Even More Hours Of Bliss,

From Debbie Rosas.

Nia Technique classes integrate four kinds of conditioning and offer instruction to modulate and adapt all four to address specific needs and goals. 

1. Cardiovascular: Aerobic conditioning, with oxygen, sustainable exercise, designed to create positive changes in cardiac functioning and in one’s ability to sense subtle changes in heart action. The heart gets stronger, can pump more blood with each beat, rest longer in between each beat, and thereby beating less times per minute to do the same job.

Unique to The Nia Technique is the variety of stimulation and guidance to move in ways the body can safely sustain movement to condition heart and lungs.

2. Reflex Muscular Conditioning: An involuntary reaction to a sensory stimulus of reciprocal inhibition, restricting some muscles, while stimulating others to respond. This involuntary action whereby the direct antagonists of the motion of an extremity are inhibited during the contraction of the agonist, is mediated through a conducting system in the body sending information to motor nerves and muscles, which is a specialized effector mechanism.

Unique to The Nia Technique is the way sound is used, with the mind and the emotions and body language to stimulate reflexive action.

3. Voluntary Muscular Conditioning: A voluntary mechanical reaction stimulated by thought engaging specific muscles to respond. This voluntary action is mediated through a conducting system in the body sending information to motor nerves and muscles, which is a specialized effector mechanism.

Unique to The Nia Technique is the way we guide and provide students with the time and space to mindfully execute movement.

4. Metabolic Conditioning: anaerobic conditioning, without oxygen, is not sustainable. Metabolic is used to increase the storage and delivery of energy by conditioning the muscles and better use the fuel delivered to them by improving the efficiency of the different metabolic pathways.

Unique to The Nia Technique is the way we encourage students to find their own level of a safe cardiovascular challenge, moving and taking oneself to what we call the level of “enough,” which means sustaining movement at that pace.

This article is another in a series of articles published on the Movement + Music + Magic of The Nia Technique in one hour of a Nia class.

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