Sacred Body: Biology and Soul

For the last two weeks, we have been engaged in “Passion: The Practice of Form and Freedom.”

During week one — The Practice of Freedom — we have danced to the music of the Nia routine Passion, using Nia’s eight stages of FreeDance.
During week two — The Practice of Form , starting on Thursday, February 4 – we [...]

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The focus of today’s Nia practice, chosen at random from the basket of cards, was “Loving Movement.”
Loving movement – as in “I love to move!”

Loving movement – as in a gesture of love or an offering to a person or to the Holy.

Loving movement – as in a chapter, an episode, a section of music [...]

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The focus of our Nia practice today, chosen at random from the cards for 2010, was “commitment.”
Whenever we see a word with the prefix, “com-” we know we’re in the field of relationship.  ”Com-” is from the Latin, cum, meaning “with.”  We are in relationship with . . . everything.
The suffix of “commitment” is from [...]

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“I accept my brilliance.”
This was the focus of our Nia practice today, the first class of 2010.
Your mission — should you choose to accept it — is your brilliance.

Accept the wild brilliance of  your body — with all its 75 trillion cells shimmering like stars, metabolizing and burning bright in the universe of your flesh and [...]

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Happy New Year!
. . . Whatever that means.
It might mean another holy every day opportunity to be here now and celebrate together the preciousness of what is happening.  ”Happy” and “happen” are from  Middle English hap, meaning “happen,” as well as “good luck.”  So “happiness” means “happen-ness” and “lucky.”  It’s the fortunate state of being present [...]

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Suppleness was the focus of class today.
“Supple” is from the Latin sub + plicare, meaning “to fold under.”  It’s related to ”pliable,”  as in the ballet movement, plié, which in French literally  means “folded”or “bending” to describe how the knees bend.
The word “suppleness” even sounds supple.  The sound of lippy “p”s rolling into the tongue-y “l” [...]

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