Saturday, March 12, 2011

March 2011 NIA Student of the Month- Lea Cyr


March Nia Student Spotlight
Getting to know Lea Cyr

What do you love about NIA?

What I love most about NIA is the camaraderie of dancing the same dance, together. I love to squint my eyes and look in the reflection and not know, or care, which one of those beautiful dancing women is me!

What Brings You Joy?
I experience myself as an artist, inventor and archivist. I spend my days making things. I work as an artist, deisgner, and organizer for my own business, Design for Use. I love space and creating ease and methods that work so that home feels like home and life as it is lived can support our broader desires. Artistically, I focus on accessibility which I translate into public art and affordable art.

What would you like us to know about yourself?
I am a mother to a 16 year old son.....Graceson....who at 6'2" refers to me as the "shrinking person". He is a joy and I love being his mother!

Friday, March 4, 2011

FreeDance Playshop with Julianne Corey-March 13 Portland Maine


Free Yourself with a Fabulous FreeDance Playshop
"Playing with Potential" with Julianne Corey
Sunday March 13th 2-4pm

Dragonfly Taijiquan Rm#240
Railroad Building
222 St. John St, Portland



Pre-registration Price $20 ($30 package includes routine music CD Butterfly)

Price at the Door $25($40package with CD)

"When I think of what FreeDance provides, I think of the possibility of human form. I choose the word "possibility" because possibility is the gateway to our true potential. "Potential" means there is a possibility for me to change, to transform and grow into a physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually developed human being." from Debbie Rosas, founder and CEO of the Nia Technique.

Nia FreeDance is more than just doing your boogie. It is an 8 stage process intended to stimulate movement creativity. FreeDance is an expanded experience that takes you out of "just dancing" and into the river of the unexpected. Practicing FreeDance allows you to witness your own movement habits and develop body awareness, which gives you access to your body's messages. FreeDance provides you with the space to listen to your body, mind, heart and spirit to make choices, to direct the kind of healing and conditioning you need, and to be in conscious relationship with yourself.

In this 2 hour playshop, you will go deeper into the Nia 8 stage process of FreeDance, we'll have some time for journaling our experiences and we will bring our exploration into a full hour-long Nia class. Join us to play and explore the possibilities of who you are and who you dream to be.