Nia Nudge and The 52 Moves
Everything you ever wanted to know about the 52 moves right here in your in box – One move at a time.
Each week, The Nia Nudge will bring you:
more into sensation
more in your body
more body literate
This nudge will bring you into awareness and will make your Dance Through Life more enjoyable.
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Archive for Wellness – Page 2
Have you ever looked around outside after a spring rain?
The world around looks like a magical wonderland; clean, green, lush, vibrant and new. You can sense the activity that is going on in the soil, and between the leaves. You can almost hear the plants growing. Visit a riverbank after a heavy rain and you might see really fast moving mucky water carrying broken tree limbs, leaves, and even trash. Look up at the sky just after a rain and what’s there? Blue, white, big yellow. Take a whiff of a post rain garden and smell it’s natural fragrances; soil, worms, flowers, mold, etc… Why the nature lesson? Water to the body is exactly the same as it is in nature. Read More→
People ask me all the time about the amount of cardio they’ll need to do to lose weight. The answer is simple and not so simple. I’ll give you my top five answers. You’ll notice that, politician-like, I don’t directly answer the question, but I hope you can get the idea of how to think about and deal with cardio.
Cardio alone won’t make you lose weight. No amount of exercise will out do an ill-conceived nutrition plan (or one you don’t follow). You can do two hours of cardio a day, but if you eat a hamburger, french fries and a shake for dinner, you can’t really expect to lose weight. Keep reading…
30 – 60 minutes per day – depending… Bodies are all different, so how much cardio you have to do will depend on how intense your workout is, how big you are, how fit you are and even how old you are. Read More→
It was an interesting mix of my real family and my Nia family. Altogether, it worked so well that everybody left with a smile. I worked on a playlist that I thought my sister would like. She’d tried my Nia class a few years ago and thought the music was too “New-Agey.” I forced her to attend a second class and I pressed myself to learn the Routine Girls Night Out. It was the only routine on the approved list that had pop music that she would like. She never returned.
BUT… three or four years and four belts later, she came with my mom for Weiss Family Nia. So, the least I could do is entertain her ears with something she could hum tomorrow. She said she liked it very much. “I can’t imagine what the music would be if not that…,” she said. Well, the playlist is 1/3 Nia Music, 1/3 Pop Music and 1/3 Music from the work we did at the Nia Workshop at Kripalu. Here is the playlist with the artists.
STANCES
1. Closed Stance
2. Open Stance
3. “A” Stance
4. Riding (Sumo or Horse) Stance
5. Bow Stance
6. Cat (One-legged) Stance
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