Our Nia Classes + Somatic Classes

Each Nia class experience combines music, mindfulness, and dynamic movement to leave you physically energized, mentally clear, and emotionally balanced. Nia workouts combine 52 simple moves with dance arts, martial arts, and healing arts to energize and enliven well-being in 60 minutes – body, mind, emotion and spirit. Nia is low-impact, practiced barefoot, and adaptable to individual needs and abilities.

Love your class and want to deepen your practice on and off the dance floor? Find a Nia Body + Life Training.

Classic Nia

Classic Nia classes are more than just a workout. Nia fills a void where other traditional fitness programs fall short. A powerful fusion of dance, martial arts, and mindfulness practices, Nia is a holistic movement & wellness practice addressing each aspect of your life – body, mind, and soul. Nia classes are for everybody, regardless of age, health or fitness level. Using a system of 52 simple moves, each Nia workout delivers full-body conditioning leaving you energized, mentally clear, and emotionally balanced. Practiced barefoot, Nia’s purpose is to inspire and guide people to listen to the wisdom of the body, choose movement that feels good, and find connection in community Nia is for every person who desires to discover, explore, unleash, and enhance their individual potential to live a healthy and meaningful life.

MOVE it

Using Nia’s 52 moves, this revolutionary approach to whole body fitness integrates science, modern interval training, music and lots of fun to deliver whole-body conditioning in 60 minutes. For the novice, this class helps the new student learn the moves. For the experienced Nian or athlete, this class takes it to the next level of fitness + fun. For anybody! Go at your own level.

Moving to Heal

Moving to Heal supports people looking for a gentle approach to Nia® and for those dealing with a wide range of therapeutic issues issues from injury, trauma, grief, short-term to long-term illness.

Learn to slow down and personalize movement to fit your body’s way while focusing on the sensation of feeling better move by move, breath by breath. Improve feelings of wellness regardless of physical condition.

Nia FreeDance

Nia FreeDance provides a barefoot conscious dance experience designed to awaken the dancer within and stimulate creativity and expression. Participants are guided to explore their own movement and dance, in their own way and their own time to soul-stirring music, eclectic sonic landscapes that provide cellular resonance and evoke self-expression.

Nia FloorPlay

Nia FloorPlay uses space, time and gravity guided by the element of play to creatively condition the body. Learn to blend one move into the next to create a beautiful dance that massages and strengthens the whole body from fingers to toes.

Soma Breath

Visualization is used to guide meditators to release anxiety and stress and to create change and a space for healing. Many have used Soma Breath Meditations to heal themselves of trauma, physical pain, and engage in a happy, healthy lifestyle and make better choices. We use different breath rhythms to connect, relax, release and heal. Along with the music, you will hear a count to guide you. After each round of rhythmic breathing, we offer a breath hold.

Somatic Integration

With a mix of conscious movement, music, and stretching focused on structural alignment and nervous system strength, Somatic Integration offers a self-healing experience as you are guided through stages of deepening and expanding somatic awareness. From the inside out, claim spaciousness, inspiration to feel better, move better, and fully inhabit your being. 

Feldenkrais

The Feldenkrais Method is neuromuscular re-education. This Awareness Through Movement Class provides the environment your brain and body need to course-correct. Through a series of slow, small movements that address connections in the body, there is improvement in flexibility, balance, coordination, posture, better breathing and less tension and restriction, which means less inflammation.