2/24/2023 - 4/14/2023

Trauma Conscious Nia Movement Training

What we mean when talking about trauma consciousness…

Trauma impacts and imprints all of us. Whether we have experienced a traumatic event, witnessed trauma, or experienced chronic stress due to complex trauma. We are all affected. Currently, we are experiencing a global mental health crisis. Our past trauma and grief reactivated.

Practicing and teaching Nia has helped me heal trauma in my body and soul more than in any other practice.

Our 8-week online education and movement series teach you what trauma is, how it lands in the body, and how Nia has the potential to heal and/or cope with trauma and its triggers. 6 principles rooted in neuroscience and psychology will demonstrate how Nia helps us heal and cope with trauma.

If you are a Nia practitioner, mental health professional, school professional, health professional, corporation, and movement instructor, this training is the one for you.

Have led trainings and workshops:

  • online to Nia practitioners and mental health professionals all over the world (exs. Israel, the UK, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, US, Columbia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Canada, France, Switzerland, Austria, etc.)

  • online and in-person in corporate settings

  • online and in person in local dance studios

  • “I can’t thank you enough for your vulnerability, commitment and generosity with you offering T2. The healing journey is a Practice and my body is often reminded to express itself in healthy ways. I make the choice throughout each day how my body will move with ease and comfort. Your contribution to not only the Nia community yet to the global community as a whole is quite special. What a beautiful summation of your work as an Energetic Psychotherapist, Mom, Movement enthusiast and Woman. Thank You, Merci et plusieurs calins. “

    - Ellen Feron -

  • "Truly, this is one of the most valuable learning experiences of my life and I can observe how it is beginning to drop in more deeply for me."

  • “Truly, this is one of the most valuable learning experiences of my life and I can observe how it is beginning to drop in more deeply for me. I wanted to share a few things that I am observing that I find interesting this second time around. I can sense a parallel deepening this time in both my own healing AND my Nia practice. Memories and experiences from deeper in my past have begun to pop up during our class movement experiences, things that I haven’t really examined for a long time (or maybe ever, really). I am feeling more courageous and capable of looking at them and moving with them. I can also sense how I am embodying the work we are doing in the series inside my own movement practices. The past couple of weeks I have been trying out different Nia routines on NiaTV and I find myself playing a lot with modifying the movement to incorporate more squeeze and release, oscillation. I want to stay longer in moves and move more slowly and deeply. I am breaking away from the choreography and playing with moving from earth to sky. (That container of “earth to sky” alone offers a universe of possibilities!) I am ending the classes with my own exploration of 5 stages. I am really beginning to hear what my body wants to do. It is such a gift of awareness and allowance, self-empowerment and self-care. Thank you!!! You have helped bring a whole new deeper level of awareness to my NIA practice, and beyond that. “

    - Denise Anderson -

  • "This experience was BEYOND Profound, Moving, Fun, (yes, fun) and Special."

  • “My full-hearted gratitude to you for the healing which had and has taking place within my spirit and body. This 2nd session series I have felt very different in evolving and changing. I have travelled so much more inwardly and feel come so far. I have reached so much deeper. I was able to allowing myself to feel and not run, joke or move away from it. I sense I developed a new ear to listen. Inwardly and for all that is. I have moved from the BIIIIG extreme to the tiny gentle, slower, quitter and grounded place. A lot of things settled down. Yesterday after a 3 hrs Nia session I was lying on the ground and my emotions filled me to the brim. Priorly, In such cases, I always had to either move, cry or run myself quickly into another ‘program’. Yesterday, just contemplating peacefully, I realized with a big smile and joy that I was in the driver’s seat. My emotions are pretty intense, but I can handle them in surrendered, loving and understanding peace now. (After so many years of all kinds of conscious work 😅🤣) We are getting closer and closer, my spirit, in my body. It was a wonderful recognition !!”

    - Anita -

  • “The elegance and beauty of how Nia supports and assists people suffering from stress, anxiety, and trauma, was revealed to me in this course. Elaine provided me with the science, the language, and the tools that I need to provide greater healing to my students, and to everyone I meet. I have become aware of just how much of a healer I already am through my classes. I look forward to providing greater connection and healing to others, as well as deepening my personal healing through movement and music. Thank you Elaine for this gift, and for sharing yourself and your work with me.”

    - Zoe Katakuzinos, Nia Black Belt Instructor -

Pricing & Registration

  • Fees are unique for each training and corporation.

  • Paypal - lifeforcesanctuary@gmail.com

    Check - Recipient “Elaine Wolf”

Upcoming Trainings

Moving for a Sustainable Life (5/12/2023-6/16/2023)

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Moving with Grief (9/22/2023-10/27/2023)

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Moving for a Sustainable Life (5/12/2023-6/16/2023) 〰️ Moving with Grief (9/22/2023-10/27/2023) 〰️