Day 28 of 52 Nia dance
I’ve been thinking the last several weeks that my various Nia trainers have instinctively chosen a routine that was (somehow miraculously) meant to meet my specific needs on any given day. Today, while dancing Deep Dive with Kellie Chambers, I realized instead that I am embodying the RAW guidance: Relaxed, Alert, Waiting. It’s a way to be open and meet the dance at the beginning of class.
Dancing Deep Dive is like swimming in a warm ocean. It’s all about the flow. And with the first sounds of the first song “Happiness” by Vargo, I knew what was coming, as I’ve danced Deep Dive many times. Today the dance was fluid, the moves all smooth and connected and buoyed by the music each step of the way. At first I thought it was the perfect follow-up to yesterday’s wild and energetic dance experience and wondered how Kellie managed to nail it again. Then I understood that I’m doing this. Me. Relaxed, alert and waiting to embrace whatever comes. It seems a little embarrassing to share this thought process, but there it is.
Dancing Deep Dive is a good way to understand what trainers mean when they say “dynamic ease.” It’s not ease in the sense of being inactive, it’s ease in the sense of the muscles moving in a supple way, without extreme effort, simply moving the way I move when I get up from a chair and cross the room.
I imagined the instructors serendipitously designing the class around me. What is more true is that I’m emotionally available to go where ever the music leads.
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 