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Throw Your Hands in the Air and Say “Yes!” Celebrate!

Hi friends!
We have had an amazing week of celebration in San Antonio, with our wonderful Spurs showing the world that they are truly Sacred Athletes. Not only did they win the NBA National Championship, but they demonstrated what it means to live into their greatness, and give back to the world, while loving and supporting 
one another.
Sunday was a double/double celebration for us at The Synergy Studio, as we graduated 6 Nia White Belts! A beautiful celebration of life and learning, we came together with our greater community at 4:00 in a celebration dance after their graduation. There is a picture below, as well as a link to their celebration dance!
Yeah!
We will continue the celebration this week, as we focus on our hands, the messengers of our heart. Hands express so much emotion and expression. 
Nia incorporates 7 hand moves and 8 finger moves to keep our hands 
healthy and strong.
Fist, pumps, strikes, chop-cut, webbed spaces, palm directions, finger extensions, creepy crawlers, spear finger, catching flies, finger flicks, claw hand, power-finger crossover, balance finger, Touching. 
We have our monthly drum circle at the studio this Friday, after my Nia class. FUN! Join David and Cameron Montalvo from 6:45-8:00 for a rocking great time. $10-20 donation.
AND…
I have two more spaces left in the Introduction to Transformational Breath® Workshop this Saturday, from 11:00-1:30. Sign up online!www.thesynergystudio.com, click on schedule page, under ‘workshops and events.’ I hope you will join me to experience this amazing work… 
your amazing breath!
I will see you in class! Celebrate YOU!
With love, Adelle
My classes this week: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm
Link to watch their celebration dance:

Form Into Freedom!

Happy Memorial Day Friends!
Today, we honor all of those who have served our country and fought for Freedom. Today is a day of gratitude!
This week, we will dance with the spirit of gratitude as we play with the many ways that our body expresses Form and Freedom. We will dance to the beautiful routine Miracle.
Your body is truly a Miracle.
As I dance through my day, I am so grateful for my body, and its ability to navigate the world with grace and ease. It’s so amazing, the form that allows me the freedom to think, express, and be authentic.
Take time out this week to celebrate your Freedom… to acknowledge your beautiful Form… and join us on the dance floor!
With deep love, Adelle
My classes this week at The Synergy Studio:
Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm 
PS! Joanie and I have a White Belt training starting next weekend! We have a GREAT group from all over… and there is room for YOU! Its a two-weekend format, so its perfect for working schedules. Call me!

Space! Yes!



Hi lovely friends,
 
This last weekend was all about space, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual space.

We had an amazing weekend of movement with two inspirational instructors from Kripalu, Jovinna Chan and Jurian Hughes, and we ended the weekend with a fantastic breath group session that I facilitated. 

The weekend for me was all about Space.
Space to be a student, Space to dance with others,Space to encourage the beautiful breath to open. Lots of magic happened!

Join me this week for a dance of Space. Where do you need more Space in your life? Transformation can start with the breath opening up possibilities in your body, dancing into Space, and finding the Space that sometimes we don’t see or notice. 

There is plenty of Space… create some for yourself and join me on the dance floor!

The Synergy Studio is a sponsor of the new major exhibit opening at the Witte this weekend, HEB Body Adventure! Footage for the permanent exhibit was filmed at the studio and we will be present all weekend doing demos… Nia, Yoga, Tai Chi, HoopDance, Drumming… I hope you will support the Witte in changing people’s lives through awareness of health! 

AND… three great event/workshops coming this weekend to the studio… Monthly Drum Circle, Core Strengthening and Spinal Awareness, and Intro to Aerial Silks! Check them out here

Love in abundance, Adelle 


Let Your Yoga Dance! Release and Renew

Dancers, Yogis, Yoginis… This is a GREAT week for you!

We have two incredible people coming to San Antonio next weekend. You can take one or more classes with them. Read on…

Many of you all remember Jurian Hughes, master Yoga and Dance teacher from Kripalu. She is returning with another fantastic master teacher from Kripalu, Jovinna Chan. Combined, they are dynamite, and loads of fun. They are master certified instructors in Yoga, Let Your Yoga Dance® and Soul Motion™. 
We are THRILLED to host them at the studio, so I hope you can join us for one or more classes. These classes are geared for everyBody… no experience necessary!  I am copying the information below. You can sign up online by clicking here. Go to ‘workshops and events.’

