Wow! This delicious hunger has been instilled in me to learn, learn, learn! I'm just going to trust that my angels are continually guiding me and go with it.

I've decided to cancel my week long dance retreat at Esalen I had booked for the end of this month. I was craving the rejuevination of the hot springs more than anything... but the Gabrielle Roth dance retreat attracted me as a great way to get there. Then, last night, I watched over the Wave dance videos from Roth. While the work really stirred my soul almost 10 years ago when I first started dancing... I watched the videos feeling that the guidance was too basic, too vague, ungrounded. I was watching images of these dancers flailing their bodies everywhere with no rhyme or reason other than, for example, to embody "chaos" and realized that is not enough for me anymore.

I crave more of the subtleties of dancing from specific organs, understanding the flexion and extension of specific muscles during hoop moves, the synaptic firing of neurons that brightens the whole body up like a Christmas tree during hoopdance which engages the mind and the body. I'm now in this whole other place... Then I remembered that Nia, the movement system which Candice and Jasmine from WhirlyGirlz have trained within, does have all these more scientific and elegant aspects that I crave. AND they have an advanced training in Portland during the exact same dates as the Esalen retreat. Suddenly, it was like, DONE. I'm going to Portland. I haven't had the time to do the 12 week pre-training course, but I don't care. The stars seemed to be aligned! I'm going for it! I have the feeling I am going to learn things from this training that are going to help evolve the HoopGirl Workout cirriculum and teacher training in a fantastic direction. I sense it....

www.nianow.com

Thank you Brilliance of the Universe for the clear communication that is always available to me from within!