Archive for December, 2012
Posted by terrepruitt on December 10, 2012
WAHOOOOOO! Day #10!!! How are you feeling about completing 10 days? Good? It is always nice to have done something good for yourself for 10 consecutive days. So yay!! Let’s keep going. I have one friend already talking about making this 30 minutes a day thing a permanent habit. That is really a great idea. 🙂 Thirty minutes really isn’t that long.
Today is Monday, I’ll be back here after I teach my 9 am Nia class. This month I am subbing a Yoga class while the regular teacher is on maternity leave. I am teaching Nia and the yoga students love it.
Thank you so much for being here and for participating in the challenge! WAHOOO!
Posted in December 2012 30 Minute Movement Challenge | Tagged: Day #10, December 30 Minute Movement Challenge, Nia class, Yoga | 6 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 9, 2012
Day #9!!! Yay!! Keep going. Thirty minutes really isn’t that long you could probably even move for longer . . . .why not? It’s Sunday. Squeeze in a few more minutes! Could be 10 minutes here, and 10 minutes there. Maybe 5 minutes while you are waiting for your coffee to brew? Whatever . . . . I am sure you can find 30 minutes to get some movement and exercise in.
I have a date with some friends. We are doing our Christmas thing this year. It is bittersweet because while we are happy to still be gathering we are sad because we miss one of our four. (Hello, Michele! We love and miss you!) I better get my 30 minutes in early!
I’ll be back. What about you?
Posted in December 2012 30 Minute Movement Challenge | Tagged: Christmas, Day #9, December 30 Minute Movement Challenge, exercise | 3 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 8, 2012
Off the top of my head, Nia’s Blue Belt Principle #2 – The Power of Two makes me think of Nia’s Energy Allies or the more commonly known four agreements. The tag line for this principle is Communication. The details involve a transmitter and a receiver. So to me it is a perfect connection to the energy allies. To me to be a clear transmitter one must speak with impeccability. One must stay on task of what the idea is that is being communicated. It is the job of the transmitter to be clear so that the receiver can understand what is being conveyed. To add to that the transmitter doesn’t assume the receiver knows what is being said, another reason to be impeccable. To be a pure receiver, the receiver shouldn’t be assuming they know what the transmitter is saying. The receiver shouldn’t be making up stories in his/her head as the transmitter is speaking. The receiver should be quietly listening, with no inner dialog happening. Also there is the added mission of not taking anything personally. This can be more easily accomplished if the third person — the one in the receiver’s head — is quiet. Both the transmitter and the receiver always strive to do their best. That is how I connect Nia’s Energy Allies to Nia’s Blue Belt Principle #2.
Since communication can be thought of as the exchange of energy between two, this principle and its details can easily be applied to everyday life. The exchange of energy can be between people or things. The exchange is a giving and a receiving. It does not have to be verbal, the exchange, the communication, could be a touch, a gesture, or any of the other ways things are communicated. So you might be able to see how within the scope of life it can be applied to more than just communicating with another person.
As a Nia teacher we can apply it to our Nia practice. There is a transmitter and a receiver with our bodies’ movements. There is a transmitter and a receiver with the music. There is a transmitter and a receiver with a Nia routine and the choreography. There is definitely a transmitter and a receiver in a Nia class and the transmitter is not always the teacher.
With the principle being The POWER of TWO, I can’t help but connect it the Nia Energy Allies when thinking of the communication between people. My connecting probably stems from the fact that I truly feel I need to strengthen my relationship with all FOUR allies in order to allow the POWER of two to shine through.
This is just my immediate thoughts on Nia’s Blue Belt Principle #2. As I live with it longer and read the manual and process it, I am certain I will come up with more. My relationship with will become stronger. Nia has a “craft” for working with this principle, but I am still determining my relationship with that idea. We will see if a post ever becomes of their idea.
Are you familiar with Nina’s Energy Allies (or the four agreements)? Can you see how they can be instrumental in communication? Can you see how the Allies could assist in making two powerful?
Posted in Blue Belt, Nia | Tagged: Four Agreements, inner dialog happening, Nia choreography, Nia class, Nia Practice, Nia routine, Nia Teacher, Nia's Blue Belt Principle #2, Nia's Energy Allies, NiaNow.com, receiver, speak with impeccability, The Power of Two, transmitter | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 8, 2012
It is Saturday and it is day number 8 of the 30 Minutes of Movement for 31 Days in December 2012. Since it is Saturday I am sure you have a lot of things you have to get done. Be sure to get your 30 minutes in. You know you will feel great about it, so do it. Either you are here to check in or you are here for encouragement and a reminder to do it!
