Danielle Vierling, a native Californian, has been exploring dance forms — ballet, contemporary/modern, Celtic, African, Latin, Middle Eastern and Native American Indian — since she was five (she’s 43 now, so that’s 38 years of active exploration with movement). She was certified to teach SynergyDance and practice Polarity Therapy in 1996 and has been holding classes and workshops in Dublin, Ireland ever since.
During her SynergyDance & Yoga sessions (view brochure), Danielle allows movement to be guided spontaneously and perfectly suited to each group within the structure of the elements, Ether, Water, Air, Fire and Earth. A typical class involves a gentle flowing yoga warm-up followed by expressive and playful movement around the space, and wind-down into stillness, all to inspiring world music.
Irish author, Marian Keyes, in her novel Under the Duvet/April 2004 and in Image Magazine, November 1999, writes of her experience at a SynergyDance class with Danielle… “if you’re interested in alternative spirituality, you’ll probably love SynergyDance. Even if alternative spirituality isn’t your bag (man), you can really enjoy yourself if you leave your cynicism at the door…The atmosphere was upbeat and, feel-good and, apart from anything else, it’s a good workout …”
Victoria Mary Clarke recently wrote of Danielle in the Sunday Independent/November 2008, “I have been to her classes and they are extremely uplifting and don’t require you to learn any steps, or wear any special clothes.”
In the past several months, Dublin City Fm (103.2) Radio has interviewed Danielle twice, the first time on SynergyDance and her brilliant selection of world music and then most recently on her polarity therapy healing practice as a way of helping people to manage stress.
On Blue Light Lady blog, Danielle writes about her first encounter with SynergyDance 17 years ago,
“…one day when in the throws of writing a Masters Thesis in International Communications, I hit a mental road block and it so happens I was also experiencing an emotional block with a relationship that was bringing me down. So, to clear my head, I took a walk near my University and came across these beautiful 14 foot arched windows. As the room beyond was softly lit, I could see arms gracefully waving about as if magically beckoning me. As I walked closer I saw a sign that read SynergyDance and as I had been dancing since the age of 5 (though had let academia push it out of my schedule for several years), I was compelled to go in. In that enchanting place, I immediately signed up for a class and discovered that here I could meld mind, body, heart, and spirit and release all my blockages.”
“… founder and teacher of SynergyDance, Charmaine, an Aries beaming with life-force energy… ignited my inner fire with solar-plexus activating movements. The night after my first class, I went home and nearly started a fire when cooking and then soon found myself blazing with a rage at all the wrongs I had witnessed in my path. SynergyDance helped me to clear an unconscious anger that had been blocked up inside me since my parents divorced when I was one and that had been passively destructive in all of my relationships with men. Soon after, I began to feel the glow of joy to be kindled in my heart. I vowed to never let dance out of my life again and sought certification to teach this inspiring energizing form of dance. Twelve years on, I’m still teaching and find myself more joyful and full of laughter and love than ever.”
For more info, view the 
SynergyDanceBrochure or contact Danielle.
Danielle also offers Polarity Therapy Healing Sessions. She was certified to practice Polarity Therapy by the American Polarity Therapy Association (www.polaritytherapy.org) in 1996.
Intuitive Guidance Counselling Experience
Danielle’s intuitive counselling (essentially life coaching) ability has been validated by on-going client returnees and referrals over her past 13 years in Ireland. Given a grandmother who was a successful professional psychologist and in turn, a mother who applied her academic study of psychology to her thriving practice of astrological counselling , Danielle naturally took up counselling skills. To support her university studies in communications, she trained and worked as a peer counsellor helping fellow students to make the best informed choices for their develoment academically and personally.
Danielle further trained with the American Polarity Therapist Association in wellness counselling and energy healing, learning to identify the messages that the body signals about underlying emotional and mental inhibitors to optimal health. She received certification as a Polarity Therapist in 1996 and since has been successfully helping clients to release emotional and mental blocks so they may embrace a life of complete fulfillment and well-being. To assist her clients, she draws on many tools, including acupressure, cranial-sacral techniques, creative visualization, meditation, stress relief exercises, Gestalt dream interpretation, Jungian intuitive tarot, and astrology. Different tools work for different people depending on individual beliefs and preferences. Danielle has an intuitive sense of what tool suits which type of person and without being judgemental can quickly assess strengths and weaknesses. She adeptly and compassionately guides her clients to be the best people they can be.
In her complimentary practice as an intuitive Tarot/astrology reader and teacher, she has worked for Irish television, RTE (Laura Wood’s Programming) giving astrology briefings and for Ireland ’s KISS magazine doing a monthly astrology column. Danielle also serves as guest columnist on the Blue Light Lady blog. Again and again over the past decade in Ireland, her clients have returned to seek the accuracy and helpfulness of her intuitive guidance.
