{"id":412,"date":"2009-04-30T19:35:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T03:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:35:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T03:35:30","slug":"judge-not-thy-precious-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/judge-not-thy-precious-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Not Thy Precious Self"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Judge not thy precious self.”<\/p>\n

These words have been my guide over the last two weeks. \u00a0<\/p>\n

They were\u00a0chosen\u00a0at random\u00a0from the focus basket for the last Nia class I taught before my recent trip to New Mexico with my husband to study with our teacher, Mart\u00edn Prechtel<\/a>, at his school, Bolad’s Kitchen.<\/p>\n

These words became my personal focus for the practice of dancing though life, for the practice of wrestling the demons\u00a0of shame\u00a0who push us into narrow places, hungry to fill their bellies, casting their all-or-nothing spell again and again in an attempt to deflect attention from their own broken heartedness. \u00a0<\/p>\n

These words\u00a0became the ballast for the boat of my wanderings in the wide and deep sea of the holy. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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They became the light of the stars, shining in their constellations, circling overhead,\u00a0circling\u00a0underfoot and\u00a0circling\u00a0inside my chest, keeping rhythms of time so much vaster than my worries and insecurities, sustaining a view so\u00a0grand\u00a0I can see what I love illuminated before me, bioluminescent in the water, splashing,\u00a0wriggling,\u00a0calling, so loved and so in love that what eats at me falls in love, too.<\/p>\n

In the Nia practice of FreeDance, Stage 6, is called, “Witness — Observe, Do Not Judge, Interfere or Manipulate.” \u00a0We witness what is happening in the body in motion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My hope is that, now that I’m back home, I can sustain this focus, “Judge not thy precious self,”\u00a0for my ongoing practice of dancing through life, witnessing ebb and flow, narrow and spacious, pleasure and pain, the strange, beautiful and precious gift of living life in a body.<\/p>\n


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“Judge not thy precious self.” These words have been my guide over the last two weeks. \u00a0 They were\u00a0chosen\u00a0at random\u00a0from the focus basket for the last Nia class I taught before my recent trip to New Mexico with my husband to study with our teacher, Mart\u00edn Prechtel, at his school, Bolad’s Kitchen. These words became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-through-life","category-ongoing-nia-classes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}