The Nia Promise and Delivering the Nia Experience are phrases we use to express the transformative power of Nia; to a Nia Teacher's ability to deeply move and touch people within the classroom environment. As a teacher, your role is to guide people through a meaningful journey of physical conditioning and self-discovery. Teaching Nia is all about sharing your personal experience – your physical and emotional sensations, visual images and feelings. To do so, you must have a solid understanding of the form, objective curriculum and communication techniques.

The Nia Green Belt Immersive Training comprehensively explores all mechanics of delivering the work, including embodying the choreography, cueing, creating intentional silences, dancing to the music and helping people achieve their personal fitness goals. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned teacher, Nia Green Belt will further your teaching skills. New teachers develop confidence, craft and skill by learning and practicing the foundations of teaching. Seasoned teachers refine and deepen their understanding, building on their craft and receiving feedback from peers to deliver the most powerful experience possible.

As part of the Nia Green Belt training, you will learn and work with the Nia Routine (class experience), Ignite and Selfless.

Book your training & accommodation

The cost of the course is $1199. Pay a $599.50 deposit to NiaNow.com. The remaining balance of $599.50 is due 30 days before the course, which you can pay using the link below:

Click HERE to choose and reserve your accommodation

Nia 5 Stages Training | IN PERSON

Focus: Art of Self Healing

Intent: To facilitate optimal function and comfort in the body. 
 As integrative practice based on the five developmental stages humans experience from the embryo to walking, Nia 5 Stages supports your body holistically to sustain mobility, flexibility, strength, agility and stability. 

CONSIDER EXPANDING YOUR EXPERIENCE TO A 1, 2 or 3 night RETREAT.

Practiced with awareness, these stages have the power to facilitate optimal alignment, improved function, energy flow and comfort in the body

Nia 5 Stages Training provides you with tools to deeply embody the practice and to facilitate a Nia Stages class, workshop or private session experience. Whether a Nia teacher, movement practitioner, somatic educator, health professional, yoga teacher or individual seeking healing, this IN PERSON, 3 Day retreat provides a new skill set to add to your realm of expertise and practice.

"For everyone looking to dive into the wisdom of The Body's Way, Nia 5 Stages is your answer. As a lover of the body, always interested in learning the how, what, and why, this unique somatic course makes it possible to learn, practice and teach what you love. During the course of the training and teacher apprenticeship, you will explore 52 unique lesson plans designed to teach you and your student what makes living and moving in the body an amazing sensory experience."

Debbie Rosas
Founder + Co-creator of Nia Technique

Training Topics:

• Exploring the Science, Craft, and Art of Nia 5 Stages;

• Adapting and Personalizing;

• Nia 5 Stages Delivery and Class Format;

• The Body’s Way Principles and Nia Lifestyle;

• Body Awareness + Body Literacy;

• Body Gratitude + Sensory IQ;

• Sensory Anatomy – Look, Listen, Imagine;

• The 7-Minute Body's Way Workout;

• Voice + The Art of Somatic Guidance.

TRAINING DETAILS:

This 3 day retreat provides you with an immersive, healing experience to embody the Nia 5 stages as your personal practice and to have the skills, tools and resources if you desire to teach. You will receive a complimentary, additional online resource course, with homework and activities, to deepen your understanding of the concepts and principles presented. The homework is optional.

Please contact helen@somaranch.com for more information.

INCLUDES:

(1) ONLINE resources and optional homework/reflection each week to enhance experience

(2) Private ONLINE Group to connect and communicate with fellow participants.

(3) 7 ONLINE public Nia 5 Stages classes with Helen, Saturdays 8:45 - 9:45am

(4) Nia members receive 52 ready to deliver lessons plans and access to a post-training program.

Anyone can take the training for personal experience and growth.

TRAINING DETAILS:

This 3 day retreat at Soma Ranch

INCLUDES:

ON-line resources. Pre/Post Education with optional homework/reflection each week to enhance experience

Retake + Audit Policy

Any N5S graduate may retake this IN PERSON Training at 50% off. Please contact Helen for promo code for re-takes.

