The Nia White Belt training is in transition. Good news is, on this upcoming training only, participants will experience the present Nia White Belt in Person with Helen Terry AND receive a complimentary 2 hours a week for 16 weeks training online, with founder of Nia, Debbie Rosas.
We also have some extra classes including 10am Saturday & Sunday and Soma Faith at 5pm on Sunday.
Hope you can join us for the training, or retake, or enjoy the extra Nia public classes.
As part of our 30 day challenge program, Fridays are reserved for Fun, i.e. “Fun Friday’s”. This week Paul Duff led a fabulous 30 minute class that focused on MANY ways of moving and dancing with a smile line, from our hips, through our heart, across our face, through the clock step (hour by hour!). what a blast!
These special 30 minute classes are usually only available to those who sign up for the monthly 30 day program. Today, if you’d like to experience the 24 hour recording of Paul’s class (1) kindly make a $25 donation to St Jude (click the link below). (2) Then email helen@somaranch.com and she’ll send you the recording link.
Here’s a taste of the class.
RECORDING DAY 12
FOCUS: The “Smile Line”
INTENT: To increase ease and joy in the root/base
ROUTINE: GO, BLOOM, 52 Moves
MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/01-13-23-soma-ranch/pl.u-0VeWtYxvyv
TEACHER: Paul Duff
COMMENTS: Class Highlights: Smile Lines Everywhere - Super Basic Intro to Merengue - Air Guitar!
Special Attention To: Alexander Technique, Hip Bumps, Pelvic Circles, Clocks, Traveling in Directions
For more info on Merengue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merengue_(dance)?wprov=sfti1
https://www.kennedy-center.org/.../fiveish.../latin-dance/
For more info on Alexander Technique:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Technique...
https://www.amsatonline.org/aws/AMSAT/pt/sp/what_is
Kin 240: Yellow Rhythmic Sun
Your Galactic Affirmation is:
I Organize in order to Enlighten
Balancing Life
I seal the Matrix of Universal Fire
With the Rhythmic tone of Equality
I am guided by my own power doubled
This month we met TWICE for Community Cuppa after our 10am Nia class, 2 Mondays in a row.
Thank you everyone who stayed, connected and shared. Wow! what a rich gathering of women. Beautiful shares, fun times, deep meaningful conversations, big giggles, yummy snacks and great prayers.
We raised $50 towards our St Jude Fundraiser. Here’s our total so far!
This Saturday morning we'll be enjoying Rock Star teacher, Natasha Villeneuve. at 8:45am for Nia 5 Stages. Here’s a little about Natasha and what she shared about class.
Zoom Link is the same as usual, whenever you Sign Up for a class the link is sent to you automatically. Hope you can join us on this grounding journey with healing, movement and dance.
Here’s an interview with Natasha a while back. She’s a wonderful “pro” at how to share clearly, from the heart, and the skill to articulate experiences that are difficult to describe.
Oh how I loved Paul Duff's class today. What a treat! Those who missed it, I encourage you to catch the recording and enjoy discovering all your smile lines!
And so I'm up next! I hope you will join me for NIA 5 stages tomorrow (Sat) at 8:45am. The lesson will be focused on feet and ankles. Considering all our feet (and body) do for us, let's take some time to show them some love! I feel this class is a perfect foundation and "warm up" to Martha Randall's Tree of Life class to follow!
“Gosh, I feel like I’ve been invited
to be the opening act
for a famous artist.
What an honour!I ”
I discovered the delightful, fun practice of Nia in 2017 and instantly fell in love with all aspects of it.
My body, mind and spirit had been craving a movement practice that incorporated uplifting music, body connection and awareness, community and dance...and I found it!
As a holistic nutritionist with a passion for health, I truly value the mind-body connection and recognize the critical importance of joyful movement for optimal health and well-being.
