Having just returned from a week of my Nia White Belt Intensive, I’m getting a lot of questions from you, most notably “What is Nia?”

Nia is a holistic fitness program that is all about how to get in your body and how to learn to feel so you can heal (stay tuned for more posts about how to get into your body, which will share what I learned during my Nia White Belt training.) Nia originally stood for “non-impact aerobics” and evolved to mean “neuromuscular integrative action.” But to me, Nia is “naturally integrated awareness.”

When I heard that Debbie Rosas, founder of the Nia movement classes was going to be teaching a dance class at Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts, I thought “Sign me up.” I grew up taking dance classes and was in a ballet company in my younger years. Someone told me Nia was part dance, part martial arts, part healing arts, and as a dancer/doctor, I thought, “Perfect!”

Do you recognize this? You get up in the morning and you feel sluggish already. You hate the thought of the day ahead of you and at night you go to bed feeling dissatisfied.

You can change this, instantly, by creating a morning routine. Set your alarm a little earlier (I know, ugh, but trust me -- it's worth it!) so that you have some time just for you, and do something that energizes you and makes you happy. 

"Dance," (c) 1999, Rita Loyd

 

Dear Pinkies, please welcome back Tara Sophia Mohr, life coach, writer, and author of the blog Wise Living. Enjoy the beautiful story of how she got her mojo back in a simple, unexpected way. Thanks as always dear Tara!