Posts Tagged ‘dance workout’

Challenge your mind and body with Nia MOVEit

Do you challenge your mind and body? How often does your body (and brain!) encounter something totally new? Something never ever experienced before?  Something that taxes or increases the demands on your body and brain? Regularly? Great! Often? Fantastic! Rarely? Let’s talk about the benefits of mind-body challenge.   Nia is a challenge! It sure…

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Get your hands on these moves!

Condition the hands and fingers? Yes!

Why wouldn’t we move the hands and fingers? They are vital to our everyday activity and are the most active part of our upper bodies! Our hands and fingers perform an extraordinary number of fine-motor movements every day so we need to take care of them. We need to move all the complex and intricate parts of the hands and fingers so that our tendons, bones, tissues and nerves remain healthy and allow us to pick up our cup of coffee, wash dishes, write, type and so much more.

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Ankle, Knee & Hip Harmony

So, our bodies are happiest when our hips are balanced over our knees and our knees are balanced ovneutral alignment for blog poster our ankles. When hips, knees and toes are all facing in the same direction, our body feels safe and it knows where it’s going.

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Sing-a-long Nia Dance Jam: A fundraiser

~ Dance – Sing – Raise $ to Save Dogs ~
In celebration of 10 years as a Nia teacher, Jenn is having a fundraising party!

Join Jenn and her Nia colleagues as we dance and sing to fun & familiar songs!

Proceeds from this event will benefit Save Me Rescue, a local dog rescue organization.

There will be a silent auction, raffle and you’ll have a chance to meet some adorable dogs (who are looking for fur-ever homes)!

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Nia Dance: Love Song to the Earth

Recently we’ve been dancing to this beautiful song called “Love Song to the Earth”. A couple of Nia teachers choreographed the piece from the corners of the globe and it’s been my honour to bring it to class over the past few weeks. Every single time I dance and share it, it moves me so…

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Look up (and out)!

Recently, this conversation popped up on Twitter: [View the story “Look up!” on Storify] It’s true: looking up and out allows us to remain in alignment with our chest and pelvis (the Body’s Way is that head, chest and pelvis are stacked one upon another like building blocks). When we are looking up (and not…

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