In 2019, I decided to leap into an intensive white belt training so that I could explore Nia further and share the benefits of Nia with others. What I experienced during the training was magical. Not only did we move, we also discovered, explored, played, felt, released, and connected. Since the training, I have been practicing Nia regularly and have noticed improvements in my energy, focus, mood, strength, and health. Nia leaves me feeling healthy, centered, grounded and joyful. Nia holistic fitness classes are cardio-dance infused, easy to follow, low impact classes danced barefoot to soulful music and are truly for ANY body! The Nia 5 Stages class is a wonderful healing compliment to the movement/dance Nia Class, a wonderful rich combination of learning more about the body’s way while embodying the experience in an exquisite healing way.
Absolutely everyone is welcome and no dance experience is necessary!
Natasha Villeneuve is a licensed Nia Blue belt Instructor and Holistic Nutritionist.
Connect with Natasha at naturallynatashav@gmail.com
This Saturday morning we'll be enjoying special Guest teacher, Martha Randall. Here’s a little about Martha and what she shared about class.
Zoom Link is the same as usual, whenever you Sign Up for a class the link is sent to you automatically. Hope you can join us on this grounding journey with healing, movement and dance.
“Hello all! I’m looking forward to sharing January Joy with you on Saturday morning, January 14th.
I’ll be teaching a routine I call Tree of Life.
Some nice world music and a few,
no doubt, familiar tunes.
We will root to fly!”
I live in Toronto with my husband and daughter. I grew up in northern Ontario and came south to study dance at York University in 1975.
I came to movement quickly as a youngster through small town running around, easy access to skiing, skating, swimming, golf, team sports and gymnastics in highschool.
I showed off to my teenage sister’s friends when they played their rock & roll music in the early 60’s, had a year of ballet as an 8 year old, did floor exercise and musicals in highschool. I jumped into the dance program at York U as a total novice and have danced ever since.
I have played in many forms of dance and movement: Gabrielle Roth’s 5 Sacred Rhythms, Yoga, Tai Chi, Clowning, Pilates, Butoh and performance. Watching the physical play of puppies, seals and children has always inspired me!
I began teaching Nia in 1996. One class was all it took to create a resounding ‘Yes!’ in my body/mind/spirit connection and start me on my way to complete the Nia Training curriculum – White, Blue, Brown, Black, Green & 1st Degree Black. I became a White Belt trainer in 2002 and Green Belt trainer in 2009. I continue to be inspired by and dedicated to this practice.
Words, language, creative writing are all very important to me. I have participated in a writing circle for six years and I love the way we use images and poetic ideas to inform our movement in our Nia practice. I am a trained CTI coach where I learned the importance of a thoughtful question.
I speak enough French to get by and am learning Spanish with my husband. My family and I have visited many countries and I love to visit Nia communities across Canada for trainings and workshops.
Tree of Life Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3nKYXY7eifVkRjSELXKpWg?si=1c3a35df8377475a
This playlist was started by a few songs that Angela Williams shared with me when we co-taught here in Toronto when she was on her road trip a few years ago. While dancing it outside I sensed the beauty and resilience of the trees around me and through me, the lyrics of Lily Moon, the power of world music to connect and root to the earth and flow up and out into the world. Classic Nia moves mingle with the rich rhythms. I hope you enjoy! xo
Email : martha@martharandall.com
Website: www.martharandall.com
When you sign up for a class you are automatically sent the Zoom link for class. The link is the same each week.
Get up and down from the floor with ease and joy
It’s a new year, and the world is opening up! Make yourself more nimble so you can respond to the possibilities! We’ll use gentle and playful Feldenkrais® explorations to improve your movement so that your bones support you and you counterbalance yourself to feel graceful and light as a feather as you transition.
As a human with a body of any age, fitness level, or ongoing challenge, you’ll build many skills in addition to getting up and down more comfortably and efficiently:
Clarifying your mental map of your skeleton so all your movements can incorporate the teamwork and structure that leads to more effortless and pain-free movement.
Sensing the delicious in your movement, so your brain knows to look for it and create it.
Using less effort for day-to-day movements so you have more energy to do what you love.
Having more ideas for what to modify when any movement feels awkward or causes pain.
Beginning to change your relationship with your chronic challenge spots so they become useful tools for developing habits that serve you better.
