Base Move
Duck Walk
Say it: “quack”
Stand with your feet slightly apart, no wider than hip width. With your heels planted firmly on the ground, lift the toes and ball of one foot up and down, alternately lifting and lowering.
Focus first on lowering your foot and slapping the ground, as if splashing water in a puddle. Next, focus on lifting your foot, as if pulling sticky gum off the ground.
Play with both of these energy dynamics. Read More→
Archive for Wellness
Ever take a few days off from exercise? It feels good to get back to it, doesn’t it? Ever take a few weeks off from exercise? It sucks to get back into it, right? Ever take a few months off? Then, after your reconnaissance exercise class, you declare, “Oh my God, I am so out of shape. I should’ve never gone off my program! I’ve got to get it back.”
June 14, 2009
11:30 am
Join me, Suzannah Weiss, Nia Blue Belt Instructor, for a dynamic, energizing, fun, body-mind-emotion-spirit movement class.
Nia teaches you how to listen to the voice of your body and allow the body to be your guide in discovering Dynamic Ease.
Practiced barefoot to great music, Nia is self-guided, adaptable and safe for any fitness level, from stiff beginners to highly fit athletes. Delivering cardiovascular, whole-body conditioning, Nia is based on creating a loving relationship with the body and following The Body’s Way – the innate intelligence of the body.
The most fun you’ll have in a group exercise class!
Nia Technique® Demo Class
Presented by
SuzWorks Wellness
and
City Fitness
I had a bad back from 1986 to 2006. You might imagine that I figured out how to live with the pain. I did. I just decided that I’d always have to live with pain and that there was nothing I could do about it. For 20 years, that was true.
Now, I am essentially pain free in my lower back. What did I do? I finally listened to my body and followed the tried and true remedies for healing a lower back strain. The fact is that I never gave my back a chance to heal and I never took an active role in getting well.
I am not a doctor or a physical therapist, so I recommend that anyone with a back injury see a doctor or physical therapist and get the instructions and prognosis for the injury. After that, if you are told to do certain things, DO THEM. Read More→
Nia Technique routines are always choreographed with a focus in mind. Sexi is about the spine. The Intent is to stimulate Mobility and Stability in the spinal cord. The Nia Technique moves that do this most effectively include:
chest isolations,
shimmy,
undulation and spinal roll,
hip bump,
pelvic circles,
head and eye movement.
And use those moves we do. There are three categories in that list of moves. They are divided into moves of the head, chest, or pelvis. These are the three body weights that are connected by the spine. Read More→
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