“The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, ‘tender loving care’ has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.” - Larry Dossey
The focus of tonight’s Gentle Nia class is to access and dance with the energy center of our heart via opening the chest.
The heart chakra (energy center) is located in the center of the chest at the breastbone. It is considered the emotional center and gateway of love, compassion and joy. We will sense the beat of our heart and the love that originates and spirals out of this energy center to fill our entire body and our world.
The Institute of Heart Math, a nonprofit research center that has been studying the electromagnetic energy generated by emotions and the human heart for over a decade, recently found that:
“Compared to the electromagnetic field produced by the brain, the electrical component of the heart’s field is about 60 times greater in amplitude, and permeates every cell of the body. The magnetic component is approximately 5,000 times stronger than the brain’s magnetic field and can be detected several feet away from the body with sensitive magentometers.”
The Voice of the Chest
I am the voice of your chest – the birdcage of your heartbeat.
I include your ribs, thoracic cavity, sternum or your breastbone, cartilage and twelve thoracic vertebrae.
I govern the space where love and heart power grow.
By design, I am open to the light, yet, like a birdcage, I protect something sacred and precious, your heart and lungs, the internal organs that make you human.
I also support your shoulder girdle, giving freedom to your winged arms and hands.
You keep me healthy by breathing, moving your lungs inside me.
Through my openings, pulses the sound of life heard as a beat, the eternal rhythm of life.
I provide a path to your heart, a home for feelings of love, sadness, grief and joy, and an awakening of your most expressive self.
When Dancing Through Life sense life inside your chest.
Inhale and smell the moment, sensing movement from the inside, out.
On the hour, every hour, pause and sense the movement of breath expanding your lungs and gently encouraging movement of the birdcage of your chest.
Adapted from Nia Technique Book and Nia 5 Stages module on the Chest.
Come dance your heart energy tonight from 5:00pm – 6:00pm at the Civetta Dance Space in Greenwood.
This will be my last Sunday evening class at the Civetta Dance Space in Greenwood. I am still working on identifying a space and time to continue teaching the Nia 5 Stages-Gentle Nia class. Stay tuned!
