Are you a beginner when it comes to physical activities but looking for a class to get you started? If you’re interested in fun, easy-going, and social exercise, try Nia Dance! Also known as the Nia Technique, Nia Dance offers you simplistic yet beneficial exercise in the form of free-flowing dance. If this sounds like it could be for you, read more below or check out Dance NZ, based in Hamilton and Raglan and offering a variety of classes to beginners and experienced alike!
What If I Have No Experience in Fitness or Dance?
Whether you’re at a beginner level or are a complete newcomer in the world of dance and physical activity, there’s no need to stress about your skills when you’re participating in Nia Dance. The 52 movements this dance form is made up of were designed to target experienced and novice dancers, and even those who have limited mobility and flexibility between joints.
This is because Nia Dance is also used as a form of support for injury or illness recovery and other ailments. Your teacher, Belinda Goodwin, will also provide everyone in each session the option to perform different moves at varying levels of difficulty, allowing you to choose the level you feel most comfortable with.
Gentle Nia is the class most suited for beginners and newcomers, although any class is ideal for participation! In every class, you’ll find a judgment-free, supportive, and enthusiastic environment, and positive and encouraging energy and words from your teacher and peers.
Class in Action and Catching the Sunshine!
What Can Nia Dance Teach Me?
Nia Dance, being a blend of multiple arts such as martial, healing, and dance arts, has the ability to teach you many skills as well as providing countless benefits. Classes of Nia Dance, when done consistently and correctly, can teach you the skills to create a peaceful, joyful mindset to allow you to live and maintain a more pleasurable, fulfilling life.
Nia Dance leaves you feeling refreshed and energized after every class, the combinations of movements and dance creating an outlet for all anxieties and stress to melt away. You’ll also find that Nia Dance brings mental clarity, improvements to physical functions, toning of the physical physique, spiritual connectedness, and emotional wellbeing stability.
Everyone Following Along!
Who Conducts the Classes?
Belinda Goodwin will be your teacher in the Nia With Belinda classes, all of which are located in either Hamilton or Raglan. Alternatively, you can also access and participate in class via online, live Zoom sessions if you, for any reason, can’t make physical classes or prefer to join in at home.
Belinda is not only fully certified to teach Nia Dance through the completion of her white, green, and blue belts in the Nia Technique, but she is also currently finishing her brown belt training. Brown belt training focuses on retouching all the knowledge studied in white, green, and blue belt training, as well as learning mindfulness procedures and the fundamentals of the Art of Perception.
Belinda is also a certified workplace First Aider so you can not only feel like you’re being taught by capable hands, but you can feel safe about your health too.
Certifications can be found here.
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Nia Dance is a fantastic stepping stone if you wish to get involved with fitness or dance for the first time in a while or the first time in general. As a bonus, your body and mind will receive numerous benefits from participating in Nia Dance, and you’ll be able to tell and feel the difference!
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).
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.