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An Exercise in Self… Finding Balance Within YourSELF

Beautiful Day My Friends!

In Nia, we talk about Your Body’s Way and The Body’s Way.

The body loves yin and yang energy, mobility and stability, and is balanced in its design. The body also thrives on dynamic ease. All of these principles of The Body’s Way can be applied to Your Body’s Way by listening with your intuitive voice and eye, asking your body what it needs and desires.
Does your body want to release a pent-up emotion, self-heal a pain, sing with joy, move with more flexibility and strength?
By listening to our body, we can feed it just the right medicine, the right BALANCE
for health and wellness. Our body knows… it is our oldest friend. Our wisest guide.
I was inspired by an email I received from DailyOm, about an exercise in ‘self.’  Read below and come dance with me this week!
Love in abunDance!
Adelle

When we are in a quandary we can ask our own selves for advice; our previous younger self and our future wise self.

Since we probably know ourselves better than anyone else does, then we may very well be the best person to ask for advice when we are in a quandary. One interesting exercise is to try asking for advice from your past and future selves. There is the younger self that you used to be and the older, more mature self that you will become. You can gain a different perspective when you view present situations through your younger self’s eyes or your mature self’s more experienced point of view. Perhaps, your younger self would view a current dilemma in a more innocent, less cynical way. Likewise, your older, hopefully wiser, self may offer advice from a more compassionate, experienced perspective.

Think back to how you viewed the world when you were younger. What were your thoughts on happiness, love, and injustice? Think about how you would have reacted to a dilemma you are currently facing. The perspective may shed a different light on relationships, money matters, or life decisions. Likewise, think about the person you will become. A more mature version of you might mull a problem or conflict over carefully before taking action right away… or perhaps not. Maybe your older self would be more willing to take risks, care less about what other people think, and want to enjoy life more.

You can even set up an advisory panel of your past, present, and future selves. You might even want to try to have a written dialogue with your selves to record the thoughts, feelings, and advice that your younger and older selves might have for your present self regarding a current situation. Your different selves can give you some invaluable answers. After all, no one can know you better than your selves. You are your wisest guide .

 

Lovely!

Lovely bluebonnets from this last weekend!

“You look lovely today.”… “That flower is lovely!”… “What a lovely thing to say.”… “How lovely!”… “Lovely weather we are having today!”

Lovely… a beautiful word. Notice how you feel when you use the word, saying to yourself, “I am lovely!”

White Belt Principle #5, Awareness, is at the top of my list of favorites. I use it daily, as I am dancing through life, practicing living meditation, and seeing life as art. All part of living as a sacred athlete.  All part of recognizing life as lovely.

I invite you to use ‘lovely’ at least once in your conversation every day this week. SEE how it changes your perspective, as you SEE life as art… as lovely.

I’ll SEE you in class lovely ones!  Adelle

Bluebonnet Cafe in Marble Falls… Lovely!

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

Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am

Yoga: Thursday 12:00pm, Sunday 8:45am

Centering, Grounding, DD!

Good morning friends!

I hope you take the opportunity to ‘Dance Daily’ during this beautiful Spring season.

Movement with awareness brings us back to our bodies, and a grounded sensation that keeps us centered. The main signs that we need to center ourselves are scattered thoughts and a feeling of disconnection or numbness, as if we are no longer able to take anything in. In addition, we may feel unfocused and not present in our bodies. Centering ourselves is a way of coming to terms with all the different energies within us and drawing them back into ourselves.
‘Dance Daily’ is a wonderful mantra for centering! Joanie and I just returned from a FABulous 4 days in Santa Fe, where we danced daily, and multiple times a day! 16 Nia DJ’s received their certificate, and many more joined us for Nia FreeDance classes.  We ALL loved it!
Join me in my daily dance this week as we focus on centering.  The center of the body is the hara, located about 2 inches below the navel.  When feeling out of sync and scattered, dance and breathe into your hara…find your center… its all encoded in your body! 

