Nia Classes

Madrona class cards are good for ANY regular class offered at MMI.  For a schedule of Nia Classes at Madrona.

Nia

Fitness from the Inside Out.
With Allison, David, Heidi, and Michelle
Nia is a dynamic and freeing experience that integrates your mind/body/spirit and leaves you feeling recharged and fully alive! Nia blends dance, martial arts, yoga and healing arts to allow your child, athelete, warrior and dancer within to expressively emerge. The result of practicing Nia is loving your body and mastering the art of living a passionate and healthy life. Done barefoot and to music. For all fitness levels. Daily Drop-in Classes.

NEW TO NIA

With Allison Dey, Certified Nia Brown Belt Instructor, founder of Nia Port Townsend and co-founder of Madrona MindBody. New to Nia (First Tuesday of the month) - 5-6:00 p.m. FREE - pre-registration required, (register here) This class is followed by a 6-7:00 p.m. Nia class.

Nia Teachers have FUN!

Change your body, change your life... and have fun, feel good and get fit with Nia! Reserve your spot for the next "New to Nia" while there is still room. We look forward to sharing the joy of Nia with this cost-free opportunity. Learn more about Nia, a well-being fitness and lifestyle practice. Through expressive movement-the Body's Way-Nia empowers people to achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and well-being. Nia blends a range of rhythmic music styles with choreographed hour-long routines. It is the first and foremost "fusion fitness" program, inspired by three art forms: The Dance Arts- Jazz, Modern and Duncan: The Healing Arts- Yoga, the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, the Alexander Technique: and the Martial Arts- Aikido, Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi. Come discover the power and joy of this creative, savvy and energizing practice. Nia will move you!

Gentle Nia

With Heidi

Are you needing to treat your body gently, yet longing to move to music? Come experience the magic of dancing to beautiful music while maintaining a sense of safety, awareness, and delight. Gentle Nia helps you increase and sustain the pleasure and health you feel as you move across the dance floor and on through your day. We will focus on how to strengthen the core of the body so as to be able to extend outward safely. This is a class for any body, whether you are new to Nia, or a Nia "regular." Drop-ins welcome!

Monday, Wednesday and Friday:  11:00-12:00 Noon

2010 A-BUN-DANCE Course 

with Allison Dey, 
Empower your Dreams into A-BUN-DANCE this year!

Ready for a change in your life? Explore and empower yourself in 2010 within a supportive community using intentional movement, writing and ritual to manifest your dreams. A year long course including four one day seasonal Playshops in 2010 devoted to bring focus and intention to what you want to create, nurture and sustain in your life.  Allison uses the Nia Technique, Julia Cameron's Artist's Way and other awareness tools in a facilitated support circle to guide your process. One day Playshops are held with the natural rhythms of the earth each season, honoring the earth and our body's natural wisdom.

• Learn a new Nia routine in each Playshop with a seasonal focus on the body including movements of the base, core and upper extremities as well as the use of breath and sounding.
• Cost: $50 per Playshop/  $44 for 2 or more/  $160 for the year. 
• A Nia class and personal journals included.
• Recommended reading: The Nia Technique: The High Powered Energizing Workout that Gives You a New Body and a New Life by Debbie and Carlos Rosas and The Artist's Way, A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

2010 Winter playshop-DREAMS; Seeding Our Intentions
Saturday January 30, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. - Sign Up

2010 Spring playshop-BIRTH; Sprouting Our Dreams
Saturday April 17, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. - Sign Up

2010 Summer playshop-PASSION: Flowering Our Heart's Desire
Saturday July 10, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. - Sign Up

2010 Fall Playshop-ABUNDANCE; Harvesting With Gratitude
Saturday October 9th, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. - Sign Up

Check Madrona's Schedule for most updated classes and workshops.

Nia Headquarters Website: www.NiaNow.com