Month: February 2015

Breathing, Dancing Medicine Men and Women!

I’ve been on a passionate journey of breath, movement, and healing my entire life, exploring the mysteries of the body and the connection to our life force energy and to the Divine through the breath. I love that life is a journey, not a destination.

I am excited to bring Judith Kravitz, creator of Transformational Breath®, back to The Synergy Studio for a TB Seminar starting this Friday. I will be assisting Judith as a Senior Trainer and other trainers and facilitators from all over the US will be joining us. We have people coming in from all over the world to experience this Seminar. Some of these people will be joining us in my Nia classes!

Dance is medicine for the body, mind and spirit. Combine movement with breath, and wowsa… you’ve got the inner healer working his/her magic.

Join me this week and next for Dance, Breath, Medicine of “Prana“… one of the most beautiful routines ever released from Nia HQ. Native American music, focusing on breath, and sounding… movement medicine! I will be teaching Prana without verbal cues, and using only my breath to direct. If you haven’t experienced Prana, or this ‘silence within the sound’, come come come join us. I will be dancing “Prana” tomorrow, Tuesday 6:45am and Wednesday 9:15am.

This Friday’s 5:30 class this week is cancelled, due to the start of the Transformational Breath® Seminar at 6:00.

Then, join me and other Transformational Breathers for Sunday’s 4:00 class, next Tuesday’s 6:45am class, and next Wednesday 9:15am. You have 5 chances to dance this powerful routine and experience your breath and movement in a unique and wonderful way.

Medicine Men and Women… See you on the dance floor!

With love in flowing abundance, Adelle

Adios Goodbyes, Bonjour Hellos

By Adelle Brownlee Brewer

On February 8, 2015

In Uncategorized

The last year of my life has been chalked full of goodbyes. I said goodbye to my mother, and others who transitioned. There were also goodbyes to dear friends who moved, changed direction, and many times I listened and grieved with others who said ‘goodbye’ to their careers, their stability, their livelihood. While it was a year of so much letting go, and so much grieving, every experience gave me an opportunity to reflect, express appreciation, and grow stronger in the essence of gratitude, and my belief in grace.

This year? I’m dedicating it to the year of hellos. As one of my practices, I sit on the throne (ha…yes, I did say that), and read the daily affirmation from Miracle Consciousness. It is a life practice that connects me to the miracle of each life I encounter, seeing them as pure light, pure love. Today’s affirmation: I choose peace. I choose love. I choose joy. It is a choice.
Perfect for my year of hellos.

This was present in my in-box today, another perfect affirmation for my year of hellos:

I release the belief that anything or anyone outside of me can prevent my good. I participate in the circulation of blessings by giving generously and knowing I will receive in abundance. I keep my thoughts on gratitude and trust the constant flow of good in my life. I forgive myself and others for past hurts and receive the wealth of a peaceful heart.

They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.—Psalm 36:8

I’ve always lived my life with the glass half-full, seeing the abundant opportunities around me and exuding optimism.

This is the year of hellos. Want to join me?

Engaging in the moment

By Adelle Brownlee Brewer

On February 4, 2015

In Uncategorized

From my amazing friend and colleague Adam Barley, a master 5Rhythms teacher in England. His words resonate deeply with me… passing them on. And yes, Gabrielle’s books are genius. So much wisdom in her glorious life on earth. Adelle

“To listen to the no-sound of the breath, expanding into the stillness and spaciousness that brings.

To tune into the same consciousness we find when we dance – aware of the body, it’s instincts and hunches about timing, space, and pace.

To allow the free flow and creative expression of our feelings in and out of relationship with others, including more body-awareness and embodied communication with our friends, lovers, and enemies, remembering how to speak straight from the heart, and listen with everything we have.

To totally engage in the moment to moment teachings and alchemy that the events of our lives are constantly giving us – whether in a brush with a stranger, an intimacy with our family, a conflict with a friend, or encounters with birth, death, sex, money, and creative endeavor. All the stuff of life has the potential for deep and profound personal evolution, both as healing and growth. Whether you dance daily at home, weekly at your local class, or in periodic high-octane blasts at workshops, a strong practice will create and strengthen pathways in your body-heart-mind that make this kind of engagement more readily available. Gabrielle Roth, the founder of this practice, communicated this kind of engagement with life so beautifully in all three of her books. (If you haven’t read them, just do it. They’re brilliant.) There’s something about movement practices that do this particularly well I think. Because they’re rooted in the body, they create pathways within us, new neural networks, that engage us with ourselves and each other in a very ‘whole’ way. Then off the dance floor those same pathways quite naturally get used to engage us in some mysterious way with life, allowing it to affect us more deeply and teach us more vibrantly, shaking us loose from our moorings of social convention, constantly nudging us awake.

Nudge me awake. More please. Next step. I’m waking up again. A little more. Listen. Yes. Now. Take a breath. This is it. Let love in. Let myself show. Let life hurt me. Let life bless me. Let go, let go, let go. Let go of letting go and stick with something long enough for creation to happen. Let this be. Here we come.

All these things happen all the time. There is no need for a dance floor. No need to move in a way that would look weird whilst shopping for vegetables at the market.

Now is the moment of power.” Adam Barley

Adam’s website: http://www.adambarley.com/

Awareness into Presence

By Adelle Brownlee Brewer

On February 2, 2015

In Uncategorized

Good morning!

Right here, right now, take a moment to sense the fabric of your clothes touching your skin. Look out from what you are doing, soften your eyes, and change your perception of what you see. As you read these words, notice the movement of your eyes, the reach of your hand as you pick up your cup of coffee, tea or water.

When you do these things, are you anywhere else but here? Present?

These simple tasks are examples of a vibrant principle of Nia, Principle #5: Awareness. The feel of something touching our skin: Living Meditation. The change of perception: Life as Art. The movements our body makes: Dancing Through Life.

There is a lot of talk these days about present moment, living in the now. Awareness brings us there… here… into presence.

Yummy, yummy delicious. Its called living life 100%.

As Olympic Athletes say, “Practice, practice, practice, then the game is on.”

As Sacred Athletes, the game is on now for us. Everyday is an opportunity to hone our skills, to practice, for every moment counts. We are alive, humming with awareness… buzzing with life.

Come practice with me this week… the game is on.

Loving you wide, tall, and deep, Adelle

My classes this week: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm at The Synergy Studio

I love this about Presence from Madisyn Taylor:

When we are fully present, we offer our whole selves to whatever it is that we are doing. Our attention, our integrity, and our energy are all focused in the moment and on the task at hand. This is a powerful experience, and when we are in this state, we feel completely alive and invigorated. This kind of aliveness comes easily when we are absorbed in work or play that we love, but it is available to us in every moment, and we can learn to summon it regardless of what we are doing. Even tasks or jobs we don’t enjoy can become infused with the light of being present. The more present we are, the more meaningful our entire lives become.

Next time you find yourself fully engaged in the moment, whether you are making art, trying to solve an interesting puzzle, or talking to your best friend, you may want to take a moment to notice how you feel. You may observe that you are not thinking about what you need to do next, your body feels like it’s pleasantly humming, or your brain feels tingly. As you enjoy the feeling of being located entirely in the present moment, you can inform yourself that you may try to recall this feeling later. You might try this while driving home or getting ready for bed, allowing yourself to be just as engaged in that experience as you were in the earlier one.

The more we draw ourselves into the present moment, the more we honor the gift of our lives, and the more we honor the people around us. When we are fully present, we give and receive aliveness in equal measure. For today, try to be fully present in your daily activities and watch a new reality open for you.