with Renée Tillotson – Nia Black Belt 2nd Degree

12  week series 

Sundays, January 19 – April 5, 2020

9-10:15 am

$150 for the 12 week series 

For those who can only attend the parts of the series, $20 drop-in rate applies.

PARTICIPATE EITHER ONLINE OR IN PERSON

dates:

January 19, 26

February 2, 9, 16, 23

March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

April 5

CELL-EBRATE ROUTINE

In a Joy-filled cell-abration of life in a body and in community, we dance in a smooth-moving, varied, spirited routine.  With strong yoga, dance and martial arts elements, Cell-ebrate fulfills the the Nia promise of providing us with plenty of movement variety. Giving voice helps to vibrate Joy right into our bodies’ cells! Routine choreographer Adelle Brewer gives crisp, clear structure as well as time to play, dance, and ‘cell-ebrate’!

As your Mentor, Renée Tillotson will facilitate a Nia-Life-Spirit check-in before every session, finding deep relevance to our daily lives as “Spirit clothed in flesh”, as Debbie Rosas likes to talk about our experience in a sacred body.  We connect Nia concepts into the theme for the week in the Still & Moving Center almanac, and we learn to set a focus and intent for teaching.

Delving into the routine, we explore the “katas” – movement patterns – that make up each song, and how they fit with the music. We unpack each move, showing you ways to approach each move safely and simply, as well as more energetically intense variations. 

BENEFITS OF MENTORSHIP

Participants in former mentorships series have evolved into teaching single songs as guest instructors; teaching partial or whole classes as subs; to teaching classes of their own. Experienced teachers find new inspiration and insight mentoring with Renée and fellow mentees.

This mentorship program important instructional tips and a huge virtual hug of support and encouragement.  You will share bonds of fellowship and interconnectedness that with your fellow mentees that are almost palpable. 

ATTENDING ONLINE

Online line access via free GoToMeeting allows mentees to join us from all over the world where they live or travel. Mentees have tuned in from New Zealand to Canada and Italy, from Georgia to Wyoming, and of course from Hawaii!

How to access Nia Mentorship Series via GoToMeeting:

Please join our meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/840202509

You can also dial in using your phone.

United States: +1 (646) 749-3122

Access Code: 840-202-509

If you have trouble reaching us by GoToMeeting, you can call Renée directly: 808.864.0495

TESTIMONIALS:

“I’m grateful to Renée and her mentorship program, and the participants from around the world. We dive deep into all aspects of Nia with our mind, body, emotions and spirit. It is healing, supportive, inspirational and truly transformative. I found my Nia teaching wings in this program and I continue to grow each week. Thanks Renée.” 

– Lorna Moglia, White & Green Belt from California.

“The Nia Mentorship Series that I’ve attended online with Still & Moving Center has been such a great opportunity for me to stay “connected” to my Nia practice and Nia community in a way I could not have imagined when I signed up. The experience, love and appreciation of Nia that Renée, Nancy and others that have shared in the mentoring of this class and what they bring to the table and the dance floor is incredible!

Learning a new routine with the class, reviewing and diving deeper into the Nia principles and practices has been such a great learning opportunity for me.Through this Mentorship Series experience I continue to learn and grow in my confidence and ability to share Nia as a newer teacher as well as my own personal Nia practice.

I have also improved immensely the ability to put into practice my learnings as I draw from the “well” of  Nia and “dance through life” in my own mind, body spirit experiences of each day.” 

– Mikelle Ivers, Nia White, Green & Blue Belt from Wyoming. 

RESOURCES

You can access the “Cell-ebrate” routine from Nia headquarters with your Nia Teacher Membership and see it on Nia TV.  Please download the Routine Booklet, including 8BC’s. Please note: Teaching Nia requires a Nia Teacher Membership.

You can purchase Still & Moving Center Almanac either in person or online.

RENÉE TILLOTSON

A 2nd Degree Nia Black Belt, Renée has earned every one of her Nia belts from the co-founders, Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas. Renée shares insights from her 18 years of applying Nia practice to the art of living. She founded Still & Moving Center in 2011 as a studio of  mindful movement, offering international teacher trainings plus 80 classes a week, including Nia, hula, yoga, aerial, martial arts, dance, Feldenkrais and other moving meditational practices.

Syllabus

• January 19

Introduction To Cell-Ebrate

Theme: Beyond Black and White 

• January 26

Song 1 Breaking Good

Theme: The Power of the Word

• February 2

Song 2 Capuba

Theme: The Wheel

• February 9

Song 3 Missing and Kissing

Theme: The Zero

• February 16

Song 4 When the Monsoons Came

Theme: Relationship and Solitude

• February 23

Song 5 Bring on Brazil

Theme: The Mirror

• March 1

Song 6 The Greasy Beat (Funk Bomb Dj Version)

Theme: Inward Integrity

• March 8

Song 7 Hey Wanaina

Theme: Working With Karma

• March 15 

Song 8 Los Cuentos

Theme: The Individual and The Universal

• March 22

Song 9 Water Down the Ganges

Theme: The Hidden Flame in The Heart

• March 29 

Review Songs 1-4

Theme: Dancing Through Life

• April 5

Review Songs 5-9 

Theme: The Mandala

Lead by Renée Tillotson and one guest Master per session

Sundays 9-10:25 am

September 9 – December 9, Twelve Week Series

You can attend this series either in person at Still & Moving Center or online via GoToMeeting, on which all participants can be seen and heard, live time, free app.