In honor of the upcoming weekend of Yoga, Dance and Fun, I am focusing my classes this week on Yoga, one of the nine movement forms of Nia. 
In Nia, we call Yoga ‘The Dance of Alignment.’ By aligning the bones, and focusing on stability, flexibility and strength, we keep our body, mind, and spirit balanced and ready for life!

Step out of your regular routine this coming weekend and join us for this amazing opportunity with Jurian and Jovinna!

I’ll see you on the dance floor…
With deep love, Adelle
My classes this week: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm

More information on Jurian and Jovinna:

Dance Into Joy: Release and Renew with Let Your Yoga Dance® and Soul Motion™

With Jurian Hughes and Jovinna Chan


May 16-18, 2014

Fri pm 6:30 – 8:30 $35

Sat am: 10:30 – 12:30 $35

Sat pm: 2:30 – 4:30 $35

Sun am: 10:00 – 12:00 $35

Total for all classes, per session = $140. Special if you do all sessions: $120


Enter the Season of New Beginnings following the lead of your body and breath, in a sacred community of celebrants. From the whirling dervish to the Shakers, from the waltz to the rave, we dance for joy, cleansing, and clarity, guided by embodied wisdom that transcends the thinking brain. No dance experience is required – just a willingness to explore both ecstatic movement and deep stillness, and to draw on the strength of both practices to

• Get into your body fully

• Cleanse from your core through your pores

• Free and refresh the mind

• Rely on your body’s wisdom to inform your new direction

Through an alchemical combination of movement, relaxation, meditation and guided visualization you will gain clarity about where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re going. The weekend will culminate in a ritual celebration to release the old and on Sunday Morning a community blessing will affirm your re-energized relationship with yourself, 
your work, and your dharma.

Sacred dance is one of our most ancient transformative rituals. Come sweat, let go of 
the past, and make space for new life. 
Enter the Season of New Beginnings with a deep sense of renewal.

Jurian Hughes, E-RYT 500, MFA, is a Let Your Yoga Dance® Trainer, a Kripalu Yoga Teacher Trainer, and a senior faculty member at Kripalu Center in Stockbridge, MA. A graduate of Williams College and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program, with more than 50 professional theater credits on and off Broadway, Jurian leads workshops and trainings at Kripalu and throughout the country, which draw on her extensive experience in yoga, dance, movement, voice and theater. Known for her passionate, playful and inspiring teaching style, participants in her trainings have been known to report sudden surges of self-esteem, freedom and joy. Jurian is the creator of the DVD, Gentle Kripalu Yoga with Jurian Hughes and the CD, Deep and Delicious Yoga.
Jovinna Chan, ERYT-500, is a transformational leader and teacher of Yoga and Dance. Her sadhana began at a young age in Singapore when she started practicing yoga, dance and martial arts. Through her practice she cultivated an intimate understanding of the body through creative movement and expression. Jovinna is trained in Let Your Yoga Dance®, an ecstatic dance that brings alignment of the charkas, and is a trained transformational facilitator for the body of work, Soul Motion™, founded by master teacher Vinn Arjuna Marti. She is a Kripalu Yoga Teacher Trainer, Pranotthan Yoga Teacher Trainer and co-founder of Shakti Initiation.

Dance Through Life… National Dance Week! Yipppeeee!

Its National Dance Week! Yippeee!
Some of my favorite things to do…  walk my puppies, work out at the gym, listen to music while I’m cleaning… and guess what? I’m always dancing! It makes life so enJOYable, fresh and exciting when every moment is an opportunity to dance.
In Nia White Belt Principle #5, we talk about the practice of “Dancing Through Life.” Everything we do can be a dance of life. Grocery shopping, doing laundry, waiting in traffic *walking the pups, working out, cleaning the house*  Our body is always in motion! Moving our limbs, reaching out/drawing in, breathing in/out, even sitting and when asleep, we are in motion. And guess what?… everything is truly a Dance of Life. 
We are alive!
A quick story… I was walking my pups a few days ago, listening to the wonderful song “Happy”, dancing to the rhythm and singing at the top of my lungs. There were two young men on my street moving new neighbors in. They stopped working, and joined into my dance and song! We all laughed and then carried on with our movement.
Let’s get the whole world dancing! You are a teacher to everyone you come in contact with, a Sacred Athlete of life, so start dancing and feel the ripple effect. 🙂
Join me this week as we Dance Through Life on the dance floor… but don’t stop there! Take every opportunity in every moment to make it a dance… and give gratitude to your body… to your life.
You are ALIVE!
Dancing with love for you, Adelle
My classes this week: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm
Check out our fun video about the upcoming White Belt in June… and join us! 