ABOUT HELEN

Helen has a Royal Society of Arts Certification in Exercise to Music and a B. Ed. (Hons) in Physical Education. She immigrated to the US in 1990, as an International Teaching Fellow, to complete her master's degree (M.Ed.) in Exercise Physiology. Helen is a 2nd degree Nia Black belt teacher and international trainer. Helen is also a Certified Body Ecologist and a Dance Therapy Specialist, with extensive experience in Authentic Movement and Nia 5 Stages of Healing.

Spend time around Helen and you will learn something, receive inspiration, and garner support for your dreams and desires (not to mention be highly entertained by her loving sense of humor and English-Texan accent, which many mistake for Australian.)

"I consider myself an inspirer as much as an educator. My God given purpose is to serve, to make an inspirational difference in people's lives through movement and how I live my life. When I teach Nia, I adore watching how folks light up! It's phenomenal how many people’s lives are being changed through this practice. I consider it a blessing to have found Nia and a privilege to teach and share this wonderful program".

About the Nia White Belt

Nia White Belt Training Retreat | IN PERSON

The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.

Over the course of one week, you will comprehensively explore physical sensation through five core-competency areas of study including movement, music, anatomy, science and philosophy. This joyful journey into the self is instrumental in helping you develop body knowing by learning to listen, interpret and consciously respond to the information your body communicates to you via sensation. Enroll in an upcoming training today, and positively shape the way you feel, look, think and live.

Book your training & accommodation

The cost of the course is $1599. 

To secure your place on the course, Pay a $500 deposit to Nia Headquarters.

To pay remaining tuition balance of $1099 to Soma Ranch, (due 30 days before the course) click the following link:

Upon graduation, you are eligible to become a Nia Member, with choices for the passionate body and life student, the prospective Nia teacher and the Nia teaching professional. Joining Nia membership connects you to a global movement of peers who, like you, are living the magic of Nia in body and life.

You may enroll in the Green Belt Training - which is dedicated to the craft of teaching - at any time after completing your White Belt Training. You may also enroll in the next level of training, Blue Belt Training.

Nia Brown Belt Training Retreat | IN PERSON

By the time you reach Brown Belt, you have developed a proficiency in sustaining awareness of your physical body and paying attention to the sensory details of the four realms: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. This level of training explores the experience of living as energy beings, as every experience of sensation in the body is an energy experience.

Brown Belt introduces you to The Joy of Movement in "the Zone"  a place of no thinking, a universe unto itself. The Zone is a state of heightened sensation inside and out, from which you can think with the both the logical mind and the intuitive parts of your being. Learn how to tap into this energy to make positive changes in each of the four realms of your life.

Getting HERE recommendations.

Book your training & accommodation

The cost of the course is $1599. Pay a $799.50 deposit to NiaNow.com. The remaining balance of $799.50 is due 30 days before the course, which you can pay using the link below:

About the Nia Blue Belt

Blue Belt, the second level of Nia education, explores how to create healthy relationships through body-centered communication. This intensive introduces the next set of 13 Nia principles, which focus on the mental, emotional and spiritual realms of the body. While the White Belt curriculum focuses entirely on awareness of physical sensation, Blue Belt applies these skills to explore internal sensations as perceived through – but distinct from – physical sensations in the body.

Blue Belt Principle #1: The Joy of Being in Relationship, integrates the sensation of Joy with the awareness that Joy is something outside the self, which we can invite into our physical experience. As a result, we begin to deepen our ability to listen with clarity and sustain awareness of details outside our body.

Book your training & accommodation

1. Choose between Private, Semi Private, Dorm and Non Residential accommodation options.

2. The cost of the course is $1599. Pay a $500 deposit to NiaNow.com.

3. The remaining balance of $1099 is due 30 days before the course, which you can pay using the link below:

Blue Belt Principle #1: The Joy of Being in Relationship, integrates the sensation of Joy with the awareness that Joy is something outside the self, which we can invite into our physical experience. As a result, we begin to deepen our ability to listen with clarity and sustain awareness of details outside our body.

The Nia Promise and Delivering the Nia Experience are phrases we use to express the transformative power of Nia; to a Nia Teacher's ability to deeply move and touch people within the classroom environment. As a teacher, your role is to guide people through a meaningful journey of physical conditioning and self-discovery. Teaching Nia is all about sharing your personal experience – your physical and emotional sensations, visual images and feelings. To do so, you must have a solid understanding of the form, objective curriculum and communication techniques.

