Due to the rapidly evolving situation with regard to COVID-19, we have decided to postpone Lighten Up until a later date, to be decided. I will update you as soon as we pick a new date.
Cold weather, a hectic work schedule or even boredom with your workout routine can throw you off your fitness and nutrition goals. Don't cave into your excuses. Instead, join the Lighten Up Challenge! Black Belt Nia instructors, Julia Morrow and Alba Azola, M.D., are leading the empowering, week-long Nia workshop. (This will be Lighten Up Co-Creator Julia's 6th year running it!)
Plus, add in the Exercise-Nutrition Program, led by Tammy Jett-Parmer, PA-C! You'll attend a Nutrition Seminar, and receive a portioning guide and daily email support for the week. Tammy can help optimize your current eating plan or support your weight-loss goals.
Both the Nia workshop and Exercise-Nutrition Program are modifiable and everyone is welcome!
When: TBD
Where: The Moving Co | Studio 5
9974 A. York Road
Cockeysville, MD 21030
Here’s what to expect from Lighten Up 2020
Sunday, TBD:
A 2.5-hour 52 moves workshop, 2-4:30pm, where Alba and I will break down each move, teaching you the proper form for the move. Then you’ll learn, move and energize each move.
A 60-minute group Nutrition Seminar with Tammy, 4:30-5:30pm, where she’ll help optimize your current eating plan or support your weight loss goals.
Monday-Friday, TBD:
3 Nia classes offered each day at 6:45am, 12:30pm and 6:45pm. You commit to 2/day!
Daily email support from Tammy.
An invite to a private Facebook group so you can support your fellow Lighten Up participants, post thoughts and ask questions!
Saturday, TBD:
We wrap up the week with a celebration class and party from 3:00pm-4:30pm!
Pricing:
Cash or Check works best for payment, however, you can use PayPal, Juliabmorrow@gmail.com
Please note, there will be no refunds issued for this special event week. Thank you for your understanding.
Meet Your Lighten Up Leaders!
Julia Morrow
Julia brings a therapeutic approach to health and wellness, making it accessible to everyone. She has been a Yoga teacher in the Baltimore area since 2011. She completed her 200-hour training in Therapeutic Yoga and her 500-hour training in Alignment Based Yoga. Guiding movement through proper technique, Julia pulls from her yoga and 15 years of dance training to deliver the Nia promise in every class she teaches. She guarantees you will receive a dynamic Nia class, where you are challenged with unique movement patterns, and are offered possibilities to increase intensity if desired. Always looking to learn more, she will be traveling to Nia HQ this year to receive her First Degree Black Belt!
This is Julia’s 6th year running Lighten Up. Here’s how it all began …
“In 2013 I went to Albany, New York, to take the Nia 52 moves training with Debbie Rosas and Kevin VerEecke. When I returned, Lola, the owner of Movement Lab, mentioned to me how great I looked, and I told her with the amount of precise movement we had throughout the training, it was the perfect jumpstart and the push I needed to begin my fitness journey.
Throughout the coming weeks, we continued to come back to that conversation and realized that we needed to create a program that allowed others to jumpstart their goals and experience all that Nia has to offer. This is how we created LIGHTEN UP.
Our intention was to offer Nia lovers an empowering week full of Nia! I knew that most importantly we needed to break down the 52 moves that make up Nia, so that it felt accessible and attainable to everyBODY. So that’s exactly what we did. Each year has changed slightly, and I took over offering this program on my own a few years ago.
When I returned from the Nia Black Belt training this past September, I had a renewed desire to put together the best that I can offer. After careful consideration, I am thrilled to partner with Alba Azola, M.D., a fellow Black Belt Nia Instructor, and Tammy Jett-Parmer, PA-C, Certified Health and Wellness Coach, who has a certification in Exercise Nutrition.
I can guarantee this will be an energetic, fun and empowering week!”
-Julia
Alba Azola, M.D.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Alba moved to Baltimore 12 years ago for her medical training. She has been a Nia teacher since 2013 and is completing her residency at Johns Hopkins on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in June 2020. The mindful movement practice of Nia has helped Alba find purpose and the work life balance to enjoy her growing family and career.
Tammy Jett-Parmer, PA-C
Tammy is a certified health and wellness coach and has her certificate in exercise nutrition from Precision Nutrition. Core interests in wellness, nutrition, and herbal medicine have guided her practice as an integrative physician assistant for 22 years. She has her medical practice at Integrative Health Practices LLC in Columbia, Maryland.
“Whether you want to optimize your current eating plan or get support for weight-loss goals, I will help support you in the direction you want to go. Big changes come from small shifts.”
