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The New On-Line Multimedia Nia Experience

We’re beginning our new educational focus for the year, Nia Conditioning, and launching our new, innovative On-Line Multimedia Nia Experience to give you a whole new way to take your experience of fitness and pleasure to the next level. Through educational videos and audio files, we’re sharing Nia’s rich somatic body-mind education with the world.

Dive in and watch a lively, educational conversation via video with Nia Founders Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas and embrace their knowledge for your own Nia Conditioning. Plus, listen and learn via audio education as Debbie speaks the Nia poetry of The Voice of The Body in this issue, focused on The Voice of The Pelvis. Watch and move with Debbie as she teaches this month’s Tip of the Month, Pelvic Circles.

Teachers

Be sure to check out your video newsletter, Sharing the Joy, in the Continuing Education section of Teachers website (password required).

Participate in a Free Mentoring TeleCourse for everyBody™

Our Free Mentoring TeleCourse program for everyBody, which launched in March, has been a great success and just keeps getting better. Each month, founders Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas, along with Nia Trainers and Teachers, provide in-depth personal and professional mentoring through three different free TeleCourse programs. You are invited to join the call for everyBody on the first Monday of every month. Nia Graduates can join the calls on the first Tuesday of every month, and Nia Teachers on the first Wednesday of every month. These TeleCourses are designed to help mentor you on your personal path of wellness and fitness, so you can maximize your potential!

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The Body’s Way Education Now in Video!

In Nia, we use The Body’s Way as a map to guide us through the stages of becoming fit, experiencing personal growth, and creating a lifestyle practice of well-being.

Nia Conditioning – A New Kind of Fitness

Nia Conditioning is a new kind of well-being that you achieve through pleasure, joy, and physical excitation. It creates a whole new kind of fitness and health – one that is different from traditional fitness. Nia Conditioning is a new kind of fitness – one for your body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

Think of conditioning as a word you associate with Nia and with achieving results without “breaking the body down” in order to build it up. Conditioning is a sensation. Think of Nia Conditioning as something you do first for yourself; as something you achieve through pleasure, joy, and through stimulating, and inspirational physical excitation.

Nia Conditioning is something you do to create sustainable health and ongoing changes in your body and life by self-healing to find the very best comfort and pleasure. With Nia Conditioning you enhance the metabolic functioning in your muscles and heart; you embrace life and you express Joy and love in everything you do.

Like all things in Nia, Nia Conditioning is based on The Body’s Way: we look at the body and use it as a map to follow on our path to wellness. We use the design of the body to dictate how and why we do what we do. We follow the Voice of the Body, which we hear by focusing on the form and function of individual body parts, as well as the relationships between all aspects of our bodies. When we do this, it becomes clear how at the heart of Nia is conditioning that is first and foremost healing. Through this healing, with the right amount of doing, fitness results, and the right amount of conscious awareness and attention to self and to details, transformation occurs in its own time and in its own way – the kind that fits each person’s individual developmental process.

Learn more about Nia Conditioning. Watch as Nia Founders Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas share about Nia Conditioning, and begin your journey into a whole new level of well-being.

The Voice of the Body - The Pelvis New Audio Format!

Listen as Nia Co-Founder Debbie Rosas speaks the poetic Voice of The Body – this month, The Voice of The Pelvis.

Want to know more about the Voices of the Body? Read the Voices of The Body Structure in the Newsletter Archives.

Take your Nia practice to the next level. Download the Educational Handout Nia Conditioning and the Pelvis.

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Tip of the Month Now in Video!

Pelvic Circles

Move with Nia Co-Founder Debbie Rosas as she shows you how to bring fitness into your everyday life with Pelvic Circles in this video Nia Tip.

