Looking for a fitness workout specialised for beginners in Raglan? Maybe you’re seeking easy, at-home classes for dance? Whether it’s fitness or dance you’re seeking, social workout, or home exercises, Nia With Belinda has a class perfect for a range of beginners!
Nia Dance is a form of movement art and fitness designed specifically to improve your health, well-being, and overall lifestyle. Comprised of different martial, healing, and dance arts, Nia Dance has 52 total moves that can be adjusted based on your skill level!
Dance NZ, based in Hamilton and Raglan, aims to share her techniques and style with you to provide empowerment, fun, and a unique form of exercise. Best of all, you can decide if you want to participate in-person in a social setting, or from the comfort of your own home!
Experienced Teacher
Your teacher, Belinda Goodwin, has received her white, blue, and green belt specialising in the Nia Technique, and is currently training for her brown belt. She supplies encouragement for beginner dancers to “choose to adapt and modify the movement, dancing in “your Body’s way”.
This means that, as a beginner, you don’t need to feel pressured to follow every move perfectly. Allow yourself to feel each dance move flow through you and be expressed in your own, personal style.
In each Nia Dance class, Belinda applies different levels of difficulties to each move and routine, which allows beginners to feel comfortable working at a level that is perfect for them, whether that’s easy and simplistic moves or something more challenging to build skill.
Certifications can be found here: https://www.niawithbelinda.com/certifcate
Gentle Nia
Gentle Nia is the main class that’s most suitable for beginners so there’s no need to worry about experience. All Nia Dance classes can be booked as physical sessions, located in either Hamilton or Raglan, but if you find more comfort in participating in your own space, live Zoom sessions are also available for booking.
Zoom sessions and physical classes take place at the same time so you can maintain that connection while engaging with the class. Many newcomers and beginners may find starting from home via Zoom and then transitioning over to Gentle Nia Dance classes in Raglan when they feel more confident might be easier.
Gentle Nia classes are open for booking below:
• Gentle Nia Wednesday classes (9:30 am) are held at the Raglan Town Hall (located on 41 Bow Street, Raglan), and can be booked here.
• Gentle Nia Wednesday classes (9:30 am) are also accessible via Zoom and can be booked here.
Nia Dance And Its Benefits For Beginners
If you’re a beginner in the world of fitness or dance, Nia Dance can contribute a multitude of mental and physical benefits to your life without having to push your body or skills to the limit. When done correctly and consistently, Nia Dance workouts can improve your posture, strengthen core muscles, clear tension, enhance coordination, support breathing, and expand the level of movement within your joints and flexibility.
Mentally, Nia Dance produces a fun experience that you can have within the comfort and security of your own home, or socially with friends, family, or strangers! Nia Dance can create help you create new social connections, boost productivity and mood, create calm energy, and reduce symptoms of depression, tension, and anxiety.
Book Now!
If you’re a beginner to dance and fitness, or located in the Raglan area and looking for a new form of softer exercise, try Gentle Nia at Nia With Belinda! Other classes are also available on Zoom, or in Hamilton or Raglan, and are open for booking below.
Making time for your exercise class is made even easier with a 24-hour replay of the class allowing you to view the class again as many times as you like within 24 hrs!
Nia Dance at Dance NZ offers a 24 hr replay of all weekly classes, to access these replays and find online HYBRID style Nia Dance classes with Belinda Click HERE
Weekly Dance classes to choose from , dancing Live Online or In person at our Dance Venues
• Nia Dance Move to Heal Tuesday classes (11:15 am) are held at Saint Aidan’s Hall (located on the corner of Thames Street and Heaphy Terrace, Hamilton), and can be booked here.
• Classic Nia Tuesday classes (5:30 pm) are held at the Waikato Sports Fishing Club (located on Grantham Street, Hamilton), and can be booked here
• Gentle Nia Wednesday classes (9:30 am) are held at the Raglan Town Hall (located on 41 Bow Street, Raglan), and can be booked here
• Classic Nia Friday classes (9:30 am) are held at Saint John’s Hall (located on 20 Wellington Street, Hamilton), and can be booked here
• Nia for Parkinson’s Freedom Dance Friday classes (12:00 pm) are held at Saint John’s Hall (located on 20 Wellington Street, Hamilton), and can be booked here.
For all information regarding these classes and to access 24 hr Replays contact us at Dance NZ
If you want to find out more about the Nia Technique, visit nianow.com.