Category: NIA dance practice
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Day 51 of 52 Nia dance Pineapple sage (salvia elegans) is a perennial (in Oregon) and part of the mint family. It doesn’t start blooming in my garden until mid September. Then it kind of loses its mind with these spikes of brilliant red. The neighborhood hummingbirds love it. I do too. It will keep…
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Day 50 of 52 Nia dance Whenever our Nia instructor Dael Parsons brings Linaia — the 2-foot tall model skeleton — to class, I know I’ll learn something. Often it’s about our joints, maybe range of motion, or about gaps I didn’t know existed, say in the lower pelvis. (Really, where those two big scoopy…
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Day 49 of 52 Nia dance A great New York Times article last summer explored some current research on the neuroscience of dance. It’s worth a read, but requires a subscription. To summarize the findings of researchers tracking what happen in the brains of dancers: Dance activates multiple areas of the brain: sensory, motor, cognitive,…
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