The Nia Green Belt Immersive Training comprehensively explores all mechanics of delivering the work, including embodying the choreography, cueing, creating intentional silences, dancing to the music and helping people achieve their personal fitness goals. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned teacher, Nia Green Belt will further your teaching skills. New teachers develop confidence, craft and skill by learning and practicing the foundations of teaching. Seasoned teachers refine and deepen their understanding, building on their craft and receiving feedback from peers to deliver the most powerful experience possible.

As part of the Nia Green Belt training, you will learn and work with the Nia Routine (class experience), Ignite and Selfless.

Book your training & accommodation

The cost of the course is $1199. Pay a $599.50 deposit to NiaNow.com. The remaining balance of $599.50 is due 30 days before the course, which you can pay using the link below:

Click HERE to choose and reserve your accommodation

About the Nia White Belt Training Retreat

The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.

Over the course of one week, you will comprehensively explore physical sensation through five core-competency areas of study including movement, music, anatomy, science and philosophy. This joyful journey into the self is instrumental in helping you develop body knowing by learning to listen, interpret and consciously respond to the information your body communicates to you via sensation. Enroll in an upcoming training today, and positively shape the way you feel, look, think and live.

Book your training & accommodation

The cost of the course is $1599. 

To secure your place on the course, Pay a $500 deposit to Nia Headquarters.

To pay remaining tuition balance of $1099 to Soma Ranch, (due 30 days before the course) click the following link:

Upon graduation, you are eligible to become a Nia Member, with choices for the passionate body and life student, the prospective Nia teacher and the Nia teaching professional. Joining Nia membership connects you to a global movement of peers who, like you, are living the magic of Nia in body and life.

You may enroll in the Green Belt Training - which is dedicated to the craft of teaching - at any time after completing your White Belt Training. You may also enroll in the next level of training, Blue Belt Training.

The Nia Promise and Delivering the Nia Experience are phrases we use to express the transformative power of Nia; to a Nia Teacher's ability to deeply move and touch people within the classroom environment. As a teacher, your role is to guide people through a meaningful journey of physical conditioning and self-discovery. Teaching Nia is all about sharing your personal experience – your physical and emotional sensations, visual images and feelings. To do so, you must have a solid understanding of the form, objective curriculum and communication techniques.

The Nia Green Belt Immersive Training comprehensively explores all mechanics of delivering the work, including embodying the choreography, cueing, creating intentional silences, dancing to the music and helping people achieve their personal fitness goals. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned teacher, Nia Green Belt will further your teaching skills. New teachers develop confidence, craft and skill by learning and practicing the foundations of teaching. Seasoned teachers refine and deepen their understanding, building on their craft and receiving feedback from peers to deliver the most powerful experience possible.

As part of the Nia Green Belt training, you will learn and work with the Nia Routine (class experience), Ignite, Wild, Bloom and Selfless.

Book your training & accommodation

The cost of the course is $1199. Pay a $599.50 deposit to NiaNow.com. The remaining balance of $599.50 is due 30 days before the course, which you can pay using the link below:

Click HERE to choose and reserve your accommodation

About the Nia Blue Belt

Blue Belt, the second level of Nia education, explores how to create healthy relationships through body-centered communication. This intensive introduces the next set of 13 Nia principles, which focus on the mental, emotional and spiritual realms of the body. While the White Belt curriculum focuses entirely on awareness of physical sensation, Blue Belt applies these skills to explore internal sensations as perceived through – but distinct from – physical sensations in the body.

Blue Belt Principle #1: The Joy of Being in Relationship, integrates the sensation of Joy with the awareness that Joy is something outside the self, which we can invite into our physical experience. As a result, we begin to deepen our ability to listen with clarity and sustain awareness of details outside our body.

Book your training & accommodation

The cost of the course is $1599. Pay a $500 deposit to NiaNow.com. The remaining balance of $1099 is due 30 days before the course, which you can pay using the link below:

Blue Belt Principle #1: The Joy of Being in Relationship, integrates the sensation of Joy with the awareness that Joy is something outside the self, which we can invite into our physical experience. As a result, we begin to deepen our ability to listen with clarity and sustain awareness of details outside our body.

