Our teachers

Kathy moved from America to introduce the Nia Technique to South Africa in 2002. She trained the first 230 white belt graduates here and continues to produce Nia intensives in Cape Town. She began the first dedicated Nia studio in Observatory in 2003 – OurNiaSpace is the headquarters for Nia South Africa.

Kathy has expanded her teaching of body mind principles delivering her Alchemy of Movement workshops in settings ranging from corporate events to treatment centres across the country. Her teaching style is powerful, humorous, intelligent and connected. Kathy has tremendous energy and her classes and workshops an enriched and empowered human being.

The deeper I go into Nia, the more I want to share it with as many people as possible. Soon after discovering and falling in love with Nia, I began training to be a teacher, an exciting journey that will culminate in doing the Black Belt in 2010.

The further I go in my training, the more I am convinced that there is nothing else that so fully nurtures all-round well being and health. It feeds my brain, my muscles, my joints, my heart and lungs, and my emotions and spirit. I have an endless, ongoing love affair with Nia, an excitement and thirst for more that seems insatiable!

I love to share this passion with others, and watch the transformation that happens.

A long search for a physical activity to appeal to all aspects of my being came to an end the day I “stumbled” into a Nia class.

It was the beginning of a beautiful, rewarding and what I believe to be an endless journey of discovery and liberation. Nia satisfies every part of my being: my spirit, my emotional body, my mind, nervous system, muscles, my sense of adventure, my longing to be free, my needing to express, to feel, to move in space, to connect with my fellow human beings, my love for music, play and life.

I love the smiles and the sparkles Nia brings out on our faces – the renewed honour it creates for our bodies and the way it reminds us of our unlimited potential. It is a priviledge to be teaching and sharing Nia with you and to play, dance and grow ever more.

I look forward to meeting you.

Nia is my soul food.Feeding the soul is truly significant for me and that is why Nia has become so central to my life.

When I found Nia or she found me, my life was busy. I was teaching, counseling and parenting but there was one essential ingredient lacking and that was movement and being in my body joyfully. The are no words that adequately express the gratitude I feel to the architects of Nia, Debbie and Carlos and kathy for giving Nia a voice here in South Africa.

With Nia I blend all the tools I have gathered in my lifetime and share them to co create a blissful experience that makes being in this world pleasurable. Thank you Nia for giving me the grace to dance through life with purpose.

I’m a dancer. This is a new way for me to be introducing myself – I’ve always called myself a drummer. But then, when teaching drums, I often hear myself describing the art of drumming as an act of dancing…;)

Nia encourages me to ask this question: what ISN’T a dance? I find that more and more there isn’t an answer. EVERYTHING dances. From the grandest concepts/structures – think colossal, like a galaxy perhaps! To the microscopic components of all matter – atoms and such…they’re all dancing.

How about emotions & thoughts? They too come and go, rise and fall, flutter in and float out. Hmmm.

So it is then that under, over, around and in-between all the activities that comprise our days there is this way of perceiving it all as a dance. A shift that allows for the infusion of wonderment and fascination and that also evokes in us the watcher, conscious of it all.

We gather to dance and to build this awareness, a skill that brings along with it the lens of joy, of appreciation, of gratitude.

For everything. Every thing. Rock ‘n roll.