Debbie Rosas, On The Body’s Way.

Everyone wants to enrich their lives with well being and that everyone wants to possess their bodies with a quality of health that moves through life in a radiant beauty that comes from vitality. Most of us don’t know that we are extraordinary. This awareness, knowledge, and understanding goes undetected unless we gaze within to discover not only that we are extraordinary, but that we are meant to live an extraordinary life of health and well being at any stage and at any age.

Think back to a time when you were filled with the joy of just moving, jumping, leaping, rolling, tumbling, and playing in your body. You learned about life through your body and through interacting in the world and with the people in your world. Ideas about health and well being never crossed your mind. Your body didn’t have to think about gaining self confidence because movement and play was the activity that taught your body how to make wise choices and decisions for you.

Movement was the activity that taught you to learn and measure signals of pleasure and pain. Movement taught you how to adapt and find the path of least resistance. Together, movement and pleasure gave you confidence to know you could trust yourself and your body to guide you. Somewhere along the way your cognitive thinking replaced your sensory body wisdom and the adventure of joyful living. Play and pleasurable movement with the body and its way, as your guide, disappeared.

But in Nia, The Body’s Way is not lost. It is alive and it lives within us all. The Body’s Way is a science, a philosophy, a map, and a design for creating a relationship with our bodies. It is the science behind how we find our body’s way and fall in love with not just the body, but with our body. As someone who identifies as dyslexic, it miraculously guided me to know that I do think differently, but that I do think very, very well. It guided me to understand that both I and my body are extraordinary.

The Body’s Way is my map and sensory intelligence is my compass, which both help me stay present in my body and present in the moment by using what I call “felt sense” messages to make good and healthy choices and decisions for both me and my body. As I listen and interpret sensory messages of pain and pleasure, I am able to identify my body’s moment to moment needs. As I listen, I hear the “voices” of the hidden beauty, power, grace, and wisdom of my body, I am able to say, “Thank you.”

In Nia, The Body’s Way brilliant design respects our unique body and our unique body function which gives us access to body sensation wisdom that we can experience by hearing and listening to the voices of our own body’s anatomy. A wisdom not isolated or localized, but a systemic, whole body wisdom. A boundless source of intelligence that connects us to every moment and to every thing and to every one from both the inside-out and the outside-in. This allows us to live meaningful and purposeful lives.

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