{"id":58,"date":"2008-05-06T22:36:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T06:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-05-06T22:36:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T06:36:21","slug":"split-ellipt-blend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/split-ellipt-blend\/","title":{"rendered":"Split, Ellipt, Blend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&nbsp;Blue Belt Day 4  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blue Belt Principle #6, Split, Ellipt, Blend is a practice that comes from Aikido, one of the nine movement forms upon which Nia is based.&nbsp; Split, Ellipt, Blend is a map that shows us where we can place our attention.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Splitting is putting my attention 100% into myself and away from something else, for example, I split away from the teacher to sense my own body.&nbsp; Ellipting is putting 100% of my attention into another.&nbsp; For example, when the teacher is showing a new movement, I might ellipt into her to see it.&nbsp; Once I get the information I need, then I split into myself to try on the move and discover the sensation in my body.&nbsp; Blending is a combination of split and ellipt.&nbsp; I put 100% attention into myself and 100% attention into another.<\/p>\n<p>No one component of this Nia triad is more important or better than any other.&nbsp; I am always putting my attention somewhere.&nbsp; I want to know when and how it works best for me to use my attention in any given moment.&nbsp; The ideal is to be fluid and accurate with my attention. I want to be able to be equally facile splitting, ellipting and blending.<\/p>\n<p>As a teacher, if I get stuck in one mode or neglect another, my students may receive a limited Nia experience, receive my attention incompletely, and receive limited modeling of how to use their own attention.&nbsp; It would be analogous to teaching Nia with mostly dance moves and very few moves from martial arts and healing arts.<\/p>\n<p>My personal preference tends to be to split.&nbsp; I love to get into the sensations of my body and find the pleasure.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>Ellipting has been the most difficult.&nbsp; Over the years since first taking Blue Belt I have been developing my skill at ellipting and blending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Blue Belt Day 4 Blue Belt Principle #6, Split, Ellipt, Blend is a practice that comes from Aikido, one of the nine movement forms upon which Nia is based.&nbsp; Split, Ellipt, Blend is a map that shows us where we can place our attention.&nbsp; Splitting is putting my attention 100% into myself and away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-belt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}