Nia (Games)

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Nia is een nieuwe bewegingssport, goed voor lichaam en geest. Je beweegt op aerobic-achtige en vrije dans oefeningen op blote voeten. Het is ontstaan in 1981 in Zuid-Afrika. Debbie Rosas is een Nia-coach.

Nia is leuk! Het is een fitness training voor het hele lichaam, waarbij het plezier van het bewegen centraal staat in plaats van pijn en prestatiedrang.

Nia ontspant! Het is geschikt voor iedereen, onafhankelijk van leeftijd of lichamelijke conditie. Alle bewegingen volgen het principe van weldaad.

Nia is gezond! Het traint op een lichaamsreinigende manier het totale lichaam met als resultaat een lichamelijk en geestelijk welzijn.

Nia is als chocolade. Je moet het gewoon proeven...

Het is een inspirerende dans, gevechtsport en bewegingstherapie in één.
http://www.nianow.com/

'The Nia-technique' gaat over deze sport.

The Nia Technique: The High-Powered Energizing Workout that Gives You a New Body and a New Life (Paperback) - Debbie Rosas
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“An emotional fitness odyssey, Nia is just plain exhilarating.”—New York Times

“This lyrical, dance-like routine is deceptively powerful, delivering a high-powered workout that will leave you strong and centered.”—Health magazine

Product Description
the strength of Pilates, the flexibility of yoga, the muscle tone of strength training, and top-notch aerobic fitness—all through the revolutionary pleasure-based fitness program that gets you in shape from the inside out!

The hottest new trend in mind-body wellness, Nia—which stands for Neuromuscular Integrative Action—is the most advanced form of fusion fitness, blending martial arts, healing arts, dance, and spiritual self-healing to create a high-powered, synergistic workout that no isolated exercise technique can match. Created by fitness pioneers Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas, Nia presents an entirely new philosophy of exercise—one that will not only keep you in fantastic shape, but will also help you rediscover the joy of movement and being at home in your body.

The Nia Technique is the first and only book to share the workouts so popular at gyms and spas across the country, outlining the basic Nia moves—or katas—that can be performed easily at home and adapted to your own level of fitness. With moves drawn from nine fitness disciplines, including tae kwan do, tai chi, yoga, Feldenkrais™, jazz dance, and modern dance, Nia promotes strength and muscle definition without the use of weights, and its freeing, dance-like regimen provides a medium for self-healing. You’ll tighten, tone, lengthen, strengthen, and lose pounds and inches—and have fun doing it! You’ll learn to follow “the body’s way”—a breakthrough fitness concept that teaches you to move in the way that most benefits your individual body; and you’ll learn to use visualizations and vocalizations that enhance the benefits of each workout. The overall regimen is phenomenally effective because its holistic approach unites the body and the mind, and creates an exhilarating path that anyone can follow toward a healthy, fit physique, lasting weight loss, and an unlimited sense of your fitness potential.

With simple, step-by-step instructions, The Nia Technique also shares the inspiring stories of people whose lives have been transformed by the practice of Nia. With Nia, a new body is just the beginning—the ultimate goal is a new life!

http://www.amazon.com/Nia-Technique-High-Powered-Energizing-Workout/dp/0767917308

From the moment you step through the door, you know that your relationship to your body and your experience of life is about to change forever.

Nia is a cardiovascular blend of dance arts, martial arts and the healing arts. It creatively integrates these movements, concepts, and philosophies by embracing the gifts of the healing arts, the power and mindfulness of the martial arts and meditative techniques, the grace and fluidity of the dance techniques, and the awareness and alignment through integrative body therapies. Movement becomes self-empowering fostering personal growth and well-being.

Nia isn’t an acronym anymore. It‘s simply a name meaning “with purpose”. Previously, NIA (all capitals) meant non-impact aerobics (1983) and in 1987, neuromuscular integrative action. Though they're not used anymore, those definitions give this movement more meaning, particularly the latter definition.

Neuromuscular - going straight from the nerves to the muscles, bypassing the “thinking” brain. Movement is copied and absorbed into the body and not through mental thought processes.
Integrative - systemic, whole-body movement integrating music, movement and sensation.
Action - the power of now, continual movement in the moment.

http://www.niasouthafrica.co.za/introductionnia.shtml

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