Month: August 2013

Divine Order and Gratitude!

On August 29, 2013

Wonderful friends,

As I prepare for departure on Saturday, I have been reflecting deeply on the immense gratitude I feel for our amazing community in San Antonio… you are truly a blessing to me. You have supported me with kind words, suggestions, corrections (esp with my Spanish!), pictures, and most importantly, with your presence.

I will teach ¡Bailando! at Nia HQ to the Black Belts who are doing their BBelt training right now, as well as the Portland community, on Wednesday, Sept 4 at 5:45pm PT. Think of me, sending laughter and relaxing thoughts! It will be an interesting learning experience to teach a brand new routine that no one knows except me, to over 60 in the room… well… interesting is the key word!

¡Bailando! is the first routine to be filmed of the 5 we are doing, and we will be filming in Portland on Saturday, Sept 7 from 8:00-12:00 PT. This will put us dancing together that morning… from San Antonio to Portland! When you dance that morning, send me vibes to ‘remember my cues, relax, smile, and have fun’… for those are my intentions. Everything happening in divine order. I will feel you dancing, supporting me from ‘underneath and behind’ and that will give me deep comfort.

Thank you all... for you… and for your support of the studio, Nia, and our desire as a community to make a difference in the world. We are!
Join me this Friday at 5:30, as I dance ¡Bailando!, teaching with a beginner’s mind, and preparing for my Saturday flight to Nia HQ.

With love beyond abundance, Adelle

ps. I have some thoughts about Divine Order below, words and affirmations of encouragement that have helped me through this year-long process… words inspired from the DailyWord. Love!

“When I take on a new creative enterprise, I do so with the finished product clearly in mind. I start with a vision, make a plan, and gather the tools. I waste no energy worrying how the process will unfold. I proceed with intention and confidence. When I focus on what I am doing, the steps follow in divine order to create the results I envision.
Life is a co-creative process. At one with Spirit, I affirm a life filled with loving relationships, abundant blessings, health, and wholeness.
Monitoring my thoughts and words, I gently let any discouragement pass me by. I stay focused on my intentions, and the results unfold in divine order.”

5 Ways to Wake Up in Life

By Adelle Brownlee Brewer

On August 28, 2013

In Uncategorized

I read this article in my email box this morning, and wanted to share. Yes!

“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.” ― P.D. Ouspensky

Asleep at the wheel is an expression that can too easily become an accurate description of how we move through our days and show up in our relationships. Our senses become dulled and we don’t smell or taste what we consume, we hurry through the simple practices of hygiene never feeling our hands running across our own bodies in washing. It’s no wonder that so many sex lives turn into a rut of repetitive actions enclosed with ever narrowing boundaries of acceptable. Breaking out of our own internal prisons is a bold act of revolution and whether it applies most to your work, your relationships or your sex life the following list of tips practiced consistently will shake your internal chains free and wake you up to a life that will surprise you.

1. Take risks. Living on the edge of our own comfort zones is prerequisite to both truly appreciating what you have and opening up to new possibilities. Not knowing what might happen next is edgy, and in many ways, more exciting than watching a scary movie because the consequences are yours. The rising popularity of reality TV shows reflects an unquenched desire in most of us to dare to be great. You can start small — maybe try a new kind of food or going to a new place to grocery shop. Placing yourself in the midst of not knowing what will happen next wakes you up to what you do know.

2. Move your body. The statistics on the number of people who are relatively stationary even in sex is appalling. How we learn about whom we are in the most primary way from the time we are born is through our ability to move. Little babies spend their entire waking life reaching beyond their capacity to experience the world. Tap into that little baby still living somewhere inside you and be willing to risk the physical discomfort of arduous exercise, longer walks and new sexual positions. Truly the pain associated with using your body fully is way more interesting than the slow atrophy of sitting on a couch.

