Doing More Of What We Love, From Debbie Rosas.

Over the past year, I have enjoyed writing about The Nia Technique through each of the foundational principles of the first education program I offered called, Nia, Art of Sensation. This program, like the others in The Nia Technique education library is a step toward learning how to live through the voice of the body with “sensation.”

“Sensation Science” teaches that our body is not simply something we use to move through life, it is the way we experience life itself. Experience is the heartbeat of The Nia Technique and Nia, Art of Sensation. It is what happens when we show up fully, and when we let our body, mind, emotions, and spirit take their rightful places as our guides.

Experience, for me, is the bridge between knowing and doing. It is what transforms my philosophy into my practice; my movement into my embodiment; and my thoughts into my wisdom. It is the thing that occurs when I stop standing outside of my life and step into it; barefoot, awake, willing to sense and feel whatever is there. 

Over the years, I’ve discovered that experience isn’t something that happens to me, but rather, it is something in which I consciously participate. What shows up is what I’m given to learn and grow from and that includes each and every sensation, whether pleasant or even uncomfortable; it is an important part of that teaching.

The body as my living laboratory is where all my first experience happens. Every pulse, breath, shiver, and stretch is the language of life speaking to me through my body. When I recognize the gift of these moment-to-moment experiences, I listen through my four sensory intelligences; the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

With my Whole Being, I begin to navigate and travel through life with a new kind of clarity. These intelligences become my compass. They whisper the truth of what is real to me in every moment and when I listen, my actions naturally align with the deeper intelligence of what I call the “anatomical map” of The Body’s Way.

What I have learned and what we can all learn, too, is that doing is inseparable from experience. Experience is the art of participation. It asks us to be both a witness and a creator, to move with curiosity, rather than control. It is through action that we discover what something really means to us and matters to us.

The act of moving, engaging, touching, breathing, and feeling gives our mind the feedback it needs to help us understand, manage to find both meaning and purpose in what we do. Doing teaches us how much or how little to participate, even when to stay, and when to step away. We live in our Whole Being for the pleasure of living.

With The Nia Technique, the science of experience is expressed through the interaction of music, movement, and magic. This is where Nia, Art of Sensation becomes visible: when body and life meet through resonance. Music is vibration and the resonance that stimulates and awakens our cells, our memory, and our imagination.

Movement is in us and all around us in the natural world in which we live. Movement is how our body and life answers the call of music. And then, Magic arises when we align with the body’s natural design, and when we allow motion, gravity, and space to collaborate as one living orchestra so that we might live our lives fully. 

The Nia Technique is a barefoot movement class, taught by licensed and certified Nia instructors, is a living example of this principle. It is both a laboratory and ritual, even a playground where mindfulness, functional fitness, and pleasure weave together. The more we move barefoot, the more we sense our “flow motion.”

Flow motion is the rhythmic intelligence that allows our control to soften into our grace for ourselves. I’ve learned that the faster I move, the less control I truly have, but the more I listen, the more integrated I become. Experience reveals this and teaches me that balance is not fixed, but a conversation between stability and surrender.

As a Sensation Scientist, I am committed to continue to study the body, its anatomy, and its movement potential. I am committed to heightening the felt sense of aliveness in everything I do. Each class, each walk, each breath is a chance for me to practice embodied awareness and to notice the pulse of life moving through me.

When I allow that awareness to guide me, the mundane becomes sacred. The simple act of moving to music becomes medicine. In the end, experience is how we learn to live artfully. It’s how we refine our ability to sense, respond, and create. It’s how we remember that every moment, no matter how ordinary, can become extraordinary.

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