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Join the creators of Nia and discover its extraordinary power and passionate nature. As you dance to live percussion, let the music seduce your body, mind, emotions, and spirit to unwind, and let go! Unplug from rigid exercise and everyday stress by plugging into your own rhythm and passionate ways of moving. There you will find your own pulse and spirit!



 

Learn the Move - Jazz Square

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Source: Jazzercise: Learn the Move - Jazz Square File Info: Windows Media (wmv)
The Jazz Square is not one of the official 52 moves of Nia but is used in a number of Nia routines. If the video doesn't work for you, follow the Source: link to the actual web page which has a series of photos showing the steps.
If you have the Global Unity DVD, you'll see the Jazz Square at the beginning and throughout the routine for Burundi by Star Sounds Orchestra.

 

Agolo

Central Focus: Choosing, seeking joy in movement, with the intention of choosing pleasure, the Joy of Movement.
Movement Form Energies: T'ai chi, Tae kwon do, Jazz, Yoga, Feldenkrais, Alexander

Music:
The White Spirit (Uman)
Idje-Idje (Angelique Kidjo)
Let It Go (Prince)
Agolo (Angelique Kidjo)
Adouma (Angelique Kidjo)
Find Your Way (Dionne Farris)
2 Funky (Candy Dulfer)
Jamming (Candy Dulfer)
Houngbati (Angelique Kidjo)
Stillpoint (Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors)

 

Moodfood

Central Focus: To move energy along vertical and horizontal lines, with the intention of establishing grounding, power, balance, and ease. Learn how to direct energy up and down the spine using a vertical line as a visual. Once this flow is established, any movement can be expressed from center, out into horizontal lines.

Movement Form Energies: Duncan dance, Modern dance, Aikido

Music: Moodfood by Moodswings
Throw Off the Shackles
Moodswings Overture
Problem Solved
Rainsong
100% Total Success
Microcosmic
Spritual High (I)
Spiritual High (II)
Spiritual High (III)
Thailand
Piano Man

Moodfood Lyrics

Rainsong

Caught in a rainstorm
wondering what I must do
I'm standing alone
so many miles from you
I was thinking about our life together
knowing it must be now or never
to get back to you
now I've just got to get out of this rain
I can feel it washing my life away
and I know that I need to
get out of this rain
and listen to my heart again

I ran away
thinking it could be done
what I didn't realise
two hearts are better than one
I was thinking about all the times we were losing
living together can be so confusing
but we always won
now I just got to
get out of this rain

I can feel it sweeping my life away
and I know that I need to get out of this rain
and listen to my heart again.

Spiritual High (II)


 

Medicine Woman

Central Focus: To explore both feminine and masculine energies that cross the boundaries of defining feminine as soft and masculine as hard. The power of each intensity is evident in each energy with each providing the balance that creates a powerful structure of the mental, physical, emotional, and enspirited being. Stay in contact with the floor and earth with your base (feet and legs) as a way to discover power and energy cycling between places of rest and motion. Stabilize with the core (pelvis, abdominals, chest, spine, and head). Explore the fluid, soulful, light and playful through creative movements of the upper extremities (arms, hands, fingers).

Music:
Medicine Woman by Medwyn Goodall
Invocation
Talisman
Temple Journey
Medicine Woman
Rejuvination
Sun Drumming
Immortality
Healing Resurgence


 
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