OH! and be sure to go outside often, take off your shoes, and ground yourself. THIS is fascinating, and its science! Read more…
Love! Dancing Daily Dell

Read Dr. Mercola’s article on grounding, and WATCH THE 15 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/02/25/grounding-recharge-immune-system-slow-aging.aspx

If you have Vimeo on your computer or
phone, you can go directly to the documentary… https://vimeo.com/205264910

 

Cha Cha Change!

Change truly is the elixir of life and the only constant that is available to us. The irony of the word and the energy! 🙂

Life is in constant flux, and our body is a beautiful metaphor for change. Every cell is twirling, vibrating energy all the time, and our cells are being replaced every 7 years, so some cells in the body are always changing. Pretty cool, right?!

I’ve been diving deeper into the constant of change this week. Jenn, our wonderful studio manager and dear friend, will be making her journey to Los Angeles at the end of the month, to live her dream. Katharine Frey, Terry Pozza, and Christi Meyers will be joining the studio as new Nia teachers, and I will be taking over a different Nia class.

The changes:  Wednesday 5:30pm: Nia with Katharine and Terry… Friday 9:15am: Nia with Moi!… Nia Fun Friday 5:30pm with Christi.

FUN with changes are in the house!

We also have another massage therapist joining the studio, a wonderful man named Todd Morgan. He is moving here from Los Angeles. Again, the irony and Joy of the Universe as one leaves for LA and one arrives! And a man to boot! 🙂 A first for the studio. CHA, CHA, CHANGE!

Join me, other teachers, and The Synergy Studio, as we embrace the only constant in life… Change. Please support our new teachers and come get an amazing massage… (Yes… I mean amazing) As we grow up at The Pearl, let’s all welcome Change with open minds and loving hearts!

SEE you in class!

Love Love Love is in the house of Change! Adelle 

PS. My last FUN Friday class will be a Nia FreeDance class. Join me Thursday 9:15am, and Friday 5:30pm for two different, very inspirational  journeys through the body, emotions, mind and spirit. I teach Yoga for Lunch on Thursday 12:00, and Slow Flow Yoga on Sunday 8:45am.

Top off your weekend with Nia CELL-ebrate on Sunday 4:00pm!

 

Fall in love…

… with your body.

Good evening friends,

In this week of Valentine’s, we are reminded of the ever-abiding presence of love that surrounds us… from family, friends, and other special relationships in our life.

The presence of love is always there, whether during the week of Valentine’s, celebrating another holiday, or just any ordinary day. All we have to do is take a breath… one breath… to be reminded that our body loves us. Our breath reminds us that our body naturally takes in love when it needs it, through the inhale… and releases gratitude when its ready, through the exhale.

The most important relationship you will ever have is the one you have with your body. Getting to know your body better, through movement, exploration, and listening to its voice of sensation, is truly the most important ‘task’ we can do everyday.

Fall in love with your body. Tell your body how much you appreciate its constant presence, its steady companionship, no matter the circumstances. 

I’m having a love affair with my psoas muscle, a fascinating part of my body that holds me up, walks me through my day, and holds emotions for me. I’m continuing my love affair with my psoas this week.

I hope you will join me in class both Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, for a regular Nia class, as well as Thursday 9:15am and Friday 5:30 pm, for Nia FreeDance.

I’m choosing to teach Nia FreeDance two times this week.

Why? Because I LOVE the practice sooo much, and I LOVE my body sooo much, that I want to give it extra special attention, feeding it with freedom in Body, Emotion, Mind and Spirit. Ahhhh! Perfect.

SEE you soon!

LOVE LOVE LOVE, Adelle

PS. Two more fantastic articles on the psoas are below…. I encourage you to read on and fall in love with your psoas!

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/06/02/the-muscle-of-the-soul-may-be-triggering-your-fear-and-anxiety/

Another great, informative article from Yoga Journal: http://www.yogajournal.com/article/practice-section/the-psoas-is/

 

Muscle of the Soul… Psoas!

Smiles that say it all! We love our community                                in CaliforNia!

Preparation for the Nia White Belt                graduation in Los Angeles!

Hi Friends!

