The Nia White Belt Intensive Training is the somatic and mindful study of the 13 Nia White Belt Principles.
Each Day is divided into highly interactive sessions where you will learn, move and practice the Science, Craft and Art of the Nia Body of Work. This is accomplished using both cognitive and experiential learning models. This 7-day experience offers leading edge education in movement dynamics, body-mind physiology, kinesiology, choreography, physical/x-ray anatomy, and music appreciation. In addition you will participate with other students in Nia classes to witness the power of the Nia Technique in practice. The Nia Intensive experience empowers everyBody to take their practice and their life the next level.
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Created by Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas 25 years ago, The Nia Technique combines movements and concepts from Martial arts, Dance arts and Healing arts, blending music, vocal sounding and self-expression into dynamic, hour-long routines. While most often practiced in hour-long classes, the true depth of the work lies in a rich body of education that develops into a powerful life practice. With a philosophy rooted in "The Joy of Movement," Nia teaches people of all lifestyles to choose Pleasure as the path toward physical, mental and emotional health.
Revolutionizing the world of fitness and wellbeing, Nia is today taught to nearly 100,000 students by over 2,000 Certified Teachers in 37 countries. With a "More-Gain, No-Pain" philosophy, Nia bursts boundaries of age, gender and fitness levels, delivering a fun, effective and life changing practice for all walks of life.
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The Nia Belt System
There are four levels of Nia Training: White Belt, Green Belt, Blue Belt, Brown Belt, and Black Belt. This system provides a developmental process that is fashioned after the martial arts. Everyone begins with White Belt.
Nia White Belt Intensive Training
Joyful. Transformational. It is unlike any other educational training you have ever experienced.
Nia White Belt Intensive Training is the first step on the Nia Training path. All Nia training is highly interactive and delivers foundational principles through both cognitive and experiential learning models. Upon completion of the Nia White Belt Intensive Training, you are eligible to license as a Nia Teacher .
What can I expect to learn during the training?
The Body's Way Education Model
Sensory IQ, movement integration, and functional fitness techniques
Movement dynamics, body-mind physiology, and X-Ray Anatomy concepts
Nia's 13 Principles, which includes our unique choreography and music notation system
Somatic teaching techniques
What is included in the Nia Intensive?
7-day White Belt Intensive Training, including 50+ hours of somatic education
200+ page White Belt Learn book and NiaNow DVD
Subscription to Nia's monthly e-Newsletter and access to Nia's online Community Forum
Nia Certificate of Completion and Nia White Belt (upon graduation)
Practical application of concepts and techniques
Share the joy of Nia with others who desire fitness, wellness, and personal growth.
Join the professional organization that has been changing people's bodies and lives for more than 25 years. Upon completing the Nia White Belt Intensive Training, you are eligible to purchase a Nia Teacher License Package.
What is included in the Nia Teacher License Package?
License to use the Nia name and logo, and to teach the Nia Technique®
Continuing Education materials
Teaching routines
Nia's professional newsletter
Online discussion forum for professionals
Support from Nia Headquarters' professional team
Professional discounts
Personal Growth or Professional Training?
The Personal Growth Path is for students with a desire to intimately study and embody Nia for self-actualization, personal growth and life transformation.
The Professional Growth Path is for current or aspiring fitness, health or wellness professionals looking to teach or integrate Nia into their existing practice.
Graduates of Nia education emerge as role models, representing what it means to consciously live in a body, to live passionately, guided by love and the sensation of Pleasure. Those on the Professional Path graduate prepared to work in the fitness, health and wellness world, teaching Classic Nia classes as well as working with special markets.
For people on the Personal Growth Path, completion of the White Belt results in receiving the Nia Personal Growth White Belt Certification of Completion.
For people on the Professional Path, completion of the White Belt gives them permission to teach and represent Nia as a White Belt Apprentice, making “teaching classes” an integral part of the distance learning, continued education process that is a requirement before taking Green Belt. Green Belt focuses on teaching you how to “teach” a Body-Mind-Emotion-Spirit class format—Nia! Successful completion of Green Belt, which is the second belt on the Professional Path, is required in order to achieve the level of,
Nia Professional Teacher Certification.
Location
London, Ontario Canada
Hendersonville, NC (co-facilitated Denise Medved)
Lansing, MI
New York, NY (co-facilitated with Caroline Kohles)
Location
Lansing, MI
Portland OR (co-facilitated Debbie Rosas Stewart)
Ocean Shores, Australia
Cambridge, MA (co-facilitated Denise Medved)
Lansing, MI
Caesarea, Israel (co-facilitated Debbie Rosas Stewart)
Pt Townsend, WA
Chicago, IL
Lansing, MI
Dates 2010
Sept 18 - 24
October 24 – 30
November 13 – 19
November 27 - Dec 3
Dates 2011
February 12-18
March 20-26
April 9-15
April 29- May 5
July 9-15
July 22-29
August 13-19
September 10-16
November 12-18
International Participants:
$500 Deposit & Register at NiaNow.com
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Trainer: Winalee Zeeb
Phone: (517) 485-4971
Fax: (517) 485-3895
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1806 E. Michigan Ave.
Lansing, MI 48912
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Dates 2010-11
November 1-5, 2010
January 28- Feb 1
March 11-15
April 17-21
June 24-28
July 31-Aug 4
October 22-26
Location
Hendersonville, NC (co-facilitated Denise Medved)
New York, NY (co-facilitated with Caroline Kohles/Denise)
Seattle, WA (co-facilitated with Caroline Kohles)
Brisbane, Australia
Lansing, MI (co-facilitated with Caroline/Denise)
Caesarea, Israel (co-facilitated Debbie Rosas Stewart)
Hendersonville, NC (co-facilitated Denise Medved)
Nia Green Belt Intensive Training
Focus: Honing teaching skills and working with the 13 principles of the White Belt. In general the Nia Education Program can be divided into five competency areas: Anatomy, Music, Movement, Methodology and Philosophy. In the Green Belt, students will go through a 5-day intensive program that takes all of the 13 White Belt Principles through the framework of the five competency areas specifically to develop teaching skills. In addition to the competency areas, students will continue to perfect their skill at modeling and working with the 52 Moves and demonstrating the moves for different fitness levels. Students will work with the Nia's 5 Sensations of Fitness: Flexibility, Mobility, Strength, Agility and Stability to deliver the Nia Experience that promises physical fitness through seeking pleasure in the body.
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