Awareness of Your Shoulder Joint...Sensing Freedom!

"I am the voice of the shoulder joint, the main joint of your shoulder. By design I am complex and the most flexible joint in the body. Predominantly a muscle guided joint, I am elegantly designed to provide you with expressive mobility and highly flexible and agile stability. My design allows degrees of free movement of the hands and arms in several directions through space.  I make it possible for you to extend and reach for things high on a shelf, to swing a golf club or baseball bat, throw a ball, hug your child, and lift and lower objects. You know I’m healthy when you can move your arms in all directions, reaching front, back, up and down while sustaining relaxed shoulders and space around your neck and ears, when you can lift and lower objects with ease, and when you can easily support a push-up and pull-up!....”  From the voices of the shoulder joint by Debbie Rosas

Hello Dancing Friends!
Don't you just love these beautiful words written about your should joint!  Our shoulder joint is a shallow joint and actually has more mobility (about 50 times more) than your hip joint.  Unlike you hip joint, it is fragile and can easily be injured or overused if we are not aware of our shoulder joint while dancing and in everyday life.  In Nia we keep the shoulder joint conditioned and healthy by rotating our upper arm bone (the humerus HA HA HA!) in all directions, moving our hands and arms to the front and back, up and down, and around the space with palm directions.  We do this in small and large ranges of motion as we sense for pleasure and for pain.  The sensation of pain is good!  It gives us information we can use to make adjustments to our moves so we can avoid any injury and keep our dance of life alive!!!   

Join me in class this week as we explore and sense freedom in our shoulder joint.  Outside of class sense your shoulder joint as you wipe the kitchen counter, swipe your credit card, reach for a glass off the top shelve and as you lay down to rest at night on your side.  Nia invites us to always be in sensation..every move feels like I'm dancing; every move an opportunity to heal!!
  My classes this week:

Monday & Wednesday at 8:45 am at
Total Harmony Yoga (first class is free!)

Monday & Thursday at 5:30 pm
and Saturday at 9:30 am

at The Synergy Studio

Considering taking the Nia White belt intensive?  Whether you want to teach Nia or take Nia for personal growth, it is an amazing experience!!!   Check out my trainings at: www.nianow.com/joanie and click on "My Trainings". Adelle and I have one October 4th and a split weekend December 5th here in San Antonio.  Join us!

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Love & Light,
Joanie Brooks,
http://www.joaniebrooks.me/
Nia Training Faculty, Nia White Belt Trainer

Nia 5 Stages of Healing Facilitator, Journey Dance Guide, Mindful Change Coach and Yoga Laughter Leader
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