I am coming off an amazing 3 1/2 weeks of learning, teaching, growing and connecting. Starting with hosting a Nia Blue Belt training, then teaching a Transformational Breath® Seminar, then training a Nia White Belt in CaliforNia, and finally being a host and student this last weekend, at a YogaFit for Warriors training designed for understanding PTSD and the impact it is having on our troops as well as our society.

My psoas has received a work-out! Sitting on airplanes has tightened it, and doing Nia and Yoga with awareness of lengthening this amazing muscle, has helped me remain healthy, flexible and strong.

This is a wonderful excerpt from an article I read about Liz Koch. She has an amazing weekend Psoas training… and I hope to bring her to The Synergy Studio!

“The Psoas muscle (pronounced so-as) is the deepest muscle of the human body affecting our structural balance, muscular integrity, flexibility, strength, range of motion, joint mobility, and organ functioning.

A relaxed psoas is the mark of play and creative expression.  Instead of the contracted psoas, ready to run or fight, the relaxed and released psoas is ready instead to lengthen and open, to dance.

 

 

 

 

Koch believes that by cultivating a healthy psoas, we can rekindle our body’s vital energies by learning to reconnect with the life force of the universe. Within the Taoist tradition the psoas is spoken of as the seat or muscle of the soul, and surrounds the lower “Dan tien” a major energy center of body.  A flexible and strong psoas grounds us and allows subtle energies to flow through the bones, muscles and joints.” ~~~From https://bodydivineyoga.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/the-psoas-muscle-of-the-soul/

How about it? Let’s rock, roll, spin, open, strengthen and lengthen the muscle of the soul this week! Psoas! Yes!

Love, Adelle

My classes this week:

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

Yoga: Thursday 12:00pm, Sunday 8:45am

Read more about the muscle of the soul from the amazing Dr. Christine Northrup… http://www.drnorthrup.com/psoas-muscle-vital-muscle-body/

Choice. Sacred. Every breath.

Happy Friday my friends!

Spending a week, basking in the glow of teaching a Nia White Belt with 12 other souls in California, and many more enJoying classes, finds me more grounded and present in gratitude for every breath.

Sacred: Dedicated or devoted exclusively to a single use, purpose or person.

 

 

I make choices moment to moment. We all are making choices.

I choose to recognize the beauty, grace, and gift of my sacred breath. I’m choosing to live in gratitude for every moment, and every breath.

 

 

 

 

I hope you will join me tonight at 5:30. How about Sacred breath in CELL-ebration of choice?

Loving you deep, wide and tall, Adelle

Happy Holidays! Unique as a snowflake… YOU

Wishing for you a wonderful weekend, blessed with love and peace.

Thank you for being such a supportive and loving community. You are my rock, and your presence is a precious gift in my life.

enJOY the words of Madisyn Taylor below.

Unique YOU.

I love you, Adelle

A beautiful wall in Portland, Oregon, taken two years ago at my Nia 1st Degree Black Belt training. We had 2 feet of snow while we were there!

Snow
BY MADISYN TAYLOR

As each snowflake is different, so are we, unique and functioning as part of a greater whole.

The first slight snow that kisses our wind-reddened cheeks each winter carries the same message that frosts have conveyed since time immemorial. This message is dualistic in character; on one hand, winter’s growing chill compels us to rest and restore ourselves indoors, and on the other, snow, the most wondrous attribute of the winter season, beckons us outside to play and to reflect. Upon indulging this natural impulse, we emerge from our homes into the quietude created by a mantle of snow that blankets the ground, and find a scene painted in broad strokes of crystalline whiteness, embellished with bright highlights of silver and blue. The stillness envelopes us as the magical quality of the surreal landscape awakens profound feelings of peace within our souls.

Mother Nature’s perfect artistry is seldom more evident than in the magnificently balanced structure of the lovely and delicate six-sided flakes that cascade from the heavens. To walk through falling snow is to immerse one’s self in life’s never-ending rhythms. We understand and accept that the snow beneath our feet, while tangible and powerful, is only one aspect of a larger cycle of world-altering weather events. The fluffy snowflake that floats to earth and joins its siblings brings the transient joy of leisurely days off and smiling snowmen, yet will one day experience a transformation in purpose. Without hesitation, as the weather grows warmer, each beautiful flake melts and becomes one with trickling rivulets, singing streams, and swiftly running rivers. Whereas, at the start of its existence, the snow serves to drape the world in beauty, it ends its season on earth by nourishing the land.

