Posted by terrepruitt on December 21, 2012
WOW! Day 21 of the December 30 Minute Movement Challenge. I’m 20 for 21, how about you. I missed Friday, December 7th. Still not sure how that happened. The day just escaped me. That happens, right? But we just keep on truckin’!
I don’t have a Nia class to teach today so I need to get my own self moving! 🙂 I’ll be back.
Thank you! Glad you are here!
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 20, 2012
WHOA! Five days until Christmas! Only 11 days left of our December 30 Minute Movement Challenge. We can all do it! I don’t have a Nia class to teach today so getting in my 30 minutes is on the top of my list! I’ll be back to check in.
Thank you for being here!
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 19, 2012
Wednesday and day #19 of the December 30 Minute Movement Challenge, how are you doing? Still hanging in there I see. Love that you are here. So how is your 30 minutes going? I am teaching a Nia class this morning, but I will be back to check in!
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 18, 2012
So today is Tuesday. On Tuesdays I have a Nia Class at 9:00 am for the City of San Jose. The community center is closed on Christmas Day. And I have not heard, but I am thinking it will be closed on New Year’s Day too! So for two weeks I will not have a Tuesday morning Nia class. (Sad face.) But there is class today so I am going to be back to check in after class and after I do my 30 minutes.
Hmmm . . . . maybe I can get the people that are going to miss Nia for two weeks to come over to my Nia Classes on Monday and Wednesday? Maybe offer a deal? $5.00 with a community card ID?
Yay you for being here to check in!
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 17, 2012
So today is Monday. On Mondays I have a Nia Class at 9:00 am. When I thought of this challenge part of my reason for doing it was to get me to do 30 minutes BEYOND my Nia Class. I have found that I like that but I don’t always seem to do a good job scheduling for that. Also, when I thought of this challenge, I had not yet agreed to be a substitute teacher for a city class on Monday nights.
With a Nia Class in the morning and a Nia Class at night. I use those two hours as my 30 minutes. 🙂 But I will be back to check in on your check ins!!!!
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 16, 2012
It’s SUNDAY! It’s SUNDAY! Such a FUN day! Well, here is your chance to check in and let us know that you done did your 30 minutes. This somewhat the halfway point, but I have heard rumblings about keeping up the 30 minutes-a-day even past the challenge. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
Well, I will be back!
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 15, 2012
Day fifteen! How is is going?
Remember, you are challenging yourself to do 30 minutes of exercise everyday this month. This is for YOU and no one else so if you miss a day that is ok, you can pick up the next day. Don’t stop with the entire challenge if you miss just one day it can happen, but just keep on going.
I bet if you are here you haven’t missed today! YAY! Let’s keep going! We are half way there!
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 14, 2012
Fourteen days in. Do you believe it? I can’t. Writing every day makes it seem like a long time, but with Christmas around the corner it makes it seem like time is flying!!!
I have another Christmas celebration tonight! Yay! I love each and every celebration. The more the better!
How are you doing with your challenge? You are here so you must be rocking it!
Great!
I’ll be back with my 30 minutes done!
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 13, 2012
I don’t know the Nia Blue Belt Principles by heart yet. I think I should, but I don’t. I will work on that. I was doing my 30 minutes for the December 30 Minute Movement Challenge, while I was doing it I was wondering if I could get ready to go teach the Nia class tonight, make a salad, straighten up the room, and write a blog all in the 30 minutes I had left before I had to leave. While I realized that was not possible I thought I could at least come up with a topic for my post. I thought about posting the fourth principle of the Nia Blue Belt, but I couldn’t remember what it is. At the end of my 30 minutes for the December 30 Minute Movement Challenge I did the Nia 5 Stages. As I was doing the Nia 5 Stages I thought I could post about them, then I thought not because I would want to spend more time writing about that. I decided to see what the Principle #4 is. When I saw it, I had to laugh out loud. Nia Blue Belt Principle #4 is Developmental Anatomy. The tagline is Reaching Your Ideal. I find this too funny. The reason it is funny is that the Developmental Anatomy used as a tool to assist in reaching your ideal is the Nia 5 Stages.
The Nia 5 Stages are the stages we go through in development. The stages are: Embryonic, Creeping, Crawling, Standing, and Walking. In the womb we are embryonic, we move with comfort through fluid, we are safe, comfortable, and warm. Once born most infants creep. Creeping is not crawling, but it is getting us around, but not very efficiently. At one point there is crawling. We are much more mobile and active. We see a lot more and often we go after it in this stage. Then there is that stage where we “stand”. The standing usually starts out with the help of something or someone. While in life this stage for a child involves a lot of sitting . . . get wobbly and fall on their butt, it does not in the Nia 5 Stages. The standing in the Nia 5 Stages is more of a low to the ground squat. Then there is the stage of walking. The Nia 5 Stages is actually a movement practice. It is based on science. It is a tool to help the body move more efficient. As I previously stated, I would love to do a more in-depth post or even posts on it, I will do that at a later time.
What Nia did for the Nia Blue Belt Principle #4 was allow us to use this movement, the practice of the Nia 5 Stages as a tool to reach our ideals. It is very interesting how Nia uses the body for this. If you have a goal in mind, the idea is to think about it and go to the body to find out where you are in reaching it. Again, to me, another brilliant connection made by Nia. It really makes sense to find out where you are in the stage of reaching your goal so you can work on what you need to work on to complete it. Are you in the embryonic stage of the goal? Maybe just thinking about it? Are you are far as the standing stage? Doing the movement to find out really helps the entire process. There is no triad for this principle as it uses the Nia 5 Stages pictographs. If you are at the point of taking the Nia Blue Belt you would be familiar with the 5 stages and the pictures so they work as the symbols for Nia Blue Belt Principle #4.
So, it was funny to me that I was thinking about posting about principle #4, but couldn’t remember what is was. Then I thought I would post about the Nia 5 Stages. And it turns out they are very much connected.
Do you see how there could be stages of a goal?
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Posted by terrepruitt on December 13, 2012
Wow! Thirteen days in. Even though these check in posts are short. It is time consuming writing and posting every day. I don’t know how people do it. I mean, I can easily think of stuff to blab about every day, but sitting down and writing it . . . . way too much. But some people are so much better at writing. Writing takes me a long time. But so does reading AND doing your 30 minutes. And here you are checking it.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE!!!!!
I’ll be back. I have to do my 30 minutes “early” because I am subbing with Nia tonight!
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