As a Nia teacher, you’ll learn nuances and movement principles that not only help you move better
yourself, but also help you build sequences and cue in a way that helps your students learn to move closer to The Body’s Way.
This hybrid workshop can be taken from anywhere via Zoom or in-person at Soma Ranch. Irene will Zoom in and use the creative technology (aka “spaghetti”) at Soma Ranch to appear up on the wall rather than in a tiny Zoom box. She’ll be able to see and interact with everyone whether at the ranch or on Zoom.
Irene is a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Nia Brown Belt from Bellevue, WA, and is a regular teacher in Helen Terry’s 30-day Nia Challenge. She used Feldenkrais to rehabilitate herself from being incapacitated by a herniated disc in her 40s to taking up synchronized ice skating in her 60s. Her passion is sharing these wonderful tools for feeling younger - more comfortable, more physically competent, more energetic, and more able to learn new skills. When not dancing, teaching, or working 1-1 with people, she leads llama backpacking trips, grows huge crops of berries, and helps run her synagogue.
Sign up by Dec 31 st to be entered in a raffle for a free online private session with Irene to work on getting out of pain or improving a skill.
All participants are eligible for a 20% discount on online private sessions (or for an in-person session on Monday morning February 20th at Soma Ranch)
Our In PERSON classes and ONLINE Nia 30 day Challenge has launched into 2023 like never before. Delighted to have so many folks continue, others return and new folks join. Someone in the group played with this being called the “Regulars, Returns and Rookies”.
Thank you everybody who’s part of this community, and anyone else out there who’s curious you are more than welcome to join us.
Due to popular request, this coming Monday we are doing a repeat of both the Brand New Day Experience AND Community Cuppa afterwards. We’d love you to join us. Enjoy a fabulous music, movement and magic experience, lead by Helen Terry, and dance to the entire Sting Album “Brand New Day”.
The “BND Event” has become an annual tradition for over 2 decades! And we’d love you to join us. This movement experience is suitable for beginners and people of all different fitness backgrounds.
Celebrate 2022 and also how the end of the year means a NEW BEGINNING. Say Yes! and move into 2023 in an invigorating, encouraging and inspiring way.
The experience is HYBRID = 3 great choices:
Attend the class at Soma Ranch in person
Join us online via Zoom and/or
Enjoy a 24 hour replay
Usual Class Rates apply: Drop in for $15, buy a class pass or consider signing up for the January Challenge and receive the class as part of your package!
Seamless Continuity ~ sense connection from move to move and song to song.
Your body will feel incredible; a mix of having had a great workout combined with the sense of relaxation gained from a healing massage.
“Sting’s BND got a make over like no other when the Nia muse ,Helen Terry, uses it to inspire our body ,mind and spirit to kick off the new year in High gear😍❤️🥳🎊”
“I can’t imagine starting my year without the Brand New Day experience with Helen Terry. I love this tradition and bringing friends”
When you sign up for a class you are automatically sent the Zoom link for class. The link is the same each week.
Dear Laura, Lisa, Joy, Emily, Peggy, Nell, Kelly Marie, Marie, Catherine, Chris, Cynthia, Hananda, Michelle, Susan, Janet,
Thank you for being with us on Monday both for class and community cuppa afterwards - wow! what an amazing group of women y'all are. We feel filled up and inspired and hope you walked away feeling the same.
We raised $22 for St Jude, if you'd like to make a donation ONLINE here's the link:
https://www.somaranch.com/jude
Would you like to come back next Monday for a repeat of Brand New Day and Cuppa!
This Saturday morning we'll be "Looking Inward” with the intent to Shine Joy + Light Outward
Several participants asked if we could experience the Chakra Crystal Bowl Nia 5 Stages class again. Yes! why not begin the year as we ended the last, with healing energy and light. The 10am class compliments the theme of looking inwards to shine outwards with the movement experience to the album The Mask and Mirror by Loreena McKennitt.
Zoom Link is the same as usual, whenever you Sign Up for a class the link is sent to you automatically.
Hope you can join us on this journey with healing, movement and dance.
