Nia Exercise Moves: Traveling Cha Cha Cha Walk

Series Summary

Nia is a holistic alternative to the modern-day fitness routine. The practice of Nia began in the late 1980s and has had healing benefits ever since. It is not only a fitness practice, but a lifestyle choice for many. Nia incorporates the mind, body, and soul into a creative and empowering practice. People who practice Nia have great cardiovascular health and well-being. Nia is the blending of nine body movement forms including T’ai Chi, jazz dance, modern dance, Aikido, Tae Kwon Do, Duncan dance, Alexander Technique, Yoga and the teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais. Nia is performed to music and is self-guided to promote a creative flow like no other form of movement. Nia is safe for people of any fitness level. In this free video series, learn how to do the Nia traveling walk. Our expert, Donna Starnes, is a black belt Nia instructor. She takes the time to show you variations of the traveling walk exercise. Learn how to add kicks, blocks, punches, raised arms, and more to the traveling cha cha cha walk. Also, learn how to l-shaped variations as well. With this free video series, you can start improving your overall health. So, what are you waiting for? Learn some Nia exercises today!

Video Transcript

"Now we're continuing with putting together some of the Nia moves. So learning, remembering what all we did. We started out, we did one segment on the Traveling Walk. And the Traveling Walk is simply, step one foot forward, two steps back, plant the ball of the foot and walk back up. Heel lead, ball of the foot as we walk slowly forward and back. We're going to combine that by adding the cha cha cha in the middle of that so that we can get to the other side. So you take it front, back, back, pause and then cha cha cha. Step forward, step back, pause and cha cha cha. It's the front foot that actually is the cha cha here, it's the we'll front, back front. You can say cha cha cha in your, in your mind, take it a little bit of a hang of it. At some point, you won't have to do that anymore. Cha cha cha. And remember that a cha cha is just three steps to get to the other side. So to look at it from the side, it looks like this. Front, back, bow stance, cha cha cha. Front, back, back, pause, cha cha cha. Staying light in the feet, keeping the spine tall, align, easy walk, cha cha cha. And that's the Traveling Walk Cha Cha."