200/700 - Potential/Possiblities

Hello dancing friends!

This week I am dedicating my classes and dance to my nephew, Conrad, who turns 12 this Thursday.  Many of you have danced with him over the years, and have witnessed his growth and progress.  He makes my heart sing, and reminds me to live in the moment, and to be open to possibilities and potential.  This is the path of the Sacred Athlete!  In honor of Conrad, we will focus on a concept in principle number 10 of the Nia white belt, called "200/700".  “200/700” refers to the 200+bones and 700+ muscles in our body, and the potential our body has to move in an endless world of movement possibilities.  When I get out of my head and into my body, my body guides me to move in new and exciting ways to condition and heal...more ways than my mind could ever create!!! 

So let's open up to all the possibilities our body and our life have for us as we dance this week...it is ENDLESS; let's open to our potential...it is LIMITLESS!!!   If you have not met Conrad, I invite you to read his story at http://www.conradsmiles.com/.  Also, on Thursday you can dance with him at 5:30 pm, as we celebrate his actual birthday!  It has become an annual event (I'm thinking this is about the 5th!), and his Nia teacher friends will also be teaching with me.  We have a wonderful playlist!!!  See you on the dance floor.  

My classes this week:

Monday and Thursday at 5:30 pm

Saturday at 9:30 pm

and Sunday at 4:00 pm

at The Synergy Studio

Love & Light,
Joanie Brooks,
http://www.joaniebrooks.me/
Nia Training Faculty, Nia White Belt Trainer, Nia 1st Degree Black Belt
\Journey Dance Facilitator Nia 5 Stages of Healing Facilitator
Mindful Change Coach
Laughter Yoga Leader

Nia - Somatic Education for EveryBody.  Nia is an expressive movement form & lifestyle practice that uses The Body's Way to achieve physical, mental, emotional & spiritual fitness & well-being."   

75 trillion cells in your body…Play with them all with Nia!

Sensing Wings!

"The shoulder blades, for me, are the "hands of the Goddess". They’re always there, always touching me. When I’m reaching up, it’s like the support of every goddess, every angel on the planet, is right there for me. And this gives me an opportunity to remember that if I’m in relationship with my body parts, I’m receiving what my body has to give me."  Debbie Rosas, co-founder of Nia

​Hello my dancing Friends,

I love to be in sensation of my shoulder blades.  Many of you know, our clavicles are my favorite bones; however, 2nd place I would have to say is our Scapulae, and I love the visualization of my shoulder blades as elegant wings expanding out the side of my body.  This visualization stimulates full arm movement and reminds me that in Nia, our upper extremities are more than just my arms, hands and fingers.  My arms actually start in the back of my body - my shoulder blades.  When I use my shoulder blades to reach, extend, hug and move, I condition not only my arms, but also all the muscles in my upper back.  Wonderful!!! 

Your shoulder blades (scapulae), are flat triangle shaped bones that lie on top of your upper back, and float and glide over the first seven ribs.  With the help of our rhomboid muscles, our shoulder blades like to slide and glide along the back of our body as we dance through life using our hands, and lifting and lowering objects.  One of the best Nia moves we can do for our scapulae is palm directions. Reaching for the sky with my palms open and then lowering as I rotate towards earth...Yummy!!

So let's fly this week in class and sense our wings...our shoulder blades...our scapulae.  And as you pause during you day, take a moment to sense the hands of the goddess on your back and listen for her voice..."I've got your back".  And maybe just lean into those hands and exhale.  See you on the dance floor!

My classes this week:

Monday and Thursday at 5:30 pm

Saturday at 9:30 pm

at The Synergy Studio  

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Love & Light,
Joanie Brooks,
http://www.joaniebrooks.me/
Nia Training Faculty, Nia White Belt Trainer, Nia 1st Degree Black Belt

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

Nia - Somatic Education for EveryBody.  Nia is an expressive movement form & lifestyle practice that uses The Body's Way to achieve physical, mental, emotional & spiritual fitness & well-being."   

75 trillion cells in your body…Play with them all with Nia!