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ONLINE & In Person

With Renée Tillotson, Nia Black Belt, 1st degree

Sundays, 9:15 – 10:25 am

13 week series: April 30 – Aug 6, no session on Mother’s Day, May 14

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.

Enhance your ability to learn and teach Nia routines!

Prerequisite: Nia White Belt or higher

The focus of the routine Joy, by Ann Christiansen, is to sense life force energy, experience Joy! The intent is to sustain and increase the sensation of Joy, tweaking as needed, to create sustainability in the body.

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.

And we’ll delve into the 5 principles of the Body’s Way, a signature feature of the Nia practice. Using the Body’s Way, Renée carefully models and explains body positioning, song by song, to ensure ease and safety of movement.

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.

$130 for the 13 week Series. Normal drop-in rates of $17 paying online or $20 paying in person will apply for those who can only attend the parts of the series.

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

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.

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Online & In Person

With Renée Tillotson, Nia Black Belt, 1st degree

Sundays, Jan 15 to April 2017  (no sessions Feb 5 or Apr 16, 2017)

9:15 – 10:25 am

$130 for the 13 week Series. Normal drop-in rates of $17 will apply for those who can only attend the parts of the series. 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.

Prerequisites:

1) Nia White Belt or higher

2) Order and receive your Bailando routine in advance of the Jan 8th Mentorship Introduction

3) Attend Mentorship Series Introduction, Sunday, Jan 8, 2017, 9:15-10:25 am

Learn to learn Nia routines! The focus of the routine Bailando is dancing passionately to the music – in this case mostly Brazilian! Bailando actually means “to dance”!

In this series, you will:

• learn how learn a Nia routine
• practice taking choreographic notes
• find the sections of the music with 8BC’s
• match the choreography to your musical map   
• gain familiarity with the 52 moves
• learn to lead classes through body sensation
• give yourself permission to progress in natural time, your body’s way
• get clarity with your struggles and kudos for your successes in Nia!

Here we explore how Nia practices are meaningful to our daily lives – it’s not simply an abstract study of movement.

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.

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

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.

9:15 – 10:25 am Hawaii Standard Time

In person or Online Live

$35 or $17 drop-in

Sundays, Oct 9, 16, 23

Not enough experience or time to create new choreography for Halloween? Learn to adapt your known choreography to ghastly, ghostly tunes!
Then you can take this Halloween as a playful opportunity to dress up with your students and shake your bones WITH YOUR SPECIAL SPOOKY MUSIC! You can be creepy, scary, frightening, sinister, chilled, goose bumpy or downright silly shouting “Boo!” and your students will still love you…’Cause they already know the moves – you’ve just put it to new music!