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Happy Spring to everyBody!

Yesterday, I was standing in my bare feet, enjoying the green Earth, and the yummy sensation of soft grass touching me. When we stand barefoot in grass, we soak up negative ions through our feet, which are good for us, and discharge positive ions that we absorb throughout the day. Even though they have the word ‘positive’, they come from cell phones, computers, microwave ovens, as well as other sources, and are not good for us. Being barefoot is the key. Shoes block the energy exchange!

I love the springtime in San Antonio, and green is my favorite color. When you were a child, did you ever want to be a leprechaun? I sure did! March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, and is linked to leprechauns, the mystical fairy creatures. Leprechauns are associated with being shoemakers and also connected with finding a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If ever captured by a human, the Leprechaun has the magical power to grant three wishes in exchange for their release.                                                                                                

I think of wishes as hopes, dreams, goals, and intentions.                                        

Our feet are our ‘hands that touch the earth,’ and our feet, ankles, legs, and knees create the base of our body… a base that supports us from underneath and behind all day.  Let’s take off our shoes this week, and dance a jig, moving with the energy of a leprechaun, and dancing our intentions into manifestation. (maybe let one of your wishes be that San Antonio remain green this summer!)

See YOU soon fellow leprechaun!

Love, Adelle

My classes this week:                                                                                                          Nia: Tuesday 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm, Sunday 4:00pm               Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am                                                                                           Yoga Slow Flow: Sunday 8:45am

Read on for some great ‘wishing’ words from Madisyn Taylor of Daily Om!

“Your arms are the messengers of your heart.” ~Gabrielle Roth, founder 5Rhythms.

“When we sense our shoulder girdle, its like sensing a delicate pair of wings supporting us from behind.” ~Debbie Rosas, co-founder Nia.

Let’s focus on our wings: shoulder girdle, arms, and hands, as we say HELLO to our beautiful Springtime, recognizing the majesty of our body!

“Having a healthy shoulder girdle means your arms and hands are securely anchored yet can hang loosely, making it possible for you to move your arms and hands freely through space. Increasing your understanding of the shoulder girdle will give you more power and grace!” ~Debbie Rosas

Join me this week, as we spread our wings, sensing the lightness and flexibility that it brings to our body, gaining somatic knowledge that will fly us through our day!

Flying high with love,  Adelle                 

Nia: Tuesday 6:45am Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm                       Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am                                                                               All at The Synergy Studio!

“Put your body in motion, and the psyche will heal itself.” ~Gabrielle Roth, founder of 5Rhythms

Good beautiful morning from Oklahoma my friends,

This last week has been full of emotional twists and turns. One of my oldest friends from kindergarten was tragically killed in an automobile accident on Wednesday. Friday morning, I got word that there was a gathering of my high school classmates to honor our friend that evening. Within two hours, I made reservations for a flight and a rental car, packed my bag, and was on my way to Oklahoma City, where I spent my childhood. The evening was a celebration of life, friends, memories and deep sadness.

Saturday morning before dawn, 100’s of people gathered on the Oklahoma River, training location for the US Olympic Rowing team, to honor our fallen friend with a “paddle-out” ceremony, a tradition that is followed by surfers as well as boat people, when they lose a comrade. As skiffs, rowboats, kayaks, and other boats went down the river, we walked in silence to the finish line, and watched the sunrise. It was a glorious day. Click here to see the ceremony

Breakfast with family and friends followed the ceremony, and Saturday evening was spent in hours of side-splitting laughter as two of my daughter-in-laws, one of my best friends, and I sat around the dinner table and told stories about our childhood.

This morning, a spouse who had retired early asked what we were laughing so hard about, and all we could say was ‘sex, drugs and rock & roll.’ Laughter is so healing.

As I prepare to return home to San Antonio this evening, I am reflecting on my breath patterns throughout the last 5 days, breathing from emotions of deep grief, joy, sadness, surprise, elation, exhaustion… the list goes on. I am deeply grateful for every breath and how the simple, conscious movement of breathing, combined with the awareness that all movement is a dance of life, has brought so much healing to my psyche.

Join me in the coming week to celebrate life, breath, and dance, as we move our life force energy, our PRANA.

Home later today, in anticipation of another beautiful week… Adelle

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

“Move with your breath, and breathe with your moves.” ~Adam Barley, 5Rhythms master teacher, coming to The Synergy Studio April 29-May 1.

Breath and Movement™ at The Synergy Studio, April 8-10.

