Day 5 of 52 Nia challenge
You just never know with Nia. Today, I thought I’d grab 30 minutes of dance using the video routines available at Nia on Demand, since, as far as I know there aren’t any live classes in my area on Saturday.
I queued up Bloom because I’ve danced it several times, and it has two of my favorite songs.
It was my first time dancing Bloom guided by trainer Christina Mae Wolf. Honestly, it was so good, I couldn’t stop at 30 minutes and I did the whole thing.
Here are my three takeaways from dancing this morning with my computer:
- Nia routines aren’t just dances strung together, they’re stories and the Bloom story is beautiful. It’s my body living the story as I dance it and hear it.
- Nia lets all my selves come out to play. Bloom has me dancing to Katharine Appleton’s “Rebel Soul” (“I can be good if I wanna, I just don’t wanna”) and Velvet Moon’s “Live Your Life” (“Go on now, be good, be fine”). The dance steps move through the sensuous to the dainty to the powerful.
- The better I know the routine, the more I can let go of watching the instructor to being in my own body and dancing my dance. That last realization has given me another goal in my 52 days of dancing challenge. I will take time to learn Bloom so that I can dance it myself.
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 