Nia at Dance Place San Diego

**** New! Thursdays @ 10:30 am at Dance Place ****
Starts this Thursday, June 11
2650 Truxtun Road (Liberty Station), Studio 204

June Classes (All times Pacific)

Mondays @ 5 pm
RSVP requested by Sunday at 6.

Wednesdays @ 11:30 am

**** New! Thursdays @ 10:30 am at Dance Place ****
IN PERSON ONLY
Dance Place, 2650 Truxtun Road, Studio 204

Saturdays @ 10 am
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Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday classes are hybrid—you can join via Zoom, or you're very welcome to come to my home-studio in Bankers Hill.
There's a great sprung-wood floor and space where shy people can be off-camera!
Let me know if you plan to come so I can move furniture.

Please message or email if you'd like to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill, or join via Zoom.
[email protected]

Classes are offered by donation. Suggested donation: $10
Please don't let cost keep you from experiencing the joy of movement! I am so nourished by our community, seeing your faces is my biggest reward

Monday 6/8, 5pm Class: Rhymin' Simon
Music of Paul Simon

All classes are hybrid.
You can join via Zoom, or you're very welcome to come to my home-studio in Bankers Hill. There's a great sprung-wood floor and space where shy people can be off-camera!
Let me know if you plan to come so I can move furniture.

Please message or email if you'd like to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill, or join via Zoom.
[email protected]

Classes are offered by donation. Suggested donation: $10

Please don't let cost keep you from experiencing the joy of movement! I am so nourished by our community, seeing your faces is my biggest reward.

June Classes:
Note:
Saturday hybrid class new time: 10 am.
Dance Place class cancelled.

Mondays @ 5 pm (RSVP requested by Sunday at 6.)

Wednesdays @ 11:30 am

Saturdays @ 10 am (Please note new time.)

All classes are hybrid.
You can join via Zoom, or you're very welcome to come to my home-studio in Bankers Hill. There's a great sprung-wood floor and space where shy people can be off-camera!
Let me know if you plan to come so I can move furniture.

Please message or email if you'd like to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill, or join via Zoom.
[email protected]

Classes are offered by donation. Suggested donation: $10
Please don't let cost keep you from experiencing the joy of movement! I am so nourished by our community, seeing your faces is my biggest reward.

This 5-minute video guides you through Nia's 5 Stages of Self-Healing. (The hypnotic voice is Debbie!) We did this daily at the retreat in Tuscany, and I was reminded of how powerful yet simple it is. A lovely way to begin your day ... or warm up before class ... or re-center any time.

Nia 5 Stages From: www.nianow.comThe Nia 5 Stages is an integrative movement practice based on the five stages of human development: Embryonic, Creeping, Crawling, Standi...

Class Wednesday June 3, 11:30 am
Janice is back and ready to dance with you!

via Zoom, or you're welcome to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill.
I have room for at least 6 people, and there's plenty of space to dance off-camera if you prefer.
Let me know if you'd like to come so I can move furniture!

Please message or email if you'd like to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill, or join via Zoom.
[email protected]

Classes are offered by donation. Suggested donation: $10
Please don't let cost keep you from experiencing the joy of movement! I am so nourished by our community, seeing your faces is my biggest reward.

Reminder: Classes on hold the remainder of May.
Class schedule resumes Wednesday, June 3.

Meanwhile, you can check out Debbie Rosa's online Martial Arts Skillshop series:

Aikido Skillshop
Monday, May 11, 2026
9:15am-11:15 am PT
Discover fluidity, redirection, and blending.
See free recording of the Q+A Meet-Up with Debbie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQ5X3xB3-o

Tae Kwon Do Skillshop
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:15am-11:15 am PT
Ignite precision, power, and dynamic expression.

Tai Chi Skillshop
Monday, July 13, 2026
9:15am-11:15 am PT
Cultivate balance, grace, and mindful flow.

To sign up for a skillshop:
https://onlinetraining.nianow.com/courses/monthly-series-nia-taekwondo-skill-shop-with-debbie-rosas-06-15-26

Martial Arts Skillshop Q+A Meet-Up with Debbie Join Debbie for a Q+A to learn more about the Aikido, Tae Kwon Do, and Tai Chi Skillshops!

MAY Class Schedule: Heads up! Last May class is Saturday, May 9.
Classes will resume in June.
(All times Pacific)

Monday, May 4, 5 pm - Fifa (Peace)
All songs by Angelique Kidjo
RSVP requested by Sunday at 6.

Wednesday, May 6, 11:30 am - Fifa (Peace)

Saturday, May 9, 9:30 am - Bailando
Yummy Latin rhythms.

Saturday, May 9, 11:30 am - Fifa (Peace) IN PERSON ONLY
at Dance Place, 2650 Truxtun Road, Studio 204

No classes the rest of May.
Class schedule resumes Wednesday, June 3.

The Saturday 11:30 am class is in-person only.
All other classes are via Zoom, or you're welcome to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill.
I have room for at least 6 people, and there's plenty of space to dance off-camera if you prefer.
Let me know if you'd like to come so I can move furniture!

