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Dance Daily… December Mantra for Stability!


Nia Family,
Welcome to the first week of December!  Wow.

In the midst of the holiday season, there are many distractions that can take us away from our center… parties, shopping, family, friends… all joy-filled experiences, yet many times 
energetically chaotic .
Along comes Nia! 
I hope you take the opportunity to ‘Dance Daily’ during this season.  Movement with awareness brings us back to our bodies and the grounded sensation of Stability 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 and sensing Stability is a way of coming to terms with all the different energies around us and drawing them back into ourselves. Stability is the Grand-MaMa of all sensations in our body. It is present all the time… we just need to breathe and acknowledge its presence!
‘Dance Daily’ is a wonderful holiday mantra for stability, centering, and presence!

Join me in my daily dance this week as we focus on Stability and 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 Stability, find your Center… its all encoded in your body!

I will see you this week, and I’m Delighted!
Dancing Daily Dell
My classes this week: Tuesday 6:45 am, Wednesday 9:15 am, Fun Friday 5:30 pm

Moment to Moment, Choice to Choice, Move to Move

Life is an incredible journey!
Moment to Moment, Choice to Choice, Move to Move.

The last two weeks have accentuated the tools that I’m so grateful for, tools for living consciously to glide seamlessly through the art of life.
Moving my mother to San Antonio, clearing my house of 30 years to prepare for another family, and hosting a wonderful Nia Blue Belt training for 11 beautiful souls who graduated yesterday! We danced all week with Winalee Zeeb, masterful Nia trainer of the heart, 5 other Nia trainers weaving magic, and our incredible community of movers.
Wow! I love life and the treasures it brings!

Moment to Moment, Choice to Choice, Move to Move… conscious of the connective tissue that exists between 
all things… the yummy space that reminds us to slow down 
and savor every second.
Let’s bring it to the dance floor this evening! Fun Friday! Sumptuous Sunday! Terrific Tuesday! Wonderful Wednesday!

Savoring the yumminess of life and loving you!  Adelle
My classes this week: Friday (today!) 5:30pm, Sunday 4:00pm, Tuesday 6:45am, Wed 9:15am 


¡Bailando! Get Ready to Dance!

Coming very soon!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTn3zioD3Wo

Silence of the morning


One of my favorite times of the day is the early morning. While sometimes I get upset when I wake up in the wee hours and cannot go back to sleep, I shift to gratitude, and my new day begins.
Gratitude for stillness, coffee, time… silence.

I am at Lake Tahoe doing my professional training Level 4b in Transformational Breath™. Amazing work, I am passionate about bringing this to San Antonio and beyond. In November, the studio hosts Judith Kravitz, founder of TB, for an incredible weekend experience. I hope you will join us!

After each breathwork session, the moments of silence that follow are golden, with facilitators and breathers respecting the potency and magic. I have a wonderful roommate here from Italy who stays up late and wakes up after the sun rises. We have a beautiful symbiotic relationship that works so well. I love my mornings in silence and she loves her evenings when I have retired.
Today… gratitude for silence.

Have a beautiful day…look for the silence in the sounds. 
Its magical!
Love, Adelle

ps. Madisyn Taylor is spot on once again. I love how life works that way… 

September 23, 2013
Vast and Potent… Silence

by Madisyn Taylor

Silence can make us nervous thinking we need to fill the void, but there is immense strength in silence.

All sounds, from a whisper to a classical symphony, arise out of silence and disappear into silence. But 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. 

One way to experience silence is to wake up before the rest of the world has come alive. Try not to move into activity, and leave off the lights, radio, and television. Sit still and simply listen. You may hear your heartbeat or your breath, but keep your attention tuned to the silence that surrounds you. Stay this way for as long as you can, and allow the sound of silence to penetrate your body until it moves into your core. Feel the gentle, pulsing waves of silence and allow it to cleanse you. Five minutes of communing with silence can leave you feeling vibrant and connected to the universe. 

At night, choose a moment after everyone around you has retired and tune in to silence. You can also experience silence throughout the day. Even in the midst of activity, moments of silence are always present. Usually we ignore or feel nervous around silence and try to fill these moments with sound. Yet silence is always there – vast, potent, and available for us to step into any time we choose. 


Divine Order and Gratitude!



Wonderful friends, 

As I prepare for departure on Saturday, I have been reflecting deeply on the immense gratitude I feel for our amazing community in San Antonio… you are truly a blessing to me. You have supported me with kind words, suggestions, corrections (esp with my Spanish!), pictures, and most importantly, with your presence.