“Stars were falling deep in the darkness
As prayers rose softly, petals at dawn
And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear
So calmly you were calling your god
Somewhere the sun rose, o’er dunes in the desert
Such was the stillness, I ne’er felt before
Was this the question, pulling, pulling, pulling you
In your heart, in your soul, did you find rest there?
Elsewhere a snowfall, the first in the winter
Covered the ground as the bells filled the air
You in your robes sang, calling, calling, calling him
In your heart, in your soul, did you find peace there?”
When you sign up for a class you are automatically sent the Zoom link for class. The link is the same each week.
This morning we'll be "Ringing In" the New Year with Chakra Crystal Bowl Nia 5 Stages at 8:45am CT and "Me We Hello Goodbye" Nia class at 10am CT. Zoom Link is the same as usual, whenever you Sign Up for a class the link is sent to you automatically.
How has this year been for you? for me it's been an incredible contrast of highs and lows, with painful deaths and beautiful beginnings, big disappointments and HUGE successes/joys. I'm glad to be turning the page, facing the last day of this year, fully ready (and glad) to say Goodbye 2022, stepping into saying Hello to what I hope is a LIGHT year in many ways. I'm filled with optimism as our teaching team and program has truly shifted from a ME to a WE. I'd be thrilled if you'd like to join me ONLINE this morning to Ring in the New Year with healing, movement and dance.
Dear friend Dana Hood , posted this poem which I'm inspired to read out in class as part of our meditation. Be well my friends. Love Helen xox
“Be selective.
With your time.
Your energy.
And who you let into the doorway of your heart.
The soft soil of your inner life
is not a stomping ground.
Not a place for the curious taker or thief.
Not a place for the envious or judgmental.
Or anyone who wants to keep you small.
It is a place only for those who breathe in
your radiance, vulnerability and brokenness
with a hushed awe and reverence.
Who bow before the glowing scars and silvered shards of pain.
It is a place only for those
who intimately understand (and deeply honor)
the (whole)divinity you are working to reveal.”
When you sign up for a class you are automatically sent the Zoom link for class. The link is the same each week.
Enjoy a fabulous music, movement and magic experience, lead by Helen Terry, and dance to the entire Sting Album “Brand New Day”.
The “BND Event” has become an annual tradition for over 2 decades! And we’d love you to join us. This movement experience is suitable for beginners and people of all different fitness backgrounds.
Celebrate 2022 and also how the end of the year means a NEW BEGINNING. Say Yes! and move into 2023 in an invigorating, encouraging and inspiring way.
The experience is HYBRID = 3 great choices:
Attend the class at Soma Ranch in person
Join us online via Zoom and/or
Enjoy a 24 hour replay
Usual Class Rates apply: Drop in for $15, buy a class pass or consider signing up for the January Challenge and receive the class as part of your package!
Seamless Continuity ~ sense connection from move to move and song to song.
Your body will feel incredible; a mix of having had a great workout combined with the sense of relaxation gained from a healing massage.
“Sting’s BND got a make over like no other when the Nia muse ,Helen Terry, uses it to inspire our body ,mind and spirit to kick off the new year in High gear😍❤️🥳🎊”
“I can’t imagine starting my year without the Brand New Day experience with Helen Terry. I love this tradition and bringing friends”
When you sign up for a class you are automatically sent the Zoom link for class. The link is the same each week.
Being “home” for Christmas for the first time in 25 years was certainly a highlight for Soma Ranch, co-owner, Helen Terry. The icing on the cake was being able to teach a class ONLINE from her Mum’s front room, accompanied by Mother and Daughter.
Helen’s Mum has participated almost every day on the challenge for the past 2 years. Participants online delighted in finally seeing Helen and Brenda “in the same square” on Zoom.
“Liliana in her apron... the best!
Your mom looking super stylist... inspiring,
and you looking awesome as always!
Love the triad you formed! 🤩”
“I adored this class!!
Actually very moving to see you and your family. ❤️”
Happy December 28th! We hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season. Helen went to the UK to celebrate Christmas with her Mum, Dad, Daughter and Husband. Unfortunately Joe (Helen’s husband) was unable to join them as planned. Instead Joe stayed home alone at Soma Ranch, taking care of the many things that need attention in an unusual Texas freeze.
