{"id":83,"date":"2008-07-10T22:02:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T06:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-07-11T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T04:42:21","slug":"walking-the-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/walking-the-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking: The Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some benefits the practice of Walking brings to the body, mind, emotions and spirit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Body:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The heal lead.<br \/>\nStability combined with mobility.<br \/>\nIntegrating the vertical body with motion in space in the horizontal plane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Mind:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">360 degree awareness.<br \/>\nMoving forward in life.<br \/>\nIntegrating the entire neurological being.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Emotions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Being in relationship with community.<br \/>\nBeing in relationship with all beings.\u00a0<br \/>\nIntegrating the emotional body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Spirit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Walking meditation.<br \/>\nWalking your path.<br \/>\nStepping into the moment with your animal ancestry intact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>. . . \u00a0All of Nia and all of vertebrate life is based on the walking pattern. \u00a0Here are some of the benefits Walking brings to the experience and practice of Nia&#8217;s three movement arts:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Dance Arts:<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Foot motions: whole foot, relev\u00e9, heel lead.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Moving in directions.<br \/>\nRising energy of Duncan Dance.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Martial Arts:<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The heel lead of Tai Chi.<br \/>\nThe smile line: The arc that the body center makes with each step as we sink on the standing leg to prepare for shifting weight, and the subsequent rise on\u00a0the other leg as it becomes fully weight bearing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Support from behind and underneath.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Healing Arts:<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Conscious vertical alignment of bones in Yoga.<br \/>\nAlignment from the top down of Alexander Technique.<br \/>\nIntegrating all 5 Stages of Self-Healing through Feldenkrais.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some benefits the practice of Walking brings to the body, mind, emotions and spirit: Body: The heal lead. Stability combined with mobility. Integrating the vertical body with motion in space in the horizontal plane. Mind: 360 degree awareness. Moving forward in life. Integrating the entire neurological being.\u00a0 Emotions: Being in relationship with community. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-belt","category-ongoing-nia-classes","category-the-five-stages-of-self-healing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}