{"id":1797,"date":"2010-02-02T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2010-02-06T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:10:40","slug":"passion-the-practice-of-form-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/passion-the-practice-of-form-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion: The Practice of Form and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last two weeks, we have been engaged in “Passion: The Practice of Form and Freedom.”<\/p>\n

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During week one — The Practice of Freedom — we have danced to the music of the Nia routine Passion<\/em>, using Nia’s eight stages of FreeDance.<\/p>\n

During week two — The Practice of Form\u00a0, starting on Thursday, February 4\u00a0— we dance the original choreography of Passion<\/em> that Nia co-founders Debbie Rosas and Carlos AyaRosas created to the same music.<\/p>\n

(You can listen to the music of Passion<\/em> free at \u00a0http:\/\/nianow.com\/niasounds\/passion-cd<\/a> )<\/p>\n

The intent of “Passion: The Practice of Form and Freedom”\u00a0is to first\u00a0experience the freedom of your own body’s way, moment by moment, in relationship to the music, the self and the mystery. \u00a0And then, after that, to experience your body’s relationship with the form of choreography.<\/p>\n

Form and freedom are like yin and yang, like inhale and exhale, like sound and silence.\u00a0Each gives birth to the other. \u00a0Each depends on the other to reveal its true nature. \u00a0Each contains the seed of the other in its belly.<\/p>\n

I can bring a full experience of the sensation of freedom right into any form. \u00a0I can discover that freedom itself actually has an anatomy.<\/p>\n

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FREEDOM<\/p>\n

FreeDance\u00a0is Nia White Belt Principle #4. \u00a0FreeDance is how Nia teachers\u00a0organically create and learn Nia routines.<\/p>\n

The practice of FreeDance is a foundation for sensory awareness and creativity. \u00a0Through its eight stages, FreeDance\u00a0offers a way to get out of the mind and drop into sensation — the sensation of the physical body, the sensation of the\u00a0music, the sensation of the\u00a0emotional body and the sensation of intuition.<\/p>\n

FreeDance offers the physical body “an alchemical process to physically respond to change moment by moment.” \u00a0FreeDance offers the mind, “a way into the creative void of conciousness.” \u00a0FreeDance offers the emotional body a way to express all feelings freely. \u00a0FreeDance offers the spirit play, and a journey to “the playground of all playgrounds — the unexplored moment.”*<\/p>\n

FORM<\/p>\n

When they were on the path of creating Nia, Debbie and Carlos studied various movement forms, nine of which become the elements of Nia. \u00a0They did this in order to “balance the feminine with the masculine, the precise with liquid fluidity and the powerful with the yielding.”<\/p>\n

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Debbie and Carlos took the freedom inherent in their two bodies, minds, hearts and spirits and essentially FreeDanced the nine movement forms into something new, what we know now as Nia.<\/p>\n

Each of the nine movement forms has a unique sensation and energy signature: \u00a0From the healing arts, Alexander Technique, the Feldenkrais Method and Yoga; From dance arts, modern dance, jazz dance and Duncan dance; and from Martial arts, Tai Chi, Aikido, and Taekwondo.<\/p>\n

Each form stimulates different breathing responses, different emotional responses. \u00a0They cross train body, mind emotions and spirit . \u00a0They offer a way to speak many languages.<\/p>\n

Look how each person in these photographs is doing the choreography differently.<\/p>\n

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Each person brings to the form of the movement their own uniqueness — \u00a0physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. \u00a0A different angle of the hand, a different feeling in the face, a different gaze of \u00a0the eyes, a different intent. \u00a0Each person finds their own unique freedom of expression within the form.<\/p>\n

Form is the vessel of freedom. \u00a0Freedom is the vitality of form.<\/p>\n

This is Nia’s practice of form and freedom: \u00a0Bring the freedom of your uniqueness and the form of your body into the temple of the moment where the mudras created are both traditional and never-before-seen.<\/p>\n

Nia, like life, is the practice of form and freedom.<\/p>\n

FORM & FREEDOM: A CONVERSATION<\/p>\n

If you have been to any of the “Passion: The Practice of Form and Freedom” classes, please comment below. \u00a0I would love to hear from you about your experience FreeDancing, doing the choreography of Passion<\/em> or both.<\/p>\n

What did you discover? \u00a0What did you feel? \u00a0What did you sense?<\/p>\n


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*All quotes from the Nia White Belt Manual, 2001, \u00a0by Debbie Rosas and Carlos AyaRosas.<\/em><\/p>\n


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