Cross-Training Body Mind Emotions Spirit | Rachael R. Resch

This is one of my favorite poems to say, to hear, to feel the echo of spiraling through the past and the future and the present.  We heard it at the end of the Nia New Year’s class this morning. I Live My Life I live my life in growing orbits, which move out over […]

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Today we chose the focus from the basket of 2009 focus cards for almost the last time this year. The focus of our Nia practice today was “moving forward.” As we move forward toward 2010, we find ourselves in the seven day period between what we call Christmas and what we call the New Year. […]

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I’m not ready for Hanukah I imagine the Jews of the second century BCE weren’t ready either.  Just like now, it was the darkest time of the year — the new moon closest to winter solstice.  It was the darkest time spiritually, too, for the eternal flame in the temple was about to go out. […]

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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 […]

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