A Zen proverb states that no snowflake ever falls in the wrong spot. Whether you celebrate the snow by tossing snowballs, or losing yourself in the meditative serenity of the silently drifting flakes, take a moment to contemplate how much like the snow each of us is. We are born pure, but later take on the footprints of those we encounter. Akin to each snowflake, we are unique, and yet we function as part of a larger whole–forever in the right spot at the right time. And like the snow itself, our lives and the roles we play are impermanent, yet imminently valuable.

Vast and Potent Silence… Clearing the Chakras!

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Nia Tribe…

ChakraDancer...  a beautiful Nia routine that activates the seven main chakras of the body, lighting up our life, just as the supermoon will light up our sky this week!

The supermoon, known as the Full Cold Moon, will appear at its peak about 12.05am GMT on Wednesday, December 14, but the Royal Observatory Greenwich said the moon with “appear full” the night before and after.

What is a supermoon?

It wasn’t until 1979 that Richard Nolle first defined the supermoon, which is now a widely-used term. The astrologer explained that the phenomenon is “a new or full moon which occurs with the moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit.” Based on Nolle’s theory, the moon would have to be 226,000 miles away from the Earth to be considered ‘super’.

Due to its relatively close proximity to the Earth, the celestial body’s surface appears a lot bigger when a supermoon occurs.The December supermoon is traditionally known as a Full Cold Moon in the northern hemisphere because it takes place at the start of winter.

Let’s celebrate this phenomenon as we light up our chakras on the dance floor! I will not be speaking, so you can experience the resonance of the music, your breath, and your magic. I will be queing with breath, as the music takes us on a journey through the energy centers of the body… each song dedicated to a chakra.

All sounds, from a whisper to a classical symphony, arise out of silence and disappear into silence. Silence is always there beneath sound and is the space where sound can exist. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but silence has its own weight and quality. When you listen to silence, you can perceive its intense depth and power. Taking the time to experience silence calms the mind and rejuvenates the body. Silence is the void where we can hear the many sounds that we often ignore – the voice of our intuition telling us the truth, the sound of the breeze blowing, the hum of the radiator, and the noises we make just because we are alive.

ChakraDancer is a beautiful, grounding routine and a perfect routine to experience a magical supermoon week.  I hope you will join me… day could not exist without night… sound could not exist without silence.  It is vast and potent, like the supermoon!

My classes this week…

Nia: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm

Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15amchakras-w-sounds-and-helix

Love and Light!

Adelle

 

 

 

Stability + Balance + Harmony…

*Check out this video from last weekend! FUN! praise-you-nfd-boulder 

Stability + Balance + Harmony…

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Nia FreeDance class last weekend in Boulder!

har•mo•ny (ˈhɑr mə ni)
n., pl. -nies.

  1. agreement; accord; harmonious relations.
  2. a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity.

How about giving it up for some stability, balance and harmony?

Tis’ the season for so many things… people to see, places to go, presents to purchase… how about making it the season for peace? Activating stability as a sensation, creating balance in all aspects of life, and striving for harmony every day, will create peace and well-being in our body.

The wise sage and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi expressed, “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

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JOY was in the house! Congrats to our newest Nia FreeDance DJ’s! 🙂

Let’s take care of ourselves during this wonderful season, remembering to breathe, remembering to take time to relax, remembering to take time to dance.

Take time for Stability+ Balance+ Harmony = Peace … take time for YOU this week!

See you on the stable, balanced, harmonious dance floor!

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SEE YOU on the dance floor!

All love…  Adelle

My classes this week at The Synergy Studio:

Nia: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm, Sunday 4:00pm          Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am                                                               Yoga: Thursday 12:00pm, Sunday 8:45am

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DELIGHT!

 

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