In Sacred Honor of You, From Debbie Rosas.

Over the years, I’ve learned that living in a body is both art and devotion and how we live in our body, how we move, rest, nourish, and express shapes not just our physical health, but our entire way of being. Lifestyles is where meaning and purpose meet embodiment. It’s where The Nia Technique may become personal and where practice turns into living art. Don’t let the word “sacred” scare you. It means something dedicated to and devoted to a single person, place, thing or special purpose. Living with Nia means sensing your body as sacred space.

Don’t let the word “sacred” scare you. It means something dedicated to and devoted to a single person, place, thing or special purpose. In this case that sacred is you and your body. It describes a secular relationship, not something religious, but what is deeply meaningful and purposeful to only you. To live a sacred lifestyle is to treat your body and your life as worthy of reverence. It’s to value the small choices you make each day, how you breathe, what you eat, how you think, and how you move as part of something larger, something that holds purpose.

I call this the way of the “Sacred Athlete.” Just like a professional athlete prioritizes their body for performance, the Sacred Athlete prioritizes their body for living. Everything they experience, and practice both creates and contributes to the flow of life force through their physical form. Their body is their greatest relationship, their most profound teacher, and the most precious thing they own. This is what motivates them to continually invest in their body and life. The Sacred Athlete plays the game of life on the field of their daily life.

They are guided by The Body’s Way; with a compass of five guiding principles: purpose, potential, power, presence, and possibility. This is how they find their North Star; the light that helps them orient their choices toward what sustains vitality and joy.

If we follow this same star, we can grow from within, just like a tree grows toward the sun with its roots grounding in the earth, and its branches reaching skyward into the light of life. Experience, Practice, and Lifestyle, is where it all comes together as a living expression of our devotion to body and life. 

Where experience awakens awareness, practice builds mastery and lifestyle sustains the art of living where the art of movement and the art of being are one and the same. To live this way requires dedication and a steady, “I’m in” commitment. It asks for daily reflection, honest self-examination, and conscious choice-making. It means tending to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual realms with respect and care. It’s a commitment that means each thought, word, and action is part of your training and also a part of your body and life artistry.

Experience teaches us how to sense and feel. Practice teaches us how to refine. Lifestyle teaches us how to live. Together they form a triad, a living rhythm that moves through everything we do. This reminds us that embodiment is not a single act. It is a lifelong relationship each day that we are invited to experience more fully, practice more wisely, and live more artfully. What is experience? It is the thing that happens when we turn up for our body and life and the sensation of being alive and being present to everything that shows up.

What shows up is what we are each given to learn and grow, hopefully into healthier and better, more joyful humans. When we recognize the gift of moment-to-moment experience and learn to listen to our four sensory intelligences and use them with our body and life compass, then the voices of our body’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual powers guide us. Each unique voice connects us to the experience of feeling whole; the centralization of thought, feeling and action. Giving ourselves to present moments determines what to do.

Each principle of Nia, Art of Sensation has a title, a bi-line and descriptive sensory study and three triad points, which are the actions to do when we follow and embody the wisdom of a triad. Some principles like Principle 12 Practice also include a Root and two Primordial Energies words, and a Core Code symbol or words.

Each part provides a visual knowledge and skill map linked to a single idea. Selectively choosing one part to work with is how you journey through with the map of a principle. In mastering this experience you then become authentically—you.

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