Normally I post on Wednesdays. I have this self-imposed posting schedule. I thought it was important to be consistent. I have eased up a bit and try to cut myself some slack when I miss a day. Sometimes I forget, sometimes I can’t think of anything to write, sometimes I just get busy, sometimes I wanna break . . . . I try to let it go. And NORMALLY, I wouldn’t post on Thursday, because . . . well, so many reasons, but I decided to post today. As many of you know I am taking an online training. It is THE FIRST EVER Nia Belt training online. It is amazing to be a part of the FIRST EVER Nia Belt Training ONLINE – but I don’t think we are that special because a couple of weeks in (if even that many) other trainers starting teaching Nia Belts online and Debbie started other belts online. We were just the first by a couple of weeks or so. But they learned a lot in those first couple of weeks. Anyway . . . I started with that because part of the training is POD meetings. I know I mentioned the PODs before, but it was in the beginning and I didn’t know exactly what they would be. Well, it is great. I don’t think that POD stands for anything in fact it should probably be Pod, but I got POD stuck in my head so that is how I think of it. Anyway (again) . . . my POD meets on Thursdays and I wanted to share somethings that came out of my meeting today.
First of all the PODs are led by Nia Trainers. Nia Trainers train for years. I am not sure how many years – if there even is a requirement – one has to be involved with Nia before asked to be a trainer, but I do know that becoming a trainer is a long commitment. I think it is about two years. A Nia TRAINER is someone who can deliver Nia Training, so one of the belts or one of the other modes Nia has. The trainers are volunteering their time to be POD leaders and to mentor us students. With all of that said, I believe that all of the POD leaders are great, I mean they have to be because they are Nia Trainers, but I know I am very lucky to have a FABULOUS mentor. My POD leader is Laurie Bass. If you are looking at anything Nia you will more than likely see Laurie. She has been used as a model for many of the promotional material. You can see her at 2:34 in the Debbie Rosas and the Nia 5 Stages video. She is an amazing trainer. I feel very fortunate to have been assigned to her POD. She is very generous with her knowledge and her time.
In my last post I wrote about how the term “Sacred Athlete” didn’t really resonate with me. Well, Laurie gave me some suggestions and ideas on how to make it work for me. As I have said over and over, Nia changes the language a lot so she reminded me that I could do that. I could just use something else instead of “Sacred Athlete”. If I use something that DOES resonate with me then I can work with the principle and use it to further my relationship with Nia. Sticking with a term that I just can’t get on board with made me want to shrug off the entire principle.
The first thing she said helped too, “Where do I want to expend my energy?” I feel this is a great question to start off the study of Nia White Belt P11 – 2020. Then she threw out the idea of “sacred” meaning “with purpose” and “athlete” aligning more with “training to reach greatness”. So trying to shed the definitions that bother me does help, but I really liked her suggestion to just let the “Sacred Athlete” phrase be “your goal/your ideal”. Not the words “your goal/your ideal”, but the ideal YOU or the goal YOU. And, to me that tied in to what I mentioned Debbie said . . . she said she had different philosophies for the different Debbie’s in her life . . . different for WifeDebbie, MomDebbie, CEODebbie, etc. Ahhhhhh!
So that scrunchy face (the one I mentioned in my last post) relaxed. My whole body went, “Ahhhh!” Being able to just dispense with that term made me feel much better about this principle. Laurie also had more wisdom to dispense that is helping me cringe less, I am not saying that I won’t tense up when someone uses that term (ICK!!!!), I am just saying that I can now dig into Nia White Belt P11 – Creating A Sensory Life – 2020. because her take on it is making it less and less distasteful.
Do you have any phrases that bother you? Do you have substitutes for those phrases?
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