There will be more Adore videos (See Surrender) throughout the rest of this training. We are trying to add an Adore video to every Heirloom routine. Please consider filming for us an Adore video with your favorite Heirloom routine!

WholyFit Certified Instructor Karin Johnson performing WholyFit Adore routine to “Thy Will be Done” by Hillary Scott and the Scott Family. Choreography by Karin Johnson.

WholyFit Trainer Kay Snow performs Adore to “Let Them See You In Me”

An Adore training is in the FPFC Members Course, but does not have all of the instructor only content. Instructor only content is found here in Platinum Certification.

The object of this Continuing Education unit is to learn how to incorporate the Adore worship dance technique into your WholyFit class. You will find Adore videos included in many Heirloom routines. This post will include:

• What “Adore” is
• Examples of actual Adore routines
• Personal styles of presenting Adore
• Understand Adore for future trainings
• Add Adore into your Gentle Body POWER classes and trainings

From here forward, most new routines you learn will include “Adore versions” of the routine you are learning. Now

WholyFit Certified Trainer Twila

https://vimeo.com/wholyfit/review/365985842/138b7c93fb

WHAT IS ADORE WORSHIP DANCE? WholyFit Adore is  worship dance using a WholyFit routine set to music. Throughout the Bible are examples of worship offered to God in the form of dance. King David, Miriam and others regularly worshiped through dancing to the Lord. It is a wonderful experience! Often I feel like Jesus is joining me in the dance! Try it.

A Leadership Journal article communicated the following: “As ministers of Christ’s gospel, we must stand against the popular belief that everything and everyone must be useful. In his grace God has created some things not to be used but simply to behold. Sometimes we are the most godly when we are the most inefficient, even with our money. This graceful, wasteful nature of God was revealed shortly before Jesus’ death. While he reclined at a banquet, a woman poured an expensive flask of oil over his feet. His disciples were appalled. Like many today, they could see only through the lens of practicality. ‘This ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor,’ they said rebuking the woman. ‘Why do you bother her?’ Jesus shot back. ‘She has done a beautiful thing to me.’ The disciples saw the spilled oil as lost opportunity. To them the oil was only a commodity to be exchanged for a measurable outcome. What they saw as waste, however, Jesus saw as priceless. He recognized the spilled oil as a beautiful gift. True worship seeks no return on investment. True worship is never a transaction. It is always a gift—an extravagant even if  ‘wasteful’ expression of love. …Sure, we appreciate beautiful architecture, music, and paintings if they serve the practical goal of drawing people to our services. But art solely as an offering to God? Why would that be a good investment?”  

“WholyFit Devotional Exercise and Adore Worship Dance is art for God’s sake. We move, we dance, we sing, we worship, we speak to one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs making melody in our hearts to the Lord. Why do I do WholyFit? It’s exercise, but even that is not the real gut level drive and passion that keeps me doing it. I do WholyFit for the art of it, for the beauty of it, because God enjoys seeing me dance, He loves hearing me sing, He joins me in the movements and sings over me. I dance for Jesus and Him alone. I dance freely, unhindered, rejoicing in His grace. I don’t care what anyone says. I am wasteful. I am extravagant. I do WholyFit for art and I do art for the sake of Jesus, simply because He likes it.” -Laura

Are you inspired to try Adore? Practice with the videos in the following units to get a feel for how to Adore our Savior using WholyFit. Feel free to be who God made you to be, and to dance before Him joyfully, knowing that He approves! Kay’s Adore routine:

I absolutely love worship music!  Singing to it, moving to it, or just bowing down to my Lord and Savior. Worship music elevates my praise and prayer time!  It lifts my spirit, it penetrates my soul. Even as I began to write this article, the words of a song played on the radio summarizing my thoughts:

“Words of worship rise like a river within me; The thoughts to express are so many; Want to bless You God” (At the Top My Lungs, Phillips, Craig and Dean).

Expressing myself through movement in praise was never really something I had experienced much of until I started my journey with WholyFit!  I didn’t become a Certified Instructor of WholyFit with a goal in mind of deepening my worship time with the Lord.  I originally came to WholyFit as an escape from the negative holds yoga had over me.  What grew from there was purely a depth of blessings I could never have imagined!

I loved the quiet movement I found in yoga that seemed almost spiritual to me, but continually felt a gnawing at my soul, that something was not right with this practice.  Through much prayer, God led me to an alternative, through WholyFit, but in addition, He gave me the gift of praise and worship through movement, that I never even knew I was capable of!  To share this gift with others has exponentially expanded these blessings!

In a WholyFit certification training we learn our foundational “Armor of God” routine and much more, as we are blessed with a plethora of knowledge to be safe and effective leaders of our classes.  What I didn’t expect out of my training came during my Gold Certification level, in California.  This was where I was introduced to what our Founder, Laura Monica, calls “Adore” Worship.  Our own Connie Haedener, who is a dancer, demonstrated an Adore Worship for us.  My heart overflowed and I knew that this was a gift of God – a gift I wanted more of!

 My continuing education through WholyFit, led me to more Adore Worships put together by Laura.  As I put began putting together music playlists for my classes, I was growing more and more into a freedom of movement in praise.  Over time I began to put together my own Adore Worship routines.  I can’t describe the emotion that goes through me when I take a worship song and put it to flowing movement.  It truly is moving prayer.  There are times I am overwhelmed with chills or even brought to tears.

A journey that started out as an escape from a worldly practice that beckoned other gods (yoga,) has ended in discovery of the biblical practice of worship through movement (WholyFit,) which connects me deeper to the One True God.

Through Christ we are made whole.  This means that all we are –  from our bodies to our minds, spirits and souls – we are fully one with God.  Caring for our bodies through exercise is important and is a sign of gratitude to our Creator.  Giving full surrender of our bodies to Christ through care and movement glorifies God and draws us nearer to Him! God has given me many pinnacle moments of grace through WholyFit and among those has given me, is a new freedom of praise and worship:

*  through movement

*  through Scripture memorization

*  and through the amazing people he has brought into my life because of this ministry.