Lynda Heymen, Psy.D.is the creator and facilitator of "The Joy of Movement at Chatham Mills." A certified Black Belt Nia® teacher, Lynda discovered Nia in 2002 and has been teaching classes in Raleigh and Pittsboro since 2003. Lynda is also a clinical psychologist and has a practice in Cary and Pittsboro. On a personal and professional level, Nia has enhanced her efforts to promote healing and well-being through movement and the integration of mind, body and spirit. She also brings a background in dance to her classes. It is her hope that all her students discover the power and magic of "dancing through life" that the Nia Technique offers.

 

Nia Classes: Sunrise Nia Tues. & Thurs. at 8am (Beginning July 1st). Dance with the sunrise and to the new day!
Saturdays at 8am. Come play with us! And feel free to join us for breakfast afterwards at the Chatham MarkePlace Cafe.

Nia Bundle of 20 classes - $100.00 or just $5.00 each
Drop-in fee of $10.00

 

 

Marty Broda, licensed Black and Green Belt Nia Technique educator and founder of Synchronia Inc., has shared Nia with thousands of people in Nia classes since 1999. She teaches Classic Nia classes and also adapts class format for special populations:

Gentle Nia, Joyful Movement with Parkinson’s, and Aqua Nia classes.

Marty finds Nia more than a physical workout. To her, it heals, self directs, and enhances her life’s blessings. She chooses Nia as her life practice and path. Nia changes her life. She feels more joy, lives fuller, senses serenity, and lives mindfully.

 

 

Haven Carter Dubrul is a certified White and Green Belt Nia Technique instructor. She is also a certified 5 Stages instructor. Wildly enthusiastic about Nia since her first class, Haven dances every day to promote a healthy body, calm mind, and joyful spirit. She received her White and Green Belt Certifications in Portland, OR, with Debbie Rosas Stewart and Carlos AyaRosas, respectively.

She received her 5 Stages training with Debbie in Sante Fe, NM.

Haven is also a Reiki Jin Kei Do Master and a Consumer Marketing Consultant (UNC MBA 1988).

 

 

Javier Gayo is a certified Blue Belt Nia instructor who, since childhood, has used dance to escape the "real world"; and replenish the spirit. An avid fitness seeker, he integrates Nia into his fitness routine to achieve balance of body, mind and spirit. His Nia journey began in the mid-2000s when his Mom introduced him to Nia as a way to relieve stress and tension caused by graduate studies in Engineering.

The rest, as they say, is history.

 

 

Robin Wagoner has been into magic of NIA for four years. The practice helped Robin dance through the postpartum blues. "The mixture of music and relaxed choreography of NIA allowed me to wake up and hear the voice of my body. Prior to the dawning of NIA, I spent way too much time in my head being flooded by fear and anxiety. NIA encourages me to spend more time sensing what my body is telling me to bring greater healing into my bones. Another surprise along the way is that I found it to be an age-defying experience. Robin has a passion for Latin Dance as well.  She teaches Zumba in addition to NIA.  Her love of creative movement and children

has led her to produce Kids Modern Dance sessions throughout the year.

 

"Dancing joy keeps my spirit child-like!" says Robin.
Robin is also the coordinator for "The Joy of Movement at Chatham Mills."

 

Robin teaches Classic NIA on Friday morning at 9:00 followed by ten minutes of stillness for

meditation and/or prayer at the end of class.  It is a great way to dance into your weekend!

 

First Friday class of the month is free for a limited time only.  This offer will last until August 2011!! 

Robin's class fees are $10 for drop-ins or purchase one of Robin's NIA nests. 

Robin's NIA nest of classes includes:  5 classes (eggs) for $35, 10 classes (eggs) for $60 or 20 classes (eggs) for $100. 

Each NIA class is a new beginning and participants leave refreshed and physically reborn. 

 

 

Kelsey LaPoint considers Asana, the practice of physical yoga poses, to be the art of retraining the body for greater expansion, clarity, openness, and empowerment. She teaches an alignment-based yoga, which focuses on certain principles of aligning the body to allow for optimal energy flow, strength-building, balance, and safety.   She has been practicing yoga since 2004 and has taken two 200 hour yoga teacher trainings, as well as additional workshops with Desiree Rumbaugh, John Friend, Rod Stryker, and Sarah Powers.

Sundays 10 am - 11:20 am
Wednesdays 1 pm - 2:20 pm

Both classes are open levels and active classes, geared towards the physical fit (or aspiring) individual-- no yoga experience is necessary.

