Gifts, Giving, Gratitude!

2014… The Year of Gratitude!
Welcome to a new year, a new moment, a new opportunity.

In San Antonio, we have dedicated 2014 as the Year of Gratitude, and I am bursting with Gratitude for life! You are an amazing community of friends, family, colleagues, and fellow light beings. Thank you for being a part of my everyday gratitude dance.  

The dance of being grateful can happen everyday, if we take moments to pause, recognizing our numerous gifts, giving of ourselves, and filling our being with abundant Gratitude. 

I have experienced amazing transformation with this daily practice… so simple, yet so powerful. Catching someone’s eye in the grocery store and smiling in response, offering an ear and a calm breath to a passing stranger who is distraught, taking moments every week to reflect and write to you. Every moment is an opportunity to recognize the power of Gratitude.

We will dance our Gratitude wide open all year, starting this week. Join me for Nia tomorrow, Friday, at 5:30pm, and Sunday at 4:00pm. 
Welcome the New Year with Angie and me Sunday from 10:00-12:00 for a JourneyDance™ Embodiment workshop! Experiencing the yummy earth with embodiment movements is a wonderful way to show Gratitude for your body, your life. Below is copied more about the workshop.

Inhale Love, Exhale Gratitude… Adelle

Surrender to the earth! Enliven and strengthen your core!
Learn the JourneyDance™ embodiment series of release technique exercises and powerful core connections. We will get out of our mind and into our body, taking the time to slow down, roll and feel our body in contact with the floor. We will get grounded, releasing, surrendering, and feeling supported. We will drop deep and let go of stress and pressures.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
10:00-12:00pm
$25., or two punches on your Synergy card
*You can sign up online, click on the schedule page and ‘workshops and events’
www.thesynergystudio.com
Join Adelle and Angie as we energize our physicality with beginning contact improv exercises, and move into vigorous dancing from a place of fullness! Dance, move, and practice with our total surface area. Learn more core strengthening movements for better balance, stability and wild dancing freedom!

Riding the Waves of Love!

Friends… Love waves are coming your way!~~~~~

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Stability>Balance>Harmony>Love

We are all spiritual beings, embodied in flesh, supported by love. During this time of great change, chaos and quickening pace, it is natural to sense fear in our body. The holidays bring up lots of emotions. Many situations seem like the opposite of loving. However, it is essential to remember that our souls chose to be here at this time and place in history, to be a part of humanity’s evolving and healing process. Every movement in the Universe is a movement towards love, and we must remember to choose love over fear as we approach our daily lives.

Join us on the dance floor this week, as we celebrate the heart, opening the chest… giving and receiving. Anatomically, the heart resides in the chest, surrounded and protected by the rib cage. It is the thoracic area of our spine, a location that holds tension, tightness, anxiety, fear… and love.


Through opening our heart, moving the thoracic spine,  and letting the energy flow, we tap into our divinity, helping and healing others through our presence, our time, our love. We also become the recipient of that omnipresent love… for it is all love.


Sunday morning (today!) we will dance our heart‘s journey at 10:00am in a Journey Dance class. This afternoon at 4:00 we dance our heart in Nia.  


My other classes this week will also focus on the heart center, opening to love, change and possibility. Tuesday morning, Christmas eve day at  6:45am and Friday, Boxing Day at 5:30pm. The studio is closed on Wednesday, Dec 25.


See you soon on the dance floor!
In, out, around and through love… Adelle

Pleasing Arrangement of Life!


Stability>Balance>Harmony

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 Harmony?!!

Tis’ the season for so many things… people to see, places to go, presents to purchase… how about making it the season for Harmony?
The wise sage and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi expressed, “Happiness is when what you think, and what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” 


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… take time for you 

this week!


See you on the harmonious 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

JourneyDance: Sunday 10:00am

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!


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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





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