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

Here I am in 2oo5, at my Nia Brown Belt training with Nia co-creators Debbie Carlos and Carlos Rosas. Just as every Nia class has a focus, so every Nia teacher training has a focus. Brown Belt focuses on energy.  (For an overview see The Nia Belt System.) In Brown Belt, we start, as always, with Nia’s […]

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How do I adapt movements in Nia class to fit my body?  What if I have an injury or a condition that I’m healing? White Belt Principle #7, The Three Planes and Three Intensity Levels, offers us an important way to personalize our movement choices.  The intensity levels give us a map of how we […]

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My Black Belt sister, Lisa Cassidy from Canada, created this compilation of the beautiful photographs taken by Nia CEO, Jeff Stewart, during Black Belt and set it to music.  It’s lovely.  It may take a little while to download, depending on your system, but it’s worth it to see and feel the soul of Black […]

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Photos by Jeff Stewart, Nia Technique, Inc.

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In the temple of the body, the king and the queen and the thirty-three, together waiting, breathing,  receiving, seeing,  knowing not knowing, echoing, pulsing, speaking to the Mystery.  

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I’m exhausted, happy and . .  . I’m a Nia Black Belt! The day began at 7:00 am with class with Debbie.  The week long training officially ended with a Black Belt ceremony at 4:00.  Afterwards, the whole group, including Debbie and Carlos and Debbie’s husband Jeff, had dinner at a restaurant in Northwest Portland.  […]

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Between the Known and the Unknown the Third Thing has put up a swing: and all Earth’s creatures, even the supernovas, sway between these two trees of the Known and the Unknown And it never winds down. Angels, animals, insects by the millions, also the wheeling sun and moon; ages go by, and it goes […]

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Today was a rich, blossoming, beautiful day, sprayed with shimmering sleeplessness that seemed to make us all mysteriously more awake, more available to the unknown and to each other. Here are some of the great beauties of the day: I experienced a strong and harmonious echo between Black Belt and my Senté energetic studies with […]

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                We are asked not to talk about the specific content of Black Belt so I have felt challenged in writing blog entries that really reflect what is happening, yet keep the lid on the alchemical vessel of Black. As I sat in a discussion session this morning […]

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                        This afternoon, Carlos took us on a field trip.  We went to the South Park Blocks, where row after row of grand, old London Plane trees preside over cobblestone, asphalt and human, the constant rustling of their leaves singing blessings to the life […]

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