Fertile Ground Movement, LLC

When was the last time you said YES to feeling better? Join us for Taijifit at ACAC Midlothian. Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am.

During an Nia class experience, we practice movement while on the floor and call it FloorPlay. It is intentional, fun, creative, mindful, and conditioning. It is one of the best things we can do physically for ourselves as we age! If getting on the floor is challenging, you can play in a chair with gravity, space, and time and have a similar experience too.

Are You a ‘Floor Person’? Why Lying on the Ground Feels So Good For some, just a few minutes can quiet the mind.

Helping VA Veterans with pain relief, stress, high blood pressure, balance, sleep and so much more through Tai Chi/Relaxation Therapies in the community care program has been so meaningful to me. Today, I just worked with one Veteran on a new relaxation approach for low back pain, and he smiled at me at the end and said, “That was a very wonderful experience, You are GOOD.” I told him, he is the one doing the practice and creating the change and it is an honor to be his guide.

“No pain, no gain” is becoming a thing of the past. We don’t have to exhaust or kill ourselves to cultivate health and wellness. This helps shine the light on outdated myths.

Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise, study finds The slow-moving Chinese martial art tai chi is known to increase flexibility and balance. Now, research suggests it's more effective at reducing blood pressure than more vigorous forms of exercise.

Tai Chi and Relaxation practice help many Veterans to cultivate resilience, peace and yes even joy! Reach out to your VA provider and ask for these natural treatment approaches for pain, stress, sleep, balance and more. I would love to practice with you.

Wanna step into a Tai Chi practice or add it to your movement career? I will be teaching the TaijiFit 101 course starting in February. You don’t need any experience and you do not have to teach. It is fun and so great for the body and brain. Check it out!

TaijiFit 101: Original Flow Offering Do you want to tap into inner balance and harmony? Does teaching others how to destress, recenter, and access the blissful state that is Flow sound, well, blissful? We can get you there. Your first step: Take TaijiFit 101: Original Flow. Flow is an innate Human quality. It’s in all of us - you jus...

What did unexpected joy sound like for you today?

One way I volunteer is once monthly with Taijifit to give Veterans and caregivers the opportunity to find relaxation, ease, and community and also learn about their Tai Chi Integrative Treatment options available through their VA. Sign-up here and Happy MLK day https://taijifit.com/veterans-tai-chi-class/

For Veterans, MLK Day (a National Day of Service) is not a day off, it's a day ON. The motto is Volunteer and Serve.

What are you up to today? If you’re volunteering, please share what you’re up to below so we can create a nice list of opportunities. If you’re looking for options, check out this article from the Veterans Administration on how you can help: https://www.volunteer.va.gov/ccc.asp

Starting Tuesday at ACAC Midlothian!

Secular Symbolic Sacred: A Nia Embodiment six session series
Tues/Thurs 10am Studio B starting Jan. 16th

🌬Sense the unlimited potential of your own structure and form through Nia’s 52 moves and YOUR POWER to create meaning and magic.

🔥Learn to integrate your body’s natural movement with your mental artistry to create powerful symbology and guidance for your day and life.

💫Explore your capacity to transcend ordinary experience and feel more connected and effortless in this web of life.

All levels of fitness, seated or standing, and no moves to get right or learn. Take one or all sessions.

Please join me and share! I am exploring additional ways to advocate movement and inspire wellness, this time with Nia. Free for 60+ Wednesday on Zoom!

Wellness Wednesday: Five Sensations of Fitness with Nia Technique - Senior Planet from AARP Come discuss different topics related to health and wellness.

Happy Thanksgiving🍁

AS IF TO DEMONSTRATE AN ECLIPSE
by Billy Collins
I pick an orange from a wicker basket
and place it on the table
to represent the sun.
Then down at the other end
a blue and white marble
becomes the earth
and nearby I lay the little moon of an aspirin.
I get a glass from a cabinet,
open a bottle of wine,
then I sit in a ladder-back chair,
a benevolent god presiding
over a miniature creation myth,
and I begin to sing
a homemade canticle of thanks
for this perfect little arrangement,
for not making the earth too hot or cold
not making it spin too fast or slow
so that the grove of orange trees
and the owl become possible,
not to mention the rolling wave,
the play of clouds, geese in flight,
and the Z of lightning on a dark lake.
Then I fill my glass again
and give thanks for the trout,
the oak, and the yellow feather,
singing the room full of shadows,
as sun and earth and moon
circle one another in their impeccable orbits
and I get more and more cockeyed with gratitude.

Share with Veterans you know far and wide! This movement modality is helping significantly with pain, stress, sleep, balance, mobility and HARMONY.

Good news! In honor of Veterans Day, TaijiFit is pleased to announce we are offering 3 FREE additional weekly virtual Tai Chi classes for our friends in the military. These Studio Access classes are open to everyone, but Veterans, their caregivers, and active military personnel are invited to join for free — this week and every week!

If you are a Veteran, Veteran caregiver, or currently serving in the military (thank you! 🇺🇸❤️), please click below to register and get a Zoom link before classes:
https://taijifit.com/veterans-and-caregivers-free-studio-access-membership-opt-in/

Studio Access: Explore the Flow State
Wednesdays at 7pm ET

Studio Access: Flow from Your Seat with Seated Tai Chi
Thursdays at 5pm ET

Studio Access: Focus on Traditional Tai Chi
Saturdays at 11:30am ET

(Replays are available.)