Classes are $13 for drop-in, $40 for 4 class-pack*.
Chatham Marketplace employees and CCCC students with student ID are $7 drop-in, or $20 for 4 classes*.
*class-pack must be used within 2 months of initial use, and can be used toward either weekly class.

 

 

Emily Silverman (RYT 500) has been teaching yoga in Massachusetts and North Carolina since 2007.  Emily’s classes create an atmosphere of joy and inner reflection, yielding a physically strong and heart-opening experience of yoga.  She teaches “Dharma Yoga,” in the tradition of yoga master Dharma Mittra.  Emily received yoga teacher certifications from Mama Nirvana’s New Yoga in Amherst, MA (200-hour) and from the Dharma Yoga Center in NYC (200- and 500-hour). Emily is also a fundraiser for the UNC Libraries and a certified therapy dog handler.
 
Dharma Yoga Classes
Dharma yoga warms up the body, brings flexibility to muscles and joints, and wakes up the nervous system. Students will experience a gentle yet powerful series of stretching, bending, balancing, twisting, and inverted postures.  Classes include warm-up, yoga postures (asanas), meditation, breathing practice (pranayama), and guided deep relaxation (savasana).  Emily welcomes beginners to advanced students, and offers variations and modifications for all levels of experience.

75 minute class: drop-in $14, or 6-class card $72

 

 

Sage Keene is a dedicated Yoga Shiromani (teacher of yoga).  She completed her teacher certification course at Peaceful Valley Ashram and has studied with master teacher Sarah Powers.  All Yin/Yang Balance classes include meditation, pranayama (breath control techniques), asana (Yin and traditional Hatha postures) and relaxation. 1½ hour class: $15.
For more information visit www.sagekeene.com

 

 

 

Suzi Snyder has brought Eden Energy Medicine to The Joy of Movement studio in Pittsboro, NC! Eden Energy Medicine is a method of working directly with the body’s energy systems to help create health and wellness. You will learn specific techniques that can be used to activate the body’s natural healing abilities that seek to restore vital energies that have become weak, disturbed, or out of balance.  These techniques are easy to learn and incorporate into your life.

 

A series of five workshops cover a variety of exercises including

• a daily energy routine
• how to trace the meridians whose energy feeds your organs
• how to substance test (food and supplements) to determine if they are in harmony with your body’s energy
• ways to keep your flight, fight and freeze response from getting overworked
• ways to bring more joyous energy into your body

 

Suzi is a Life Coach and Eden Energy Medicine Certfication candidate. Her business Choiceful Living is located in Pittsboro, NC.

Come and join us in the beautiful and serene, Joy of Movement studio on Tuesday nights from 5:15 – 6:30. 

 

 

 

Glenna Batson, PT, ScD, is an internationally recognized teacher of the Alexander Technique (certified 1989, mAmSAT) and has taught
somatic approaches to movement for over three decades. Faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1986, Glenna currently offers workshops on Alexander Technique Through Movement. She believes in the power of movement as a catalyst for personal growth and professional development in meeting and transforming the challenges in our world today.

 

Come dance out the answers to life’s questions!

 

 

Casey teaches both Hatha-based classes open to the stiff or bendy and Kids Yoga classes for ages 6-11.

Classes are $10 a person, or $15 for 2 in Children's Yoga.

Hatha on Saturday, 10-11:30 am
Kids Yoga on Fridays, 3:30-4:30pm

  Hatha yoga uses poses, breathing and meditation to cultivate strength, flexibility and a clear mind.  Caseys's teaching style relies on humor, kindness and emphasis on the process over poses and precision.  Classes are open and easy-going, grounded in undoing tension in the body, using the breath to bring calm and, most importantly, creating ease in the bodies that we put though so much.

  In Kids Yoga, Casey draws on her years as a preschool teacher, ABA therapist, caregiver and performer to lead a class that balances high-energy movement with reflection and quieting the mind.  Casey's classes expose kids to the benefits of yoga by mingling poses and sweaty games with learning calming meditation and techniques to manage stress.

www.caseymcauliffe.com

Allison Gaither is a stay at home mom of two girls and an Army wife.  She has volunteered as a La Leche League Leader for the past three years and is also an IBCLC (Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant).  In her “pre-mommy” days, she owned and operated Body and Motion, Inc. School of Yoga and Performing Arts.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology/Pre-Med and a bachelor’s degree in Dance with a concentration in Body Awareness from UNC-G and is recognized by Yoga Alliance at the e-RYT 500 level.  Allison began her dance training in 1980 and her yoga practice in 1994.  She has trained with some of the top dance and yoga instructors in the country.  Allison is also a trainer to the trainers and opened one of the first YA recognized Yoga Teacher Training Schools in North Carolina.  She has been a continuing education presenter at conferences both nationally and internationally.  She began teaching dance in 1989 and yoga and group fitness in 1998 in private, group, medical, college, and corporate settings.  She starred in 2 "Basic Yoga for Golfers" videos and “Body and Motion Teacher Training Video", has 3 relaxation CD credits, and has written articles for local, national, and international magazines.

