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What is Nia?
Nia is an exhilarating movement and lifestyle practice. As the first cardio workout to combine martial arts, dance, and healing arts, Nia has fundamentally changed lives with its evolutionary approach to fitness and self-healing in a body. Nia, an internationally acclaimed practice for over 25 years, is based on the science of the body, The Body's Way. Nia offers a fun, creative pathway to health and wellbeing, regardless of age or physical condition.
Philosophy
The body itself reveals the body's way. We cultivate health, fitness, and well-being by choosing Pleasureover pain. We achieve mastery by listening to the Voice of the Body, Sensation, and by utilising the gift of sensory intelligence as the way to live and be in the body.
Benefits of Nia
- Stimulates the pleasure of living in a body
- Supports weight loss
- Increases energy, strength, flexibility, mobility and agility
- Improves circulation and heart health
- Develops grace, power and muscle tone
- Improves posture, balance and stability
- Relaxation and stress reduction
- Strengthens the nervous system
- Improves focus and concentration
- Teaches the science of the body
- Fosters creativity, confidence and self-expression
- Transformational
- Fun!
A twenty-first century personal Fitness and Lifestyle Practice that is safe and holistic - Nia addresses the needs of your body,mind,emotions and spirit.
Rich in diversity Nia is energetically textured with the brilliance of Eastern and Western movements. Nia places attention on integration, play, sensory awareness, pleasure, loving movement, being grounded, finding comfort, joy, fun and passion. Cardiovascular conditioning, flexibility, muscle definition, increased overall agility, natural grace, muscle balance, and strength are a given.
Nia is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. It suits all bodies, works for all ages, and can be adjusted to fit the needs of an athlete, dancer, executive, and advanced or beginning students of movement. A Nia class is always rich and exciting because it blends Jazz, Duncan and Modern Dance, Aikido, Tai Chi, Tae Kwon Do, Yoga, and Body Integration Techniques.
With Nia, you discover new ways of moving that are sacred and safe. It is a conscious way of living and moving that is more effective at getting fit and getting what you want out of life. In Nia, you use all of you, down to your fingertips and toes. You trim, tone, and define more of you, because your focus is on potential and pleasure rather than pain and competition. You don’t need to set aside time to work out with weights, to stretch, or body-sculpt because Nia gives you it all, plus a great deal more. As a Nia Athlete, you’ll emote, evoke, dance, play, have fun and stretch your mind and your soul as you stretch your body.
You’ll discover how to use your unique body language to play. You’ll feel the power in claiming the movement as your own. Using visual imagery, Nia will help you tap into your own creative self.
Who Is Nia For?
Nia is for people who love to feel good, who love to move and play with life in a conscious, artistic, and sacred way. It is for those individuals who want more out of everything. More from their body, mind, their spirit, and more out of life. It is for people from all walks of life, both men and women of all ages and races. Nia is a movement practice that offers a philosophy to enhance your physical potential. It promotes a healthier, more loving way to live.
While Nia is great for those with no fitness background, Nia is also great for people with high levels of fitness. Adaptable at every moment, Nia gives everyone the opportunity to challenge their coordination, grace, muscle endurance, and flexibility. Runners benefit by the added flexibility, leg strength, and agility. Racquet sports lovers enjoy the groundedness of Nia motions that give them an edge by improving their speed, timing, and agility. If you’re interested in an aerobic workout, Nia delivers all the cardiovascular benefits without the stress to the musculoskeletal system, and provides balanced body work that is versatile, fun, energetic, expressive, and creative!
How Does Nia Work?
Nia uses three tools to stimulate, motivate, and create positive change: Music, Movement, and Magic. Music is used for inspiration and as an energy you learn to sink into, ride on, and flow with. Movement is used to integrate your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. The Magic is you. How you do what you do, how you interact and connect, and how you create.
As a science, Nia uses systemic movement, moving the entire body with grounded steps and stances. It works because it is natural and organic and because you personalize every aspect of Nia to lovingly guide and direct your choices.
What Nia Can Do For You
Nia opens mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual doors. It defines and strengthens muscles, without the use of external weights and firms and trims abdominal muscles without doing searing sit-ups. Nia increases flexibility without conventional stretching. It pumps your heart efficiently and steadily and increases lung capacity without “killer” aerobics. Nia changes your body posture and teaches you how to move efficiently and safely. It gently opens your joints, and integrates you body-mind-spirit wisdom.
Nia is for everyBody!
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