We’re celebrating another year of challenges, both the December 30 day challenge and the 2022 365 day challenge. Congratulations everybody who took part in these programs, for all your wonderful achievements and especially for what you brought to our community, a robust group of friendly, supportive, encouraging and uplifting participants.
We’d love you to join us for a challenge in 2023 and today is the last day for specials:
sign up for the 30 day challenge and bring a friend for free for January
sign up for the 365 day challenge and receive $99 off
Irene, our amazing Feldenkrais teacher is providing a HYBRID workshop, January 15, 12 - 3pm (US central time). Everyone who signs up for the 30 or 365 day challenge receives $20 off the registration when they sign up by December 31 AND be entered in a raffle for a free online private session with Irene to work on getting out of pain or improving a skill.
Classes resume at Soma Ranch tomorrow, Thursday at 10am.
We have started something very special; An evolution from a me to a we!
In Helen Terry’s 30 years of teaching and training, the 30 day challenge program has been the most successful program she’s ever offered. With a wonderful growing community blossoming, including about 50% Nia teachers being part of the group, this experience has been a nourishing, inspirational BLAST.
After sharing the 30 day challengesanch.com/booking/nia-challenge solo for about 730 days (365 days x 2!) we have expanded into a "WE" with fabulous rock start Nia Teachers and Special Saturday Guest Master teachers.
Would you like to join us? for a month? or perhaps for the year? We'd love you to join us.
You'll receive lots of support, encouragement, tips, entertainment, ideas about creating routines, sustaining the focus, structuring a class and manifesting community.
Several Nia Belts chimed in to give you a "hands on" reference about what the possibilities are for your investment. Feel free to email helen@somaranch.com or text/call 832-567-4550 if you have more questions.
“This is such a fun way to learn more about Nia or simply enjoy classes, whether you are a Student or Teacher. 52 Moves, Nia Principles, 5 Stages, adapting choreography.. lots of variety! Weekly Feldenkrais with Irene Pasternack is an added bonus. Having the opportunity to take classes with the ‘Rock Stars’ & Guest Teachers this month has further deepened my learning & enjoyment. Thank you Helen Terry for continuing to create & inspire 💖er ”
“This is one of my “favourite things” as I reflect on my 2022 year of movement and activities! Thank you Helen Terry - for the opportunity to join this beautiful community! 💖”
“I love being part of this community and am very much looking forward to my third year of participation. Being able to learn from my master trainer Helen Terry is a gift that keeps on giving to my life. I am excited for the offerings coming in 2023! Congratulations to the Rock Stars stepping in. What a blessing to be on your teaching journey!”
“This is so exciting! I’ve been participating in the 30 day challenge since March and it has taken my personal NIA practice and teaching to a whole new level. Taking classes with Helen Terry has inspired me to step out of my comfort zone and play with greater creativity with my teaching. Committing to almost daily NIA classes has been a game-changer for my physical, mental and emotional health. And now I am honored, excited and deeply moved to be part of this teaching team. It still feels a little surreal! We’d love to have you join us for this joy ride! 💗”
Here's links and more information:
30 day challenge
https://www.somaranch.com/booking/nia-challenge
365 day challenge
https://www.somaranch.com/booking/365-day-challenge
The Soma Village is rocking
https://www.somaranch.com/.../12/16/the-village-is-rocking
Soma Ranch ROCK STAR Teachers (includes video intros of each teachers)
Let us “Make it a double!”. Next “Cuppa” is January 2nd and we will also meet on the following Monday, January 9th.
Yes! our “Monthly Monday Coffee” connections are WONDERFUL…
Every month, (most often) the first Monday, we meet up after 10am Nia class to connect, enjoy a cuppa and have a grand time.
Coffee, tea, kombucha, snacks and time to hang, get to know each other better, help and support.
This is one of our community events where 100% donations collected go towards St Jude, our “Soma Selected” charity of choice.
Our goal is to raise $8000 for St. Jude. We collect donations at our monthly “Monday Coffee Connection”, Soma Faith classes and Special Events throughout the year.
