Welcome,

People who practice and teach Nia tell me that they must. It is as if they have no choice. I get that. I feel that way too. I believe this is a direct result of the return of their investment in moving and doing things they both love and believe in. Doing something that feels good for their body, soul, and spirit. 

Nia, or, Neuromuscular Integrative Action, as a practice, came to me methodically as I continued to challenge the status quo, and slowed down the frenetic pump and grind pace of the aerobic exercise in which I was trained. The more I gave power to mindful, pleasurable, and controlled movement, the more I began to sense the need to create and define what an authentic movement practice should become. 

With a desire to engage in artistic transformation with my body through new ways of moving with sensory IQ awareness, my Nia practice first began with spending time speaking aloud, coaching myself, and paying attention to the details of my movement. Once I perceived that I had gained a sense of basic mechanics and I was moving systemically, as a whole; what followed was energizing my movement with essences of any one of the nine movement arts. 

By slowing down and focusing my mind on “feel good” sensations, I discovered muscles I didn’t notice through aerobic exercise. Using my voice and my breath, I engaged my core and my abdominal muscles to work as a kind of kinetic sit up. My feet, legs, hips, core, and buttocks each played with gravity, space, time, breath, and the surface beneath my feet. My Nia practice was not work, but a way to replace effort with dynamic ease and universal joy to achieve sustainable strength, flexibility, mobility, agility, stability, and stillness. 

As the pulse driving my movement shifted from using only music with a hard beat to using a wider variety of music, I discovered the delicious sensation of my own inner rhythm for movement.  As I learned to move to my Body’s Way rhythm instead of throwing myself into unnatural postures, I started to move from the inside – out instead of riding a momentum to move from the outside – in, which was magic.  I gained a new appreciation for my feet and for their natural heel, ball, toe movement that eliminated aerobic exercise impact and cushioned the transference of my body weight as I walked, stepped, and danced in my Body’s Way. 

As I developed the skill to move subtly for self healing and conditioning, my body became both mindful through dynamic ease, but never bullish.  I came to know the true meaning of mind and body harmony with balance. No longer just a term; “neuro,” or mind, “muscular,” or body, and “integrative action,” or holistic movement — became the soft, slow, deliberate, and functional Body’s Way of conscious response that was not only more efficient but more effective in addressing all my needs.

The path of mastery, for me, is a body and life path where everything I do is meant to create the right cause for the right effect. “Do no harm” actions result in an intense positive universal joy every time I do what I do, which causes me to keep on doing what I do, to sustain feeling good on my path. 

I know I am on a path of artistic transformation and mastery, by a feeling I sense inside me that tells me to keep going, which affirms that I am on the right path. It is a marvelously, expanding sensation I feel in my body, mind, emotions, and spirit that lets me know — this is right. It’s the culmination of inspiration, motivation, education, understanding, and meaning. It’s the thing that cause me to study, teach, and share what I love with others. It’s the stuff of excitement when I see and sense myself learning, growing, transforming, and self actualizing. 

This intensity which comes from discovering more and more about myself, about my body and about my life comes from an inspiration not outside my being, but inside my being that causes me to keep learning, growing, and transforming who I am through pleasure and joy. As a result, I find that I must remain on the path of m and keep researching my profound sense of well being and peace.  The sensation of my body telling me, “Do it again!” reminds me that there are more peak experiences to be had. No matter how many times I walk through the door and step onto the path of mastery, I feel inspired. 

Nia, or Neuromuscular Integrative Action is my practice. It is the way I learn, move, and energize my body in sync with the anatomical design of the Body’s Way through my Body’s Way.  It is how I continue to develop an interactive relationship with ranges, intensities, and planes of movement offered to me as rich possibilities to create healthy bones, joints, tissues, and organs both comprehensively and systemically. Through a daily Nia practice, I have grasped the totality of movement; of moving in space, of feeling, sensing, imagining, and perceiving my body not simply as isolated parts, but as a whole. I have found myself and come home to my body through the gift of my Nia practice.  

With Pleasure,

Debbie Rosas

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