Do it! It will make the rest of your day awesome. It will only take a mere 1800 seconds . . . . . so do it. And comment here when you have. YAY you!!!!!
Posted in December 2012 30 Minute Movement Challenge | Tagged: Day #8, December 30 Minute Movement Challenge | 7 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 7, 2012
YAY YOU FOR BEING HERE!!! Still trucking, I see. I had to look that phrase up.
According to Wordwizard, there are several references listed that state it means “to carry on”. Some references refer to truck driving as in driving through the night and some refer to a marathon dance contests of the 1930s; “or with the type of lively dancing known as truckin’ (from a song of the same name, written in the mid-1930s).” The site goes onto say it didn’t come from trucking but had to do with railroads, and on to say, that some people believe it came from the Grateful Dead. The post ends with:
“So, the origin could have been from the marathon dance contests of the 1930s with the image of trucks driving through the night, or from the dance and song, which might have come from the image of the long-haul truck or from the baggage trucks used in railroad stations. Or the expression could have come from a jazz dance step, that was used for exiting a stage, which was based on the image of . . . . and which might or might not have been related to the popular dance step, . . . . and which was slang for sexual intercourse . . . . . . . . ,”
Sigh. Who knows, huh? All I know is we are still doing our movement on day six! Yay. I’ll be back.
Posted in December 2012 30 Minute Movement Challenge | Tagged: carry on, Day #7, December 30 Minute Movement Challenge, Grateful Dead, keep on trucking, long-haul truck driverrs, marathon dance contests, sexual intercourse, truck drivers, truck driving, wordwizard | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 6, 2012
Do you move fast? Do you do five things at once? Do you have more than one project going on? Are you doing one thing while your mind is thinking about another? It is hard to slow down, huh? I think part of it is technology. We have cell phones that can do so many things we get instant gratification so we don’t have to wait for anything. We can call someone while we are doing something else. We can look up something on the internet while we are talking to someone all the while doing something else. Multi-tasking is expected. We must be productive and in order to do so we have to do more than one thing. I posted about multi-tasking in September 2009. I actually attempted to stop and only do one thing at a time. It proved to not be possible for me. As an example, when cooking dinner I have to do more than one thing at a time. 
It is not feasible to cook the pasta, then the meat, then make the salad — or any order of that. More than one thing has to be going on at a time. So I realized that multi-tasking is necessary, but there are ways I can be more aware of what I am doing. There are some tasks that I can do without doing something else. Part of this for me is just slowing down. I need to have patience to get through one task before I move onto the next.
I have been thinking about this a lot this week as I have been decorating the house for Christmas. I love to have it look like Christmas every where you look. It doesn’t have to be Griswald-y, but an ornament here, a candle there—just SOMETHING. While I have been doing this I have been using a ladder. In our garage it is a bit tricky. We park both of our cars in the garage so the “edges” tend to get a little cluttered. We also have bicycles hanging from the rafters near where the Christmas boxes are stored. All this week I have been having to tell myself, “Slow down.” Literally. I want to get it done quickly — plus I am excited because I just love all this stuff. So I would bolt up the ladder and realize once I was up there that I couldn’t move freely, I had to think about the fact that I was on a ladder, the fact that I was wearing floppy shoes, that there was a bike an inch from my head, back, butt (depending on where I was on the ladder). I had to think about how I was going to move once I got the box in my hands. I had to think how I was going to climb down the ladder with a box in my hand and a handle bar at my shoulder.
It is not easy for me to do some things slowly and I have been pondering that this week. I think that being more patient is part of it. If I were more patient with getting some of the things done I want to get done then I wouldn’t be rushing through what I have to do. Part of it is also because there is going to be some work done involving the house at the end of this week and I was rushing to get things done before that deadline. Also, I wanted it all done before I my Nia Class on Thursday evening! But still . . . . it is not easy to slow down.
I want to say that I HAVE been JUST brushing my teeth. I have made a conscious effort. But it wasn’t since September 2009, it has been more recent!
