it started like this:
my co-teacher Anne and I were planning our class schedule and saw the Tuesday Nov 6 class was voting day. And she says, I'll bet you'll make a playlist for that. So I reached out and several of the Nia tribe made a few suggestions and I Spotified (yes that's a word!) and now this incredible, fun, raunchy, powerful, healing, empowering, freeing playlist. You are so in for an amazing Nia FreeDance experience #bethechange. Not tooting my own horn or anything, but I'm not even going to share a teaser! Saving all the good stuff for class.

When I first discovered Nia back in 2012, freedance was my least favorite part. I thought I didn't know how to do it right! I felt self-conscious and awkwardly shy. I'd often skip over the freedance songs when learning routines and never practiced the 8 stages of freedance; it seemed a waste of my "limited" time. Then one of my favorite Nia choreographers, Adelle Brownlee Brewer, was to lead a Nia FreeDance training at the Joy of Movement in Pittsboro NC (where I now teach) and I'd have done anything to spend a weekend dancing with her. And I told myself, maybe it would help me feel more comfortable teaching freedance and I'd learn some tips. I found so much more...