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

Rumi says, “We have fallen into the place where everything is music.” Each organ in the human body plays its own unique music: Heart beat rhythm, flute of bone, wind pipes of lungs and larynx, syncopation of joints, harp strings of tendon. In Sanskrit, Nada Brahma means “the universe is made of sound.” In physics, sound is […]

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This morning I flew up to Portland from my home in Ashland, nestled in the Klamath-Siskiyou mountains of southern Oregon.  Every where I look I am reminded of the story of my life, interwoven in these streets, layered in space and time and memory.  I lived and loved in Portland for eighteen years, after growing […]

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Today, at the end of class, we listened to “A Good Day,” the words of Brother David Steindl-Rast, the 84-year old Benedectine monk who, in 1965, was sent  by his abbot to pursue Christian-Buddhist dialogue. You can read more about Brother David here and his connection with many spiritual traditions working for peace. Brother David […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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I bow to Nia. I bow to Nia as a path of body consciousness.  There are many paths of body consciousnes — thank God! —  and the one I’ve been practicing for the last 14 years is Nia. One way I understand why I got sick and went back into asthma, which I hadn’t had in […]

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How I approach everything is how I approach my body. On Saturday I made yogurt.  I use fantastic raw milk I get from a dairy farmer and freeze for storage in gallon jugs.  I love this milk and it’s been therapeutic for my body during this healing time. The milk had not completely thawed, so as I […]

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Thank you to my Nia community from the whole of my being. Thank you to the Nia teachers who have been holding the space for the practice.  Thank you to the Nia students who have been creating the space for the practice of Nia at The DanceSpace in Ashland, Oregon — during the last four extraordinary […]

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