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Dear Friends,

As we begin a week of anticipation, change, and plenty of anxiety, I invite you to connect to your true essence, the light of peace and well-being ‘state’ that brought you here, even before you were born… your immortal diamond.

It is from this place that our nation will heal. The immortal diamond in each of our hearts that desires peace, security, safety, caring and a feeling of worthiness. YOU ARE THE CHANGE. Each one of us IS the change. It MUST start in the heart space of each one of us.

Come to class this week. Let’s dance from that heart space… expanding, contracting, flexing, strengthening, mobilizing… and setting the energy in motion.

I’m in the 8th day of a free online 21-day meditation with Oprah Winfrey  and Deepak Chopra. It is about connection, relationship, and change. I’m experiencing a thought-provoking 20 minutes of daily listening, breathing, and quiet time. So easy, yet profoundly transformational. You can jump in on the 4th day, if you do it tonight. The website keeps up 5 days at a time, dropping off as they add. Every DAY is worth it. I hope you jump in tonight… BE THE CHANGE.

After I listen and meditate, I transcribe the words to read later, as I am a very visual person. Words dance off the page and into my heart as images, memories and colors.

Below is ‘Day 3’ to share with you. It is extremely poignant and applicable to our present times. I hope you will read it and be inspired. The website to sign up (FREE) is www.chopracentermeditation.com

See you in class! Love, Adelle

Day 3… Centering thought: my true self is the source of peace and love.

Shanti Hum. I am peace.

Today’s meditation centers on how to bring the true self home.

Oprah: One of my most memorable experiences was a conversation with Franciscan Friar Richard Rohr. He talked about how each one of us creates a false self, based on our career, our race, our social status, and our physical appearance. This is the public you. Father Richard says, “The false self partly exists to help people survive in the real world, but what each person has is the face that we had before we were born. That’s our true self, or what many believe is our soul. I call it our immortal diamond.”

Our goal should be a continual connection to that immortal diamond, but anger, pride, and jealousy are all fuel for our false self, which creates a thick layer of painful suffering that blocks us from knowing the piece of our true selves.

Father Rohr believes that human beings suffer when they feel out of control. We see that manifested every day on the news, within our government, our companies, and our own families. In our closest relationships, we understand that where there is chaos, there is a loss of control. The result is disconnection. Frustration over not taking out the garbage, or getting home late, or letting the bills stack up, are the first signs that we are not connecting with our true selves. One of the best ways to prevent disconnection is to look inward to your immortal diamond.

Deepak: We can choose to connect with another person or not, but we cannot choose to disconnect from ourselves. Many people are uncomfortable with this truth. They spend a vast amount of time escaping themselves, with all kinds of activities, work, and distractions. Bringing relationships back to oneself, or home, can sound scary and difficult, which is it is not meant to be.

It is a beautiful ideal to envision a relationship with yourself that solves all other relationships. Is it realistic? The answer for conscious people is no, because from the beginning their sense of self is ego-based. Individual egos have self-centered aims, tastes, desires, opinions, likes and dislikes. The very construct of the ego brings with it a built in conflict with other egos. If you think about it, it’s surprising that separate egos, each with their own set of rules and agendas, ever get together in the first place. When they do, the connection always risks unraveling because each ego is primarily tied to what it wants.

The path to an ideal relationship, therefore, must get past the ego with its insecurities, demands, and endless focus on I, Me, and my. The true self ignores the rigid boundaries and constraints of the ego personality. Being unbounded, the true self has no desperate personal stake in the world, but only in its ability to BE, love, create, and evolve. Our primary goal, therefore, is to experience the true self through our meditation practice, whatever form that takes. These moments in life are when you feel at peace, secure, safe, cared for and most worthy… When love and caring float easily. This is your true self coming through.

Unlike the worried voice in our heads, the voice of the true self is silent. Its words consist of silent experiences that bring a moment of recognition. At such moments, we know who we are. We know how life is meant to feel. Doubt and confusion stand far away from us. In other words, our true self is a state of being.

Adelle: “Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu ~May all beings be peaceful and happy.”  I invite you to hold that intention this week — and beyond. Enjoy… <3

Good beautiful morning in San Antonio! 

As I sit with my coffee, thinking about the day ahead, and reflecting on the amazing weekend adventure that I just returned from, I am filled to the brim with Gratitude.

Spending the weekend with great friends, old and new, celebrating the masculine spirit in perfect balance with the feminine, I was in Santa Fe for the ‘Men of Nia’ event. Men from all over the US came to teach classes and workshops. I am beyond inspired, and deeply grateful for these men who model compassion, grace, love and strength.

Fred Bass, a dear friend and fellow Nia 1˚Black Belt, came from Portland, Oregon to tell his story, and inspire others. Having lost 2 of his 4 children to a disease even beyond the knowledge of doctors, he dances with the spirit of all four daily… ‘two who walk the streets of Heaven, and two who walk the streets of Earth.’ His workshop was beyond words. Fred is a man who truly models a life of Gratitude. He will be joining us in San Antonio in 2017, along with other Men of Nia, to inspire us, and all of those we love… stay tuned. 🙂

Take a deep breath, and open your day with a Gratitude dance.

