Debbie Rosas

The Nia Technique. A holistic personal movement practice and wellness lifestyle for every Body + Life! Celebrating 40+ Years!

Debbie Rosas Founder, Director, Educator, Author of The Nia Technique, The Body's Way, and Awakening Body + Life. 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.

10/16/2025

"Intention is how we guide our mind. It’s how we direct attention, not just toward goals, but into the body itself, where wisdom lives. In the same way the heart beats and the lungs breathe, our body is constantly offering cues for vitality, pleasure, and healing. To hear them, we must learn to listen. We must quiet our mind enough to sense the signals of the body." Read more by The Nia Technique Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/10/16/our-intention/

10/14/2025

"There was a time when I believed effort was everything. Push harder. Reach farther. Prove myself through how much I could do and endure. I worked out like that. I worked like that. I lived like that. That’s until I began to study Aikido and work with energy and found that working hard no longer worked. Not only did it not work, but it was also not the body’s way." Read More by The Nia Technique Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/10/14/art-of-flow/

10/09/2025

"In Nia we don’t tell people how fast to move. We invite them to personalize and discover for themselves when to quicken and when to slow down. When to surge and when to melt. And when they find their rhythm, they find their power and grace. And in that power, and grace there’s healing and their movement becomes medicine, not because it was prescribed, but because it was personalized." Read more by The Nia Technique Founder, Debbie Rosas here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/10/09/personal-movement/

10/07/2025

"It became clear to me that movement is one of the oldest spiritual languages we have. Before we had words, we had the body. We had rhythm. We had the impulse to reach, to bow, to gather, to shake, to rise. Movement as a spiritual language is not only steps it is the choreography of gestures and rituals of remembering. And in a world that so often numbs, divides, and distracts, these rituals are important medicine." Read more by The Nia Technique Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/10/07/deeper-meaning/

10/02/2025

"The impact of The Nia Technique on people’s fitness, health, and well-being cannot be underestimated. Over the decades, I’ve witnessed countless people, women and men of all ages, shapes, cultures, and life experiences step into Nia not just for exercise, but for transformation. For many, Nia becomes their workout. For others, it becomes their practice. For some, their way of life." Read More by The Nia Technique Founder, Debbie Rosas here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/10/02/nia-impact/

09/30/2025

"This coordinated intelligence between head, spine, shoulders, and pelvis is what I’ve learned through spiraling. As I’ve aged well, I’ve come to realize that the spiral is one of my greatest teachers. I used to think turning was just something the body did to change direction. But what I’ve learned through decades of anatomical research for more development of The Nia Technique is this: spiraling is the body’s way of renewing itself." Read More By The Nia Technique Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/09/30/spirals-within/

09/25/2025

"I am living inside a body I’ve come to love more deeply with time. I am still dancing. Still sensing. Still learning. But now, I move slower—not from loss, but from reverence. I listen more. I push less. I let the moment shape me instead of trying to shape it." Read More by Nia Technique Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/09/25/sacred-arts/

09/23/2025

"I want to be seen less for what I do, and more for what I am. For the way I love. For the energy I bring into a space. For the ways I’ve softened, deepened, returned. I want to be seen symbolically—not just as a woman, or a teacher, or a body—but as a soul in motion. As a living transmission of what I’ve lived and learned. Being seen is sacred." Read more by Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/09/23/our-exposure/

09/22/2025

"In this episode of GET IN, I sit down with Cy Wakeman—drama researcher, best-selling author, and leadership visionary—to explore the revolutionary practice of Reality-Based Leadership beyond ego with less drama." Read more at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2024/01/02/get-in/

09/18/2025

"It sounds so simple: “Just reach out and connect.” But if it’s that easy, why are so many of us afraid to reach? I used to be one of those people. Studying martial arts was the first time I became aware of how difficult it was for me to truly extend—toward another, toward life, even toward my own potential. Something in me resisted. I could move, but I didn’t always connect. I could reach but not fully receive." Read more from The Nia Technique Founder, Debbie Rosas at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/09/18/reach-out/

09/16/2025

"The perspective from X-Ray Anatomy teaches us to see and sense beneath the surface of our skin—to witness our bones and joints in motion as living intelligences, not just structural parts. Through “Felt Sense,” we can track our vertical, horizontal, and rotational alignment not just by logic alone, but by our sensations." Read more by The Nia Technique Founder, Debbie Rosas, at Awakening Body + Life here: https://debbierosas.com/2025/09/16/vertical-alignment/

09/15/2025

"In this episode of GET IN, I sit down with Dr. Mariale M. Hardiman, Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, and the author and creator of The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model: A Framework for Joyful Learning and Leading." Read and Listen here: https://debbierosas.com/2024/01/02/get-in/

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