Do you analyze your unhappiness in order to find the triggers and make improvements? How about your happiness, when you are feeling content and 
connected to a joy-filled emotion? What a friend of mine coined ‘joy bubbles?’
Recognizing how the emotion of joy feels in my body, either in the moment or in reflection, I can notice the choices I make that bring on the bubbles. For me, it is definitely a combination of my actions… smiling, laughing, singing alone or with a friend, kissing the check of my grand baby, sharing a tender moment listening to another… as well as the code that is embodied in my cellular system, a code in Nia we call the big ‘J’, Joy. It is a principle that is the foundation of Nia, White Belt Principle #1, Joy of Movement.
When I recognize that my body wants to move, wants to rest, wants to breathe, 
wants to sing, wants to laugh and wants to heal moment to moment, I can sense a universal Joy that is present even when things around me seem discombobulated, or emotionally unsettled.
I can re-create the joy bubbles and Joy-filled moments in my mind by bringing them to the dance floor of life, giving thanks for my body’s ability to show up and support me as my best friend and greatest companion.
I hope you will join me in class this week. Bring your body, mind, emotions and spirit and get ready to turn on the joy bubbles. The big J, combined with the emotion of joy… yum. Bubblicious!
I love you!
Adelle
ps. I’m presently sitting on the tarmac in Oklahoma City, waiting on the storms to pass in Houston. I’ve missed my connecting flight already, but trust that there will be another sometime today. Joy bubbles are a choice! :)… OH… Just took off! Now in the air! hahaha!
My classes this week:
Nia: Tuesday, 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm, Sunday 4:00 pm
Nia FreeDance: Thursday, 9:15am
Yoga, Slow Flow: Sunday 8:45am
*Pics are from my fun weekend in Norman, Oklahoma with my children…and a great shot of one of the cooliest dogs EVER, Ms. Samba. 🙂