Nia Friends….
We often say ‘the body doesn’t lie’ in a Nia class. Simple, yet profound words of truth. So much is held in our physical body… our emotions, our mind, our spirit… and our vision. Just as positive thoughts beget positive action, having a dream and holding a vision leads us along the path to manifestation.
The body doesn’t lie… the body remembers the radiance.
Bring your dream, bring your vision to class…. we’ll dance it into manifestation… into radiance.
Love you all, Adelle
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Nia is a body-mind-spirit experience.
Nia is my Passion.
Adelle Brownlee Brewer
Owner, The Synergy Studio
Nia Black Belt Instructor; Professional Fiber Artist
San Antonio, Texas
www.thesynergystudio.com
www.niasanantonio.com
www.nianow.com
Last week we focused on the first triad of Principle #5 in Nia… Dancing Through Life, Life as Art, and Living Meditation.
This week, we will focus on the second part of the yummy triad called “Awareness”…
Loving every one of you,
Adelle
My classes this week: Sunday (Today) at 4:00, Tuesday 8:00 am, Wednesday 9:15 am, Thursday 8:00 am Nia 5 Stages, Friday 5:30 pm
Owner, The Synergy Studio
Nia Black Belt Instructor, Professional Fiber Artist
San Antonio, Texas
www.thesynergystudio.com
www.niasanantonio.com
In our second week of focusing on ‘play,’ I add the word ‘transformational.’
Nia is transformational play for the body, mind, emotions and soul.
Nia is transformational play with endless tools of knowledge, skills, concepts, and freedom.
Nia is my passion.
Come play!
Adelle
ps. We’ll focus on “Self-Healing the Spine” in my Nia 5 Stages class… transformation of our beautiful column!
My classes this week: Sunday, July 26th (Today) at 4:00, Tuesday 8:00 am, Wednesday 9:15 am,
Thursday Nia 5 Stages Class 8:00 am, Fun Friday 5:30 pm, and Sunday August 2nd 4:00 pm
Play:
a free activity standing quite consciously outside ‘ordinary’ life as being ‘not serious’ but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained by it. It promotes the formation of social groupings. Transformation: an act, process, or instance of transforming or being.
Transformational Play: Merely playing a game does not ensure that one is engaged in transformational play. Instead, people who play transformationally become protagonists who use the knowledge, skills, and concepts of the educational content to first make sense of a situation and then make choices that actually transform the play space and the player—they are able to see how that space and their body changed because of their own efforts.
Owner, The Synergy Studio
Nia Black Belt Instructor, Professional Fiber Artist
San Antonio, Texas
www.thesynergystudio.com
www.niasanantonio.com
Check out our great video by SilverAmigos writer/director Brendan Rodriguez!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DNK0JD4SpU
Principle #7 in Nia: 3 Planes of Movement and 3 Levels of Intensity
One of the beautiful gifts of this principle is that Nia is adaptable for every Body. By listening to your body, you can adjust how low or high you want to go, and how much intensity you choose to give your dance.
With awareness, Principle #7 is applicable to our everyday life. Every day is different. Our energy level changes with emotions, sleep patterns, even the weather. Awareness of our body moving in space, from the earth to standing, as well as the intensity that we give the movement, helps us achieve homeostasis.
Listen.
What is your body saying today?
Join me in The Dance with Michael Bolton on Tuesday 8:00, Wednesday 9:15 and Friday 5:30.
Join me on Thursday 8:00 am as we explore our hips in my Nia 5 Stages class.
Join other Nia teachers and me on Sunday 4:00 pm as we introduce a new routine, Oshun!
Nia… full body systemic movement. Come explore the planes and levels with me this week!
Adelle
Owner, The Synergy Studio
Nia Black Belt Instructor, Professional Fiber Artist
San Antonio, Texas
www.thesynergystudio.com
www.niasanantonio.com
Nia Friends… the week is here!
We are very excited to be introducing a fellow Nian to Texas this week. Ann Christiansen, one of Nia’s brightest lights, is coming to San Antonio for her first visit. Ann was an Olympic swimmer for her home country of Sweden, and now resides in Germany. She is a bundle of creative energy, and is respected all over Europe as a master teacher and trainer. If you have not signed up for a class and/or the playshop on Sunday with Ann, there is still room. To dance Nia with Ann is a one of a kind experience. We have space in the five classes, as well as the playshop. Information about signing up is at the bottom of this email.
There are Nia friends flying in from all over the United States and Mexico to take class with Ann. Friends from California, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, Florida, Minnesota and Hawaii will be traveling to San Antonio for their first visit. Let’s give them a big Texas welcome!
I’m focusing again this week on ‘dance to the music.’ Music is key to the magic that we feel when we dance. As teachers, we gather music from our friends20around the world so we can share it with you. Combined with movement, music inspires us physically, emotionally, mentally, and encourages our spirit to soar.
Let music move you.
Music is organically present in the beat of your heart, the song of the birds, the rustle of the leaves in the wind.
Join me as we dance to the music.
In my 9:15 class this week, you will have two teachers, Erin Grue, my black belt friend from San Miguel, and moi! We are going to have a young man present filming the class for a project, so let’s pack the class!
Thursday morning, join me for a great Nia 5 Stages class at 8:00.
All Nia classes on Friday, Saturday and Sunday have changed. Please sign up in advance for Ann’s classes on those days to make our lives a little smoother… thank you!
Join kindred spirits from all over the world as we welcome Nia Black Belt trainer Ann Christiansen from Germany!
Keep the dance in your heart, Adelle
*** My classes this week: Tuesday 8:00 am, Wednesday 9:15 am, Thursday 8:00 am (Nia 5 Stages)