Accredited Nia Instructors with the Nia Australia Association
Accredited Nia Instructors with the Nia Australia Association
Deborah Shaw
My first Nia class was a delight. The sweat told me that I had found a cardio class that I could enjoy. The smile told me I had something I wanted to share. Nia can be whatever I need it to be, slow and soft or loud and pumping. I love that it’s up to me to decide based on how I am rather than what someone else wants me to be or do.
Ultimately movement is medicine and has been used by individuals and groups to heal, strengthen identity and connection, to shift moods and elevate energylevels. It is expressive, creative and deeply nurtures our sense of well being. Everyone at any age, given the opportunity, can use music to heal, honour and find a sense of playfulness and value.
Following the movement of the breath is a form of movement meditation that expands our awareness of sensation and has for generations been used to still the mind, to soothe the nervous system and stimulate stagnant energy.
Moving to music in a friendly and welcoming environment is a great antidote to anxiety and feelings of isolation that can rise from unemployment, illness, injury and even limited language skills. Chairs can and are used in Nia.
MOVINGWORKS is committed to offering mind-body practices for personal and community health and well-being. I believe that opportunities for expression and awareness create conditions for compassion and optimism – vital tools for our sense of flourishing in life rather than surviving it. Joy of Movement sessions for Corporate and Community Organisations and services are available throughout the eastern seaboard request, – please call 0400 529 897
I have relocated to Sydney and at this time am not running public classes. Classes in Melbourne are being taken by Carol Liknaitzky.
I will be visiting a number of times in 2011 and will run several playful sessions. Keep tuned!
Happy creating, loving and exploring!
Deborah 0400 529 897
Contact Details
Deborah ShawTraining and Facilitation
Blue Belt Nia teacher, ChiBall and Yoga teacher
email : info@thejoyofmovement.com.au
web : www.thejoyofmovement.com.au
Women’s Retreat @ Hepburn Retreat Centre April 23 – April 26
Over the Anzac Day weekend, we explore the Joy of Movement as a sensation, an act of creation and choice rather than a happen chance or dependant on personal tastes of likes and dislikes. Using body based learning techniques and daily Nia classes we will explore ways to access the art and the craft of nourishing ourselves with JOY.
“To free the body and to sense Joy freely moving through the whole body is a sign of healing... Joy brings into play the entire body, mind, emotions, and spirit of a person. The changes are visible in their eyes, in their hands and in the joints of the body and muscle that move in a more relaxed way.” - Alexander Lowen, M.D., Bioenergetics
The weekend is fully catered for, with sumptuous vegetarian food (vegan is very possible). The accommodation is relaxed but comfortable. Massages can be booked, my suggestion is for a massage on Sunday afternoon and there is a distinct possibility of a spa at Hepburn Spa Centre followed by coffee and something sweet in Daylesford.
$475 - early bird discount $425, if paid by the 5th of April.
No prior experience is necessary.
7 Days in Fiji at Daku Resort
Imagine Nia, Yoga and ChiBall as an everyday part of your 7-day holiday. Fine tune your awareness to the joy of being alive, deepening your experience of the tropical pleasures and the Fijian culture. The sand will feel softer and the sea bluer. Allow yourself to be nourished and leave feeling rejuvenated and animated in a relaxed and vibrant way. Yogainfiji website: http://yogainfiji.com/2009/10/the-joy-of-movement-yoga-nia-and-the-chiball-method/
Contact details
The Joy of Movement
Phone - 0400 529 897
Email – info@thejoyofmovement.com.au
Web - www.thejoyofmovement.com.au
you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
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Student feedback
Deborah brings together grace, energy and great moves with concepts that draw the links between self and community in a powerful way. I feel blessed to contribute to her journey to the USA to share Nia at the Global Gathering and immerse herself in widening the healing applications for this important work. Her take on relating to our bodies as the earth we seek to nurture is so inspiring and brings a vitality to this work that we're hungry for!
Tathra Street. Leadership & Development Trainer for Be the Change Symposium, June 2008
As someone who had begrudgingly dragged myself around various aerobics classes and gyms to force myself to stay fit, discovering Nia saved my life. Because Nia is the exercise you do without it feeling like exercise! It feels just like dancing, and the music is so fantastic you don’t really notice any hard work happening at all.!
I had been doing Nia regularly for a year or so, when I was diagnosed with Breast, then Ovarian cancer, which I am treating with alternative therapies as well as surgery and chemotherapy. In a situation where I was too tired or depleted for any other form of exercise, I went back to Nia as soon as I had healed from surgery. Even during chemotherapy I was generally able to keep it up and there was always the offer of a fit-ball to sit on if I wasn’t up to leaping about. (I never had to take up the offer.)
Doing this class was really vital to both my recovery and my sanity, not only as my only form of exercise, but because it is so much fun, and I really get off on the music, it was a real “upper, (which all the books say you must engage in – “Pamper yourself” they say.) When other forms of exercise - like walking up stairs or even any distance, made me feel ‘down’ as I felt a failure (because I couldn’t do it without feeling exhausted) because you can work to your own pace in Nia, this didn’t happen. In fact on the contrary, I felt terrific afterwards as I was able to keep up and leap about with the best of them (albeit in a limited fashion.) I must say that one of the greatest assets we have in our class is our teacher Deborah Shaw, whose energy and enthusiasm epitomizes the Nia slogan - the joy of movement, and she makes it infectious.
Karen, Nia student and cancer survivor, 2008
I recently did a course with Moving Works and found it very uplifting and energising. It also relieved the stiffness in my back and shoulders- a great way to unwind at the end of the day. Having worked with highly disadvantaged job seekers for over twenty years I can see how “The Joy of Movement” could benefit many of my clients by building self esteem and literally getting them moving in a supportive and fun environment.
Robyn Mioni, Employment Consultant - June 2009.
I have attended several of Deborah’s Joy of Movement classes. On the simplest level it’s just an enormous amount of fun and a great workout. I work as a management consultant with large and multinational organizations in a distinct area of performance. The people I work with are attempting to accomplish something that is beyond what they have historically demonstrated they can do. Taking on that kind of challenge requires them to think and behave in ways they have never done before. I find that if I continue to challenge myself to move and think in ways that are entirely new to me, I am more effective and useful to my clients as a consultant. Nia is one of the ways I do that. It has a wonderful, deep, somatic impact that leaves me more expansive and creative and is of enormous help to me in the kind of work I do.
Leonard McDonald, Management Consultant, January 2009
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