciate others, but also ourselves.

- Antonio Neves, Leadership speaker, author and award-winning journalist

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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