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Maybe Stopping Isn’t What You Need
I am very fortunate that the place I teach in Willow Glen is only about 15 minutes from where I live in San Jose. But as I was driving home the other day something dawned on me. It is my opinion that...
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Amazed By the Townspeople Where Lars Lives
I love the movie “Lars And the Real Girl”. For those of you that are not inclined to watch it because you think it is about a man and his blow-up doll, you are somewhat correct. There is a man in it...
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Nia Natural Time
The Nia White Belt Principle #2 is Natural Time and the Movement Forms. I have posted about the movement forms, here I talk about Natural Time. There is the Natural Time of the Mayans with the 13 moons...
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Review Blog Year – Top Ten
So here it is the end of the year. I have been blogging since March (2009). I have posted 130 times. This is 131. I thought I would end the year with a review of some of my favorites and according...
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Nia Is . . .
Nia is a technique that starts with fitness and ends with comprehensive healing of the body, mind, spirit, and emotions. Nia is to exercise what holistic medicine is to health care. It has many...
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Not Seeing to Focus
On Wednesday after my Nia Class in San Jose I was talking to one of my students. Some how we ended up on a subject that had her telling me about a friend of hers who is blind but has no issue...
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I Can’t
So, I have been holding my Nia classes even with my injured toe. I limit my movement and coach the participants to move in their own body’s way as is the norm with Nia. So there are movements I can’t...
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MBTs
One Monday after my Nia Class, I went to a store down the street from the studio in San Jose. I went to a shoe store in Willow Glen. I had decided that I was going to buy myself some MBTs. MBTs have...
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Push up
Would you believe me if I told we do push ups in Nia? Ha! We do a lot of exercises in Nia, but we do them to music. We are dancing and flowing from one move to the next. We allow for the individual...
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Practice Does Not Make Perfect
When I typed in the word practice this is what came up in Google: prac·tice /ˈpraktəs/ noun 1. the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method as opposed to theories about such application...
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