I am venturing a declaration, that we have all heard that exercising the brain helps it. Whether it helps stave off memory loss, helps keep our memory sharp, or just helps keep our brain sharp, I bet we have all heard “exercising” it helps. I bet one of the “exercises” you’ve heard suggested is puzzles. Brain puzzles, as an example and as suggested in my last post. Well, as I was trying to come up with a picture for the post, I was thinking I wanted to have a Nia puzzle. I came across a cool website where you can create a word search puzzle. I quickly decided NOT to use the puzzle I made as a picture because I wanted to make it a blog post! I decided to make a picture for that last post, so I turned to another website that I have been using lately to create collages. So this post is like a “Three-fer”, a puzzle, the website where you can create your own puzzle, and the website where you can create collages.
And, yes, you can Google all of this for yourself, but you know me, I like to share. I know that I learn things from blogs I read. I learn things that are common knowledge to a lot of people, but are new to me, so I like to share because I have faith that sometimes I am sharing something new to someone!
So, here is the Nia Word Search Puzzle. The words all have to do with Nia:
Aikido – one of the nine movement forms
Awareness – a goal of Nia, to bring awareness to your body, awareness to your movements
Cardio – what Nia is, it is a cardio dance workout
Chakras – energy points danced in Nia
Crawling – one of the Nia 5 Stages, and something sometimes included in Floorplay
Creeping – one of the Nia 5 Stages, and something sometimes included in Floorplay
Dance – what Nia is
Embryonic – one of the Nia 5 Stages, and something sometimes included in Floorplay
Exercise – what Nia is
Fitness – what Nia encourages
Flexibility – one of the Nia 5 Sensations, something you will experience in a Nia class
FreeDance – a technique/practice used in Nia
Jazz – one of the nine movement forms
Joyful – what Nia can help you feel
Mindfulness – a goal of Nia, to bring mindfulness to your movements, mindfulness to your body
Mobility – one of the Nia 5 Sensations, something you will experience in a Nia class
Movement – something we do in a Nia class
Nia – the Technique, the form of cardio dance
RAW – a technique/practice used by Nia teachers when learning a Nia routine/music
Stability – one of the Nia 5 Sensations, something you will experience in a Nia class
Strength – one of the Nia 5 Sensations, something you will experience in a Nia class
Technique – Nia Technique
Workout – what Nia is, it is a cardio dance workout
Yoga – one of the nine movement forms
The website to make your own is: http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/code/BuildWordSearch.asp
The collages are super easy to make, you just drag the photos you want to your browser. You can pick a background if you want. You can turn the photos, you can resize them, you can bring them to the front or the back. All basic things. I have several of these types of applications on my iPhone, but I didn’t have anything, but MS Word on my computer. So this website is a great help to me. Easy, quick, and free. And I am not loading my photos onto their site. Website for the collages is: http://www.photocollage.net/
Yay! Exercise your brain! Go create stuff!
The solution is at on my website (click here).
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