A TRIO of musical maestros are set to perform to an international audience - without leaving their Gourock driveway. Sister act Alison and Fiona McNeill from Celtic folk fusion rock band Reely Jiggered decided to head outdoors to perform to their Brodick Drive neighbours at the beginning of the 2020 lockdown. After they amassed over 250,000 views on Facebook, the duo - alongside bandmate Scott McLean - continued to entertain thousands throughout the year during their popular Live on the Drive sessions. A year on, the band - currently promoting their latest album Tricky Terrain - are gearing up to entertain fans as far as Antarctica with an anniversary livestream on April 24.
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Massage therapist Dawn Bennett wrote and published a book about the importance of touch. Photo provided by Bennett.
RED WING Dawn Bennett did not always plan to write a book about touch.
Bennett went to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire to study international business. While there she met classmates who introduced her to therapeutic touch, a type of energy work. This began Bennett’s journey into massage therapy.
She left the university and went to massage school. She graduated in 1997 and has practiced massage therapy for 23 years.
From massage, Bennett began to focus on emotional healing with her clients. She explained, “I realized that so much of the work that we do on the body also has an emotional component. Because we store a lot of our emotions in the tissues, and our memories and our traumas and our fears and all that kind of stuff.”