Experience the 9 Movement Forms with 9 master practitioners – one each week – as Nia Black Belt, first degree, Renée Tillotson simultaneously unpacks for us the routine Zensation by Debbie Rosas.

Prerequisite: Nia White Belt or higher.

In the routine Zensation, Debbie Rosas has choreographed one song for each of 9 Movement Forms that compose Nia. She gives us sensations from the Dance Arts: Jazz, Modern and Duncan; from the Martial Arts: Tai Chi, Aikido and Tae Kwon Do; and from the Healing Arts: Yoga, Feldenkrais and Alexander Technique.

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$199 for the 12 week Series. Drop-in rate of $21 [no tax] will apply for those who can only attend the parts of the series.

9/9 – Introduction to the Mentorship series

Discipline: Nia

with Master Teacher Renée Tillotson

Renée brings enthusiasm and insight to every class she leads. As a 1st Degree Nia Black Belt, Renée feels honored to have trained directly under Nia co-founders Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas. The Director of Still & Moving Center, Renée is motivated by the motto: Move your body. Still your mind. Find center. Find Joy!

9/16 – Song 1:  Lost Soul

Discipline: Work of Moshe Feldenkrais

with Master Teacher Eva Alewa Geueke

One of Honolulu’s most active, experienced Feldenkrais practitioners, Eva Geueke works both in Hawaii and Germany, giving lessons and hands-on bodywork in this very healing practice.

9/23 – Song 2:  Red Rhythm Dragon

Discipline: Tai Chi

with Master Teacher Dr. Wong Kai Ming

Teaching Yang style Tai Chi Chuan over two decades, Dr. Wong Kai Ming was trained to win without fighting. Inspired by Taoist and Buddhist influences, he enjoys applying martial arts concepts to daily life and to his medical practice.

9/30 – Song 3: Nature

Discipline: Jazz

with Master Teacher Ms Willow Chang

One of Honolulu’s premiere dance performers for at least two decades, in a wide variety of dance genres, Ms Willow holds a BA in Dance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and performs as a jazz singer.

10/7 – Song 4: Une Simple Histoire

Discipline: Modern Dance

with Master Teacher Neela Vadivel

As Artistic Director for Cirque du Soleil, Neela relied heavily upon her Modern Dance background. Coming from early classical ballet training, Neela spent most of her life performing and choreographing in contemporary repertory dance companies.

10/14 – NO CLASS

10/21 – Song 5: Flying Beyond

Discipline: Duncan Dance

with Master Teacher Lois Flood

Studying Duncan Dance intensively since 1986, and under Isadora’s direct dance descendants, Lois Flood strives to teach Duncan in its purest form, having learned and performed much of Isadora’s repertoire of dances.

10/28 – Song 6: Bulge

Discipline: Tae Kwon Do  

with Master Jonah Chin

Born and raised in Korea, and trained in Tae Kwan Do since childhood, Master Chin has, in a sense, transcended the martial aspect of the practice, to use its energy and precision for healing purposes in his role as an acupuncturist and teacher of Qigong.

11/4  – Song 7: Pemulway

Discipline: Aikido

with Sensei Randolph W. Scoville

Sensei Randolph Scoville is one of only a handful of Hawaii sensei to have obtained obtained the Aikido rank of 7th degree black belt. He is Nuuanu Aikido Club’s chief instructor.

11/11 – Song 8: Fuzz

Discipline: Yoga

with Master Teacher David Sanders

A beloved member of Honolulu’s yoga teaching community, David has been practicing yoga for over 40 years.David is a beloved member of the yoga teaching community on Oahu and at Still & Moving Center, always creating sacred space for his student’s inner journeys and “aha” moments of insight. David began his personal yoga practice in 1976, studying at a variety of locations in Los Angeles, including Billy Porter’s Urban Yoga Workout.

11/18 – Song 9: Forever Infinity

Discipline: Alexander Technique  

with Master Teacher Sonja Hegner (To Be Confirmed)

Sonja Hegner has practiced Alexander Technique as a teacher and therapist in Zurich, Switzerland since 1999, being especially drawn to the mindfulness aspect of Alexander principles.

11/25 – Thanksgiving – NO CLASS

12/2 – Review songs & movement forms 1-5

12/9 – Review songs & movement forms 6-9

You will have the opportunity each session to move with a master practitioner from each of these moving art forms, in addition to learning the choreography of the corresponding song.

