FreeDance
FreeDance is a practice in Nia where you can let your body do the moving. In a Nia class there is a routine and choreography that the teacher will lead you through, but there is also often moments where you are encouraged to just dance free. The stages listed below are how we practice FreeDance. You can play with the eight stages and be amazed at how your body feels after.
8 Stages of Nia FreeDance / FreeDance is P4 of Nia White Belt
Highlights from the Nia White Belt Sense/Learn Book 2020
I have blog posts: Nia White Belt P4 – FreeDance – 2020 which explains a little more about FreeDance as a Nia White Belt Principle and 8 Stages Of Nia White Belt P4 - FreeDance - 2020 which explains a little about how you can use the practice as you dance in a class or on your own.
In 2020, I participated in the Nia White Belt Training Online. It was the very first training done online. While the core of the Nia White Belt Principles remain the same, some of the verbiage has changed. And while I want to show the current information, I also want my previous blog posts to make sense and link up to the information that I was talking about at the time. So this page will have the old information as well as the new. But like I have said, over and over the core of it is basically the same, it is primarily just language and presentation that has changed.
Page prior to my 2020 Nia White Belt Training:
Nia Free Dance
In a Nia class in addition to the movements led by the teacher there are times when there might be some free dancing. It could be just a portion of your body invited to freedance, we could be doing a pattern with our feet, but our arms are left to move in accordance to the sensation of the music. Or we could have a pattern for our arms, but our feet are being invited to move freely. Or you could just be turned loose to dance to the song that is playing. It is nothing structured, it is un-structured.
If you are interested in learning more about Nia, then FreeDance is a principle of the Nia White Belt that allows for us to explore FreeDance and learn different ways to participant in it.
Each stage has a tag line and three elements to assist in exploring each stage. The links below lead to post with the taglines from 2008.
One year we had a Nia Free Dance Playshop! Here are links to the post about it: The Nia FreeDance Playshop Was Awesome!
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