I was a free spirit, a wild child, from birth. My mother would dress me up and less than a minute later, I was outside in the mud, with my shoes off. When I was a teenager, she would laugh and roll her eyes, as I ran out the door in the dead of winter, snow on the ground, with my shoes in my hands.
I LOVE to take off my shoes!

Now, living in Texas, with hardwood floors, I LOVE walking barefoot all day in my house. When you visit, you will see a pile of shoes by all the doors, and hear an invitation from me to take your shoes off.

Nia is a barefoot practice. We can make it a daily ‘practice’ to be barefoot, and enJoy the many benefits, from strengthening our feet and arches, to sensing where we are all the time through thousands of proprioceptors.

And guess what? Science now says to take your shoes off for better health!

Read on and join in a Nia class soon. Your feet will LOVE you!

Scientists and Taking Your Shoes Off!

Happy 2016 friends!

As we begin a new year, we can reflect on all the wonderful endings that have catapulted us forward to new beginnings. At The Synergy Studio, we are calling 2016: Year of New Beginnings.

In class, I like to say every breath is a new beginning… a new opportunity to begin again. Every step we make in life represents new potential to do something different. To take inspiration from the most ordinary, and realize the extraordinary.

Bring your feet to class this week, taking the next step into your potential, your greatness, your health. We will focus on our feet, the hands that touch the earth, as we recognize the uniqueness in every heal lead that dances us into life.

AO, Alpha Omega, Beginning/Ending, and then… New Beginnings!

I am teaching two Yoga classes tomorrow, Sunday, at 8:45am and 5:30pm. I hope you will make the step into these Slow Flow Yoga classes that Joanie and I are teaching weekly on Sundays. 🙂

See you this week!
Step in…. love, Adelle

Nia: Sunday (tomorrow) 4:00pm, Tuesday, 6:45am, Wednesday 9:15am, Friday 5:30pm
Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am
Slow Flow Yoga: Sunday (tomorrow) 8:45am, 5:30pm

All at The Synergy Studio! Check out our beautiful new website!

I’ve been reflecting often on this very concept. What I do moment to moment, on a daily basis is a choice, and how my choices and decisions affect the world. Read on…
“The impact you have on the world is greater than you could ever imagine, and the choices you make affect the whole.

In a world of six billion people, it’s easy to believe that the only way to initiate profound transformation is to take extreme action. Each of us, however, carries within us the capacity to change the world in small ways for better or worse. Everything we do and think affects the people in our lives, and their reactions in turn affect others. As the effect of a seemingly insignificant word passes from person to person, its impact grows and can become a source of great joy, inspiration, anxiety, or pain. Your thoughts and actions are like stones dropped into still waters, causing ripples to spread and expand as they move outward. The impact you have on the world is greater than you could ever imagine, and the choices you make can have far-reaching consequences. You can use the ripple effect to make a positive difference and spread waves of kindness that will wash over the world.

Should the opportunity arise, the recipient of a good deed will likely feel compelled to do a good deed for someone else. Someone feeling the effects of negative energy will be more likely to pass on that negative energy. One act of charity, one thoughtful deed, or even one positive thought can pass from individual to individual, snowballing until it becomes a group movement or the ray of hope that saves someone’s life. Every transformation, just like every ripple, has a point of origin. You must believe in your ability to be that point of origin if you want to use the ripples you create to spread goodness. Consider the effect of your thoughts and actions, and try to act graciously as much as possible.

A smile directed at a stranger, a compliment given to a friend, an attitude of laughter, or a thoughtful gesture can send ripples that spread among your loved ones and associates, out into your community, and finally throughout the world. You have the power to touch the lives of everyone you come into contact with and everyone those people come into contact with. The momentum of your influence will grow as your ripples moves onward and outward. One of those ripples could become a tidal wave of love and kindness.” ~ Madisyn Taylor, Daily Om

Happy Holidays Nia Friends!

This week is about noticing the breath…

When your breath is deep, steady, and rhythmic, do you feel strong, calm, energized? When your breath is shallow, nervous, erratic or rapid, do you feel weak, uneasy, stressed?

By being aware of our breath as we dance through our day, we can relax, slow down, and bring ourselves into the present moment. Breath is our life force and has the power to heal us by simply doing what our body is designed to do.

