Nia, Feldenkrais & Movement Retreat: Possibilities In Paradise

Dana Hood

Owner of iBODY, Nia Black Belt & JourneyDance Facilitator The first time I stepped into a dance class I was 3 years old and I remember saying, “When I grow up I want to be a dance teacher and have a dance studio.” As much as I loved dancing, my earliest memories of it were there was a right way and a wrong way to do it and it was all about performing perfectly. I danced most my childhood becoming “great dancer”. After graduating and moving into the work world, dancing fell away. I went to college, worked many jobs and became an entrepreneur, opening a doggie daycare and then 3 years later a doggie boutique. I love working with dogs and have always appreciated the way they are so fully themselves. They love their bodies and authentically express emotion and love every day. Working 12+ hour days everyday, my body began to cry out for something to balance my energy. It was then I was told about Nia and began dancing again. But this dancing wasn’t about right and wrong and perfection. The perfection is how connected I feel to my body, how connected I feel to my life. Ten years, 7 Nia and 3 JourneyDance trainings later, I teach Nia in Denver almost everyday and can truly say I am on the path the 3 year old predicted. This dancing path is about expression, healing, play and joy! As a teacher I don’t perform or judge, I facilitate an experience. When people step into my class, I give them permission to be exactly where and who they are in that moment. I show them how to move, from the inside out, and how to trust and connect to their bodies in a new way. That deep body connection leads to a deeper connection to Heart, Confidence, Desire and Power. Join me in the dance I love and experience for yourself what it feels like to step into a new way of living in this body! ibodydenver.com

Christy Cutler

Christy Cutler is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher®. After 25 years of teaching creative dance to children here in Denver she decided to spend four years being trained to teach the Feldenkrais Method. Christy has benefited from a Feldenkrais practice since 1998, finding ease and pain relief for her own back injuries, and has been a teacher in the method since 2011. “I always found myself asking the question – how do I know I am doing a movement well? Feldenkrais taught me about exactly this kind of awareness; it is a somatic method based on sensing the body from within in order to know what you are doing. It has improved my own movement and resonates deeply with all my experience dancing, skiing, and sailing. Awareness begins by listening carefully to your own body, your own embodied wisdom. It is a path to doing what you want with ease and grace.” ibodydenver.com