Saturday 3/30/24 Erin Curren is teaching both the 8:45am Nia 5 Stages class and the 10:00am class.
Continuing our March Challenge of Variety. We will focus on the Spine in 5 stages then take this focus into the 10am class with Yoj! (Joy backwards LOL)
Nia 5 STAGES
Focus: Self Healing the Spine
Intent to keep energy flowing between the Cranium and Sacrum to stimulate mobility of the spine physically and energetically.
10am Class: Yoj
Focus: Felt-sense of fitness (sometimes called FAMSSS)
Intent: Start within, sensing the movement as "an inside job"
Nia strikes me as a fitness practice that in some ways turns a typical dance class on its head. How often do you see a dance class represented as emphasizing the timing, the most important thing being that everyone is doing the exact same thing at the exact same time, performing for show? Nia changes the script and declares "we're less about what the movement looks like and more about what the movement feels like." To this end we are turning the playlist on its head, starting from the end, inverting the order of songs, just like Nia asks us to start on the inside, not with what it looks like on the outside.
Notice how beginning at the end of this well-loved body of work, Joy, which we've danced in many incarnations this month of variety, is bringing a familiar-yet-new sense to your dance. Enjoy the playful ways we can flip the playlist and the moves and, like a palindrome, create a mirrored movement experience that still includes all 7 cycles.
Join me for yoj, joy in reverse on Saturday March 30th at 10am CT!
“Through movement we find health.
We want to move the spine to keep it healthy
(maintain it’s ability to move).”
Erin Curren 8:45am + 10:00am (CT)
ONLINE classes = 2 great choices:
Online via Zoom and/or
Enjoy a 24 hour replay
Usual Class Rates apply: Drop in for $15, buy a class pass or consider signing up for the 30 Day Challenge 30 classes, 30 days $99 and receive the class as part of your package!
This movement experience is suitable for beginners and people of all different fitness backgrounds.
“Each of the stages provides unique movement
and positioning of the spine
in relationship to gravity
that prepares the body
to be upright and aligned.”
In the Nia 5 Stages, you are invited to a place of sensitivity that enables you to observe and release the sensation of stress and embrace the sensations of Dynamic Ease, Pleasure, and comfort. Beginning with the Nia 5 Stages class, which most often is described as a luxurious healing hour of setting the focus for the 10am movement experience that follows.
When you sign up for a class you are automatically sent the Zoom link for class. You can also find links for class at the top of our private Facebook Group, in “Featured": https://www.facebook.com/groups/helenterry
You are welcome to attend either class. And, when you’re able to attend both classes, something magic happens! The entire Nia 5 stages class is like a rich 60 minute introduction to the 10am Nia class, a beautiful compliment and super preparation.
In this gentle, self discovering, potentially healing Nia 5 stages experience
your body gets to settle into and taste the Nia class focus
your mind can learn new and novel information,
your heart may open to receive more with fascination up and frustration down
your spirit could be tickled and curious to experience more
“We look at anatomy
to see how the body or body part is positioned,
then we sense it in our own bodies.”