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Entries Tagged as 'The Nia Five Stages: Developmental Movement'

The Five Stages of Self-Healing: Embryonic

June 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Five Stages of Self-Healing is a Nia movement practice based on the developmental stages we went through as babies: Embryonic, Creeping, Crawling, Standing and Walking. (See my Blue Belt post, Developmental Anatomy.) By calling on The Body’s Way, The Five Stages of Self-Healing organically realign your body, helping you reclaim flexibility, agility, mobility, strength […]

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Back Home: Embryonic

May 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The sensation of repeating my Blue Belt training is totally different from the sensation of repeating my White Belt.  In retrospect, this makes perfect sense, but I was surprised.   The sensation of repeating White Belt felt like going back to marvel at the foundation of Nia, to see more details, to replace some old […]

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Developmental Anatomy

May 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Blue Belt Day 3 Blue Belt Principle #4, Developmental Anatomy, is a beautiful practice that takes us through the five developmental movement stages most of us went through as children.  It’s a practice of self-healing for the body, the mind, the emotions and the spirit.  The classic form of the practice is to do one […]

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Tags: 2) Blue Belt #2 · The Nia Five Stages: Developmental Movement