Take a deep breath right now, and as you exhale sense how your shoulders and jaw slowly release. Take another deep breath, and exhale using sound… ‘u’… ‘o’… ‘e’… ‘a’… ‘i’… What do you sense in your body? Is your mind more clear? Your pulse more quiet?

Our breath is a wonderful tool we have available to us all the time… a tool that can still our mind, relax our body, and quiet our emotions.

Get ready for Prana! We will focus on our Breath this week in class. I will be cueing with my breath, so you can connect deeply to the wonderful music, the movement of your body, and then sense the magic that unfolds.

Bring your body to class… your breath will come along too!

Love! Adelle

My classes this week:

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

Nia FreeDance: Thursday 9:15am

Slow Flow Yoga: Sunday 5:30pm

Woo Hoo! Get ready for a wonder-filled week at The Synergy Studio!

The Synergy Studio is welcoming 56 Nia teachers from all over the world later this week. Friday evening begins the “Nia Moving to Heal’ training with Nia creator Debbie Rosas, 5 Nia Trainers, and 50 other Nia instructors from across the US, Canada, and Germany. We are thrilled, honored and extremely excited to share our beautiful community, studio, and city with these amazing people.

We are offering 2 public classes during the training. With only a few spots left, please sign up now to hold your place. Friday evening, a Nia “Moving to Heal’ in a chair class will be taught at 5:30pm. Join us to experience Nia as its taught to people who have limitations. Nia for everyBODY!

What does it mean to be balanced?

I’ve explored this answer my entire life. I was a child who wanted to do EVERYTHING, and it carried over into my adulthood. The desire to do anything and everything meant that there was a constant push/pull with time, and balance.

It was through my practice of Nia, and Transformational Breath® that the statement ‘time is an illusion’ became reality. I realized that I always have enough time… especially when it comes to being balanced.

‘The Body Demands Balance’… one of the Nia 5 Principles of The Body’s Way. Hmmm…

The principle means that my body is available all the time to tell me what is in balance, and what needs more attention. My body is perfect in its design, balanced left/right, up/down, in/out…  two of almost everything, and if there is one (heart) it is balanced by another (liver.) All I have to do is realize that my body is my guide moment to moment, and if I listen, it will tell me where I need more balance.

As a mother of four, and owner of The Synergy Studio, there have been many moments when I didn’t listen to my body, and things got out of sorts. I crammed as much as I could in one day, making sure everyone was taken care of, the studio was running smoothly, and I was filling every moment with ‘something.’ I forgot about a very important item… myself.

Through the years, many experiences, and observing how others do it, I have learned to balance my time, my energy, keeping my body, mind and spirit in alignment. Ahhhh! Its a great feeling.

Two of my most admired ‘heros’ of Balance are my daughter, Louisa Brewer, and Debbie Rosas, co-creator of Nia. After graduating from college, Louisa took a year and traveled abroad to work as an au pair, feeding her desire for adventure. After returning home, she accepted a job in an arts organization, only to discover that her talents were being stifled with busy-work, so what did she do? She gave her notice and started an art school and design studio, listening to her heart and following her passion. THAT is Balance. Oil and Clay Studio

I watch Debbie with admiration every time I am with her. Her ability to orchestrate so many people and personalities in the office, write her amazing books, teach classes and trainings, and always find time to nurture herself is true Balance in action.

Let’s play with Balance in class this week, and notice without judgement where we need to tweak what we do… to create more.

Joanie and I just completed the 1st weekend of a split weekend Nia white belt training with 4 amazing beings of light from our San Antonio community.  They are diving into 13 principles focused on body-centered awareness that teaches somatic skills for connecting to one’s body and life.  We continue this Friday, with graduation day on November 1.  I hope you can come and dance with us and our trainees as they step into their greatness and walk the path of the Sacred Athlete!

LOVE! Adelle

Nia classes this week at The Synergy Studio:  
Tuesday 6:45 am, Wednesday 9:15 am, and                                               Thursday 9:15 am Nia FreeDance:  Focus on Balance!
Friday (Nia White Belt training continues) at 5:30 pm teaching with Joanie:  Focus on Nia Principle #10, X-Ray Anatomy. (Balance is there too!)
Saturday at 9:30 am teaching with Joanie:  Focus on energizing the 52 moves of Nia.  A fun, fun, fun class!!  Wear a costume if you desire!! (and get Balanced!)
Sunday (Graduation Day)  at 4:00 pm teaching with Joanie:  Focus on Nia Principle #13, Sharing What You Sense. (and sense Balance!)