Licensed Teacher Content | December 2006
From the Source
The Sensation of Foundation
It is the time of year when classes tend to get full and then thin out depending upon when the party is and what is on the ‘to-do list.’ Stress levels go up, and tempers and fuses are short. Even “Setting the Focus” can be just one more thing to do!
December is a great month to reconnect with your group. It is also a great time to give thanks and to celebrate small and big miracles, growth spurts, and achievements. Our suggestion is that you use the Five Stages of Self-Healing to keep stress levels low and to prepare yourself to Step In to 2007.
- Enter into Embryonic and ask yourself, “What can I do to receive what I need to step into 2007?”
- In Creeping, ask yourself, “What do I see for my future and what do I need to aggressively reach out into and move towards to achieve what I desire?”
- In Crawling, ask yourself, “In what direction do I need to look in for motivation that will tell me I am on the right path?”
- In Standing, ask yourself, “What sensation can I connect to that will alert me to that moment when my preparation from the past and the now has prepared me to rise up into the person I want to be?”
- In Walking, ask yourself, “What thoughts and feelings will help my posture, walk, and voice present the evolved me?”
And remember, Nia wants you to dance. She wants you to listen to the music, dance to the music, and share what you sense. All of the education Nia shared this year, including the exercise of the Five Stages of Self-Healing, has been shared with one intent: to condition your body, mind, emotions, and spirit, so that you are ready to receive the full blast of sensation that says, “Now I Am A Body’s Way Educator.”
Next year, in January, we will begin with the last stage of the Five Stages, Walking. We are excited to Walk into this next year and onto a path that is wider. This path will include room for fitness, health and wellness, and personal growth, including coaching. Our Focus for 2007 will be on Conditioning, and will take into consideration all the information that will flow from the many veins of new and current teachers and professionals, touching more bodies and lives than ever before.
The foundation that we have laid over the past 25 years is rich soil. The trees planted – represented by each one who shares this work professionally – have educated, inspired, and motivated thousands of people to seek joy and pleasure as the Way. The Way of Nia is showing us a new way where clarity and conscious focus and intent are critical. The clarity that we have received has directed us to refine, repackage, reorganize, and restructure in order to step onto multiple information highways. As teachers, we are the conduit between Nia’s heart, spirit, and information, and the people. It is the people that Nia wants us to attract. It is the teachers that Nia wants us to support, and we will.
Next year Nia will get a makeover. She wants us all to share her message and to have the intelligence to clarify her message, based on the needs of the people we are with. You have already seen part of her makeover in the new website, the new Teachers Forum, and in the new routine packaging. And there is more to come! To help make that happen, next year Carlos and I are committed to staying home. For us, it is the Year of the Teacher. It is the year of Product Development to support teachers and students. It is the year of Business Mastery.
We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve you and to be served by you. There is never a moment when we do not feel deep gratitude and appreciation for people like you who have embraced Nia, who give so much of themselves, and who touch so many people’s hearts in the way only each of you can. May this holiday season and the month of December be one of Joy. Take time for yourself. Take time to recommit to what you love most, so that as you prepare to Walk in 2007, all of your spirit and energy will be propelled and put in motion to move you forward.
In Love and Light,
Carlos Rosas and Debbie Rosas
Founders of the Nia Technique