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The Power of Nia

Trained Dancer Finds Her Own Expression in Nia

Linda Casto, White Belt
Malibu, California, USA

My Mother was a professional dancer, one of Jerome Robbins’ muses. She was one of the Sharks dancing “America” on the rooftop in the film West Side Story, and at age 12, she was first on Broadway as one of the Indians in the original cast of Peter Pan with Mary Martin. With a successful dancer for a mother, it was inevitable that I would be involved with dance early in life.

Beginning at age 3, I was in ballet class several times a week through my growing-up years. In my teens, I studied Modern Dance and Jazz. And, although I was quite talented, being given solos and spotlighted in recitals, I always heard a little girl’s voice in my mind telling me that my mom (with whom I am very close and otherwise non-competitive) could probably nail any combination just a bit better than I was able to. So, throughout my life I could never quite own my dance, or feel that I was really a dancer – until I found Nia.

I took my first Nia class while on vacation at the Rancho La Puerta resort in 2002, and was compelled to return to the ranch each year for four years to experience Nia. Then I realized it wasn’t enough for me to take Nia class only three times during one week out of the year – I knew that Nia could mean more to me...

Read the rest of Linda’s Story, and more Nia Stories in Testimonials.

Events & Happenings

Enjoy Nia with the Founders at These 2007 Events

World Sound Healing Conference (1st Annual)

May 11-14, 2007

Featuring Nia Classes with Debbie Rosas

The Cathedral Hill Hotel
San Francisco, California, USA
For more information and to register visit: http://www.soundhealingcenter.com/WSHC/index.html

You may buy a pass for the entire conference, or choose a day pass. Day passes are $150, and include access to all 32 Exhibitors. (Concerts are separate.)

IDEA World Fitness Convention (25th Annual)

July 6-9, 2007

San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, California, USA
To register, visit: www.ideafit.com/world

Debbie and Carlos will present two Nia sessions at IDEA World, one of the world’s best fitness conventions. Join us in helping IDEA celebrate 25 years of “Inspiring the World to Fitness.” Also visit the Nia Booth at the Fitness & Wellness Expo, open each day of the convention.

National Wellness Conference (32nd Annual)

July 14-19, 2007

University of Wisconsin
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
To register, visit: www.nationalwellness.org

Debbie and Carlos are pleased to once again bring a full-day pre-conference presentation – as well as breakout session presentations and daily Nia classes – as part of a wide variety of programming options. This conference is designed for anyone who wants to advance their professional skills, as well as enrich their spirit. This year’s theme, Creating and Sustaining Wellness Cultures, encourages consideration and new knowledge of the impact cultures have on health and wellness promotion.

Inner IDEA (2nd Annual)

September 7-9, 2007

La Quinta Resort and Club
Palm Springs, California, USA
To register, visit: http://w2.inneridea.com/conference

Nia is proud to announce that for the second year, Nia is a sponsor of Inner IDEA, which is limited to 600 participants. In addition, Debbie and Carlos will be presenting six programs. Based on last year’s sold-out attendance, this is a convention not to be missed. Be sure to check out the complete schedule of offerings that premier the best from the body-mind industry.

JourNia Week at Cal-A-Vie

September 16-23, 2007

Cal-a-Vie Health Spa
Vista, California, USA
For more information visit: http://www.calavie.com/site/spa_events_2007.htm

Cal-a-Vie Health Spa is thrilled to offer JourNia Week, September 16-23, 2007. Nia Co-Founder Debbie Rosas will lead participants through a week of self-discovery using journals that will be provided to each guest, complete with questions and thoughts to help guide on the journey of understanding how one responds to cycles in life, and daily challenges both personal and professional.

Debbie will be leading evening workshops with and daily Nia classes all carefully created to make the week an unforgettable experience of growth and wellness. Special Mother-Daughter packages are available to promote intimacy and strengthening of the mother-daughter bond and relationships.

Visit the Events area to learn more about Nia events around the world.

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The Passion of Nia

Nia Brings Healing, and Passion for Life

Denise Medved, Nia Trainer
Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA

My journey with Nia was sparked one day in 1986, when I received an enthusiastic phone call from my dear friend Noel DeCaprio, who said that she had discovered something that combined the things I loved – movement, spirit, and fitness — and was a perfect fit for me.

