Dance therapy is the therapeutic use of movement to improve the mental and physical well being of a person. It focuses on the connection between the mind and body to promote health and healing.

Clinical reports suggest dance therapy is effective in improving self-esteem and reducing stress. Physically, dance therapy provides exercise, improves mobility and muscle coordination, and reduces muscle tension. Emotionally, dance therapy  improves self-awareness, self-confidence, and interpersonal interaction, and is an outlet for communicating feelings. Dance therapy helps strengthen the immune system through muscular action and physiological processes and even helps prevent disease. Dance therapy is based on the belief that the mind and body work together.

  Experience the Joy of NIA dance

  at Lotus Natural Health & Rejuvenation Clinic

Nia (pronounced “NEE-uh”) stands for Neuromuscular Integrative Action and blends the power and mindfulness of martial arts (tai chi, tae kwon do, and aikido), the joy and grace of dance arts (jazz, Duncan, and modern) and the awareness and alignment of healing arts (yoga, Feldenkrais and the Alexander technique) into a self-expressive movement form that emphasizes “the body’s way.”

 Nia is taught in three levels of movement making it accessible to every level of fitness, every age, and every type of body. From free dance to more structured and complex sequences, the focus of Nia is joy.

Nia is about health and self-healing through movement. It is a full-on cardiovascular workout-- at times, gentle, at times, ecstatic. Moving from sensation, not choreography, from the place of bringing your whole being into awareness, you heal the body, mind, spirit and emotions.