On Monday entertain 8:45am YogaFaith, 10am Nia Class, then connect with our lovely community with coffee, teas and snacks. We hope you can join us.
We have a great time listening to each other’s thoughts, challenges and successes. We provide support and offer prayers.
Consider enjoying a “double play” with
10:00am Nia
11:00am 1st Monday Cuppa
Thank you to all the incredible 73 people who donated to our 2021 campaign.
We exceeded our $5000 goal and raised $8150 for St Jude!
Hi Friends,
Last week I shared how it “takes a village” when Helen leaves Soma Ranch. This week I’m thrilled to share the “VILLAGE” is rocking it!.
Joe has been opening up the zoom room and was even playing the chakra bowls before class.
He also got creative with my skeleton and provided a fun surprise greeting at the studio check in desk.
All the teachers are providing excellent classes and the support from the attendees/community is wonderful.
I’m here with my parents in the UK, enjoying being a student. Attending Nia and other movement classes ONLINE, lead by awesome Soma teachers, dancing with my Mum, in her front room, is a delight.
Experiencing the classes streamed from the Soma Ranch studio. through my computer is a new and most novel experience for me.
For over a year I’ve watched the “wall of smiles” (that’s all the folks taking class online who are projected on to the big side wall at Soma Ranch) Now I AM on the “wall of smiles”, I’m in one of those “Zoom squares”. The regular attendees at Soma Ranch seem to be having a great time both with seeing me up on the wall taking class, AND enjoying Kelly Marie this week and Deb Kern next Monday.
Here’s me and Mum taking Elaines class ONLINE (while Dad is clearing snow off the car!)
Here’s the view from the back bedroom of my parents house! It snowed on Sunday. Now here we are Friday still freezing.
Kelly Marie Harris and Paul Duff taught their very first classes and led like the true pros! Elaine and Irene returned leading wonderful healing experiences. All 4 shone like the super rock stars that they are.
This upcoming week Maria is teaching Saturday 8:45am and 10:00am,
Deb HYBRID (at Soma AND ONLINE) on Monday 10am, Natasha ONLINE Tuesday 8am, Irene ONLINE Wednesday 8am, Deb ONLINE Thursday 10am, Helen ONLINE Friday 8am and Saturday 8:45am and 10:00am from her Mum’s front room!
NO Class at SOMA RANCH Thursday December & Monday December 26th. Helen will be back to teach Thursday December 29th 10am.
This is a lovely opportunity to experience several different teachers, different styles and a very special anticipation flavor of the Fabulous Rock Stars and Saturday Special Guest Master Teachers who are joining the 30 day challenge and 365 day challenge team for 2023
You have some great options to choose from:
Drop in for 1 class for $15
Buy a 5 or 10 class pass $65|$120
Sign up for 30 days for $99
Invest in 365 days of joy for $900.
INNO is a movement experience created by Helen Terry, adapted from the Nia Routine Bloom.
An Adapted Movement experience is where Helen plays with the choreography from an Original Nia Routine (Bloom) and adapts the moves to the new music. The new music in the INNO experience is a playlist that evolved from Helen’s quest to find music for the “Return to Innocence” Archetype experience, one of the sessions/features in the Soma Ranch, Authentic Healing Retreat.
“Thank you fellow Nia Teachers for your fabulous suggestions for “return to innocence” songs. I hope you like this playlist.”
Nia teachers out there, are encouraged to replicate/play with the experience.
Let the choreography from the first 2 songs of Bloom blend into the first song of “Inno”,
The rest of the tunes adapt well, song for song, all the way through Warm up, Get Moving and Cool Down
In the Floorplay cycle, improvise your way to stepping out ~ “take it home”!
In Nia Technique we have a wonderful system called 8BCs where we can decode music with a system of counting, noting and distinguishing patterns in the music. Here’s some examples of the bars to this movement experience.
FYI The app Helen uses to decode the song, and structure these bars, was created by her daughter, Liliana Terry. It’s an excellent brain training and music app called “Map My Song” that can be used to decode music and create “bars”.