Renée teaches you tools to unpack each song of a Nia routine, musically and choreographically. She shares insights from her 15 years of Nia practice and teaching, including life lessons from both of Nia’s founders, Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas.

Here we go beyond studying movement sequences and explore how Nia practices are meaningful to our daily lives. We’ll learn to recognize in ourselves the 4 realms of the Nia practice: Body, Mind, Emotions & Spirit: the uniqueness that is you!

You will find in this mentorship program important instructional tips and a huge virtual hug of support and encouragement. Our participants can range from Japan to Canada, from Georgia to Wyoming, and of course Hawaii.

The bonds of fellowship and interconnectedness that you will share with your fellow mentees and mentors are almost palpable. Participants in former mentorships series have evolved into teaching single songs as guest instructors; teaching partial or whole classes as subs; to teaching classes of their own.

We enjoy time for check-in and sharing our individual Nia practices, time for experimenting with our Nia toolbox of skills, time for decoding the music, and time for moving with the music.

How to access Nia Mentorship Series via GoToMeeting

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/840202509

You can also dial in using your phone.

United States: +1 (646) 749-3122

Access Code: 840-202-509

Conducted by Renee Tillotson, Assisted by Lorna Moglia

Nia Mentorship Series: Dragon Routine

Conducted by Renée Tillotson, Assisted by Lorna Moglia

Sundays  • 5/6/2018 – 7/29/2018 

9:15 -10:25 AM (HST)

The series is conducted in person at Still & Moving Center as well as online via GoToMeeting, on which all participants can be seen and heard, live time.

Focus and Intent: The focus of Dragon is the foundation, connecting to Earth and the power of Earth’s gravitational force. The Intent is to sense body weight shifting and balancing along the smile line as well as down the legs.

Unique to the routine DRAGON is the attention to the Martial Arts with dancing stances and slow movements evolving to fast. Allow yourself to let go and use the unique dragon imagery and Asian visuals to take you on a mystical journey as your students follow.

Each session of this series we’ll focus on a different aspect of the anatomy of the base of the body: from the arches of our feet to our psoas / hip flexor.

Renée and Lorna teach you tools to unpack each song of this Dragon routine, musically and choreographically. Renée shares insights from her 16 years of Nia practice and teaching, including life lessons from both of Nia’s founders, Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas.

You will find in this mentorship program important instructional tips and a huge virtual hug of support and encouragement.  The bonds of fellowship and interconnectedness that you will share with your fellow mentees and mentors are almost palpable. Participants in former mentorships series have evolved into teaching single songs as guest instructors; teaching partial or whole classes as subs; to teaching classes of their own.

Our participants can range from Japan to Canada, from Georgia to Wyoming, and of course Hawaii.

We enjoy time for check-in and sharing our individual Nia practices, time for experimenting with our Nia toolbox of skills, time for decoding the music, and time for moving with the music.

$110 for the 11 week Series. Normal drop-in rates of $17 paying online in advance or $20 paying in person will apply for those who can only attend the parts of the series.

Dragon Routine is available as a DVD with all teacher features and also on Nia TV.

Syllabus of Dragon Songs & Anatomy Focus

How to access Nia Mentorship Series via GoToMeeting

Please join our meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/840202509

You can also dial in using your phone.

United States: +1 (646) 749-3122

Access Code: 840-202-509

If you have trouble reaching us by GoToMeeting, you can call Renee directly: 808.864.0495

Free

Important: Order and receive your Bailando routine in advance of this Introduction

Free, required introduction to 13 week Mentorship Series for $130. When the Mentorship series starts the following Sunday, January 15th, we are going to hit the ground running!

Cast forward into the next three months of Nia Mentorship!  See your future successes in your mind’s eye. Find out how to prepare for the Mentorship series. Reunite with your past Nia mentorship friends; meet and greet new Nia trainees.

This Introduction on January 8th is mandatory for anyone taking the upcoming Mentorship Series starting January 15th.

with Renee Tillotson, 1st Degree Nia Black Belt

The 5 Principles of the Body’s Way and the 5 Sensations

Sundays, Sept 13 – Dec 13 (no session Nov 29)

9:15 – 10:25 am 

$130 for all 13 sessions

$17 drop-ins 

Offered ON LINE and IN PERSON!

This stimulating Nia mentorship series dives deeper into the Nia practice that we were introduced to in White Belt. We enjoy time for check-in and sharing about our individual Nia practices, time for experimenting with our Nia toolbox of skills, time for decoding the music, and time for moving with the music. We convey teaching tips and explore applications of the Nia practice to daily life.

We turn to the fantastically danceable routine, “Aya”, created at the apex of his Nia career by Co-Founder Carlos Rosas. The focus of the routine Stability, one of the 5 Sensations of movement that make for an excellent workout. The 5 Principles of the Body’s Way convey the time to move with the music, and the body’s organic demands for healthy movement, based on its inherent structure and functioning.

The series is conducted in person at Still & Moving Center as well as online via GoToMeeting, on which all participants can be seen and heard, live time.