Something wonderful is always on the verge of happening!


… truer words could not be spoken. 
Michael Beckwith sings these words in the new Nia routine U… “U U Uare the answer!… Something wonderful is always on the verge of happening!”

I hope you will join me this week, as we introduce the new routine U. Its fun, uplifting, and challenging in a wonderful way. The focus is ‘Base of the Body,’ and my base is feeling a little sore after our routine immersion all weekend!

Master Nia Trainer and my dear friend Ann Christiansen is the choreographer of U, and she has done a beautiful job of giving us new moves encased in simple katas. It is such a joy to present her work, after filming it in Portland. Once a year, I get to spend a few weeks with her when she is in the US teaching the Black Belt training, and it fills my heart to hear her voice and dance with her spirit every time I do this wonderful routine!

Our amazing Monthly Drum and Dance Circle is this Friday, after my class… an event not to be missed… and you don’t have to know how to drum! Join us!
AND… I have 2 places left for the Introduction to Transformational Breath® workshop this Saturday from 11:00-1:30. Sign up under workshops and events on the schedule page. It is amazing work!

See U on the dance floor.
Loving U U U!
Adelle
My classes this week: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Fun Friday 5:30pm, Easter Sunday 4:00pm


Somatic Awakening… through thoughts… through words






Somatic Awakening… awakening the body through movement, awareness, love, divine grace, appreciation…

I just finished teaching our wonderful new offering at the studio, Somatic Awakening… a 45 minute class taught on Wednesdays at 6:45am. It is an amazing practice that combines 30+ years of teaching Nia, dance, art, yoga, breath, meditation, sounding, into a unique experience that awakens the body, mind, emotions and spirit, preparing to step into another day.

Today was about the Power of Touch, and all the ways that we touch and are touched… through our eyes, our skin, our breath, our sound, our movement… and through our thoughts and words.

Recognizing that 70% of our body is water, we can create beautiful crystalline droplets of light and grace in our cellular system by our thoughts and our words. Those crystals can then shine out, affecting those who we interact with during the day.
And they can shine even brighter, further, and beyond into the world.

Think about it… and say ‘Thank You’ to your body.
Gratitude is endless…


The Power of Touch

Open your arms wide… now cross them and reach around to your back… and give yourself a BIG hug. Hold it tight. Take a deep breath and breathe in the power of Touch.
We are sensation beings that respond to the power of Touch. We are touched every day… by sights, sounds, smells… by our clothing, the food in our mouth, the aroma of a yummy dinner cooking, the sight of a beautiful smile on the face of another.
We are touched all the time… and doesn’t it feel so good?!
Many of you have heard me say that Spinal Roll is my favorite Nia move. It is one of my favorites and the other one at the top is Touch. Touch is available to us every single moment, whether awake or asleep. Every cell in our body is being touched by something all the time. Isn’t that amazing to think about? To be aware of?
Join me this week as we elevate the sensation of Touch. In the Year of Gratitude, let’s give thanks for this blessed sensation that we can access 24/7. 
Loving you with the Touch of my heart, Adelle
Many opportunities to join in the dance of Touch… 
Nia:  
Tuesday, 6:45am
Wednesday, 9:15am
Friday, 5:30pm
Sunday, 4:00pm
Somatic Awakening:
Wednesday, 6:45am

Celebrate Humanity!



Dancing Friends! 
In the last week, we have had a lot of celebration at The Synergy Studio. Five new White Belts graduated, 12 Belts from around Texas and Mexico celebrated the new routine ¡Bailando!, and we all celebrated our amazing community.

We will continue our celebration this week with the routine Humanity. Humanity is truly the swan song of Carlos when he celebrated his new life, preparing to step out of Nia.