See you this week!

Deep love, Adelle

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

“Tell me…What is it you plan to do with your one and wild precious life?”    ~Mary Oliver

The saying ‘an attitude of gratitude’ has been around for a long time. It highlights how our attitude affects our daily life, and how expressing gratitude for the smallest of things in life shifts the energy that we feel in our heart.

It does that and more…

Science and medicine in the Western world have been diving deeper into what was considered ‘woo woo’ or esoteric not too many years ago. Saying positive daily affirmations, thanking others as well as ourselves, and bringing a positive attitude to any situation shifts the body on a cellular level, increasing endorphins, and activating the body’s natural ability to heal itself.

Is it the fountain of youth? I believe it is. I witness it daily in my classes, with my friends, and with communities that I visit and teach. Youth and age are only labels that we put on ourselves. We truly are only as young as we feel, and that starts with how we approach every day.

After just returning from a over-the-top fantastic Nia FreeDance training in Pittsboro, North Carolina, where I taught my new Nia routine “CELL-ebrate”, then Joanie and I were inspired by 17 amazing people who took the weekend training with us, I am FULL of gratitude and in awe of this lifestyle practice that is trickling out in the world one body at a time.

Bring your attitude of gratitude to class this week. Activate it daily, and say thank you to the simple things in life… your meal, the garden, the rain, the sunshine, your body, your one and wild precious self… and notice the cellular shift in your heart. Just notice. You may sense a smile spontaneously lighting up your face. You may observe that your smile becomes infectious, as others smile too. Notice.

So Hum… I Am…  Loving you, Adelle

Change is the only constant in life. It is the elixir that feeds creative expression, growth and keeps us young in body, mind, emotions and spirit.

As the filming of the new Nia routine Breath approaches, I have welcomed more change into the creation. Fabulous feedback from my colleagues, my community and my fellow choreographers, have helped me tweak the focus, the intent and the clarity of the moves.

I hope you will join me on the dance floor this week, as I get ready to travel to Portland, Oregon, headquarters of Nia. I will be dancing Breath on Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, and Friday 5:30pm. Every time I dance it with my community, it grows, morphs and changes.

I would be honored to dance with you. Hear from you. Breathe with you.

With love, Adelle

*Nia FreeDance on Thursday at 9:15am will be a class of ‘letting go, and letting it flow’ as we tap into the creative chaos that feeds change!

Good Monday afternoon my friends,

When you get into a place of over-whelm, running from one project, place or person to another, what do you do?

Through many years of multiple children, family gatherings, starting different businesses that ultimately led me to The Synergy Studio, traveling and experiencing the many things that I love to do… the tools in my back pocket have grounded me.

Dancing, singing, meditation, breath, nature… and letting go. When I set a positive intention in motion, ‘I am spacious, I am grounded, I am expansive, etc.,’ and I truly let go and let it flow, life is so present and peaceful.

In the midst of what always feels like a crazy time of year, harkening back to raising 4 children and the start of school, once again I find myself more conscious of letting go. Facing the filming of the new Nia routine Breath in three weeks, which can feel heavy and a weighty responsibility, as well as the many events that are on the horizon with trainings and travel, letting go is my BIG mantra… Now I Am Letting Go.

It works for me, and life flows with grace and ease. 🙂

Join me this week, as I play with some oldies but goodies… those go-to routines that feed my soul and are present in every cell… Agolo, TraceVision, Fantasia, Aya, Bliss, Miracle, ??? I’m not sure what I will teach, but they are my ‘letting go’ routines that don’t require any prep work, just my spirit arriving to dance.

I will let go… and let it flow. I hope you will join me!

Come dance,

Adelle

PS. I also take extra-long Epson salt baths, get a massage, fill my house with fresh flowers, visit with friends, and enjoy a healthy meal with a glass of wine. 🙂

My classes this week:

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

Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am

Yoga for Lunch: Thursday 12:00pm

Breath, a new Nia routine, is growing and evolving! This week and next, I will be exploring some final tweaks. I would love for YOU to be part of the creation!

Breath is the focus of the routine, with the intent to notice how the 9 Movement Forms of Nia and FreeDance activate the breath with different qualities. “Slow, mindful Breath…Breath of precision…

Spherical/Harmonious Breath…Breath of fun, showmanship, expression… Breath of shapes… Free-spirited, honest, natural Breath… Conscious awareness of the sensation of Breath… Breath that aligns the bones and joints… Breath of movement from the top, open and spacious… Breath of discovery, moving, exploring, creating”

The music lends itself to Breathing, sounding, and singing, including a variety of rhythms, melodies, harmonies… as well as genres. The movements are simple, adaptable, and also very cardiovascular when bringing awareness to the Breath, breathing qualities and patterns. There is a weaving of the nine Movement Forms and FreeDance throughout the routine, with the Breath as the connective tissue.

My vision for Breath is to widen the audience that Nia reaches. Breathworkers, Yogis, those who believe they have two left feet, those who believe they have no voice… Breath is for everyBody.

