Having just returned from a week of my Nia White Belt Intensive, I’m getting a lot of questions from you, most notably “What is Nia?”

Nia is a holistic fitness program that is all about how to get in your body and how to learn to feel so you can heal (stay tuned for more posts about how to get into your body, which will share what I learned during my Nia White Belt training.) Nia originally stood for “non-impact aerobics” and evolved to mean “neuromuscular integrative action.” But to me, Nia is “naturally integrated awareness.”

Miracles might seem like the kind of thing relegated to Biblical times - burning bushes, parted seas, men rising from the dead. But the truth is that miracles are all around us. All you have to do is open your eyes.

A Course in Miracles defines a miracle as anytime we choose love over fear.  Choosing to open your heart and forgive someone who hurt you - that’s a miracle.  When we hold a newborn infant and pour our love into them, that’s a miracle.

When I was learning to be a doctor, the focus was on making the sick well, but there was a huge piece missing from what they taught me in my medical education. Nobody ever taught me that, as doctors, it’s our job to help people become, not just well, but whole.

After all, our job is to help people heal - and “to heal” means “to become whole.” But what does that mean? Here’s what it means to me.

Not only do I think we need to revolutionize the way we as patients and healers collaborate; I also think we need to redefine how we think about health.

It’s time to think BIG, baby. “Health” is simply too small, and you can’t cram us into little boxes that don’t even begin to contain the vast expansiveness of the brilliant beings we all are. We’ve gotta blow open the box and make room for all the parts of us that may be in need of healing.