Do you find rushing to be the case? Do you rush through things just to get to another thing to rush through?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas, Christmas decoration, Christmas Ornaments, instant gratification, multi-tasking, multiple projects, Nia, Nia class | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 6, 2012
I am so glad you are here. As we get closer to Christmas it might become more of a challenge to keep going, but six days in . . . . YOU CAN DO IT! So can I, right? I am here to GET support as much as give support. I have a few things going on this weekend and I need to get stuff done. I could easily skip 30 minutes, especially since I am going to teach a Nia class tonight. With my class I will be getting in my aerobic exercise. But I will be back to let you know I did my 30 minutes. It might end up being practice for tonight.
What about you?
Posted in December 2012 30 Minute Movement Challenge | Tagged: aerobic exercise, Christmas, Day #6, December 30 Minute Movement Challenge, evening Nia class, Nia, Nia class | 5 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 5, 2012
Yay! Day five! How are you doing? Feeling good, huh? You’ve done five days and you are gonna keep on trucking! (Remember that term? Where did that come from?)
Post a comment to let me know you are done. I will be back to let you know. I have to teach my Nia class and then run some errands, but I will be back with to comment with my 30 minute done!
Thank you for being here!!!
Posted in December 2012 30 Minute Movement Challenge | Tagged: Day #5, December 30 Minute Movement Challenge, keep on trucking, Nia, Nia class, Nia Teacher, teach Nia | 5 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 4, 2012
I posted about me having attended a Nia Blue Belt Intensive in the beginning of November. I am still processing that. I am reading the manual here and there. I am thinking about the principles. I think a lot about Principle #1 – The Joy of Being In Relationship. I think I understand it and then I feel I don’t. I think I got it, then I lose it. One day last week I was walking up my stairs and as my foot landed on the last step I thought, “I got it! I know why I think I don’t understand it!” I even replied to a comment on my blog from a Nia Black Belt that I would be writing more about it. At that point I thought I had it. What I decided as I was walking up the stairs is that I feel as if the principle is elusive to me because I am looking for something new. I have been told a new principle so I am looking to experience something new. But my trek up my stairs had me thinking that I AM in relationship with and I have been. As I was walking up my stairs something was aching (I can’t remember whether it was my hip or my knee) and as I was taking steps I was listening to my knee. I was checking in with my knee. We were in an exchange. Both my knee and I decided that it was not truly my knee that was the issue, but my foot. But I was in relationship with. I was not just sensing, as I picture The Joy of Movement (Nia White Belt Principle #1), I was in the Joy of Being In Relationship. It was an exchange, it was relationship with.
With The Joy of Movement there is the tweaking, sustaining, and increasing all for sensation. With Nia Blue Belt Principle #1 – The Joy of Being In Relationship the tweaking, sustaining, and increasing is for relationship. I think that ever since I injured a toe on my right foot I have been in relationship with, but I have never really thought of it like that. I am discovering the joy portion. I feel as if I am practiced at this principle in regards to my body. It is different “others” that I am eager to connect with.
Now that I feel that I have a better idea of it, I can practice it on “others”. It is not something entirely new that I couldn’t grasp, it was something I had a hold of already. In my first post about the Nia Blue Belt Principles I stated that it was new, but now I see it is not. Now I can just apply it elsewhere. The other principles can help with principle #1. The principles are not necessary things that have to be worked on individually. In fact they probably all work better together. And as I have stated the principles are not necessarily new (to me) ideas. The way they are applied to Nia could be new to me. We will see. It is all a very exciting process!
So . . . here I am sharing about Nia and processing it out loud on my blog. ANY thoughts and comments are welcome. Especially information from Nia Blue Belt Graduates.
Posted in Blue Belt, Nia | Tagged: increasing, Nia Black Belt, Nia Blue Belt Graduates, Nia Blue Belt Intensive, Nia Blue Belt Principle, Nia manual, Nia principles, Nia White Belt Principle #1, sensation, sustaining, the joy of being in relationship, the joy of movement, tweaking | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 4, 2012
It is day four and here is our check in post. You check in (you early birds and people in earlier time zones) and I’ll be back!
Thank you for joining the December 30 Minute Movement Challenge.
Posted in December 2012 30 Minute Movement Challenge | Tagged: day 4, December 2012, movement challenge | 11 Comments »
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