What is Nia?
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Nia feel good fitness is a joyful blend of dance steps, martial arts techniques and healing movements. Each routine combines 52 simple moves that are danced barefoot to spirit-lifting music. The moves are all non-impact and adaptable.

This holistic movement medicine grounds your awareness back into your body and activates your parasympathetic nervous system — the state in which digestion, repair, clarity and calm are possible. Your heart rate steadies. Your joints lubricate. Your muscles strengthen. Your breath deepens. Your mind returns to the body. Your joy rises.

What is Nia?

Taught in more than 50 countries all over the world, Nia combines dance, martial arts and mindfulness.

Each class helps to tone your body, still your mind and lift your spirits, leaving you energized, able to think clearly and emotionally rebooted.

All Sarah’s classes are suitable for absolutely everyone – men, women, young, old - and for all shapes, sizes, abilities and fitness levels.

NIA...

…boosts your aerobic fitness, muscle strength, agility, balance, coordination, stability, mobility and flexibility

…improves your decision making, concentration and memory – research shows these benefits are linked to learning a dance sequence and keeping in time with the music

…is joint-friendly – dancing and stepping in bare feet allows you to tune into what your body likes

…tops up your feel good factor as the soul-stirring music triggers the brain to release the ‘happy’ chemical serotonin

…is all about freedom, fun, friendship, love and laughter!

Sarah's Classes

  • Locations:

    The Manor Health and Wellness Centre
    11 Manor Road, Colchester CO3 3LX
    WEDNESDAYS 6.30 - 7.30PM
    SATURDAYS 9.15 - 10.15AM

    Congregational Church Hall
    101 High Street, Wivenhoe CO7 9AB
    FRIDAYS 9.30 - 10.30AM

    St Mary's Church Annex
    High Street, Wivenhoe CO7 9BD
    SUNDAYS 6.30 - 7.30PM

  • Cost:

    £10 drop-in or £48 for a six-week block

  • NIA DANCE COMMUNITY DAY

    Let's learn, lunch and dance together!
    9.15am-4.30pm, £65, or £50 if booked 14 days in advance 
    The Manor Health and Wellness Centre
    11 Manor Road, Colchester CO3 3LX

    *Sat 12 Sept - Healing Arts (Yoga, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique)

    *Sat 10 Oct - Martial Arts (Tae Kwon Do, Tae Chi, Aikido)

    *Sat 14 Nov - Dance Arts (Jazz, Modern, Duncan Dance)

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