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About the ActorCarlos Rosas and Debbie Rosas have been pioneers and leaders in body-mind fitness since 1976. Together, their personal and professional exploration of dance, martial arts, and healing modalities created The Nia Technique an internationally acclaimed wellness practice. Their work was the first to integrate concepts and techniques from both the East and the West into fitness. Featured in over 800 publications, Nia is transformational exercise that offers greater comfort, pleasure, passion, and results in a conscious way that enables people from all walks of life to discover the wisdom of their body s way.Product DescriptionSensing precisely how they feel during a workout is the best way for individuals to become their own best teacher and guide. The Nia® Technique The Five Sensations of Feeling Fitness offers a compelling overview of how and why learning to feel fitness as it happens gives exercisers the tools to realign, balance, and repattern the whole body to help them achieve optimal functioning and results. Among the topics covered: flexibility, agility, mobility, strength, stability, and sensations and song. Produced in cooperation with Inner IDEA.The Technique“Nia is movement-medicine for the body and soul.”Nia simultaneously addresses the body, mind, emotions, and spirit, and puts them on the “same page” using music, movement and personal expression to integrate one’s neurology (including the mind, emotions, and spirit) with one’s outer body, or musculature. To achieve this whole-being integration, Nia addresses the whole person using a comprehensive, holistic exercise approach designed with a combination of nine classic movement forms.Nia Blends Nine Movement FormsMartial Arts: T’ai Chi, Tae Kwon Do, AikidoDance Arts: Jazz Dance, Modern Dance, Duncan DanceHealing Arts: Yoga, Alexander Technique, The Teachings of Moshe FeldenkraisNia teaches you how to physically interpret and internally direct your actions and choices, and to listen to the voice of your body and allow the body to be your guide in discovering Dynamic Ease. Practiced barefoot to music, Nia is self-guided, adaptable and safe for any fitness level, from stiff beginners to highly fit athletes. Delivering cardiovascular, whole-body conditioning, Nia is based on creating a loving relationship with the body and following The Body’s Way – the innate intelligence of the body.