Click HERE to choose and reserve your accommodation

Nia 5 Stages Training | IN PERSON

Focus: Art of Self Healing

Intent: To facilitate optimal function and comfort in the body. 
 As integrative practice based on the five developmental stages humans experience from the embryo to walking, Nia 5 Stages supports your body holistically to sustain mobility, flexibility, strength, agility and stability. 

CONSIDER EXPANDING YOUR EXPERIENCE TO A 5 day, 4 night RETREAT.

Practiced with awareness, these stages have the power to facilitate optimal alignment, improved function, energy flow and comfort in the body

Nia 5 Stages Training provides you with tools to deeply embody the practice and to facilitate a Nia Stages class, workshop or private session experience. Whether a Nia teacher, movement practitioner, somatic educator, health professional, yoga teacher or individual seeking healing, this IN PERSON, 3 Day retreat provides a new skill set to add to your realm of expertise and practice.

"For everyone looking to dive into the wisdom of The Body's Way, Nia 5 Stages is your answer. As a lover of the body, always interested in learning the how, what, and why, this unique somatic course makes it possible to learn, practice and teach what you love. During the course of the training and teacher apprenticeship, you will explore 52 unique lesson plans designed to teach you and your student what makes living and moving in the body an amazing sensory experience."

Debbie Rosas
Founder + Co-creator of Nia Technique

Training Topics:

• Exploring the Science, Craft, and Art of Nia 5 Stages;

• Adapting and Personalizing;

• Nia 5 Stages Delivery and Class Format;

• The Body’s Way Principles and Nia Lifestyle;

• Body Awareness + Body Literacy;

• Body Gratitude + Sensory IQ;

• Sensory Anatomy – Look, Listen, Imagine;

• The 7-Minute Body's Way Workout;

• Voice + The Art of Somatic Guidance.

TRAINING DETAILS:

This 3 day retreat provides you with an immersive, healing experience to embody the Nia 5 stages as your personal practice and to have the skills, tools and resources if you desire to teach. You will receive a complimentary, additional online resource course, with homework and activities, to deepen your understanding of the concepts and principles presented. The homework is optional.

Please contact helen@somaranch.com for more information.

INCLUDES:

(1) ONLINE resources and optional homework/reflection each week to enhance experience

(2) Private ONLINE Group to connect and communicate with fellow participants.

(3) 7 ONLINE public Nia 5 Stages classes with Helen, Saturdays 8:45 - 9:45am

(4) Nia members receive 52 ready to deliver lessons plans and access to a post-training program.

Anyone can take the training for personal experience and growth.

TRAINING DETAILS:

This 3 day retreat at Soma Ranch

INCLUDES:

ON-line resources. Pre/Post Education with optional homework/reflection each week to enhance experience

Retake + Audit Policy

Any N5S graduate may retake this IN PERSON Training at 50% off. Please contact Helen for promo code for re-takes.

ABOUT HELEN

Helen has a Royal Society of Arts Certification in Exercise to Music and a B. Ed. (Hons) in Physical Education. She immigrated to the US in 1990, as an International Teaching Fellow, to complete her master's degree (M.Ed.) in Exercise Physiology. Helen is a 2nd degree Nia Black belt teacher and international trainer. Helen is also a Certified Body Ecologist and a Dance Therapy Specialist, with extensive experience in Authentic Movement and Nia 5 Stages of Healing.

Spend time around Helen and you will learn something, receive inspiration, and garner support for your dreams and desires (not to mention be highly entertained by her loving sense of humor and English-Texan accent, which many mistake for Australian.)

"I consider myself an inspirer as much as an educator. My God given purpose is to serve, to make an inspirational difference in people's lives through movement and how I live my life. When I teach Nia, I adore watching how folks light up! It's phenomenal how many people’s lives are being changed through this practice. I consider it a blessing to have found Nia and a privilege to teach and share this wonderful program".

About the Nia White Belt

Nia White Belt Training Retreat | IN PERSON

The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.

Over the course of one week, you will comprehensively explore physical sensation through five core-competency areas of study including movement, music, anatomy, science and philosophy. This joyful journey into the self is instrumental in helping you develop body knowing by learning to listen, interpret and consciously respond to the information your body communicates to you via sensation. Enroll in an upcoming training today, and positively shape the way you feel, look, think and live.

