Amber Nia
Joy of Movement
Nia is a body-mind-spirit fitness and lifestyle practice. Through expressive movement—The Body’s Way—Nia empowers people to achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being
Nia’s ground-breaking work is now recognized as one of the most innovative and safe cardiovascular programs to date. Nia is a pioneer in the health and fitness world, and offers the very best in body-mind training, programs, and on-going education.
Nia simultaneously addresses the body, mind, emotions, and spirit, and puts them on the “same page.” Nia uses physical activity to integrate one’s neurology (including the mind, emotions, and spirit), with one’s outer body, or musculature. To achieve this whole-being integration, Nia addresses the whole person, using a comprehensive, holistic exercise approach designed with a combination of nine classic movement forms. .
The Body’s Way
Nia is done barefoot to music and delivers cardiovascular and whole-body conditioning. Because Nia is self-guided and based on creating a loving relationship with the body and following The Body’s Way – the innate intelligence of the body — it is adaptable and safe for any fitness level, from stiff beginners to highly fit athletes. Nia teaches you how to physically interpret and internally direct your actions and choices, and to listen to the voice of your body and allow the body to be your guide in discovering Dynamic Ease.
Benefits of taking Nia
When participants embrace an active, healthy lifestyle, they can attain increased fitness, health, and well-being in their body, mind, emotions, and spirit. As a movement program based on the Pleasure Principle, Nia:
* Increases the pleasure of living in your body
* Creates weight loss and proper weight maintenance
* Strengthens muscles, improves tone and definition
* Calms the mind and relieves stress
* Improves endurance
* Increases grace and flexibility
* Balances the autonomic nervous system
* Improves posture and can even increase height
* Improves organ function, that of the heart and lungs
* Enhances sensory awareness
* Heightens sexual function
* Builds reservoirs of chi
* Alleviates emotional issues, including depression, anxiety & stress
* Improves circulation of blood and improves lymphatic drainage
* Strengthens immunity
* Improves concentration and cognitive function