Available for download at the apple store: https://apps.apple.com/bg/app/map-my-song/id1448811230
This Saturday kicks off our “Soma Saturday Special Guest” Program with the one, the only, the most special Maria Whitley. Mother. Daughter. Wife. Friend. Teacher. Activist. Thinker. Spirit. Singer. Dancer. Healer. Light. Nia Master Teacher, Nia Moving to Heal and MELT Method Instructor.
Maria will be teaching both the 8:45am Nia 5 Stages and 10:00am Nia Classic Class.
This is an ONLINE class, via zoom (usual number and pass code). Regular class rates apply.
When you sign up for a class you receive the link/code for class.
“I’m looking forward to being with you on Saturday at 8:45 & 10am USA Central! “SEE THROUGH” you soon… get it? X-RAY!!!”
This photo was taken almost to the day, 3 years ago, at the beginning of the Nia 3rd Generation Trainers Training. Through thick and thin these wonderful Nia colleagues/trainers have made the best of situations and created magic. The each in their own way abide with the concept “May I Suggest this is the best time of your life”
From left to right Elizabeth Cole, Kellie Chambers, Kinga Brezina, Helen Terry
Recently, when creating a playlist for a movement experience called “INNO” | Innosense~ Return to innocence, Helen Terry called out to fellow Nia Teachers requesting some suggestions for songs about innocence, joy and inspiration. She received some fabulous recommendations, including the song “May I suggest”.
The 3 part harmonies of these women are beautiful and the words haunt me in the best of ways. Like a child who exclaims “again again!” I’ve been listening to the song on repeat over and over again. Helen Terry
Unlike most songs “May I Suggest” is a perfect round, where the connection between the end of the song and the beginning is seamless, as if the song simply continues around and around :-)
“There is a hope
That’s been expressed in you.
The hope of seven generations, maybe more.
And this is the faith, that they invest in you
It’s that you’ll do one better than was done before.
Inside you understand, you know what’s yours to finally set right
And I suggest this is the best part of your life”
May I suggest this is the best part of your life
This time is blessed and shining almost blinding bright
Just turn your head And you'll begin to see
The thousand reasons that were just beyond your sight
The reasons why I suggest this is the best part of your life
There is a world That's been addressed to you
Addressed to you, intended only for your eyes
A secret world, A treasure chest to you
Of private scenes and brilliant dreams that mesmerize
A tender lover's smile, A tiny baby's hands
The million stars that fill the turning sky at night
Yes I suggest this is the best part of your life
There is a hope That's been expressed in you
The hope of seven generations, maybe more
And this is the faith That they invest in you
It's that you'll do one better than was done before
Inside you understand, you know what's yours to finally set right
And I suggest this is the best part of your life
This is a song
Comes from the west, comes from the slowly setting sun
This a song with a request of you
To see how very short the endless days will run
And when they're gone
And when the dark descends
Oh we'd give anything for one more hour of light
May I suggest this is the best part of your life
May I suggest
May I suggest to you
May I suggest this is the best part of your life
May I suggest
This time is blessed for you
This time is blessed and shining almost blinding bright
Just turn your head
And you'll begin to see
The thousand reasons that were just beyond your sight
The reasons why
Why I suggest to you
Why I suggest this is the best part of your life
There is a world
That's been addressed to you
Addressed to you, intended only for your eyes
A secret world
A treasure chest to you
Of private scenes and brilliant dreams that mesmerize
A tender lover's smile
A tiny baby's hands
The million stars that fill the turning sky at night
Oh I suggest
Yes I suggest to you
Yes I suggest this is the best part of your life
There is a hope
That's been expressed in you
The hope of seven generations, maybe more
And this is the faith
That they invest in you
It's that you'll do one better than was done before
Inside you know
Inside you understand
Inside you know what's yours to finally set right
And I suggest
And I suggest to you
And I suggest this is the best part of your life
This is a song
Comes from the west to you
Comes from the west, comes from the slowly setting sun
This a song with a request of you
To see how very short the endless days will run
And when they're gone
And when the dark descends
Oh we'd give anything for one more hour of light
May I suggest this is the best part of your life
