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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…
Read MoreDancing Through Life With Pleasure: Nia Student Stories
I love Jenn’s approach to her Nia classes – ensuring everyone feels comfortable in taking the routine only as far as their own bodies can go that day – without judgement, without goals, other than to enjoy the movement.
Read MoreOn mitochondria and thoughts on aging
The subjects who did the interval workouts showed increases in both the number and health of their mitochondria — this finding was particularly pronounced in older subjects.
Read MoreGet 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.
Read MoreMove IT Apprenticeship
Move IT is an Interval Training program that uses the 52 Moves of the Nia Technique.
It is body-friendly, sweaty, and FUN!
Coming Soon: Nia Move IT classes
Nia Move IT classes I’m cooking up something NEW in my Nia class offerings! A few weekends back, I had a privilege of studying with Kelle Rae Oien, a Nia trainer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Here’s a short video of some of our classes: That weekend was INCREDIBLY energizing for me. We…
Read MoreLearning Strategies on the Dance Floor
…using learning strategies in class can not only enhance the brain benefits of Nia, but they are also a good way to stay in the moment and not drift off into our to-do list or sink into our worries.
Read MoreAnkle, 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.
Read MoreSing-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)!
Read MoreMichael Franti & Spearhead
These lyrics blew me away:
“And I love this life we live
And I love to give this feeling away”