Creating joy and remaining happy is an important part of life to focus on for everyone. As you become older, you may find life to become more stressful so staying joyful is even more important. This blog post will be discussing a joyful senior dance in Raglan that is bound to boost your spirits and leave you feeling like you’re on top of the world.
Active activities, such as dance, are highly recommended for older individuals. Not only does it keep you active, but many studies have shown that dance produces high levels of serotonin. Serotonin is the chemical in your brain responsible for making you feel good and happy. All dance styles help to produce serotonin, including Nia Dance.
Increasing your serotonin through Nia Dance can lead to amazing benefits such as improved long-term memory, reduce stress, and create new neural connections. But what exactly is Nia Dance and what other benefits can it bring to contribute to your happiness as a senior?
Reclaim Joy Back Into Your Life With Nia Dance
Nia Dance is a non-impact dance technique that encourages to provide many physical, mental and spiritual health and happiness benefits through various other methods aside from boosting serotonin. The dance style is made up of nine various movement art forms, including tai-chi and other types of dance, healing and martial forms. Numerous studies have found that activities like Tai Chi and other movement arts that inspire Nia Dance have profoundly beneficial effects for seniors as well as overall happiness.
Nia Dance is made up of 52 distinct movements that can be easily adapted to your specific body type and skills. This makes it perfect for anyone to participate, particularly seniors. This means you won’t be forcing motions through your body that feel unnatural, reducing the risk of getting hurt, tired or uncomfortable after a Nia Dance practice.
As mentioned in the opening of this blog, participating in Nia Dance provides many benefits to your happiness. Nia Dance also offers a diverse range of well-being and health advantages that can, in turn, also make you feel happier as a result. Some benefits of Nia Dance that can contribute towards your happiness includes a pleasurable attitude, calm energy, pain relief, higher self-esteem, reduced depressive symptoms and anxiety, and renewed mobility and flexibility.
Dance to Happiness at Dance NZ
Gentle Nia and Nia Dance Move to Heal are two Nia Dance sessions provided at Dance NZ that are ideal for seniors to engage in to reclaim joy. Physical classes are held at various locations within the Hamilton and Raglan region. Online classes are held on Zoom and capture in-person classes live. This allows people who are not in the area, or who wish to participate in Nia Dance lessons from the comfort of their own home, to participate at Dance NZ. You can learn more about how to maximise your viewing and participation in online classes here.
24-hour purchasable class replays are also available on the Dance NZ website. These are ideal for people who can’t attend classes or want to have extra guided Nia Dance workouts. These can be purchased on the Dance NZ website here, and are available to view as many times as you wish within 24 hours.
In terms of classes for seniors, Gentle Nia is the greatest class to fit a wide variety of seniors since it reworks Nia Dance movements to make them accessible for those with restricted mobility and flexibility. Nia Dance Move to Heal is a Nia Dance class for elders and people with restricted mobility due to injury or illness. It’s also a registered ACC rehabilitation programme. The exercises in this class are similar to those in Gentle Nia, but they’re gentler and designed as a Waikato Strong & Stable programme that follows the national Live Stronger for Longer concept.
Book Now
Prioritise your happiness and health and give Nia Dance a go today! Dance NZ provides a variety of options so no matter where you are or what your schedule is like, there’ll be something available that works perfectly for you. So, book now and allow Nia Dance to bring joy into your life!
Have any concerns or questions? Please don’t hesitate to CONTACTING Dance NZ.
Kind regards, Belinda.
Brown Belt in the Nia Technique. A Certified Parkinson Dance Teacher.
Nia Dance Classes at Dance NZ Occur On a Weekly Basis Including: Online Classes as well as in-person Sessions at the many Nia Dance locations
Booking Nia Dance online and in-person classes at Dance NZ can be done for free by signing up as a member here.
• Nia Dance Move to Heal classes (11:15 a.m., Tuesday) may be booked here. Classes start in the Saint Aidan’s Hall location. The intersection of Thames Street and Heaphy Terrace, Hamilton is where this venue is located.
• Classic Nia classes (5:30 p.m., Tuesday) can be booked here. The location of the classes is based in the Grantham Street venue in Hamilton, known as the Waikato Sports Fishing Club.
• Gentle Nia classes (9:30 a.m., Wednesday) may be booked here. Raglan Town Hall is the venue where Gentle Nia classes are held. The venue location of this class is at 41 Bow Street, Raglan.
• Classic Nia sessions (9:30 a.m., Friday) are able to be booked here. Saint John’s Hall is the location where Classic Nia classes are held. The venue can be found at 20 Wellington Street, Hamilton.
• Nia for Parkinson’s Freedom Dance sessions begins in Saint John’s Hall (12:00 pm, Fridays). This venue can be found at 20 Wellington Street, Hamilton, and can be organised here.
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