{"id":4,"date":"2008-01-17T17:13:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/2008\/01\/17\/the-journey-begins\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:14:41","slug":"the-journey-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/the-journey-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today, like every other day, we wake up, empty<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and afraid.  Don&#8217;t open the door to the study<br \/>\nand begin reading.  Take down a musical instrument.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Let the beauty we love be what we do. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Jelaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes my mind gets ahead of me, thinking about this and that, wondering about plans and ideas, hopes and dreams.  If I&#8217;m lucky, if I&#8217;m awake, I remember.  I remember this poem by Rumi, or at least the spirit of this poem.  I remember to love the mystery right now.<\/p>\n<p>Even as my excellent brain makes plans, I want to sense and feel my life as it is actually happening, moment by moment.  As I prepare for my Black Belt training in July, and all that it involves, I remember why I began the practice of Nia in the first place, on a rainy spring day in Portland in 1995:  Joy of Movement.  And I promise to bring that golden thread of Joy with me, as I venture forth into what is happening and what is to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, like every other day, we wake up, empty and afraid. Don&#8217;t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the Earth. &#8212; Jelaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks) Sometimes my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-belt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}