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NIA: HOLISTIC, HEALING, DANCE-BASED FITNESS
NIA Holistic, Healng, Dance-Based Movement
Classic NIA is a holistic fitness class combining movement from the dance arts, martial arts and healing arts, including yoga. Anyone can do NIA-it is appropriate for all levels of fitness and agility. Students are encouraged to modify all movements according to their own body’s needs. Movements are simple and leave lots of room for self-expression. Classic NIA is a fun, cardiovascular experience that gives you a new body and a new life.
NIA or Neuromuscular Integrative Action, is a sensory-based movement practice fusing nine different movement forms from the dance arts, martial arts and the healing arts including yoga. As a cardiovascular exercise, Nia builds flexibility, agility, mobility, strength and stability. It is effective for weight-loss and is known to help many conditions including depression, asthma, diabetes, arthritis and fibromyalgia to name a few. Bethamie balances the joy, excitement and fun of Nia with its calming, healing components and offers classes to women, men and teens of all abilities.
“Nia came into my life as a gift and I am so grateful to be able to share this healing experience others.” An instructor since 2008, Bethamie Wyatt, CECP, Certified NIA Instructor, MLS, Healing In Motion, facilitates Nia classes and workshops that encourage community and connection among class participants. Impressions from her cultural experiences in Senegal, West Africa and Belize, Central America can be felt in her classes through the sounds and rhythms of these musically rich places. Each gathering with Bethamie is a unique experience with a blend of broad influences that allow her to provide a quality education around health and movement wellness while building a rapport with a diverse group of participants.
After a class with Bethamie, you are sure to step into your day on the “Nia cloud” – strong and determined yet relaxed and rejuvenated!
ENGAGE THE BODY. OPEN THE HEART. HEAL THE MIND
8 week class in mindfulness practices for the reduction of stress
Learning to be mindful is learning to be present in the moment with clarity and focus. Mindfulness techniques teach how to most skillfully manage the feelings, thoughts and body sensations that arise from present stress or past psychological wounds. With mindfulness the past heals and the present happiness is less likely to be sabotaged over worry of the future. The class will be structured as follows:
10/19- Class One: Basic Meditation & Mindfulness Techniques
10/26- Class Two: The Breath
Breathing techniques to lessen the symptoms of anxiety, depression, asthma, COPD and high blood pressure.
11/2, 9- Class Three & Four: Mindfulness of the Body
Focusing on skillful means of coping with physical and emotional pain residing in the body. Guided imagery and relaxation techniques, as well as, mindful movement practices such as Yoga will be taught.
11/16, 30- Class Five & Six: Mindfulness of Feeling
One learns how to not act feelings out and get in trouble in the world or hold feelings inside which can result in mental or physical illness. Participant will also learn to access more positive feeling states.
12/7, 14- Class Seven & Eight: Mindfulness of Thought
One becomes more aware of their personal thought process and how their thoughts affect both their body and emotions. The participants learn to choose their thoughts rather than be controlled by them.
FELDENKRAIS WORKSHOP
“Lessons for the neck, shoulders, chest, pelvis, hip joints and feet. As everything in our bodies is connected, you will benefit from any or all workshops. Often a shoulder issue is due to a decrease in freedom of the hip joints. Hip joint issues often stem from an immobile rib cage. Knee problems are related to tight ankles or hips. I encourage you to join us and learn to feel and sense more freedom and mobility throughout our whole self.”
-Susan Nycz, GCFP, ABMP-Children
The Feldenkrais Method
A somatic education system designed to reduce pain or limitations in movement, to improve physical function, and to promote general well-being by increasing students’ awareness of themselves and by expanding movement repertoire. Utilizing the brain’s unique capacity for life-long plasticity, the Feldenkrais Method accelerates learning and function more easily and effortlessly than standard manual or drug therapies in practice today. Despite the most traumatizing accidents, chronic conditions, or disorders, this modality is designed to stimulate and encourage the development of an optimal functioning nervous system.