How many degrees of separation are you from the rest of the world? Amazingly… very little.
I heard the flight was full. My boarding number was B18, so I knew I needed to find the ‘right’ seat quickly when I walked onto the flight. Five rows in, there was a mother and daughter sitting together with the aisle open. I placed my bag in the overhead bin, got ready with my computer, and slithered in, smiling at my neighbors.
“Are you going to Baltimore?” the mother asked me. “No, staying on the plane all the way to Albany.” After a few minutes I inquired, “Do you live in San Antonio?” “Yes! You?”
The conversation went from San Antonio, to The Pearl, to The Synergy Studio, to Nia. “Oh! There was someone from Synergy who came to my school to talk about eating disorders and Nia, and she was sooo much fun!” exclaimed the pretty young woman.
It was our own Jenn Martin, studio manager, Nia teacher, and precious colleague who went to speak at her school! One degree of separation… at most two… Jenn is like my younger sister.
In my numerous travels over the past few years, I am continually amazed and delighted at the conversations I have on the plane, waiting in line at Starbucks, talking to the waitress at the restaurant, or taking the light rail. I never hesitate to talk about Nia, movement, the studio, San Antonio, and it never fails that the degree of separation is almost non-existent.
In the Year of the Sacred Athlete at The Synergy Studio, we are reminded that we are all healers, touching lives everyday with our knowledge, grace and love. In the smallest of ways, a life can change in a nano-second… a smile can mean the world to the toothless man on the street corner, the older woman who can’t reach the top shelf in the grocery, the young man at the register who is very nervous on his first-ever day of work. Yes, we are all healers, angels to someone in every moment.
Spread your wings dear friends… toot your horn… recognize your beauty and grace… and share your light. Make every moment count in this blessed life. Live into your greatness. Follow your North Star. You are an angel with wide, bright wings, master of your destiny, and healer to all. The moment is now… no holding back… shine your light!
Have a wonderful week. Be sure to keep dancing! Dance with Jenn, Sarita, and Angie, who will be covering my classes while I’m at Kripalu with Toni Bergins, assisting her in a Journey Dance teacher training. We have 45 enrolled in the training… 45 eager souls ready to explore, create, and transform. I then travel to Denver with some of my fellow Nia trainers to assist Debbie and Kevin in a Nia 52 Moves training… 30 plus more sacred athletes ready to evolve in their practice.
And the young girl on the plane with her mother? She has my card in her purse, ready to learn about the Nia 5 Stages to help her scoliosis, and excited to bring her mother to a Nia class! Yes… virtually no separation exists between us all.
We are so lucky to be living in this time… 2012… the year of transforming energy, filled with love. Spread your wings and fly today!
With deep love, for it is all love… Adelle