Category: NIA dance practice
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Day 34 of 52 Nia dance A beautiful September Sunday drew me on from one lovely thing to the next. Suddenly it was 8:30 p.m. and wait, did I forget something? Yes, yes I did. But dancing can be done anytime. I came back to “Alchemy,” and I danced it in the dark. What a…
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Day 33 of 52 Nia dance Over the course of the last year I began to realize that dance, the way I experienced it in Nia, could be a life practice. The messaging about the feedback loop between physicality and mental processing, that they are not just connected but inextricable from each other, settled in.…
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Day 32 of 52 Nia dance Yesterday I sent these flowers from our garden off with a friend preparing a service honoring the passage of her father-in-law and realized my plan to memorize Nia’s Bloom choreography had completely fallen off my radar. Today’s a busy day, but I found half an hour this morning to…
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