Living in sensation, living in your body

Healing, connection, strength and JOY in motion

NIA Holistic Movement Arts

 

Do you feel the way you want to feel?

Wouldn’t it be great if your body is the most joyful and sensational place to live in?  That you dance through your life with a sense of fulfillment, strength, and playfulness?

I call these sessions a renewed discovery, and restoration of your Inner Sparkle”
As you immerse yourself in movements that respect your body’s way and your emotional needs, you align with your Body Wise and free your creative, uninhibited self.

I believe we meet ourselves through our receptive, intuitive, infant mind space when we invite ourselves to reconnect, play, explore, and discover the wisdom our body holds for us.

This is how I healed myself years ago when I realized that I had become alienated from myself, felt insecure in my body, and lost touch with my playfulness, zest, and sparkle. I made the choice to change how I listened to and looked at myself, to re-story, to meet myself again in movement, in the moment, and to re-member myself home in my body.

 

Nia, an abbreviation for Neuro-muscular Integrative Action,  is a barefoot holistic movement practice anchored in sensation-centered awareness and attunement to our natural inherent intelligence.

It draws on the chemistry of nine movement forms: Tai Chi, Tae Kwon Do, Aikido, Jazz, Modern Dance, Duncan Dance, Yoga, the Alexander Technique, and the work of Moshe Feldenkrais®. This unique blend of dance-, martial-, and healing arts allows the body to move in fun and free ways that bring health and vitality to both the body, mind, and emotions.

The NIA technique empowers people and bodies of all shapes and sizes by connecting, conditioning, and nourishing the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. From my own experience, I also know that NIA is very beneficial and joyful for women who are going through any of the stages of menopause.

Some of the many positive effects of practicing NIA include:

  • Cardiovascular health
  • A resilient nervous system
  • Happy joints and bones
  • A flexible body and mind
  • Being attuned to your body and needs
  • Alleviation of stress and anxiety
  • Hormonal stability
  • Making decisions aligned with who you are, through re-attuning to your sensations

And an overall increase in well-being, leaving you feeling energized, full of life, mentally clear, and emotionally balanced.

It was such a beautiful experience with NIA dance as the most joyful start to the day, very delicious meals and profound workshops that bring you closer to yourself.

The area is really calm with beautiful nature, and wonderful cuddly animals, and Pingel and Peter are great hosts.

Thank you for a wonderful retreat!

Sandra Bernadette - Austria

Are you ready to feel how you want to feel?

Music, Movement, Magic… How does it work?

In NIA, playful cardio movement, free dance, and mindful movement interweave on a swinging mix of musical styles. Moments of expressive creative dance are alternated with simple movement phrases structured to follow the body’s way and to support you in developing a valuable dialogue with your body.

All my NIA lessons are crafted to guide you to attune to your senses and sensation. They are designed to restore and balance a fatigued nervous system and train the cardiovascular system, as well as flexibility, strength, mobility, and movement creativity.

To make the classes during the retreat safe, accessible, and pleasurable for every body, participants are encouraged to choose their own level of intensity and magnitude in movement and conditioning.

Lesson structure

Each lesson consists of a warming up, sustained low-impact cardio, somatic flexibility and strength exercise, and a cool down. You dance to a variety of music ranging from world music, House, Jazz, Pop, Hip Hop, Indie, Latin, New Age, and classical music.

Thank you dear Pingel for your wonderful Nia lessons! You know how to bring the NIA method to life in an authentic way. Every lesson was a party, a joyful invitation to move. Truly move into joy! love Sjoula

Sjoukje

life coach

A 6- or 7-day immersion in NIA and somatic dance play brings balance, health and vitality to every part of the body, mind, spirit and emotions. It empowers you by connecting with what moves you inside, your joy, playfulness, natural wisdom, and the palette of sensations in your body.

After this retreat you will feel more inner freedom, inner vibrancy and energy. You will go home with your own Body Wise wisdom map and a set of refined tools to set up a potent self-care practice for your day-to-day life.

Where and when to move into joy with my NIA sessions

NIA sessions are an integral part of the transformative, healing dance-movement retreats for body, mind, inner spirit, and soul at Jardin de Luz. These retreats can be booked throughout the year as private or semi-private retreats. The retreats help you regain your inner sense of well-being and vitality from the heart of your being. And to reclaim your body as a safe and magical place to live in.

Dates for the themed small group retreats can be found at Bookretreats.com.

I also offer the option of private therapeutic Dance Healing retreat, fully tailored to your needs.

All retreats take place at the Inner Sparkle Sanctuary Jardin de Luz and can be booked through Bookretreats.com.

Testimonial by Rebecca Heloise Faro

I’ve been to a few of Pingel‘s NIA classes & I can really recommend them. For me NIA is a mixture of guided movement & free movement, working with a part of the body to bring more fluidity & strength to the muscles of the body. It helps with coordination...

Testimonial by Angelica Escoto

Dear Pingel, I just wanted to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude for the amazing dancing retreat that I attended recently. Your guidance and instruction were truly transformative for me. Your big heart and warm personality made me feel safe and supported...

Testimonial by Yosmary Pestana

A Transformative Retreat: Nurturing Mind, Body, and Connection with Nature My 6-Day Pause Listen & Reconnect With Yourself Dance Retreat, accompanied by Pingel and Peter, has proven to be one of the most enriching experiences I've ever had. The NIA practice...

Testimonial by Natalie Rose Roberts

An amazing transformative retreat! I felt really stressed, over-whelmed and disconnected to myself and my loved ones.  I wanted to specifically do a somatic retreat using dance and movement to reconnect with myself. When I saw that this was a Personal 1:1 retreat;...

Testimonial by Donna Mattingley

Reward yourself with this retreat! What initially appealed to me was the dance element in the description but I had no idea that NIA and the Feldenkrais method would give me a different perspective in my healing journey.  Pingel and Peter have the ability to make you...

Testimonial by Maria Vedenina

Unbelievable experience that every women can enrich herself with! Overall this retreat really helped me to pause, to look inside, to reconnect with myself, to feel alive and to feel joy again, but let me break it down for you. First, the retreat combines several...

Testimonial by Jacqueline Grehan

I chose this retreat because the dance element appealed to me as someone who overthinks all day every day… I knew I needed help with getting out of my head and into my body. Also, location was good as I wanted somewhere quiet to switch off.  I felt my body gradually...

Testimonial by Miriam Kolbe

Thanks for this magical experience! After the birth of my daughter and all the weight of becoming a mother, I wanted to reconnect to my body again. I was searching for exactly this: Dance, Body Wisdom, Andalusia, it was just the perfect match 🙂 After these miraculous...

Testimonial by Sandra-Bernadette

It was such a beautiful experience with NIA dance as the most joyful start to the day, very delicious meals and profound workshops that bring you closer to yourself. The area is really calm with beautiful nature, and wonderful cuddly animals, and Pingel and Peter are...