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

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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The focus of Saturday’s class was Music, Movement and Magic.   Music, Movement and Magic is part of White Belt Principle #3, Music and the 8BC System.  The focus arose out of my desire to bring to the class a deeper understanding both somatically and cognitively of sound in the Nia practice.  It also arose out […]

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I’m back home in Ashland.  I will be back at The DanceSpace teaching Tuesday morning, February 5th.  I hope that this blog has been useful to you in getting a flavor of my Nia intensive training experience and of the greater Nia practice and presence available to us all, each in our own body’s way […]

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A member of the Nia community has asked, “You already have a Brown Belt and you’re now doing White. Would you explain how that works?” Two years ago, when I was auditing two days of Sarah’s Blue Belt training in Portland, Carlos asked that I consider repeating my White and Blue Belts before continuing on […]

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1.  The Joy of Movement 2.  Natural Time and the Movement Forms 3.  Music and the 8BC System 4.  FreeDance 5.  Awareness 6.  The Base 7.  Three Planes and Three Intensity Levels 8.  The Core of the Body 9.  Creative Arm and Hand Expressions 10.  X-Ray Anatomy 11.  Business and Marketing 12.  Continuing Education 13. […]

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 Nia Principle #13: Teaching What You Sense. The practice of this final White Belt principle is quite beautiful.  When we teach we cycle through a three stage process.   First I practice listening to the music, receiving it with my whole body.  Next, I dance to the music just for fun.  Finally I ask my […]

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I did it! My class focus tonight at Nia HQ was White Belt  Principle #10: X-Ray Anatomy.  We danced our bones, ligaments, muscles, soft bellies, desires, marrow, wings, tails, claws, osteoblasts and osteoclasts, directed energy with fingers and hands, floated over the planet, shouted, sighed and shook. I felt a bit numb within the bigness of […]

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Before our afternoon session began with Carlos on Principle #10, X-Ray Anatomy, I became very curious about the white curtains covering the tall central mirrors in the studio in the area where the teacher stands during class.  I went behind them, having fun walking back and forth along the wall between mirror and curtain, feeling […]

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WhIte Belt Principle #9:  Creative Arm and Hand Expressions In Nia we say our feet are the hands that touch the Earth.  Our feet and toes sense the ground, provide our foundation and a way to move our bodies through life.  Hands and fingers orient us in space and in relationship to the world around […]

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Afternoon session with Debbie. What fun!  Debbie used a life-sized skeleton model plus line drawings from Ida Rolf’s book to talk about physical and energetic anatomy.  I love bones!  I love to look at and think about and be curious about bones. Debbie said when we look at the shapes and the lines of the […]

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