Join Nia Training Faculty and holistic physical therapist Rachael R. Resch for the Nia 5 Stages, a practice that can heal your body and change your life.
The Nia 5 Stages is an integrative movement practice based on the five stages of developmental movement we all went through as babies and children: embryonic, creeping, crawling, standing and walking. Inspired by the work of Stanley Kelleman, Moshe Feldenkrais and F. M. Alexander, these stages stimulate the nervous system to facilitate optimal alignment, function and comfort in the body at any age. They offer the body renewed mobility, flexibility, strength, agility and stability.
“The Nia 5 Stages is effective for all levels of fitness, from the person with Parkinson’s who’s healing their nervous system, to the athlete who wants to fine tune their game,” says Resch, a movement educator for over 30 years who has completed specialized training in the Nia 5 Stages. “It’s based on the body’s inherent ability to change, and, as poet Mary Oliver said, to 'let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.'”
ONGOING NIA CLASSES:
T/Th/Sat 9:30-10:45 am • W/F 5:30-6:45 pm
The DanceSpace
7 SUNDAYS OF EMBODIMENT:
The Nia White Belt with RachaelSept 16-Oct 28 • Ashland, OR
Rachael R. Resch, MS PT/LMT, is a Nia Black Belt, Nia Training Faculty and physical therapist with over 30 years' experience in movement and health education.
Rachael's Nia trainings offer a unique combination of scientific and somatic inquiry, blending the perspectives of both patient and practitioner in exploration of the human body in motion for the purpose of healing and conditioning the body.
Rachael used Nia to help heal herself from years of severe asthma. She attended her first White Belt training as a PT in 1999 with Debbie Rosas and Carlos AyaRosas, lugging her portable nebulizer to every session. As a result of becoming body literate, she is now medication-free.
A third generation typographer and former professional dancer, she holds a BA in religion and dance from Oberlin College, a master of science from Pacific University and a green belt in Shotokan Karate. She is the owner of Synergy Physical Therapy in Ashland, OR.
Since 1978, Rachael has studied with leading teachers in mythopoetics, somatics, energetics and the arts, including Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, Michael Meade, Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield (zt"l), Martín Prechtel, Stephen Victor, and Paul and Patty Richards.
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