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	<title>Sacred Body: Biology and Soul &#187; 1)  White Belt #2</title>
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	<description>Encountering the Mystery as it manifests in the biological and spiritual life of the body.</description>
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		<title>Finding Your Own Level in Nia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1)  White Belt #2]]></category>
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How do I adapt movements in Nia class to fit my body?  What if I have an injury or a condition that I&#8217;m healing?
White Belt Principle #7, The Three Planes and Three Intensity Levels, offers us an important way to personalize our movement choices.  The intensity levels give us a map of how we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music, Movement and Magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus of Saturday&#8217;s class was Music, Movement and Magic. &#160;
Music, Movement and Magic is&#160;part of White Belt Principle #3, Music and the 8BC System. &#160;The focus arose out of my desire to bring to the class a deeper understanding both somatically and cognitively of sound in the Nia practice. &#160;It also arose out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Nia Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back home in Ashland. &#160;I will be back at The DanceSpace teaching Tuesday morning, February 5th. &#160;I hope that this blog has been useful to you in getting a flavor of my Nia intensive training experience and of the greater Nia practice and presence available to us all, each in our own body&#8217;s way
It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Belt Again?</title>
		<link>http://niasomoves.com/Rachaelsblog/white-belt-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of the Nia community has asked, &#8220;You already have a Brown Belt and you&#8217;re now doing White. Would you explain how that works?&#8221;
Two years ago, when I was auditing two days of Sarah&#8217;s Blue Belt training in Portland, Carlos asked that I consider repeating my White and Blue Belts before continuing on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 13 Nia Principles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Foundation of Nia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1. &#160;The Joy of Movement
2. &#160;Natural Time and the Movement Forms
3. &#160;Music and the 8BC System
4. &#160;FreeDance
5. &#160;Awareness
6. &#160;The Base
7. &#160;Three Planes and Three Intensity Levels
8. &#160;The Core of the Body
9. &#160;Creative Arm and Hand Expressions
10. &#160;X-Ray Anatomy
11. &#160;Business and Marketing
12. &#160;Continuing Education
13. &#160;Teaching What You Sense
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		<title>Teaching What You Sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Nia Principle #13: Teaching What You Sense.
The practice of this final White Belt principle is quite beautiful. &#160;When we teach we cycle through a three stage process. &#160;
First I practice listening to the music, receiving it with my whole body. &#160;Next, I dance to the music just for fun. &#160;Finally I ask my body to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rachael Teaches X-Ray Anatomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did it!
My class focus tonight at Nia HQ was White Belt &#160;Principle #10: X-Ray Anatomy. &#160;We danced our bones, ligaments, muscles, soft bellies, desires, marrow, wings, tails, claws, osteoblasts and osteoclasts,&#160;directed energy with fingers and hands, floated over the planet, shouted, sighed and shook.
I felt a bit numb within the bigness of teaching for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rachael Teaches at Nia HQ Thursday!</title>
		<link>http://niasomoves.com/Rachaelsblog/rachael-teaches-at-nia-headquarters-thursday-131/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before our afternoon session began with Carlos on Principle #10, X-Ray Anatomy, I became very curious about the white curtains covering the tall central mirrors in the studio in the area where the teacher stands during class. &#160;I went behind them, having fun walking back and forth along the wall between mirror and curtain, feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WhIte Belt Principle #9: &#160;Creative Arm and Hand Expressions
In Nia we say our feet are the hands that touch the Earth.&#160; Our feet and toes sense the ground, provide our foundation and a way to move our bodies through life. &#160;Hands and fingers orient us in space and in relationship to the world around us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Core: Pelvis, Chest and Head</title>
		<link>http://niasomoves.com/Rachaelsblog/the-core-pelvis-chest-and-head/</link>
		<comments>http://niasomoves.com/Rachaelsblog/the-core-pelvis-chest-and-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1)  White Belt #2]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Afternoon session with Debbie.
What fun!&#160; Debbie used a life-sized skeleton model plus line drawings from Ida Rolf&#8217;s book to talk about physical and energetic anatomy.&#160; I love bones!&#160; I love to look at and think about and be curious about bones.
Debbie said when we look at the shapes and the lines of the bones, they [...]]]></description>
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