This post is written by Teresa K. Myers, who is a Brown Belt certified Nia teacher based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She discovered Nia six years ago after an exhaustive search for an exercise routine she could do following an extensive surgery to remove cancer. View her profile or visit her website.

At the beginning of September 2011, Nia Black Belt and NGT Sophie Marsh hosted a week-long Nia retreat at the Daku Resort in Savusavu, Vanua Levu (Fiji Islands) – a beautiful location made all the more magical by our daily Nia practice. We basked in the beauty of the space where we danced each day, nestled into the side...

If you've never been to a Nia training at StudioNia, the Nia International Training Center in Portland, Oregon, this video tour led by NGT Allison Wright is for you!

StudioNia is located on the fourth floor of the Pythian Building in downtown Portland, Oregon (918 SW Yamhill Street). Classes, trainings, workshops and events are offered here year-round. It is the ideal place to practice and further develop your skills under the guidance of our globally renowned teachers and trainers.

Features of the space include high ceilings, large windows, gorgeous wood floors, and a fabulous sound system. If you would like to ...

If you've never been to Esalen Institute, which is situated on 27 acres of spectacular Big Sur coastline with the Santa Lucia Mountains rising sharply behind, this is your chance to explore Nia at a renowned, alternative educational center devoted to the world of unrealized human capacities that lies beyond the imagination. And if you have been to Esalen before, we know we won't have to tell you twice to come back in 2012. 

Led by Nia Co-Creator Debbie Rosas and Nia Teacher Karri Winn, the Nia workshop at Esalen is happening March 30 - April 1, 2012. Register now to reserve your spot!

During this work...

Jule Aguirre, M.Ed., LPC, NCC, is a Nia Next Generation Trainer and Nia 5 Stages practitioner who has been facilitating movement for body-mind integrators, urban athletes and adventurers in wellness for over 26 years. To learn more about Jule, visit www.juleinthelotus.com.

Let’s start with a metaphor from the movies. In the final scene of Zorba the Greek, the intellectual, uptight writer, Basil, asks the exuberant older man to teach him to dance – and thereby learns to embrace life.

Dance is one of the oldest art forms, and depends on the body to communicate feeling and emotion through movement. In anci...

Join us Monday, September 5th, 2011 for a free telecourse with Debbie Rosas and special guest Nurit Yirmiya.

This telecourse will focus on emotion, and is a part of our current educational course of study, Becoming a Sensation Scientist. We will be talking about sensing the vibration of mood.

Register now! This telecourse is open to everybody. 

Nurit is a Blue Belt certified Nia teacher and Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology with expertise in typical and atypical emotional development. She is a world leader in the field of very early identification of Autism Spectrum Disorders, and...

For this month's continuing education focus, Awareness of Hearing, we're excited to feature the following masterful voices from the worldwide Nia community. Here's what they have to say about developing body literacy and self-knowing, by exploring and using our sense of hearing in The Body's Way.

Debbie Rosas, Nia Co-Creator, says:

In the most traditional sense, hearing is the ability to perceive sound by detecting vibrations through the ear. In Nia, we practice not only listening with our ears but also with our whole body; every cell instinctively responds to vibration, giving us information about our surroundings.

Listening is a foundational skill upon which ...

The following post is written by Denise Stewart who is a writer, actor, coach and teacher. She takes Nia classes from Susan McCulley (pictured right), holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Univeristy of Virginia and worked in the corporate weight loss industry for almost three years. Visit her personal website for more information.

I like to exercise with other people. I’m not afraid to exercise by myself:  I walk in silence; I walk the dog; I do the elliptical machine while watching old episodes of Read more