Time: 12-4pm on both Saturday and Sunday. All immersion participants can attend Saturday morning 1015AM Nia class for free, where Vickie and Al will be teaching Passion.
Notes About This Event
Learn the Nia Routine Passion! Open to EveryBody (and tailored for new White Belts and aspiring Green Belt teachers) this two-day playshop will take you on a journey through learning one of Nia's most popular and celebrated routines. If you are preparing for or considering attending the Nia Green Belt training, you'll have the pleasure of learning the routine together with fellow teachers and students, as learning Passion is a pre-requisite to attending the Green Belt. Join Vickie and I for two days of fun and playful immersion as we dance this blissful soundscape of music and choreography.
Time: 12-4pm on both Saturday and Sunday. All immersion participants can attend Saturday morning 1015AM Nia class for free, where Vickie and Al will be teaching Passion.
Learn the Nia Routine Passion! Open to EveryBody (and tailored for new White Belts and aspiring Green Belt teachers) this two-day playshop will take you on a journey through learning one of Nia's most popular and celebrated routines. If you are preparing for or considering attending the Nia Green Belt training, you'll have the pleasure of learning the routine together with fellow teachers and students, as learning Passion is a pre-requisite to attending the Green Belt. Join Vickie and I for two days of fun and playful immersion as we dance this blissful soundscape of music and choreography.
For questions and to reserve your space*, call or email: 503-957-8325
margaretboyd75@gmail.com
*space is limited
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Learn simple self-care techniques you can use every day to make your body feel better and function more efficiently. Relieve aches and pains brought on by aging and active living. Reduce inflammation, ease chronic neck and low back strain, improve alignment, and learn how to keep your whole body working better.
Join MELT instructor Margaret Boyd for a 90-minute workshop created just for you. We'll use soft foam rollers and small MELT Hand and Foot Balls to rehydrate the connective tissue throughout your body and make your muscles and joints happy!
The M.E.L.T. Method is an innovative science-based self- treatment program that you can do at home to remain active, healthy and pain-free.
Reserve your spot today. And for more information about MELT, go to meltmethod.com
The Nia 52 Moves Training is open to everybody, from new students to seasoned Nia teachers. It includes a pre-training program, a three-day training, and an optional post-training program that is designed exclusively for those who plan to become Nia 52 Moves teachers.
Join Vinn in a special 2 hour Master Class!! Soul MOtion, Conscious Dance Practice opens the mind, relaxes the body and stirs the soul of all who step in. Vinn is delighted to return home to Portland and StudioNia, where he developed the beginnings of his world renowned conscious dance practice, Soul Motion. Vinn is an internationally recognized figure in the conscious dance movement. Let Vinn guide you into cultivating awareness, presence, stillness, connection and spontaneity.
In her latest book, Mind Over Medicine, Lissa Rankin, MD, OB/GYN physician, speaker, and best selling author of "What's Up Down there?" reveals the latest science on the mind-body connection. This is the science that will help you begin self-healing from your core. Write your own prescription for healthier relationships, environment, creative expression, sex life and spiritual connection.
Debbie Rosas says, "I'm thrilled to host one of my favorite authors, Lissa Rankin. Lissa is a passionate, dynamic speaker, humorous and wise beyond her years!"
Space is limited, Please register to save your space.
Music - Movement - Magic: Move with and learn about the three pillars of the Nia experience! In this playshop, you will dance a diverse soundscape of new music, harmonizing your body with silence and sound as you learn techniques for becoming a more body-centered listener. Expand your movement vocabulary with fun exercises that teach you how to use Nia's 9 Movement Forms to break movement habits. Experience the magic of self-healing and self-expression as you learn creative techniques to enhance any Nia class. This playshop culminates in an accelerated 45-minute Nia Class with Vickie and Allison. Open to EveryBody, from beginners to longstanding Nia Belts.
The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.
Green Belt is an optional training, which focuses entirely on developing and embodying the skills to effectively teach Nia. All belt levels who teach or desire to teach are strongly encouraged to attend this training.
Blue Belt, the second level of Nia education, explores how to create healthy relationships through body-centered communication. This intensive introduces the next set of 13 Nia principles, which focus on the mental, emotional and spiritual realms of the body. While the White Belt curriculum focuses entirely on awareness of physical sensation, Blue Belt applies these skills to explore internal sensations as perceived through – but distinct from – physical sensations in the body.
Blue Belt, the second level of Nia education, explores how to create healthy relationships through body-centered communication. This intensive introduces the next set of 13 Nia principles, which focus on the mental, emotional and spiritual realms of the body. While the White Belt curriculum focuses entirely on awareness of physical sensation, Blue Belt applies these skills to explore internal sensations as perceived through – but distinct from – physical sensations in the body.
The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.
By the time you reach Brown Belt, the third level of Nia education, you have developed a proficiency in sustaining awareness of your physical body and paying attention to the sensory details of the four realms: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. This level of training explores the experience of living as energy beings, as every experience of sensation in the body is an energy experience.
The Nia 5 Stages is an integrative movement practice based on the five stages of human development: Embryonic, Creeping, Crawling, Standing and Walking. Practiced with awareness, these stages have the power to facilitate optimal alignment, improved function and comfort in the body. Whether practiced at length or for as little as five minutes a day, this system provides a tool for reclaiming and sustaining mobility, flexibility, strength, agility and stability.
Black Belt, the fourth level of Nia education, invites you to let go of all you know and enter the River of the Unknown, a place of infinite and endless creativity.
The Nia 5 Stages is an integrative movement practice based on the five stages of human development: Embryonic, Creeping, Crawling, Standing and Walking. Practiced with awareness, these stages have the power to facilitate optimal alignment, improved function and comfort in the body. Whether practiced at length or for as little as five minutes a day, this system provides a tool for reclaiming and sustaining mobility, flexibility, strength, agility and stability.
The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.
The Nia 52 Moves Training is open to everybody, from new students to seasoned Nia teachers. It includes a pre-training program, a three-day training, and an optional post-training program that is designed exclusively for those who plan to become Nia 52 Moves teachers.
The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.
The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.
The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.
Focus: Beginner's Mind Intent: Exploring Potential
In the tradition of martial arts, achieving black belt, the highest belt color generally denotes a degree of competence referred to as : mastery of the basics. While it is associated with a high degree of knowledge, it is not the highest level when one seeks to achieve body and life potential. First Degree Black Belt is a step into the world of the Sacred Athlete: purpose, potential and possibility.