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Hi! My name is Helen Terry and on behalf of Expert Village I am going to be giving you
some beginners tips on the Nia technique, it is a revolutionary fitness and personal
growth program. The Nia technique is a blend of nine different movement forms. They are
from the areas of martial arts, dance arts and healing arts. So in the martial arts we
have tai chi the slow dance of martial arts. We also have Tai Kwon do, which is where you
have your dance of precision like blocks and punches and even kicks. Then aikido is a spherical
harmonious movement aware of 360 degrees around you. So you see with those three martial arts
is likely we have three different flavors from the martial arts field. Then, in the
dance arts I have Jazz dance, which is showmanship, the performer, isolation shimmy a whole lot
of fun, we also have Duncan dance, which is from Isadora Duncan, it is honest free spirited
movements, so in Nia that’s why we will have more community dancing, releve, imagination,
creative play and then finally modern dance, which is the expressive shapes in space sensing
the spaces as if it is your canvas and your body like it is the paint and using your body
as a work of art.