Debbie Rosas

Debbie Rosas, Nia Technique Founder, Director, Educator, Author: The Nia Technique, DR and Nia Body + Life Education Programs, The Awakening Project.

Celebrating 40+ Years! Debbie Rosas is the co-creator and founder of Nia. Credited with establishing the mind-body fitness category, she is a leading fitness innovator, teacher, author, choreographer, performer, healer and artist whose work greatly influences the lives of thousands of women and men worldwide.

07/29/2025

"Every hesitation or forward momentum is powered by my arches; my bridges of becoming. Curved and tender, carrying both memory and possibility. I walk not to escape, but to arrive. To listen. To be. My soles are soft with empathy, yet strong enough to carry the weight of lifetimes. My toes are wild with joy, uncaged, uncensored, reaching like curious questions toward every moment in life." Read more by Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/07/29/in-her-feet/

07/24/2025

"I began to see the shoulder, or shoulder girdle, with new eyes. Not just as bone and joint, but as a sacred architecture—a radiant halo resting at the top of the body. I traced the elegant S-curves of the clavicles, observed how the scapulae glided like invisible hands across the back, and sensed how these bridges give rise to the freedom of the arms. I quickly understood the cost of habitual palms-down living. It collapses possibility. It closes the glenohumeral joint and limits the expressive power of the whole upper body. From this revelation I created, Palm Directions—Nia movements for a healing technique." Read more by Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/07/24/shoulders-speak/

07/22/2025

“Voices” as a meditation tool, use poetic language to foster insight and introspection. The idea of “giving voice to,” or “voices” first came to me, when I was looking at the human skeleton and touching it with my hands. I found myself listening and hearing the human body speak to me. The bones I held in my hand said, ”Listen.” Read more by Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/07/22/ethereal-voices/

07/17/2025

"My arms have taught me how to listen. How to create a boundary. How to embrace. How to let go. When I forget them, when I ignore their voice, they grow heavy. They pull on my neck. They collapse into my spine. But when I move them with love, with sensation, with intention—they lift me. They rise like wings and remind me who I am." Read More by Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life Here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/07/17/arms-speak/

07/15/2025

"By imagining all the parts of my body as individual identities, I used personification to embody and describe scientific knowledge about the form, function, and art of the body. I soon discovered the way the body is designed is to find balance and seek comfort while living in pleasure. I then professionally titled my work, The Body’s Way." Read more by Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/07/15/history-lessons/

07/10/2025

"As I began honoring the design and function of my hands; their bones, joints, fascia, and energy, I awakened to something profound. My hands were not accessories or tools, but equally important as my feet holding me up from falling into the pull of gravity. I remember a moment when I moved in front of a mirror while choreographing early Nia classes and seeing my hands not moving as part of my arms. Their fan-like expression was not dancing in the space the way I knew they could be. That moment changed me." Read More by Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/07/10/hands-speak/

07/08/2025

"It’s the 20th anniversary of the publication of The Nia Technique, written with my co-creator and co-author, Carlos Rosas. I’ve been so deep in the process of writing my own new book in recent years, that I am also writing about my reflections on the principles of Nia; its modernity and value. But most importantly, on its profound relationship to what I first established in 2004, based on my own individual research, scholarship, and contribution as, The Body’s Way." Read More by Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/07/08/new-publication/

07/03/2025

"What you, our beloved teachers and devoted students, truly long for, is not another class format—but deeper wisdom. Tools, language, and methods to enhance your existing Nia practice and classes. You seek somatic leadership skills that elevate how you teach and how you learn." Read more from Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/07/03/nia-skill-shops/

07/01/2025

"This is what I wish for every being—that they find the courage to stand in their spirit-soul identity and, from that ground, dance freely through life." Read More from Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/07/01/our-identity/

06/26/2025

"I didn’t consciously set out to find my energy body. I set out to feel better in my body. To dance. To move from pain into pleasure. But somewhere between the swing of my hips and the silence between songs, I was guided to discover something else. It was a living, pulsing energy field that had been waiting for me all along." Read more from Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/06/26/energy-bodies/

06/24/2025

"When we make time to learn more about the wisdom of the energies of the body, we gift ourselves with information that leads to greater health and awareness that we value for our body and our life." Read more by Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/06/24/chakra-wisdom/

06/19/2025

"The head is a paradox—it is both the physical command center of the body and a limitless doorway to expanded consciousness. It is the container of thought and perception, yet also the space where thoughts dissolve into stillness. Like a celestial dome, the head is a vessel of vision—not only of the eyes but of intuition and insight." Read more by Nia Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/06/19/your-core-iii/

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