3. Use your senses. Be deliberate about learning more about your capacity to see, hear, feel, smell and taste. Adopt an attitude of savoring, which will add at least a couple of moments to every sensory experience. Look at colors around you and imagine what it would be like to paint them. Start listening for the subtle noises around you; it will entrain you to hear the quieter voice in your own mind. Take the time to taste the individual ingredients when you cook. Slow down the eating process and linger over a single bite. Smell the air where you are. Try to remember the last time you smelled a summer evening just like this one. Really feel how it feels to have a hand trace slowly up your back. Stay longer in a hug and feel the weight of someone leaning into you.

4. Build Better Habits. We are what we do every day. Choose to be challenged by your daily activities, which could be argued goes against human nature, but also elevates our human nature to our best selves. Developing daily practices that heal us become the framework for everything else that happens to us. Add a few minutes of meditation- any kind of meditation- to your days and be amazed how turning your attention inward focuses all the noise around you. Exercise routines that become habitual are harder to break and the sense of accomplishment associated with strengthening the body travels into everything else that happens.

5. Make Love More. Any kind of love. Explore and expand the pleasure centers in your own body. Give things away. Pay full attention to whoever is interacting with you. Allow people to be who they are and take that permission for yourself. Feel the visceral truth of gratitude even for the smallest life experiences. Get over yourself and ask for more love. Look for the love coming at you every day. It will wake you up.

The most important message we can hear, receive, and live…

By Adelle Brownlee Brewer

On August 22, 2013

In Uncategorized

I have been having conversations with others and writing for months about being love… that we are love. I believe its the most important message that we can hear… and receive… and live.

I was talking with a dear friend the other day about the word ‘selfish.’ I said, “Not loving yourself, and not sharing your gifts, yourSELF, with the world, is selfish. Shine your light… you are love… share it! Selfishness comes from a lack of self-love.”
I feel so passionate about this message… a message that the world needs to hear… that we are and it is all love.

As so often happens in my life… I am finishing the book “Dying to Be Me” by Anita Moorjani, a true story about Anita”s near death experience that is truly phenomenal. She was lying shriveled in a hospital, in a coma, completed riddled with cancer, when she ‘died’ yet held onto life with tubes attached. During that 24 hours, she received an amazing message of purpose, potential and possibility from spirit. Miraculously, she returned, and within weeks was completely clear of all cancer. Her story is remarkable!

When I read her words starting on page 139, I felt my entire being light up with “YES!” Her words reflect what I have been conversing and writing about.
I have transcribed her words from the book below. Amazing affirmative words.
Read on, and reflect on the message. It is the most important message we can all hear… and receive… and live.

“In the NDE state, I realized that the entire universe is composed of unconditional love, and I’m an expression of this. Every atom, molecule, quark, and tetra quark, is made of love. I can be nothing else, because this is my essence and the nature of the entire universe. Even things that seem negative are all part of the infinite, unconditional spectrum of love, In fact, Universal life-force energy is love, and I’m composed of Universal energy! Realizing this made me understand that I didn’t have to try to become someone else in order to be worthy. I already am all that I could attempt to be.
Similarly, when we know that we are love, we don’t need to work at being loving toward others. Instead, we just have to be true to ourselves, and we become instruments of loving energy, which touches everyone we come into contact with.

Being love also means being aware of the importance of nurturing my own soul, taking care of my own needs, and not putting myself last all the time. This allows me to be true to myself at all times and to treat myself with total respect and kindness. It also lets me view what may be interpreted as imperfections and mistakes with no judgement, seeing only opportunities to experience and to learn with unconditional love.
People ask me whether there’s such a thing as too much self-love. Where’s the line, they ask, where it starts to become selfish or egotistical? There is no such possibility. There is no line.

Selfishness comes from lack of self-love. Our planet is suffering from this, as we humans are, along with too much insecurity, judgement, and conditioning. In order to truly care for someone unconditionally, I have to feel that way toward myself. I can’t give away what I don’t have. To say that I hold another in higher regard than myself isn’t real and means I’m only performing.

