Today was my best day so far! My mental realm brought relaxation, my emotional realm brought happiness and openness, my body brought less pain and more pleasure, and my spirit brought freedom to their relationships with me. I’m feeling more comfortable in my own skin, more engaged, more present. I began to notice the shift during this morning’s session with Debbie, Blue Belt Principle #10, FloorPlay.
She said, “When we domesticate a body, it becomes inhibited. The more you free a body, the more it returns to its natural state, the more it wants to be free.”
FloorPlay brings space into the body, allowing more energy to move and therefore bringing more ease, and developing our Sensory IQ, or the natural intelligence of the body.
The afternoon session with Carlos was Blue Belt Principle #11, Manifesting the Ultimate Nia Experience. Its triad is Music, Movement and Magic. We bring together all the Nia tools for enhancing music and all the Nia tools for enhancing movement and make Nia appear — as if by magic.
And with that, we consciously create our class, knowing that this could be our last class ever. It could be the last time we dance with one of our students. It will be the last time it’s like this. We remember that this moment will end. That we are dying again and again from this moment to the next, from this experience to the next, from this sensation to the next.
Tonight was our intensive’s last Nia class together as a group. We danced and played, knowing it will never be like this again. We lingered longer in the lounge afterward, knowing it will never be like this again, chittering like little birds and loving each other and the preciousness of the moment.
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1 Kirsten // May 9, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Rachael,
What a fine day to end on. Your comments from the log or two before were still rumbling around in me–the part about needing to already know something or learn it quickly. What came to me, since, of course, you are not alone in hearing this type of inner speech, was that once identified, this kind of inner talk no longer has to rule us. There is the chance to disidentify with that which was unconscious before. And then, I had to think, in your case and my case, we truly learn all kinds of things over slow developmental time–we wouldn’t be the teachers, people, spirits we are without the truth that we are very patient to learn over time. From wherever, I have had that voice on my shoulder with the pressure of “Get it now!” When I take that off, I can flub before my piano teacher, flute teacher, fall flat on my face. It finally means nothing. What freedom from domestication. I REALLY like that quote about domestication of the body (mind/spirit). And all that is here about the last time, the precious moment. Thank you for all you stirred up in my spirit consciousness with your writings here.
Kirsten
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