Here is the schedule of the Public Masterclasses and Playshops that international trainer Helen Terry is offering in Brighton August 5th-10th.   

There are limited spaces so please be in touch in order to make sure you get to the classes you’d like to go to.

What, no steps? Well yes we do encourage steps in classes this week. And the moves are specifically for the sake of allowing you to form a solid grounding for you to find your own way to move through the class. And of course, your own dance through life.

Come and enjoy freedance moves, music and laughter!

Today we are at The Studio, Brighton and Hove High School 7.15 – 8.15 pm. Summer course continues this evening, and up until next week. More info: 07986 624 949. Or email here.

Tomorrow, Thursday class is at Cornerstone Community Centre 7.15 – 8.15 pm, this course is currently full, however if you would like to drop in, do call because if we have had cancellations there may be a space for you, my number is 07986 624 949. Or email here. Taking bookings for mid-summer course.

Monday’s Seaford class is at St. James Club House 7 – 8 pm, 11 Blatchington Road, Seaford BN25 2AB. Please call if you want to get your place 07986 624 949. Or email here. Taking bookings for mid-summer course.

Have you noticed that by the end of a Nia class you are more likely to be feeling more relaxed in your body? Your thoughts may be calmer and you’ll notice that your perception of what is around you is sharper.

This partly comes from not only moving through the routine, but also being immersed in an experience that encourages you to be relaxed while you move, rather than straining.

In classes this week we’ll go a step further by practicing this consciously through being all of relaxed, alert and waiting, as we move together. Come find out more, experience and enjoy!

Today we are at The Studio, Brighton and Hove High School 7.15 – 8.15 pm. Summer course continues this evening, and for the next few weeks. It’s not too late to join. Please call if you want to get your place 07986 624 949. Or email here.

Tomorrow, Thursday class is at Cornerstone Community Centre 7.15 – 8.15 pm, this course is currently full, however if you would like to drop in, do call because if we have had cancellations there may be a space for you, my number is 07986 624 949. Or email here.

Monday’s Seaford class is at St. James Club House 7 – 8 pm, 11 Blatchington Road, Seaford BN25 2AB. Please call if you want to get your place 07986 624 949. Or email here.

This week’s attention in classes goes to the upper extremities of the body.

We’ll increase our range of motion in a wide variety of ways by focussing on hands, arms, our head and our fingers.

And we’ll notice the quality of movement that does little to increase the level of sensation we experience, and then movements that do noticeably enhance body feeling and pleasure in your dance.

It’ll be different for each person and I invite you to find the way that works for you.

Today we are at The Studio, Brighton and Hove High School 7.15 – 8.15 pm. Summer course continues this evening, and it’s not too late to join. Please call if you want to get your place 07986 624 949. Or email here.

Tomorrow, Thursday class is at Cornerstone Community Centre 7.15 – 8.15 pm, this course is currently full, however if you would like to drop in, do call because if we have had cancellations there may be a space for you, my number is 07986 624 949. Or email here.

I’m excited to share with you that we have a Nia class starting in Seaford next Monday.

Please join us for music, movement and laughter. A number of people have already booked onto this class. If you would like to join us here are the practicalities: -

6.45-7.45 pm, Studio 2 (First Floor) The Archway, 1A Blatchington Road, Seaford, East Sussex BN25 2AB. £4 Taster fee.

Following the class there will be a 4-week summer course, the cost is £24.

We’d love to see you there!

We’re launching a new summer course today at the Dance Studio, Brighton and Hove High School. And I’m basing the classes around the Nia routine called Passion.

From the routine, the territory we’ll be moving through is grounded in self expression, finding your own movement, and moving into freedance.

It has been challenging for me to learn and move some of the moves and I’m finding that the further I go with them the freer and more fluid my dance becomes. It will quite possibly be similar for you when you dive into it too.

I’d really love to hear how you experience the classes if you are booked in, so please do let me know.

There are fifteen people already booked on the class and we still have space so if you are still thinking about it, just be in touch today and it would be great if you joined us too!

Today we are at The Studio, Brighton and Hove High School 7.15 – 8.15 pm. Summer course starts this evening June 15 please call if you want to get your place 07986 624 949. Or email here.

Tomorrow, Thursday class is at Cornerstone Community Centre 7.15 – 8.15 pm, this course is currently full, however if you would like to drop in, do call because if we have had cancellations there may be a space for you, my number is 07986 624 949. Or email here.

As a movement instructor I hear people say every week how much they appreciate not having to move and dance to meet the standards that anyone else sets for them.

And Natural Time for me is really a lot to do with listening to the wisdom of your own body, your own movement, your own dance through life. Despite what others think you ought to be doing.

This week I encourage you to explore what your natural range of movement is. Experiment with different speeds of motion and different levels of intensity. Find your sweet spot, and come home to your own journey through dance.

Today we are at The Studio, Brighton and Hove High School 7.15 – 8.15 pm. I’m taking bookings now for the next course that starts next week, June 15, please call if you want to get a place on the course 07986 624 949. Or email here.

Tomorrow, Thursday class is at Cornerstone Community Centre 7.15 – 8.15 pm, this course is currently full, however if you would like to drop in, do call because if we have had cancellations there may be a space for you, my number is 07986 624 949. Or email here.

At ground level, Nia is essentially a practice that reconnects you to the sensations of the physical body, and everything that you can perceive from this point onwards.

Thoughts, feelings, emotions, what is pleasureable, what is not.

For me the practice allows me into being more and more present in daily life, and more of the time.

(Plus all the other benefits that practicing regularly brings you that people often forget to talk about, such as improved circulation, fitness, posture and a stronger immune system.)

And, it all starts through getting back to more fully experiencing the sensations of the body.

AND all in a way that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and is fun!

Dive in this evening (and tomorrow) when we will journey step by step through experiencing with more depth the sensations of moving.

Looking forward to seeing you ~ Anthony

Today we are at The Studio, Brighton and Hove High School 7.15 – 8.15 pm. I’m taking bookings now for the next course that starts at this venue June 15, do call if you want to get a place on the course 07986 624 949. Or email here.

Tomorrow, Thursday class is at Cornerstone Community Centre 7.15 – 8.15 pm, again please call if you would like to come as the new course (starts tomorrow) is nearly full, my number is 07986 624 949. Or email here.

Why write about commitment?

Well actually I just became re-inspired by a string of synchronistic experiences I’ve had these past few days as well as by the audiobook I have been listening to.

The book is Dr. Bruce Lipton’s The Wisdom Of Your Cells in which his powerful first chapter speaks about what and how we think affects the way our body cells organise and shape themselves.

For me, the implications of this knowledge coming from a seasoned scientist are huge in that it’s more evidence from his field that we really do have a lot of say over the future we are creating for ourselves just through adjusting the quality of our thoughts.

And doing so affects not only the very cells of our own bodies, also our environments and the globe we live on on the larger scale.

So my inspiration takes me deeper into being re-committed to somatic (body) practices that I have been doing over the past few years. The body practice comes from martial arts and dance movements.

And what I do is focus on the precise quality of the words that I use before and after the movement practice, and with the intention that the language is being received right down to the very cells of the body, and throughout the neurology.

This is I believe is partly how we re-shape ourselves as human beings as how we would want to be, which often is other than our default conditioning has us be, and so that we have more choice in not only the present, and for the future we are creating.

By the way if you’re interested in the audiobook it’s available on Amazon as a CD, and you would get a much better deal with a download from Audible.

Please comment below, or call me or email me, and let me know what you are thinking and feeling.

OK, let’s get on with the weekend. Warm wishes, Anthony