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

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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“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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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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