I will teach ¡Bailando! at Nia HQ to the Black Belts who are doing their BBelt training right now, as well as the Portland community, on Wednesday, Sept 4 at 5:45pm PT. Think of me, sending laughter and relaxing thoughts! It will be an interesting learning experience to teach a brand new routine that no one knows except me, to over 60 in the room… well… interesting is the key word!

¡Bailando! is the first routine to be filmed of the 5 we are doing,  and we will be filming in Portland on Saturday, Sept 7 from 8:00-12:00 PT. This will put us dancing together that morning… from San Antonio to Portland! When you dance that morning, send me vibes to ‘remember my cues, relax, smile, and have fun’… for those are my intentions.  Everything happening in divine order. I will feel you dancing, supporting me from ‘underneath and behind’ and that will give me deep comfort.

Thank you all... for you… and for your support of the studio, Nia, and our desire as a community to make a difference in the world. We are!
Join me this Friday at 5:30, as I dance ¡Bailando!, teaching with a beginner’s mind, and preparing for my Saturday flight to Nia HQ.

With love beyond abundance, Adelle

ps. I have some thoughts about Divine Order below, words and affirmations of encouragement that have helped me through this year-long process… words inspired from the DailyWord. Love!

“When I take on a new creative enterprise, I do so with the finished product clearly in mind. I start with a vision, make a plan, and gather the tools. I waste no energy worrying how the process will unfold. I proceed with intention and confidence. When I focus on what I am doing, the steps follow in divine order to create the results I envision.
Life is a co-creative process. At one with Spirit, I affirm a life filled with loving relationships, abundant blessings, health, and wholeness.
Monitoring my thoughts and words, I gently let any discouragement pass me by. I stay focused on my intentions, and the results unfold in divine order.”

5 Ways to Wake Up in Life


I read this article in my email box this morning, and wanted to share. Yes!

“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.” ― P.D. Ouspensky 
Asleep at the wheel is an expression that can too easily become an accurate description of how we move through our days and show up in our relationships. Our senses become dulled and we don’t smell or taste what we consume, we hurry through the simple practices of hygiene never feeling our hands running across our own bodies in washing. It’s no wonder that so many sex lives turn into a rut of repetitive actions enclosed with ever narrowing boundaries of acceptable.  Breaking out of our own internal prisons is a bold act of revolution and whether it applies most to your work, your relationships or your sex life the following list of tips practiced consistently will shake your internal chains free and wake you up to a life that will surprise you.
1.     Take risks. Living on the edge of our own comfort zones is prerequisite to both truly appreciating what you have and opening up to new possibilities. Not knowing what might happen next is edgy, and in many ways, more exciting than watching a scary movie because the consequences are yours. The rising popularity of reality TV shows reflects an unquenched desire in most of us to dare to be great. You can start small — maybe try a new kind of food or going to a new place to grocery shop. Placing yourself in the midst of not knowing what will happen next wakes you up to what you do know.
2.     Move your body. The statistics on the number of people who are relatively stationary even in sex is appalling. How we learn about whom we are in the most primary way from the time we are born is through our ability to move. Little babies spend their entire waking life reaching beyond their capacity to experience the world. Tap into that little baby still living somewhere inside you and be willing to risk the physical discomfort of arduous exercise, longer walks and new sexual positions. Truly the pain associated with using your body fully is way more interesting than the slow atrophy of sitting on a couch.
3.     Use your senses. Be deliberate about learning more about your capacity to see, hear, feel, smell and taste. Adopt an attitude of savoring, which will add at least a couple of moments to every sensory experience. Look at colors around you and imagine what it would be like to paint them. Start listening for the subtle noises around you; it will entrain you to hear the quieter voice in your own mind. Take the time to taste the individual ingredients when you cook. Slow down the eating process and linger over a single bite. Smell the air where you are. Try to remember the last time you smelled a summer evening just like this one. Really feel how it feels to have a hand trace slowly up your back. Stay longer in a hug and feel the weight of someone leaning into you.
4.     Build Better Habits. We are what we do every day. Choose to be challenged by your daily activities, which could be argued goes against human nature, but also elevates our human nature to our best selves. Developing daily practices that heal us become the framework for everything else that happens to us. Add a few minutes of meditation- any kind of meditation- to your days and be amazed how turning your attention inward focuses all the noise around you. Exercise routines that become habitual are harder to break and the sense of accomplishment associated with strengthening the body travels into everything else that happens.
5.     Make Love More. Any kind of love. Explore and expand the pleasure centers in your own body. Give things away. Pay full attention to whoever is interacting with you. Allow people to be who they are and take that permission for yourself. Feel the visceral truth of gratitude even for the smallest life experiences. Get over yourself and ask for more love. Look for the love coming at you every day. It will wake you up.


Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/5-ways-to-wake-up.html#ixzz2dGIUSKV6

The most important message we can hear, receive, and live…



I have been having conversations with others and writing for months about being love… that we are love. I believe its the most important message that we can hear… and receive… and live.

I was talking with a dear friend the other day about the word ‘selfish.’ I said, “Not loving yourself, and not sharing your gifts, yourSELF, with the world, is selfish. Shine your light… you are love… share it! Selfishness comes from a lack of self-love.”
I feel so passionate about this message… a message that the world needs to hear… that we are and it is all love.

As so often happens in my life… I am finishing the book “Dying to Be Me” by Anita Moorjani, a true story about Anita”s near death experience that is truly phenomenal. She was lying shriveled in a hospital, in a coma, completed riddled with cancer, when she ‘died’ yet held onto life with tubes attached. During that 24 hours, she received an amazing message of purpose, potential and possibility from spirit. Miraculously, she returned, and within weeks was completely clear of all cancer. Her story is remarkable!

When I read her words starting on page 139, I felt my entire being light up with “YES!” Her words reflect what I have been conversing and writing about. 
I have transcribed her words from the book below. Amazing affirmative words. 
Read on, and reflect on the message. It is the most important message we can all hear… and receive… and live. 

“In the NDE state, I realized that the entire universe is composed of unconditional love, and I’m an expression of this. Every atom, molecule, quark, and tetra quark, is made of love. I can be nothing else, because this is my essence and the nature of the entire universe. Even things that seem negative are all part of the infinite, unconditional spectrum of love, In fact, Universal life-force energy is love, and I’m composed of Universal energy! Realizing this made me understand that I didn’t have to try to become someone else in order to be worthy. I already am all that I could attempt to be. 
Similarly, when we know that we are love, we don’t need to work at being loving toward others. Instead, we just have to be true to ourselves, and we become instruments of loving energy, which touches everyone we come into contact with.

Being love also means being aware of the importance of nurturing my own soul, taking care of my own needs, and not putting myself last all the time. This allows me to be true to myself at all times and to treat myself with total respect and kindness. It also lets me view what may be interpreted as imperfections and mistakes with no judgement, seeing only opportunities to experience and to learn with unconditional love.
People ask me whether there’s such a thing as too much self-love. Where’s the line, they ask, where it starts to become selfish or egotistical? There is no such possibility. There is no line.

Selfishness comes from lack of self-love. Our planet is suffering from this, as we humans are, along with too much insecurity, judgement, and conditioning. In order to truly care for someone unconditionally, I have to feel that way toward myself. I can’t give away what I don’t have. To say that I hold another in higher regard than myself isn’t real and means I’m only performing.

When I’m being love, I don’t get drained, and I don’t need people to behave a certain way in order to feel cared for or to share my magnificence with them. They’re automatically getting my love as a result of me being my true self. 
When we are each aware of our own magnificence, we don’t feel the need to control others, and we won’t allow ourselves to be controlled. 
Realizing that I am love was the most important lesson I learned, allowing me to release all fear, and that the key that saved my life.” ~ from Dying to Be Me, by Anita Moorjani





Riding the Current~~~



Dancing Tribe…

Do you ever have days where it feels like you are going against the tide all day? Or even weeks? Do you take time out to have a ‘pity party?’ To rest, rejuvenate and renew?

I definitely have days like that, yet they are few and far between now. Many years of practice have taught me to shift the tide early in the game of defense, letting things roll off my back, bounce over me, circle around me.
In Nia, we call this Aikido Energy… going with the flow and letting negative or defensive energy flow past without resistance. Its amazing how this practice has helped me deal with daily ups and downs. I’m aware of the Universal current that is always present, flowing and taking me where I need to go. When I resist, and attempt to control what is going on, the situation inevitably goes awry, taking a wrong turn as I sail along, and I end up capsized.

Ride the tide with me this week on the dance floor. Work with the energy, instead of against it… notice how things shift around you, dancing with ease.

We will dance Bailando in Nia, counting down to Portland and the filming!