How long have you heard from mainstream media, scholarly sources like Harvard Health, and major medical centers (Cleveland and Mayo Clinic) that Tai Chi has many preventative and restorative benefits for the body and mind?

The time is now to join me Tuesdays and Thursdays in October at 1:30pm ET from the comfort of your own home for Tai Chi Essentials. It is a way to begin your wellness and movement journey with this ancient movement practice and art.

Tai Chi Essentials Offering | TaijiFit Learn the Essential Skills of Traditional Tai Chi Get the basics down or refresh your practice, this class will teach you the key fundamentals. Enroll now I loved Tai Chi Essentials. You’re a great teacher and know so much about the form techniques. I can't think of anything that could improve the...

Did you know I am part of an amazing Taijifit team offering weekly free Tai Chi sessions for Vetetans and their caregivers on Wednesdays at 4pm ET? I am sharing a session this afternoon and would love if you would help me to spread the word! Please share with any Veteran you know and love. Tai Chi can improve sleep, stress, pain, mobility and balance and connecting with a community gives many other social benefits too!

Veterans Flow Show Join Tai Chi Master David-Dorian Ross for a special Veteran Focused Tai Chi Class, free!

Four weeks of community, fun movement, and practicing our natural state of flow! I will be guiding the first six sessions and then you will have a wonderful opportunity to connect with a Tai Chi expert, and creator of Taijifit, David-Dorian Ross for the final two sessions!

Fundamentals of Flow Join Tai Chi Master David-Dorian Ross as he guides you through eight 1-hour Live Sessions that introduce you to the Fundamentals of Flow.

Today, a new participant joined in my local movement group. A thirty-something mom of five shared afterward how she loved the way in our practice there are no right or wrong ways to do moves as long as they feel good for the body. She also shared how wonderfully it felt to share the energy of love with everyone during our Heart Opening ending moves. She usually does not like “group exercise” classes, but found the movements simple but a good challenge and could tell how they helped her body to open and relax. Yep, I never imagined Tai Chi would become such a major practice for me and how much joy it is to share it with others.

Summer vacation plans likely complete? What is next? Indulge this holiday "slow travel" style in Vienna, Austria. Envision many relaxed mornings in your boutique hotel in the heart of the most popular district with local and gourmet breakfast, daily opportunities for movement (Nia, and Tai Chi), unique wellness playshops, deeply restorative practices, cultural excursions, world class food experiences, evening spectacular holiday markets, awe filled natural excursions, and sharing deep connection with individuals who are movement explorers and spiritual/consciousness seekers. We will guide you to use your own body, mind, emotions, and unique spirit to discover what brings you joy, peace, and more ease so that you can experience a holiday season of your dreams and build skills that can improve your joy and ease in your body and life for 2024. I am thrilled to be offering this with travel guru and once Vienna, Austria resident, Jessica Lonnes, and would love for you to join us! https://www.journeyswithjessica.org/indulgsense

As we celebrate July 4th, of course I am mindful of our Veterans and the sacrifices they have made for our country. True freedom is cultivated within us and is a practice that is valuable for ourselves and I believe also truly valuable to our country. I am honored to be a part of the Taijifit team offering free Tai Chi to Veterans on Wednesdays at 4pm ET each week. Join us by registering online here https://www.taijifit.net/veterans-tai-chi-class and feel free to check out what this Veteran shares about our program.
https://youtu.be/H1HbS225Sys

Tai Chi for Veterans Testimonial Veterans sharing with other Veterans the benefits of Tai Chi. If you are a Veteran utilizing VA hospital services, feel free to contact me at (804)909-7210 o...

If you are looking to decrease your stress or searching for something to give you more inner peace and harmony, I encourage you to join me and my Taijifit colleague, Deb Gunn for an Tai Chi Fundamentals 8 week training.

In this exciting course, we're going to break down Tai Chi into its most important parts: alignment, breath, footwork, and centering. We will show you the ropes and help you understand the structure, patterns, and details of Tai Chi. Every class is interactive, meaning you'll have plenty of time to practice and get feedback. So, get ready to dive in and have some fun while learning something new!

CLASS SCHEDULE
10AM PT / 1:00PM ET
All classes are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Zoom
Thursday, July 6
Tuesday, July 11
Thursday, July 13
Tuesday, July 18
Thursday, July 20
Tuesday, July 25
Thursday, July 27
Tuesday, August 1

https://www.taijifit.net/offers/EvwQg3yF/checkout

I concur!!! Each time I practice Tai Chi with one or more Veterans, I receive something valuable. Sometimes it is a new ability I feel in my body, sometimes it is a deeper sense of relaxation, it could be feeling more alive and positive. Tai Chi is a gift that keeps giving and every Veteran receiving Community Care with me that comes at least once a week agrees that it makes life in their body feel better.

Have I mentioned I love my work? Part of being a somatic movement educator assisting others with healing and conditioning is learning and embodiment of new movement skills, techniques, and principles within myself FIRST. There are many behind the scenes hours of joyful and awe filled practice and learning before I share with participants in person or online. A glimpse into my Nia Teachers meeting today. I took several pages of notes, but the following words really stood out to me as we were discussing the newest routine, "Treasure." When you read the words, what do you notice in your body? Remember your body and life are the greatest TREASUREs and there is so much to enjoy during your unique exploration!

Cultivating
Body Centered
Purpose
Reconnecting
Potential
Synchronizing
Possibility
Felt Sense
Life Skill
Beyond Usual

And exercise can be so much fun too!!!

Vala Afshar on Twitter ““Exercise is the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today." https://t.co/7DBD9Ygzfd”