Licensed Teacher Content | October 2006
The Belt Corners
By Ann Christiansen, Nia Trainer
Rise into Standing the moment when your body is ready physically to come up into a vertical position by pushing your buttocks back, keep your toes curled under and the arms up above your head. Sense for inner strength in your core, and how this architecture demands a totally new sense for gravity and alignment. Keep your head up, eyes looking up, your spine curved, elastic, and pliable. Sway on top of the Base — your folded legs and grounded feet in a squat position.
Aligning your spine vertically will change your relationship with your world. Practice the transition from Crawling into Standing and sense how it affects all your realms. Ask yourself, “What is needed in the emotional realm to go into this next phase? Where does that curiosity and willpower to move on come from? How does it affect the mind and the spirit?” Listen to your body for the answers.
Move into standing and sense for the flush of energy that rushes through your system when the spine is upright. Now, kundalini energy flows from the bottom up through the first two charkas. The body is now plugged into the electromagnetic energy from above and around. Practice this transition with utmost attention to become sensitive to the physical energy shift that happens. Use it wisely to get to know your ICU principle well. Be with P-W-V anew each day this way.
Connect to the primal, practical and sacred aspects of the architecture of Standing. In Standing, the spine aligns upward and the Black Coat can for the first time drape around your shoulders, down along your back.