See you on the dance floor!
All love, Adelle

My classes this week:
Nia: 
Sunday (tomorrow) 4:00pm
Tuesday 6:45am
Wednesday 9:15am
Friday 5:30pm 
Journey Dance:
Sunday (tomorrow) 10:00am





Time is an Illusion



I often say, “There is always more time.” More time to give, to receive, to love… time is an illusion.
I enjoy taking time with my meal, whether alone or with friends, savoring the moment. Its amazing how much I accomplish when I slow down, savor, and enJOY. Even when I put the dishes away, make my bed, get ready to teach… there is always enough time if I don’t rush, sense my body in motion, and find the spaces between my thoughts. The silence within the sounds.
It is why I spend precious moments arranging fresh flowers on my table, books on my shelf, and cleaning the counter before I leave for an early morning workout.
My advice for our rush rush world? Slow down. EnJOY. Time is indeed an illusion, and so much can be accomplished if we take a moment to breathe, connect to our body, and LIVE.
Loving this moment, Adelle

ps. Madisyn Taylor wrote of this today, and I’ve copied her words below. 

“Life can often feel like it’s zipping by in fast forward. We feel obliged to accelerate our own speed along with it, until our productivity turns into frenzied accomplishment. We find ourselves cramming as much activity as possible into the shortest periods of time. We disregard our natural rhythms because it seems we have to just to keep up. In truth, rushing never gets you anywhere but on to the next activity or goal.

Slowing down allows you to not only savor your experiences, but also it allows you to fully focus your attention and energy on the task at hand. Moving at a slower place lets you get things done more efficiently, while rushing diminishes the quality of your work and your relationships. Slowing down also lets you be more mindful, deliberate, and fully present. When we slow down, we are giving ourselves the opportunity to reacquaint ourselves to our natural rhythms. We let go of the “fast forward” stress, and allow our bodies to remain centered and grounded. Slowing down is inherent to fully savoring anything in life. Rushing to take a bath can feel like an uncomfortable dunk in hot water, while taking a slow hot bath can be luxuriant and relaxing. A student cramming for a test will often feel tired and unsure, whereas someone who really absorbs the information will be more confident and relaxed. Cooking, eating, reading, and writing can become pleasurable when done slowly. Slowing down lets you become more absorbed in whatever it is you are doing. The food you eat tastes better, and the stories you read become more alive.

Slowing down allows you to disconnect from the frenzied pace buzzing around you so you can begin moving at your own pace. The moments we choose to live in fast forward motion then become a conscious choice rather than an involuntary action. Learning to slow down in our fast-moving world can take practice, but if you slow down long enough to try it, you may surprise yourself with how natural and organic living at this pace can be.”


Celebrate!!!



Dancing De-Lights

Nia turns 30 years old this week! I found this amazing lifestyle practice 17 plus years ago… and I’ve been moving with Nia passion since that day!
We will celebrate with a wonderful oldie, but goodie, from our founder, Debbie Rosas… a routine called Fumi. Music by Loop Guru, it is flowing, it is rhythmic, it inspires the bones and joints to dance!

A special note of gratitude for all the teachers and students who have given me feedback on my upcoming routine Bailando. With 5 weeks until taping in Portland, I LOVE all the feedback. You are all an amazing community, and I am taking your energy and your spirit with me to HQ. All the advice on language (Bailando means ‘dancing’ not ‘to dance!’, thank you Sarita and Linda), the help with Spanish pronunciation and phrasing, and the creative ideas about how to be politically correct. 🙂 The “majestic matador” move is now the “fantastic flamenco”… thank you Sarah and Melissa! Keep the suggestions coming!

We will celebrate the amazing ability of our 13 joints to bring us health through movement this week. In Nia, we call the joints the ‘movers of energy,’ and when we stimulate the 13 joints of the body, we move energy that has become stagnant, stuck, dense, and we also create space for potential, possibilities, and transformation. Our body LOVES to shape-shift, and with over 200 bones and 700 muscles, there are endless variations. By moving the 13 joints, our physical body is energized, our mind is refreshed, our emotions express, and our spirit flies!

Celebrate the 13 joints! Celebrate your body! Celebrate Nia! Celebrate co-founder Debbie with Fumi! Celebrate life itself!
A GREAT week ahead… Love you all, Adelle
My classes this week:
Tuesday 6:45am
Wednesday 9:15am
Friday 5:30pm
Saturday 9:30am (subbing for Joanie)
Sunday 4:00pm
AND… 
Sunday, 10:00am… a dance dedicated to the celebration of life!

Adelle Brownlee Brewer
Owner, The Synergy Studio
Nia Black Belt Somatic Educator and Trainer

Nia 5 Stages of Healing FacilitatorNia Training Faculty
Certified Journey Dance Facilitator
Transformational Breath Facilitator
Professional Fiber Artist
www.thesynergystudio.com
www.nianow.com/adelle
www.journeydance.com


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Learn more and go deeper into the connection with you body and your life by taking a Nia White Belt Intensive. 
Read more about upcoming opportunities to take the White Belt: http://www.nianow.com/adelle



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