Nia is a wonderful complement to your yoga practice. Here’s an article by Catherine McCormack an ashtanga yoga teacher, talking about how training as a Nia teacher, revitalised her Yoga practice.
Yogajournal Australia

If you’re interested to see what’s possible when you bring NIA’s somatic education to coaching, take a look at Dorit’s coaching website. Dorit’s unique cross over from business to the body, gives her new tools in coaching individuals and leadership teams.
Dorit is a certified coach CPCC ACC and a registered mentor with the International Coaching Federation as well as a team coach. Her Nia practice has allowed her to bring the body to coaching in an innovative, powerful way. Dorit works for the Hobbs Consultancy in supporting women in leadership in large media corporations..
Success story Jennifer Morris, Strategic Planner, Google I wasn’t sure what to expect heading into the session but the small changes she recommended have had such a positive affect on my life, both inside work and outside. Connecting with your body in the ways she suggests leaves you feeling calmer and more in control. Coming out of the session, I now feel I have the ability to command more presence in meetings..
Success stories: - Fiona Buckland ACC.
"I started to work with Dorit to fulfill my 10 hours of mentor coaching as required for my Associate Credited Coach with ICF. With Dorit's expert mentoring I passed my exam. But I gained so much more. As a result of working with Dorit, I am a better coach: more courageous, more embodied, more able to trust my intuition and coach from my heart and gut, and more aware and in ownership of my unique and powerful presence. I believe this has benefited my clients immensely. But even more than this, I am better able to see myself as a coach, to dance in the space between self-doubt and inspiration with self-compassion and care in service of my clients. The experience has been life-enhancing and whether as a mentor or as a coach, I recommend Dorit wholeheartedly.".
Success story: Lola Fayemi, certified coach BA Honours Psychology It's been about a month since I completed my Nia white belt and my life is definitely different. I feel like my life is about to really take off as a result and know this is only the beginning. I have arrived in my body and feel like in my body, I have a real ally. It's with me all the time and genuinely knows what's best for me in a way that my mind never could..
Life in my body means I am in constant 2 way communication with a form of intelligence that ALWAYS has my back and guides me to make the best decisions for myself every single day, in every single way. I highly recommend the Nia white belt to anyone that wants to live an easier yet upgraded life. As a Life Coach I have done many personal development courses over the years but this was on a completely different level and is benefiting me in every single part of my life, my relationships, career, finances, health and so much more. .
Honestly if you're thinking about doing the Nia white belt this is where you are going wrong. Don't think about it, just do it! You have absolutely nothing to lose and your best future possible to gain! Why would you not! .
Elitza Ranova PhD Rice University, Certified CTI Coach, ACC, USA Coaching and mentoring with Dorit increased tremendously my awareness of the voice of my intuition, allowed me to recognize its value, and helped me learn how to tune into it and make sense of it. Today my decision-making is still grounded in rational cons-and-pros considerations but is profoundly enriched by the ability to tap into a deeper layer of knowledge. This allows me to make decisions that feel deeply authentic and that benefit from the full range of what I've learned through previous experience. Dorit is by far the best coach I have ever had..
Idil Seytanoglu Consultant, Trainer, Certified CTI Coach, Turkey Great experience to attend the while belt course with you, it is something that helps my training, coaching and personal life. You are an amazing trainer Dorit and thank you very much for everything..
Lucy Barkas Director and Principal Coach WhatWhenWhyHow .
As a coach, I knew the value of supervision, but didn’t really know what the process involved. To say I was slightly fearful would be an understatement. During the sample session, I was immediately calmed by Dorit’s style: warm, fun and professional… I feel that each session has really helped me learn and grow as a person and as a coach, and as a result I feel in flow with my clients and reconnected once more. I am much more in tune with embodiment, space, and structure since working with Dorit… I do love the process of finding areas of growth, development and improvement.Dorit’s approach is always learning, and never failing.

How does Nia complement Pilates? Both Nia and Pilates engage muscles to bring flexibility, greater coordination, increased balance and strength. In Nia we use what we call “pearls” , to boost performance and to stress and sense deep muscles – pearls allow the body to move systemically and enhance our ability to sense. If you are a Pilates fan then you will know that a physical workout is often also a mental workout, providing you with clarity and concentration. Just as your pilates practice often gives you a mental workout which increases your focus and concentration, as well as brings clarity, NIA’s sensory-based workout engage the Mind and Body, leaving you feeling grounded, and energised at the end of a class..
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ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF NIA Nia has both choreography and freeform movement which like qi gong allows you to let go of your mind and sense a harmony between your body, mind and emotions integrated and in flow. Free movement allows you to stop thinking and to listen to your muscles, bones and joints pulling you from move to move. This is movement medicine at its best. The more you let go of your mind, the more your body will self-heal. Free sensory-based movement improves your awareness and control of your body, leaving you feeling beauty and integrity. .
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WHAT NIA CAN OFFER YOUR PILATES Pilates students love being able to dance upright to great music while Nia is the perfect complement to the strengthening, reinforcing exercises of Pilates. The holistic training concept behind Nia will strengthen all your muscle groups. The dance-based elements will bring emotional expression and joy to the mix, while the martial arts bring great conditioning at the same time as the yoga and mindfulness, slow you down and allow you to drop deeply into your body’s way of moving.

Jon Kabat-Zinn’s intent to allow you to stop thinking and centre by sensing your breath and your whole body, resonates with NIA’s many practices and tools to deepen body awareness and increase your ability to sense stillness as a place into which you can rest. Nia like mindfulness, develops your ability to observe rather than judge and to include every experience in life as one that can be felt, and sensed from a place of stillness. .
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ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF NIA NIA will train you to get out of your head and into your body. Not thinking is such freedom! The freedom to experience your life with great joy in every moment. There is no other moment, than this one. And Nia and mindfulness are partners in bringing you into the now. In mindfulness, the anchor is the breath, in Nia the anchor is awareness of every part of your body, whether you are still, sitting, standing or walking. Stillness becomes a partner that allows you to see your life from a place of deep reassurance and safety while including every emotion and sensation as a part of your experience of being human. .
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WHAT NIA CAN OFFER YOUR MINDFULNESS As a mindfulness practitioner, Nia will increase your ability to sustain stillness in every moment of life. One of the arts that underpins Nia is the work of Moshe Feldenkrais and the ability to sense. Sensing and being body aware, stops anxiety, removes stress and rewires your mind in a powerful way. You are embodying stillness. Stillness is healing for the body and mind.