Help for Motion Sickness Through Nia Dance Fitness
This article about motion sickness, entitled “Do planes, trains and automobiles make you ill? There’s some help for that” by Lauren La Rose, was published in the Toronto Star on April 21, 2014.
In it, I explain why I believe Nia (a dance fitness practice) has helped me lessen my motion sickness.
La Rose says:
Hicks is also a longtime practitioner and instructor of Nia, a body-mind-spirit program that blends movement forms and Eastern and Western traditions from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, like yoga. She believes her involvement in Nia has helped.
“I have a twin sister who doesn’t do Nia and she still experiences extreme motion sickness and I don’t,” said Hicks, 41.
“I think it’s that we do a lot of turning, so we’re actually training our vestibular system, our sense of balance and our sense of where I am in space. I can’t really explain it, but I feel like I’ve sort of fine-tuned.”
(Want to learn more? I also talk about the benefits of turning on the vestibular system and in our proprioceptive awareness skills in this post).
