“The Body’s Way” Foundation, By Debbie Rosas.

I could tell you that The Body’s Way started the moment I was born into my body. But, that’s not true. I didn’t even begin to care about the form and function of my body until I started to work out in the early 1970’s. That’s when I started to notice how “body things” worked or didn’t work together with how things felt; either good or bad.

Back in those days “feel the burn,” was the chief aim. I thought that health and wellness came with the pain. I thought the pain was a way to get stronger, fitter, wiser, and healthier. Not so! After forty years, I’m here to tell you that pleasure is really it, and that The Body’s Way is your map to living in your body in healthy and meaningful ways.

The Body’s Way is the only point on the compass you need aim for and its map is already inside you. In 1981, during my search for a better way to work out and a new way to live in my body, I created The Body’s Way to describe what I was discovering by observing and looking and listening to my body speak to me as I moved.

By imagining all the parts of my body as individual identities, I used personification to embody and describe scientific knowledge about the form, function, and art of the body. I soon discovered the way the body is designed is to find balance and seek comfort while living in pleasure. I then professionally titled my work, The Body’s Way.

This ultimately defined the Nia Technique’s unique approach to anatomy that I created to help others like myself to understand and embody anatomical knowledge more deeply. Upon invitation, I started to present The Body’s Way education at prestigious conventions such as IDEA; Science of Consciousness; and Natural Wellness Conferences.

In 2006, I introduced The Body’s Way to Nia continuing education by developing Nia, 5 Stages for an individual self healing movement practice that provided anatomical knowledge based on the science of the body. In 2011, I further developed The Body’s Way, creating my pedagogy for a monthly thematic curriculum that spanned four years.

In this, I personally tested my methodology before I invited Nia teachers and faculty to report their findings on my research and scholarship. In 2011, when I taught the course of study titled, “Becoming a Sensation Scientist,” Nia faculty, teachers, and students joined me on a journey into the body for teaching people to detect all sensations.

Together we identified both healthy and unhealthy aspects in all parts of the body. I defined one’s ability to detect, sense, read, and interpret the signals of the body as, Body Literacy. As in other literacies, Body Literacy allows one to develop skills to read and interpret information from the body to make healthier and better choices and decisions.

The overall result from becoming what I named a, Sensation Scientist, through Body Literacy is enhanced fitness, health, and well-being; while creating a movement and sensory lifestyle based on the design and the pleasure of the body. What then, that has been described as unique and innovative about my work, is my cognitive somatic approach.

Voices are the art of poetry and prose I craft for the personification of forms and functions of all the many body features to teach students about the design of each part of their body such as cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, muscles, joints, bones, tendons, ligaments, while always and especially; the sensation for understanding each part.

I view the human body as a masterpiece of resilience, intelligence, and harmony. A living system that thrives not through control, but through responsiveness; always sensing what is needed and adjusting accordingly. Each body is an individual masterpiece that functions not as separate parts, but as a unified whole. Humanity is no different.

We are a living body. We are diverse and adaptive in our strength and in our differences. Our abilities to move, feel, respond and evolve are miraculous. We can learn to sense imbalance and to restore balance; not from any textbook, but from within. We can trust our body. Our nervous system knows. Our body knows. We just have to listen. 

We can choose the medicine of moving through life differently. We can build cultures of healing instead of cultures of harm. By embracing these truths, we can bring ourselves and our communities back into a harmonious balance. This is and will always be my focus and intention for meaning and purpose through, The Body’s Way.

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