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

My journey of remembering that I am a sensation scientist began in the spring of 1995, when, by chance, I walked into my first Nia class in a fitness club in Portland, Oregon, and my life changed forever. At the time, I was totally disabled by asthma.  I was a physical therapist but unable to […]

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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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I’m back! After being away in New Mexico studying with Martín Prechtel and then unexpectedly plunging into a healing journey, today I taught my Nia class for the first time in over a month! I am embryonic.  Everything is new.  Everything is new, strange and beautiful.  I am in a never-before-seen or experienced world. We […]

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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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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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Yesterday I went to Nia for the first time in three and half weeks!  (Who’s counting?)  Woohoo! I took the first 15 minutes of Judy Newton’s class that she was teaching for me at The DanceSpace. It was astonishingly beautiful to see all the big hearts shining out through people’s faces as I entered the […]

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Here are some of the books I’ve been reading during this period of healing. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a new English version by Stephen Mitchell A beautifully written and poetic, if academically incomplete, blend of versions from a two thousand year period weaving the heartbreaking love story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu.  We are living every day this […]

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Why did the universe kick my ass? It matters and it matters not. The mind, in its constant seeking motions, naturally wants to know why.  Let the mind move, look, see, be curious.  But also consent to what is. These are some reflections.  None is the answer.  The mystery — and the response to the mystery […]

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I’m very happy to report I’m now medically stable.  What a relief.  I’m no longer afraid to sleep for fear of not being able to breathe.  Yesterday, I spent the whole day out of bed!  I can talk now, but I sound like a funny, chipmunkish, Marlon Brando-esque squeaky frog. Last night, I was awake […]

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