“Denise,” said, “You’ve got to do this class called Nia! It’s everything you enjoying doing all in one class! It’s tai chi, and yoga, and jazz, and dancing, and breathing! You’re going to love this!”

My friend had just danced Nia with Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas, the founders of the then new body-mind fitness practice called Nia. I was so compelled by Noel’s enthusiasm for Nia that within a couple of weeks I was in the Nia White Belt Intensive–even though I had only seen Nia on a video! I took a leap into the unknown based on my intuition that Nia was going to be a perfect fit for me – and I’ve never looked back, I’ve just kept spiraling upward!

At that time, I was a partner in building a resort retreat based on well-being, and the connection of the body and mind. Nia seemed the ideal fit for our philosophies on the body-mind connection and how it can affect all realms of our being and the way we walk through life.

At first I thought I was doing the White Belt training just to have the understanding of the body of work that is Nia in order to apply it to various aspects of the wellness retreat. Yet, I soon found it was a personal growth tool that served me well though many challenges in life. I also found that to sharing Nia with others as a Nia Teacher brought me great personal joy. I saw changes in my body and in my life as I taught Nia. And, I saw changes in the bodies and lives of my Nia students.

When I discovered Nia, I was also in the middle of a 29-year career in corporate marketing and community relations, with lots of stress and tension and deadlines, and lots of people around me who were also stressed out and tense. I began teaching Nia for myself, as an outlet of stress. Soon, my colleagues began attending my classes. Not only did we all feel better doing Nia, but also we functioned better mentally and emotionally, and our interactions with each other changed to a more positive dynamic. It was a transforming experience in personal ways, and in our workplace.

Along with the personal growth and fitness that I gained with Nia, I also experienced the healing power of Nia first hand and in a big way...

Read the rest of Denise’s Story and more Nia Stories in Testimonials.

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From the Founders

Conditioning, the Nia Way

What is essential to living life fully, on the edge? Variety, change, challenge, and expression. As we Walk into a new year of educational focus for the Nia Newsletter, we’re working with all of those aspects on many levels to bring you the best body, mind, emotions, spirit education and inspiration available.

In this year’s newsletter education we’re delving into Nia Conditioning, The Body’s Way, which embodies all of these essential elements of really being in your body, and being fully, emphatically alive.

Plus, we’re delivering our education in a new way, one that is in alignment with our form of multi-level, somatic education. We’re now sharing Nia Education with you via an On-Line Multimedia Nia Experience. Through videos and audio clips, you can see, hear, and try Nia in a new way. You can continue to be inspired by the written testimonials of people who have made Nia part of their journey of well-being, and still learn about Nia Events and news in the printed part of our Nia Newsletter.

Go on a journey of self-expression, self-discovery, and expanded physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Go on a journey of Nia Conditioning and transform your own level of fitness, in your way and your time. Embrace the Pleasure Principle of Nia. Enjoy this new year of education.

In pleasure,
Debbie and Carlos

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Nia In the Media

From the Editor: Nia is featured in the media all over the world. Below are just a few that have recently been published or aired. To see more articles about Nia, visit Nia in the Media .

Desert Today – March, 2007

“Chronicles of Nia in the Desert” – by Maggie Downs

An inspirational account of the healing and healthy aspects of Nia, this article highlights Nia White Belt, Jennie Inch’s personal experience through Nia, and has accounts of an elderly student, a stroke survivor, and a non-exerciser.

“You’ve never seen another exercise class like Nia.”

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NOTE: Before beginning any exercise program, consult your physician. Always remember to stop and slow down if you feel out of breath, dizzy or unable to perform the exercises in a conscious and balanced way. Build gradually and monitor yourself on a moment-to-moment basis. Give yourself time to safely create changes.

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