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

Etymology The word “ankle” means “angle,” coming from proto-IndoEuropean meaning “to bend,” thus describing both the form and the function of this body part.           Connections The ankle connects your foot to your shin.  All joints are connectors.  Joints connect two or more bones with each other.  Your ankle’s purpose is […]

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The focus of today’s Nia class was Connection. The intent:  Consciously Embodying the Mystery. They were chosen by the delightful seven-year old Aurora from the basket of cards we created New Year’s Day. The etymology of “connection” is from com- “together” + nectere “to bind, tie, ” as in nexus, net, knot and node.       […]

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My body is exquisite.  This was the focus of Thursday’s Nia practice, chosen at random. Your body is exquisite. Your body is exquisite all the time — not just when you feel good, happy, in love, healthy, look a certain way or are successful.  Your body is exquisite all the time.  Your body is exquisite […]

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The focus of today’s class was “Acceptance.” As promised, here is the etymology of acceptance: Latin accipere, to receive From ad + capere ad, toward, near, to add capere, to take, to capture “Receive” is from the same Latin root, recipere, from re + capere, to take again. We can take in the moment again and […]

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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” […]

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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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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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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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What if we heard the voices of each thing singing, “I am alive”? As I begin to engage in the world a little more each day, I feel the vexing return of the hurried, fight or flight culture in my body.  I notice this because I notice I’m holding my breath. I’m holding my breath, […]

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(First in a series about healing pneumonia and asthma.) Last night, my friends Sharon and Ronen came over to visit.  They brought chicken soup.  Ronen read this poem.           Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles […]

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