Through Movement We Find Health

Sacred Body: Biology and Soul

Encountering the Mystery as it manifests in the biological and spiritual life of the body.

Rachael R. Resch

Nia Black Belt Teacher
Physical Therapist

Entries Tagged as 'The Nia Five Stages: Developmental Movement'

The Five Stages of Self-Healing: Embryonic

June 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Five Stages of Self-Healing is a Nia movement practice based on the developmental stages we went through as babies: Embryonic, Creeping, Crawling, Standing and Walking. (See my Blue Belt post, Developmental Anatomy.)
By calling on The Body’s Way, The Five Stages of Self-Healing organically realign your body, helping you reclaim flexibility, agility, mobility, [...]

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Back Home: Embryonic

May 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The sensation of repeating my Blue Belt training is totally different from the sensation of repeating my White Belt.  In retrospect, this makes perfect sense, but I was surprised.
 
The sensation of repeating White Belt felt like going back to marvel at the foundation of Nia, to see more details, to replace some old pieces, add [...]

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Developmental Anatomy

May 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Blue Belt Day 3

Blue Belt Principle #4, Developmental Anatomy, is a beautiful practice that takes us through the five developmental movement stages most of us went through as children.  It’s a practice of self-healing for the body, the mind, the emotions and the spirit.  The classic form of the practice is to do one minute [...]

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Tags: 2) Blue Belt #2 · The Nia Five Stages: Developmental Movement