Please message or email if you'd like to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill, or join via Zoom.
[email protected]

Classes are offered by donation. Suggested donation: $10
Please don't let cost keep you from experiencing the joy of movement! I am so nourished by our community, seeing your faces is my biggest reward.

If you're someone who likes to be spontaneous, there's still time to join the retreat in Tuscany !!! Details here:
https://danceintoancientwisdom.wetravel.com/trips/dance-into-ancient-wisdom-2026-janice-kriszti-retreat-in-tuscany-15508168 -your-trip

4/13-Monday Nia at 5 pm (Pacific Time)
AO: A wonderful classic routine created by Carlos Rosas.
Music by Bob Holroyd

Via Zoom, or you're welcome to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill.
I have room for at least 6 people, and there's plenty of space to dance off-camera if you prefer.
Let me know if you'd like to come so I can move furniture!

Please message or email if you'd like to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill, or join via Zoom.
[email protected]

Classes are offered by donation. Suggested donation: $10
Please don't let cost keep you from experiencing the joy of movement! I am so nourished by our community, seeing your faces is my biggest reward.

4/06-Monday Nia at 5 pm (Pacific Time)
Elijah Rock

Send a message to learn more

April Classes (All times Pacific)
(scroll down for April's focus)

Mondays, 5 pm
RSVP requested by Sunday at 6pm

Wednesdays, 11:30 am

Saturdays, 9:30 am

Saturdays, 11:30 am — IN PERSON ONLY
at Dance Place, 2650 Truxtun Road, Studio 204

The Saturday 11:30 am class is in-person only.
All other classes are via Zoom, or you're welcome to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill.
I have room for at least 6 people, and there's plenty of space to dance off-camera if you prefer.
Let me know if you'd like to come so I can move furniture!

Please message or email if you'd like to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill, or join via Zoom.
[email protected]

Classes are offered by donation. Suggested donation: $10
Please don't let cost keep you from experiencing the joy of movement! I am so nourished by our community, seeing your faces is my biggest reward.
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April's Focus:
Liberating Ourselves from The Narrow Places

Passover, which begins tonight, celebrates the Israelites being liberated from slavery in Egypt. That's the tale we get in the Bible and from films like "The Ten Commandments" and "Prince of Egypt." And it offers important lessons about treating "the stranger" with justice and compassion, because "once we were strangers in the land of Egypt."

But the story isn't just long ago and far away. The Hebrew word for Egypt, Mitzrayim, means "the narrow place." Passover invites me to consider how, right here and now, I'm in Mitzrayim: trapped in constricting ideas about myself and the world; enslaved by my own and generational pain; perhaps so blinkered that I can't imagine other ways of being. Maybe that resonates with you, as well?

The walls I've constructed may feel so thick—and the world feels so full of suffering and fear—how do I free myself? How do I transform my narrow place into a birth canal? Rabbi Yael Levy, whose website is called "A Way In," suggests beginning with these questions:
1. How do we go out from the narrow perspectives and constricted thoughts that so deeply divide us?

2. How do we soften our tender, vulnerable hearts in a world of such violence, pain and fear?

3. How do we cross over into a new way of being in which all people, all life, earth herself, are treated with dignity and sacred care?

4. What will guide us through this wilderness?

And she offers some answers.

Every time we approach each other and ourselves with curiosity and interest rather than with harsh judgment and dread we loosen the constriction that keeps us from each other.

Every time we are able to act with compassion rather than anger and fear we stem the flow of aggression and pain.

Each time we pause to appreciate beauty, to wonder at mystery, to give thanks, a new pathway opens.

And each time we look up, ask for help and remember we are not alone strength and guidance finds us.

This wisdom feels like a lovely source of focus for our community practice this month.

"Shed Your Grace Upon Us" — Rising Appalachia

Rising Appalachia - Shed Your Grace (LIVE from Preservation Hall) Original song by Rising Appalachia featuring Branden Lewis.Website: https://www.risingappalachia.com/Store: https://stores.portmerch.com/risingappalachia/Tou...

3/30-Monday Nia at 5 pm (Pacific Time)
ALCHEMY
Harmonizing the left and right sides of the body—and left-right hemispheres of the brain—via cross-body movement, to music by Loreena McKennitt and Jami Sieber.

Cross-body/Contralateral movement, the somatic focus of this routine, has profound benefits:
• stabilizes the gait
• builds core strength
• energizes the body
• calms the mind
• stimulates both left and right hemispheres of the brain,
enhancing whole-brain thinking.

Via Zoom, or you're welcome to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill.
I have room for at least 6 people, and there's plenty of space to dance off-camera if you prefer.
Let me know if you'd like to come so I can move furniture!

Please message or email if you'd like to join me in my home-studio in Bankers Hill, or join via Zoom.
[email protected]

Classes are offered by donation. Suggested donation: $10
Please don't let cost keep you from experiencing the joy of movement! I am so nourished by our community, seeing your faces is my biggest reward.