NIA BLUE BELT WITH LAURIE BASS & SOPHIE MARSH

September 16 - 21, 2025

Ocean Shores Community Centre
55 Rajah Rd., Ocean Shores NSW 2483, Australia    


We will begin on September 16 at 8:00 AM and end on September 21 at 5:00 PM


Join Laurie Bass + Sophie Marsh for the Nia Blue Belt Training.

Continue your Nia journey with the Nia Blue Belt: The Art of Communication where you will explore how to take the foundation of sensation and awareness you discovered in White Belt and expand it into deep relationship with the world around you.


FOCUS: Art of Communication

INTENT: Create intimacy through somatic relationships Embody the Foundation of Nia 

Blue Belt, the second level of Nia education, explores how to create healthy relationships through body-centered communication.

This intensive introduces the next set of 13 Nia principles, which focus on the 4 realms of body, mind, emotions and spirit.

While the White Belt curriculum focuses entirely on awareness of physical sensation, Blue Belt applies these skills to explore internal sensations as perceived through - but distinct from - physical sensations in the body.

Blue Belt Principle #1: The Joy of Being in Relationship, integrates the sensation of Joy with awareness that Joy is something outside the self, which we can invite into our physical experience.

As a result, you'll begin to deepen your ability to listen with clarity and sustain awareness of details outside your body.


TRAINING DETAILS

This Training Intensive Includes:

1)    7-days of in-person, experiential learning including a Nia class experience each day. 
   

2)    Pre-Training ONLINE Training Portal with materials to prepare you to step-in to your training including:

  • PDF Download of Blue Belt LEARN Book and EMBODY Journal

  • Podcasts, Audio Guided Meditations and Movement Exercises

  • And more...


3)    13-Week Post-Training Access to FULL ONLINE Training Portal with Blue Belt Core Curriculum including:

  • Agendas with suggested exercises to support the embodiment and integration of your learning

  • Podcasts to support your embodied learning

  • On-demand Nia classes


  •  FREE Trial of Nia On Demand (for new Nia On Demand subscribers)

  • PDF Download of Blue Belt LEARN Book and EMBODY Journal

COST: $1599 USD + tax

Payable in two installments: $799.50 Registration Fee + $799.50 Trainer Fee (trainer fee will be invoiced in trainer's local currency and may be subject to exchange rate)

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    Registration Fee (due upon registration) + $799.50 Trainer Fee (paid 30-days prior to training start).

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BLUE BELT AWAITS

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BLUE BELT TESTIMONIALS

STORIES FROM BLUE BELT GRADUATES

Antonella Gorza

Lecco, Italy

"This training helped me not only to grow and improve as a Nia teacher, but mainly as a woman. This has been the best way to keep my connection alive with self confidence, to stay always centered and to never stop my dance through life!"

Rhiana Darr

Arizona, USA

"My listening and communication skills have become so much more fine tuned with a heightened awareness brought to both. This has helped to improve my relationships with others, as well as given me a sense of relaxation and calmness never experienced before. I appreciate listening so much more!"

Ann Pederson

Washington State, USA

"Oh my gosh! I was given so much transformational information. Being in relationship with my body has grown by leaps and bounds. Awareness of so many more unspoken signals. Communication skills continue to grow and improve. I am building a solid foundation to be a better person."

Stephanie Williams

Sapphire Coast, Australia

"Blue Belt has encouraged me to be less judgemental about relationships in general and most of all with myself."

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MEET YOUR TRAINER

Nia Faculty Trainer Laurie Bass

Laurie Bass is an international Nia® teacher-trainer, yoga instructor, Gyrotonic® teacher and life coach. She holds BA degrees in Mathematics and Psychology from Pacific University, Oregon. Laurie honed entrepreneurial skills in the specialty coffee industry before discovering Nia® and pursuing her passion as mind/body educator in 2003. She believes that movement as medicine. Laurie masterfully blends somatic wisdom, leadership and coaching to create transformative movement experiences. She is committed to inspiring others on the path of self-discovery, self-healing and self-mastery.

Nia Faculty Trainer Sophie Marsh

Australia's first Black Belt teacher and only Nia White Belt Trainer, Sophie has dedicated over 2 decades to educating and inspiring people to move, heal and transform through Nia, while collaboratively building a vibrant Nia Australia community. Her passion and Joy are contagious as she connects with people of all ages and walks of life, guiding them to nurture, trust and understand their innate body wisdom as a path to self-love. She shares Nia as both a life-enriching practice and as movement medicine for body, mind, spirit and heart. To her classes, playshops and trainings Sophie weaves knowledge and experience from self-mastery techniques, somatic psychotherapy, energy healing, conscious sexuality and sacred feminine practices. Her contribution to Nia Technique International as a Trainer has been recognized with awards in 2013 and 2014.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

PRE-REQUISITES:

Completion of the Nia White Belt Training.  Find a White Belt Training.


AFTER YOUR TRAINING:

If you are not already a Nia member, you are invited to continue your Nia journey through one of three Nia Membership paths:

  • Dancing Through Life: For the passionate and committed Nia graduate

  • Sacred Athlete: For the Nia graduate interested in learning and practicing teaching skill

  • Sacred Livelihood: For aspiring Nia Teaching Professionals

If you do not choose to become a Nia member, you will have access to your online training portal for 2 weeks after your training graduation.

CLICK HERE to learn more about Nia Membership.


CANCELLATION + TRANSFER POLICY

Registration and instruction fees are non-refundable. Should you cancel your registration more than 30 days prior to the training start date, the registration fee will be credited to your Nia account. Should you cancel your registration less than 30 days prior to the training start date, you will incur a cancellation fee of $250 which will be deducted from your registration fee. The remaining balance will be credited to your Nia account.

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