NIA in the Garden, Sun 10/08/2023 2:00PM
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Date
Sun 10/08/2023 2:00PM
Name
NIA in the Garden
Description
The Houston Nia Collective returns for a collaboration with the Houston Botanic Garden! Experience the garden as never before through unique music, movement and mindfulness.
Featuring the Nia routine Resilience, and using imagery of trees rooted to the earth, Houston-based teachers will lead an immersive community dance event meant to connect you to nature and sensation. The music and movement of Resilience invite you to take inspiration from the botanic garden around you to enhance your physical experience. Trees root to the earth, their trunks bend with the wind and their leaves dance in the breeze. We will use our feet to create stability, we will squeeze and release from the core, and our arms and fingers will express our spirit.
Nia in the Garden is a 2-hour experience and will include:
60-minute guided movement experience using the form and freedom of easy-to-follow dance and simplified martial arts to stimulate healing and conditioning
Walking meditation to awaken senses and appreciation for nature
Refreshing closing elixir and nourishing snack to refresh and rejuvenate the body
Parting gift from your Nia hosts to express appreciation
The Nia Technique is a sensory-based, dance fitness program blending dance arts, martial arts and healing arts. Embody joy and magic as all three come together in the magnificent setting of the Houston Botanic Garden.
Nia is for EveryBody – first-timers and experienced movers alike. Moves can be adapted to many fitness levels. Using music, movement and mindfulness, skilled Nia teachers will guide you on a somatic (body-based) and imaginative journey to awaken your senses, energize your body, stimulate your mind and soothe your emotions.
Please remember that Houston Botanic Garden offers free parking and our events are often in climate controlled environments. If you have specific questions please email us at education@hbg.org
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