 

 

Aja, teacher of Reclaiming Radiance is an artist, poet and dancer. Her first experience of color-energy was seeing it as it flowed from nature. When she began dancing in nature it was a magical experience as she became aware that this color- energy flowed also within herself. To further deepen her sense of connection to this radiant inner realm within life, Aja painted, wrote poetry

and studied ancient Women's Dances from the Middle East and North Africa.

 

Reclaiming Radiance- Exploring the Creative Feminine Within Classes for cultivating the art

of seeing the beauty within - through meditation-visualizations, dancing and oil-pastel painting. 
Seeing colors within is an empowering and delightful experience,

Seeing colors within is an inner tool used to gain deeper trust in your creativity,

Color is the love inside the universe asking you to dance.

Every Monday night beginning in February- 7:00p -8:30p

7 classes completed within a 3 month period for $49.00

Email Aja for more information- ajastartree@gmail.com

 

 

Teacher/coach Dan Pasek has been studying Taijiquan since 1979 and has been in NC since 1990 training with the Magic Tortoise Taijiquan School. Dan has been a tournament judge for both forms and push-hands since 1998.

Dan currently emphasizes interactive work both without and with weapons.

 

Interactive Taijiquan Class Information

(see class page for more details)
Taijiquan’s push-hands training (tui shou) was developed as a method for learning and improving ones understanding of the principles that underlie this art. It is not fighting, although it trains principles that may be applied to fighting. Sensitivity (especially through the sense of touch) is emphasized, and the class is suitable for all fitness levels without requiring any special equipment or clothing.

Push-hands skills involve connecting with incoming energy or force, and understanding it and controlling it without directly opposing it.

When in contact with a training partner, one should learn to recognize what is happening in ones own body

as well as what is happening with your partner’s body.

 

Classes are $12 each if paying for at least a month at a time (4 or more classes),

and $15 for drop-ins (one class at a time)

 

 

 

Aharona Shackman began to study West African dance in 1999, while living in Ghana.  In 2001, back in America, she began to study predominantly with teachers from Senegal and Guinea.  While she has danced on and off over the years with various teachers (mostly while in Chicago and Santa Cruz), those who have had the most influence on her have been Moustapha Bangoura, Marietou Camara, and Sheelah Muhammad.  Aharona also enjoys teaching and practicing Ashtanga yoga, practicing massage therapy, and writing; but it is dancing that has been her first and foremost spiritual practice, and it is what has provided her greatest bliss.

Wednesdays starting September 7th, 5:15-6:45 pm
Suggested donation of $15 for drop-in or $60 for 5 classes.

In this high-energy class with live drumming (featuring Senegalese griot Diali Cissokho (www.koraanddrums.com)),

you will learn traditional steps to rhythms from Senegal and Guinea.  Open to all levels.  

 

 

Frank Apodaca Sensei began his Aikido training in November 1985 at San Diego Aikikai under the direction of T. K. Chiba, 8th Dan, Shihan (Master Instructor). In 1987, he was accepted into Chiba Sensei’s Kenshusei program and as an Uchi Deshi. This is an intensive and comprehensive Aikido instructor’s training program. During this training, he progressed to the rank of sandan (3rd. dan) and received his Fukushidoin certification (assistant instructor) in December 1990. After additional years of committed study,

he was promoted to yondan (4th dan) and certified as Shidoin (instructor) in February 1994.
 
Upon completing his apprenticeship in December 1994, he moved to Portland, Oregon to teach Aikido full-time as the Chief Instructor at Multnomah Aikikai. In January 2000, Apodaca Sensei was promoted to godan (5th dan). In October 2000, he moved to the mid-michigan area where he resided with his family.  In April of 2008 he was promoted to Rokudan (6th dan).

In August of 2010, Apodaca Sensei relocated to North Carolina and now resides in Pittsboro.

 

Aikido classes for are taught on Fridays at 5:30p

Please call Frank at 517-652-4759 for additional information.