When I’m being love, I don’t get drained, and I don’t need people to behave a certain way in order to feel cared for or to share my magnificence with them. They’re automatically getting my love as a result of me being my true self.
When we are each aware of our own magnificence, we don’t feel the need to control others, and we won’t allow ourselves to be controlled.
Realizing that I am love was the most important lesson I learned, allowing me to release all fear, and that the key that saved my life.” ~ from Dying to Be Me, by Anita Moorjani

Riding the Current~~~

By Adelle Brownlee Brewer

On August 17, 2013

In Uncategorized

Dancing Tribe…
Do you ever have days where it feels like you are going against the tide all day? Or even weeks? Do you take time out to have a ‘pity party?’ To rest, rejuvenate and renew?
I definitely have days like that, yet they are few and far between now. Many years of practice have taught me to shift the tide early in the game of defense, letting things roll off my back, bounce over me, circle around me.In Nia, we call this Aikido Energy… going with the flow and letting negative or defensive energy flow past without resistance. Its amazing how this practice has helped me deal with daily ups and downs. I’m aware of the Universal current that is always present, flowing and taking me where I need to go. When I resist, and attempt to control what is going on, the situation inevitably goes awry, taking a wrong turn as I sail along, and I end up capsized.
Ride the tide with me this week on the dance floor. Work with the energy, instead of against it… notice how things shift around you, dancing with ease.
We will dance Bailando in Nia, counting down to Portland and the filming!
See you on the dance floor!All love, Adelle
My classes this week:Nia: Sunday (tomorrow) 4:00pmTuesday 6:45amWednesday 9:15amFriday 5:30pm Journey Dance:Sunday (tomorrow) 10:00am

Time is an Illusion

By Adelle Brownlee Brewer

On August 1, 2013

In Uncategorized

I often say, “There is always more time.” More time to give, to receive, to love… time is an illusion.I enjoy taking time with my meal, whether alone or with friends, savoring the moment. Its amazing how much I accomplish when I slow down, savor, and enJOY. Even when I put the dishes away, make my bed, get ready to teach… there is always enough time if I don’t rush, sense my body in motion, and find the spaces between my thoughts. The silence within the sounds.It is why I spend precious moments arranging fresh flowers on my table, books on my shelf, and cleaning the counter before I leave for an early morning workout.My advice for our rush rush world? Slow down. EnJOY. Time is indeed an illusion, and so much can be accomplished if we take a moment to breathe, connect to our body, and LIVE.Loving this moment, Adelle
ps. Madisyn Taylor wrote of this today, and I’ve copied her words below.
“Life can often feel like it’s zipping by in fast forward. We feel obliged to accelerate our own speed along with it, until our productivity turns into frenzied accomplishment. We find ourselves cramming as much activity as possible into the shortest periods of time. We disregard our natural rhythms because it seems we have to just to keep up. In truth, rushing never gets you anywhere but on to the next activity or goal.

Slowing down allows you to not only savor your experiences, but also it allows you to fully focus your attention and energy on the task at hand. Moving at a slower place lets you get things done more efficiently, while rushing diminishes the quality of your work and your relationships. Slowing down also lets you be more mindful, deliberate, and fully present. When we slow down, we are giving ourselves the opportunity to reacquaint ourselves to our natural rhythms. We let go of the “fast forward” stress, and allow our bodies to remain centered and grounded. Slowing down is inherent to fully savoring anything in life. Rushing to take a bath can feel like an uncomfortable dunk in hot water, while taking a slow hot bath can be luxuriant and relaxing. A student cramming for a test will often feel tired and unsure, whereas someone who really absorbs the information will be more confident and relaxed. Cooking, eating, reading, and writing can become pleasurable when done slowly. Slowing down lets you become more absorbed in whatever it is you are doing. The food you eat tastes better, and the stories you read become more alive.

Slowing down allows you to disconnect from the frenzied pace buzzing around you so you can begin moving at your own pace. The moments we choose to live in fast forward motion then become a conscious choice rather than an involuntary action. Learning to slow down in our fast-moving world can take practice, but if you slow down long enough to try it, you may surprise yourself with how natural and organic living at this pace can be.”