Book your training & accommodation

The cost of the course is $1599. 

To secure your place on the course, Pay a $500 deposit to Nia Headquarters.

To pay remaining tuition balance of $1099 to Soma Ranch, (due 30 days before the course) click the following link:

Upon graduation, you are eligible to become a Nia Member, with choices for the passionate body and life student, the prospective Nia teacher and the Nia teaching professional. Joining Nia membership connects you to a global movement of peers who, like you, are living the magic of Nia in body and life.

You may enroll in the Green Belt Training - which is dedicated to the craft of teaching - at any time after completing your White Belt Training. You may also enroll in the next level of training, Blue Belt Training.

Nia Brown Belt Training Retreat | IN PERSON

By the time you reach Brown Belt, you have developed a proficiency in sustaining awareness of your physical body and paying attention to the sensory details of the four realms: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. This level of training explores the experience of living as energy beings, as every experience of sensation in the body is an energy experience.

Brown Belt introduces you to The Joy of Movement in "the Zone"  a place of no thinking, a universe unto itself. The Zone is a state of heightened sensation inside and out, from which you can think with the both the logical mind and the intuitive parts of your being. Learn how to tap into this energy to make positive changes in each of the four realms of your life.

Getting HERE recommendations.

Book your training & accommodation

1. Book accommodation in advance to ensure your preference.

2. The cost of the course is $1599. Pay a $799.50 deposit to NiaNow.com.

3. The remaining balance of $799.50 is due 30 days before the course, which you can pay using the link below:

About the Nia Blue Belt

Blue Belt, the second level of Nia education, explores how to create healthy relationships through body-centered communication. This intensive introduces the next set of 13 Nia principles, which focus on the mental, emotional and spiritual realms of the body. While the White Belt curriculum focuses entirely on awareness of physical sensation, Blue Belt applies these skills to explore internal sensations as perceived through – but distinct from – physical sensations in the body.

Blue Belt Principle #1: The Joy of Being in Relationship, integrates the sensation of Joy with the awareness that Joy is something outside the self, which we can invite into our physical experience. As a result, we begin to deepen our ability to listen with clarity and sustain awareness of details outside our body.

Book your training & accommodation

The cost of the course is $1599. Pay a $500 deposit to NiaNow.com. The remaining balance of $1099 is due 30 days before the course, which you can pay using the link below:

Blue Belt Principle #1: The Joy of Being in Relationship, integrates the sensation of Joy with the awareness that Joy is something outside the self, which we can invite into our physical experience. As a result, we begin to deepen our ability to listen with clarity and sustain awareness of details outside our body.

Click HERE to choose and reserve your accommodation

Trauma Sensitive Christian Yoga Program

At the heart of YogaFaith’s ministry is the rescue and restoration of human traffic survivors of all ages. We also minister and aid other trauma victims such as PTSD, C-PTSD, Domestic Violence victims, Complex Trauma, Military, Orphan and Refugee survivors . In this training you will become an expert in Trauma Sensitive YogaFaith and learn to listen as the Holy Spirit guides. Dive deep into numerous healing therapies, bringing Christ and YOGAFAITH into the center of Trauma, brings true healing and transformation on every level to these survivors. Learn how to connect the fragmented pieces of disassociation and brokenness in your own life and those you will soon be serving.

You will leave equipped and empowered to reach trauma victims and in turn help them become survivors with purpose through these vital teachings. You will also have the ability to teach both TSY and TSYF. This training includes 2 TSYF Modules that focus on complex trauma, sex trafficking victims, refugee families, domestic abuse, military, children and therapy.

We recommend you arrive between 3 - 5pm, June 10. A welcoming dinner will be served at 6pm. Your course begins at 9pm June 11. Accommodation with all meals for 5 nights is included in the price. Register for the course at www.yogafaith.com.

Contact Derek Thielen at teachertraining@yogafaith.org for information about course and registration.

Contact Soma Ranch directly at info@somaranch.com to select the option to stay an extra night (June 14). Monday June 15, 8:45am YogaFaith and 10am Nia Class is complimentary to anyone who stays.