Breath is YOU… your prana… your life force energy.

Are you ready to breathe? See YOU on the dance floor!

Inhale, and smell the moment… Exhale, and let go. Let it flow.

With deep love and a full cleansing Breath…

Adelle

bal*ance: a condition in which different elements are equal or in correct proportions.

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a great need for balance in the world. It seems lop-sided. More yang then yin. We need to soften, trust, and let creative flow happen. We need love. We need to recognize the Miracles that happen everyday, every moment, with every breath.

In achieving optimal health, we refer to bringing the body into homeostasis, equal balance of energy inside and out. We sense this in subtle ways when we roll on the floor in embryonic, use both left and right sides of the body to begin a sequence, reach high and dive low, play with flexibility and strength, mobility and agility… to name a few. Our body thrives when we equalize the alkalinity and acidity within, in response to changes in external conditions (such as the hot weather we’ve been experiencing!) This equalization is bringing the body into homeostasis… Balance.

This week we will focus on Balance. One of principles of the body… The Body Demands Balance… is demonstrated in its amazing design. Think of all the pairs in your body’s structure!

There is a beautiful hand mudra that helps bring balance to the body.  Matangi mudra is sometimes referred to as the miracle mudra in India. It strengthens the respiratory rhythm and the energy balance around the solar plexus. Practice it as needed for 5 minutes to

relieve restless legs and a wandering mind. It also strengthens the digestive organs- stomach, liver, spleen, gall bladder, pancreas, and kidneys.

Try it on, whether in a Nia class, or one of the many Yoga classes that the studio offers. I am teaching a lot of classes this week, both Nia and Yoga.

Treat yourself to a ‘daily dance’, and practice the Art of Balance with me!

I found the email focus below from over a year ago, right after we lost our house in Wimberley. It has been rebuilt, blessed with lots of hard work, love, and yes… Wimberley herself is a Miracle of beauty. 

Deep, deep love, Adelle

My classes this week:

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

Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am

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

Read on…

Dear wonderful Friends,

Thank you to so many who have expressed their concern about my family and our place in Wimberley. I am filled with gratitude that my family evacuated before the house was overcome with the power of Mother Nature and the mighty Blanco River. Our hearts go out to the many families who are facing life without a home, and in some cases, without those they love. The loss in beautiful Wimberley, Texas, is immense.

It is reported that the landscape of the Blanco River changed in one hour, as the river swelled 40 feet with the power of 2 1/2 times Niagara Falls. Homes carried away, 500 year old trees uprooted. THAT is one powerful force of nature.

I am humbled by the outpouring of so many people, complete strangers in many cases, who have stepped in to help others. Wimberley is in action, cleaning up, even with the increased likelihood of more rain.

Life is truly a miracle. We can talk about it in an existential way, yet when change happens in nano-seconds, the appreciation grows thousand-fold.

Join me on the dance floor this week. Let’s dance the beautiful routine Miracle, saying Thank You for each moment, for our body, for life.

I love you all, Adelle

Dear dancing friends,

Joanie and I just returned from an amazing, fun, and expansive weekend in Colorado, teaching Nia FreeDance in three cities, with three communities. After flying into Denver on Friday, we taught an evening class at iBody, a Saturday morning class in Boulder at Joy in Motion and a Sunday afternoon class in Colorado Springs at the Briargate YMCA.

My creative juices are on fire, and the opportunities to spread the love of movement are stronger than ever.

Have you heard of the Fibonacci sequence? The Fibonacci sequence is the mathematical equation that is constantly expanding… infinite. Starting with 0,  then 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, . . .

The Fibonacci sequence is named after the late 11th century Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci. He introduced the sequence to the West, but guess what? It was present from time eternal.

The Fibonacci sequence appears everywhere in our natural world. Nia Principle #2, Natural Time, at its most poignant. It is coded in the world’s DNA, including yours.

What does that mean to you and me? It means that life has infinite possibilities and potential, if we just get out of the way, and let our body, emotions, mind and spirit have the space to expand. There are multiple ways to reach our goals, our dreams, and our visions. Are you on board?

Let’s start with the 0… the one point… the physical center of the body… and say ‘I Am’… ‘So Hum’… next, put it into motion by saying, ‘Now I Am’. What do you want more of in your life? What do you wish for your family? Your friends? The world? Take a Breath… it starts there. Now I Am Breathing… Now I Am Grateful… Now I Am Abundant… Now I Am Love… Now I Am Authentically Me.

Join me this week as we continue to expand and grow my new routine Breath, that I will be filming for Nia HQ in September. Three songs have been replaced. I’ve received amazing feedback from the community here, as well as trainers and friends in other communities.

Let’s grow this lifestyle practice together, expanding our Fibonacci spiral wider and wider. It is coded in our DNA. We were born to dance. It is our birthright, and the birthright of everyBody.  Bring friends… let’s dance… let’s Breathe!

Check out the beautiful Fibonacci sequences in our natural world throughout this blog. Look and see them all around you!

Deep love, Adelle

My classes this week:

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

Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am

Our Nia FreeDance class in Boulder!