Have you been feeling like you’re not as positive as usual? Or lately, you’ve found yourself more anxious and stressed than normal? Through the Nia Technique, Nia Dance can bring a vast number of benefits to mental health and clarity, day-to-day wellbeing, and overall physical fitness.
Dance With Belinda is a Nia Dance group based in Hamilton and Raglan, providing physical and online Zoom-based classes to all walks of people. Belinda Goodwin, your teacher in these classes, strives to show how Nia Dance can empower, improve, and heal.
How Fit Do I Need to Be For Nia Dance?
Whether you’re leading an active lifestyle or have a sedentary life, Nia Dance is a fantastic option for fitness and is easy to adjust and learn for beginners. Nia Dance is just as perfect for an athlete as it would be for a stay-at-home mum. Classes are composed of simple and freeing exercises and movement, meaning you don’t exert a hefty sum of energy but still receive just as much exercise as other dance fitness classes (i.e. Zumba). If you’re just starting out or not as confident in your experience, Gentle Nia is a great class to begin with.
Fitness In Progress!
How Can Nia Dance Improve My Mental Wellbeing?
“I highly recommend Nia Dance as a therapeutic form of exercise that reduces stress and gives a “feel-good” factor to exercise. You don’t have to be a dancer to benefit from Nia Dancing”. – Kathy, Nia With Belinda Student.
The Nia Technique is composed of three different forms of art: Dance, martial, and healing. While Nia Dance on the outside just appears as a method of fitness through dance, many mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits come from it. When you participate in Nia Dance, the healing-focused areas of the exercises remove tension and worry, allowing calm energy to flow throughout your body. This same energy doesn’t vanish as soon as your class has finished; unlike regular forms of fitness that provide your body with a brief period of endorphins after a workout, Nia Dance rewards you with a mindset, a new joyful and pleasurable way of looking at your life and handling your wellbeing. It teaches you how to heal inside and outside of class, through exercise and words.
If you decide to participate in physical classes, the social aspect of Nia Dance can also aid in emotional wellbeing and empowerment. Nia With Belinda offers the opportunity to connect with new people and make friends in a judgment-free zone and safe environment.
Boosting Moods Out in the Sun!
Is Nia Dance Good For Exercise Too?
Yes! Nia Dance is a fun and enjoyable method of staying active while not requiring you to overexert yourself. If you’re not active or a beginner in any form of fitness, Nia Dance is the perfect routine to introduce you to a healthier, more productive lifestyle. There’s no equipment required and can be done in an open, comfortable space with friends, strangers, family, or alone! Nia Dance can provide many physical benefits too, such as improvement in brain function and cognition, which can, in turn, help you grow mentally and emotionally.
Book Now
Say yes to a boost in your energy and no to stress and anxiety with Nia With Belinda! If it’s your first time participating in classes, the first 3 classes for all newcomers are available for $15 ($5 per class for the first 3 classes). As well as the online Zoom and physical classes, there are 24-hour replays.
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.