Everyday is an opportunity to step into a new life, a new moment, a new body. Did you know that every seven years, all the cells in your body regenerate?!! Amazing!

I have two links below to share some of the wonderful celebratory week we had with our brand new White Belts loving their body, and their life as Sacred Athletes.
Joanie and I have our next White Belt coming in June… two weekends to accommodate busy schedules. Give yourself the gift of learning about your body! Art of Sensation… it is amazing!

I will be teaching the new Wednesday Somatic Awakening class at 6:45am this week. Wake up, wear your pj’s, and awaken your body in this wonderful class taught on the floor. Join me!
Here are the links… enJOY! 
Love you all, Adelle



Adelle Brownlee Brewer
Owner, The Synergy StudioNia 1st Degree Black Belt Somatic Educator + Trainer

Certified Journey Dance Facilitator
Certified Transformational Breath Facilitator

Nia White Belt…Why?… Who?… When?… Now

My friends and dancers of life, 
As I prepare to guide my 9th Nia White Belt with Joanie starting tomorrow, I have been reading the just released, beautiful new WB manual that Debbie Rosas produced. It is truly a masterful, inspirational work of art.
‘Nia is for everyBody’… we say it often… and the Nia White Belt experience is also truly for everyBody… All of us who love personal growth and seek out knowledge. It is about sensation, the Art of Sensation, and learning more about the sacred gift that has been given to us for this life. Our Body.
The forward to this incredible manual is a letter by Dr. Lissa Rankin. She took her WB with Debbie two years ago, and it changed the way she conducts her life as a doctor. I invite you to read the scan I copied below. Lissa speaks eloquently about the importance of cultivating body awareness. 
I write this today in the hopes that each of you will treat yourself to this amazing week at some point. A week dedicated to you, to your body, to your life. Nia is transformational.
We have a wonderful group stepping in tomorrow, and we always welcome more. Our next WB is coming in June. Two weekends to accommodate busy schedules.
It is with deep gratitude for my body, for my community, for you, and for my life that I write this from a place of passion and abundant love in my heart.
Adelle

As a doctor you might mistakenly think I am in touch 

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with my own body, but when I did my Nia White Belt in 2011 and Debbie Rosas asked me to sense my own elbow, I was at a loss. I could feel my elbow if I touched it or rolled it on the floor, but my elbow in space was a mystery to me. As I reflected on my own body numbness, it occurred to me that my medical training had turned me into a walking cerebrum, disembodied from my body’s sensory experience. This was an adaptive mechanism at the time. During my medical training, I wasn’t able to sleep when I was tired, eat when I was hungry, pee when I needed to, or stop holding the surgical retractors that caused pain in my arms and shoulders. Numbing out was the only way I knew to survive. It’s no wonder I couldn’t feel my elbow.
I also became very aware that by dissociating from my own somatic experience, I was missing out on the wisdom of my body and how my intuition speaks to me through this awe-inspiring vehicle that transports me through life and blesses me with the richness of the human experience. Not until I did my White Belt training did I begin to really feel, to sense, to experience what my body knows.
Since that life-changing experience, which was part of what I call “the prescription” for myself, I have incorporated somatic awareness into much of my teaching about how the body can heal itself. In fact, in the 6 Steps To Healing Yourself that I teach in my book, as well as in my public television special, what I learned from Nia became Step 3, which is all about listening to your body’s prescription for what your body needs in order to heal.
Why is it important to cultivate

body awareness and move our

bodies through the 52 moves

of Nia? Because in order to

live optimally healthy, happy

lives in alignment with the

authentic truth of who we are,

we need to trust our bodies to

guide us, to signal to us when

we are out of alignment with

our truth and to teach us how

to move, how to love, how to

go after what we desire, how to receive, how to live our purpose, and how to connect spiritually.
This is what you will learn as a Nia White Belt student. Yourbody will become your constant companion, your trusted friend, your spiritual counselor, your wisest decision-maker, your vehicle for pleasure, and the cherished vessel of your spirit. May you enjoy every step of your journey, and may you, like me, finally feel your elbow.
— Lissa Rankin, MD
New York Times best-selling author of Mind Over Medicine:Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself 

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