Month: March 2016

Happy Weekend my friends!

I’m very excited to have my dear friend, Fiona Winter, and her husband Patrick, visiting me from Wales. Fiona and I met during her Nia White Belt training and then we did our Blue, Brown, and Black Belt together. We also were together for various other trainings in Portland, and it has been 8 years since we have danced in the same room!

English phrases always make me laugh and Fiona keeps me in stitches. “Bob’s your Uncle, Fanny’s your Aunt.” Do you know what that means? hahahhah!

Come find out this week, as Fiona will be dancing with us tomorrow (Sunday) at 4:00. On Tuesday at 6:45am, and Wednesday at 9:15am, she will join me on the dance floor to team teach some wonderful ‘Carlos’ choreographed songs, in honor of the man who was our trainer for all of our belts. She will also be with us Thursday at 9:15, for my Nia FreeDance class. Get ready to have a blast with this special fireball of a lady!

AND… Fiona is going to teach a special Nia noon class on Tuesday, at 12:00! She will be doing her own choreographed routine called Grace. Grace is an elegantly crafted piece of movement medicine, designed to take you willingly into a state of grace and effortless, uplifting joyous movement. The routine uses the music of Siri Sadhana Kaur, whose inspirational, rich and passionate voice creates music medicine that speaks directly to the soul, and gets the cells humming. I will be dancing with you as a student, to experience Fiona’s magic for the first time. I’m so excited! I hope you will join us!

It is always a treat when Nia colleagues come through town and teach with us, and Fiona is an extra special treat, “the icing on the cake!”  🙂 We are pictured below in my garden. 🙂

See you tomorrow (twice!), Tuesday (twice!) and Wednesday with Fiona. I will also be teaching my Fun Friday class at 5:30pm. A week of de-light-FULL dance!

Love, Adelle

My classes this week:

Yoga Slow Flow: Easter Sunday, 8:45am

Nia: Easter Sunday 4:00pm, Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm

Nia FreeDance: Thursday, 9:15am

Happy Spring to everyBody!

Yesterday, I was standing in my bare feet, enjoying the green Earth, and the yummy sensation of soft grass touching me. When we stand barefoot in grass, we soak up negative ions through our feet, which are good for us, and discharge positive ions that we absorb throughout the day. Even though they have the word ‘positive’, they come from cell phones, computers, microwave ovens, as well as other sources, and are not good for us. Being barefoot is the key. Shoes block the energy exchange!

I love the springtime in San Antonio, and green is my favorite color. When you were a child, did you ever want to be a leprechaun? I sure did! March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, and is linked to leprechauns, the mystical fairy creatures. Leprechauns are associated with being shoemakers and also connected with finding a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If ever captured by a human, the Leprechaun has the magical power to grant three wishes in exchange for their release.                                                                                                

I think of wishes as hopes, dreams, goals, and intentions.                                        

Our feet are our ‘hands that touch the earth,’ and our feet, ankles, legs, and knees create the base of our body… a base that supports us from underneath and behind all day.  Let’s take off our shoes this week, and dance a jig, moving with the energy of a leprechaun, and dancing our intentions into manifestation. (maybe let one of your wishes be that San Antonio remain green this summer!)

See YOU soon fellow leprechaun!

Love, Adelle

My classes this week:                                                                                                          Nia: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm, Sunday 4:00pm               Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am                                                                                           Yoga Slow Flow: Sunday 8:45am

Read on for some great ‘wishing’ words from Madisyn Taylor of Daily Om!

“Your arms are the messengers of your heart.” ~Gabrielle Roth, founder 5Rhythms.

“When we sense our shoulder girdle, its like sensing a delicate pair of wings supporting us from behind.” ~Debbie Rosas, co-founder Nia.

Let’s focus on our wings: shoulder girdle, arms, and hands, as we say HELLO to our beautiful Springtime, recognizing the majesty of our body!

“Having a healthy shoulder girdle means your arms and hands are securely anchored yet can hang loosely, making it possible for you to move your arms and hands freely through space. Increasing your understanding of the shoulder girdle will give you more power and grace!” ~Debbie Rosas

Join me this week, as we spread our wings, sensing the lightness and flexibility that it brings to our body, gaining somatic knowledge that will fly us through our day!

Flying high with love,  Adelle                 

Nia: Tuesday 6:45am Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm                       Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am                                                                               All at The Synergy Studio!

“Put your body in motion, and the psyche will heal itself.” ~Gabrielle Roth, founder of 5Rhythms

Good beautiful morning from Oklahoma my friends,

This last week has been full of emotional twists and turns. One of my oldest friends from kindergarten was tragically killed in an automobile accident on Wednesday. Friday morning, I got word that there was a gathering of my high school classmates to honor our friend that evening. Within two hours, I made reservations for a flight and a rental car, packed my bag, and was on my way to Oklahoma City, where I spent my childhood. The evening was a celebration of life, friends, memories and deep sadness.

Saturday morning before dawn, 100’s of people gathered on the Oklahoma River, training location for the US Olympic Rowing team, to honor our fallen friend with a “paddle-out” ceremony, a tradition that is followed by surfers as well as boat people, when they lose a comrade. As skiffs, rowboats, kayaks, and other boats went down the river, we walked in silence to the finish line, and watched the sunrise. It was a glorious day. Click here to see the ceremony

Breakfast with family and friends followed the ceremony, and Saturday evening was spent in hours of side-splitting laughter as two of my daughter-in-laws, one of my best friends, and I sat around the dinner table and told stories about our childhood.

This morning, a spouse who had retired early asked what we were laughing so hard about, and all we could say was ‘sex, drugs and rock & roll.’ Laughter is so healing.

As I prepare to return home to San Antonio this evening, I am reflecting on my breath patterns throughout the last 5 days, breathing from emotions of deep grief, joy, sadness, surprise, elation, exhaustion… the list goes on. I am deeply grateful for every breath and how the simple, conscious movement of breathing, combined with the awareness that all movement is a dance of life, has brought so much healing to my psyche.

Join me in the coming week to celebrate life, breath, and dance, as we move our life force energy, our PRANA.

Home later today, in anticipation of another beautiful week… Adelle

Nia: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm, Sunday 4:00pm               Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am                                                                                           Yoga, Slow Flow: Sunday 8:45am

“Move with your breath, and breathe with your moves.” ~Adam Barley, 5Rhythms master teacher, coming to The Synergy Studio April 29-May 1.

Breath and Movement™ at The Synergy Studio, April 8-10.