Super excited to be sharing this special Saturday, 10am Class via Zoom. Adapted from an original Nia routine “SkyDancing” by Carlos Aya Rosas. The AfroCelt Experience leads us through a journey of discovery, with the Core and Extremities (Legs and Arms).
We explore:
Gift of Travel ~ Legs - Low Extremities
Gift of expression ~ Arms - Upper Extremities
Gift of connection ~ Core
“I LOVE this routine. It’s a well refined vertical routine that transcends me to a different time, takes me to a fitness level that I love to reach and I think carries the class along with me! I love the look on participants faces. when we are in the peak of get moving, the expression says something like “wow! how did I get here!””
This Saturday let’s come together to dance and sense spirals. The spiral is the path of movement in a human being and almost all organic growth – plants spiral up. A tightrope walker has to practice a really longtime to walk on a straight line. Our natural walk is a shifting, a spiraling back and forth. Our breath spirals. Even an idea spirals – it begins, spirals up, goes back down, and then we say something.
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
FOCUS: Celebrate Spirals through Core + Extremities
INTENT: Leave invigorated and inspired with a sense of greater connection through your body and beyond. Connect the dots physically and energetically.
ROUTINE: Afro Celt
MUSIC: Afro Celt 3: Further in Time
An Album like “Further in Time”, with a band like Afro Celt Sound System, creates a fun, fabulous and expansive sound back drop from which to choreograph moves. The result being a magical experience.
A routine inspired from the SkyDancing routine designed by Carlos Aya Rosas. In class I choose to give thanks to Carlos Aya Rosas, for all the life changing inspiration he has brought to my life and the lives of many….
All songs other than the last come from Afro Celt Volume 3:Further In Time
North 6:49
North Part 2 3:01
When You’re Falling 5:14
Colossus 6:44
Lagan 4:05
Shadowman 6:36
Life Begin Again 6:22
Further In Time 6:32
Go On Through 8:04
Onwards 5:27
Adagio 5:11 Safri Duo Spine
“There are no bones in the human body that are straight, there is a roundness and a spiraling action to most bones.
The forearm bones are the only two that spiral over each other. Energy moves along a curved line more functionally versus a straight line. ”
oh MY!! in preparation for my classes tomorrow (teaching adapted version of Sky Dancing called Afro Celt (named after the band who plays the music LOL) I found this wonderful breakdown & visual display of a song (by Afro Celt)... how cool is this...
Beginning with the Nia 5 Stages class, which most often is described as a luxurious healing hour of setting the focus for the 10am movement experience that follows.
The 10am class will be “Afro Celt”, will be an experience led by Helen Terry that explores spirals in relationship with Core and Extremities.
Oh my! if you’d like to get a little geeky, or simply enjoy listening the this beautiful run of anatomy words with spiraling visuals. Check out this great video which provides a wonderful journey along the spiral line of the body.
“The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”
“The whole universe is based on rhythms.
Everything happens in circles, in spirals.”
When you sign up for a class you are automatically sent the Zoom link for class.
You are welcome to attend either class.
And, when you’re able to attend both classes, something magic happens! The entire Nia 5 stages class is like a rich 60 minute introduction to the 10am Nia class, a beautiful compliment and super preparation.
In this gentle, self discovering, potentially healing Nia 5 stages experience
your body gets to settle into and taste the Nia class focus
your mind can learn new and novel information,
your heart may open to receive more with fascination up and frustration down
your spirit could be tickled and curious to experience more