Bodyfulness — Seattle Nia with Dina

I’m so jazzed about the special announcement we made at last week’s funky Friday am class — a workshop series where you’ll learn to increase your ability to do Nia – your “Niability”!

In this series you will:    
• Get a better Nia workout – in whatever unique way you define it.
• Improve your fitness level in all the “ilities” defined in the Nia technique: mobility, flexibility, stability, agility, and strength-ility.
• Reduce potential injuries — because you’ll learn how to do even the trickiest Nia moves in Your Body’s Way. 

This material isn’t covered anywhere else–not in any of the Nia belts and not in any other workshop we’ve heard of. There are only 3 spots left in the workshop series, so hurry and sign up!

You can learn more details (where, when, etc) on the special page I set up on my site (the tab in the menu bar that says “Niability“).

I hope you join us at my house with more amazing people, dive into the legacy and spirit that makes up Nia, and transform your dance!

Morihei Ueshiba regarded by many to be the greatest martial artist in modern times, deeply understood the larger flow of balancing. O’Sensei, the founder of the martial art of Aikido, was once asked by his students, “How do you keep your balance all the time?

The master laughed and said: “The art is not in trying to keep your balance, but in losing it and seeing how fast you can regain it. The reason you don’t see me out of balance is because I regain it so quickly!”

Turn up the juice on your mindfulness so that you notice when you are beginning to lose your balance, and then return again, and again, and again. Remember, “choice follows awareness” and in those moments when you “wake-up” and return to mindful awareness you have the choice to move toward or away from balance.
  — Joel & Michelle Levey in “Living in Balance” (Conari Press, 1998)

“The more and more you listen,
the more and more you will hear.
The more you hear,
the more and more deeply
you will understand.”
 – Khyentse Rinpoche

This is my most recent mix.  Happy listening!

 (Song Name – Artist -Album)

Anytime – Brian McKnight - Anytime

If I Ain’t Got You - Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys

Frozen – Madonna - Ray of Light

Find Your Way - Dionne Farris – Nia Agolo CD

Around the World - Nikka Costa - Can’tneverdidnothin’

Let Me Blow Ya Mind – Eve - Scorpion

Where Is Da Love – Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business

Spinning Top - Mozez - So Still

Feel Free – Mozez - So Still

Idje-Idje - Angelique Kudjo - Nia Agolo CD

Ladder - Akshara Weave - The 10 Minute Chakra – EP

Do your little bit of good where you are;
It’s those little bits of good put together
that overwhelm the world.
    –Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Looky what I got for GUERILLNIA!  I’m on a buyer’s high…

Its a IPOD portable PA system! 

Are you ready to rock the out-of-doors?!

We’re about to take on Seattle, folks!  Coming soon to a t.b.d. location somewhere in the Seattle streets near you…GUERILLNIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  A live, spontaneous show of dance fitness prowess…on the fly. 

Sign up in class or by commenting on this post to be a part of the GUERILLNIA squad and then wait for a text message, probably when you least expect it.  Then, meet us in the disclosed location for dance madness: in the streets, in the park, maybe even on top of the needle.  Ouch!