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A unique movement program for everyone!
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Kina Nima™ is a unique movement program designed by fitness advocate and teacher of spirituality Shealy Healy. Kina Nima™ is practiced as a well-being yoga-style discipline that follows a specifically designed and sequential blend of breath, movements, meditations and isometric holds. The goal of Kina Nima™ practice is the ultimate goal of consciousness enlightenment. However along the path of practice the student can with practice - experience a state of well-being, increased physical stature, a relaxation of subtle body energy, a decrease in anxiety, increased lung capacity, full body strength, increased vigor and overall health. The practice of Kina Nima™ is designed especially to bring the students conscious mind to a more focused point upon vital energy centers of his/her body.
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The bottom of the feet, the ankles, the calves, the thighs, spine, core, neck, palms of hands and head are special areas of focus during practice. The student will begin a routine with a warm up to enhance body temperature, heart rate and breath.
Because there are a variety of Kina Nima™ Core routines the student can begin at his/her own physical level of participation. Students of all ages and physical conditioning may begin a practice of Kina Nima™.
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It is always however advised to consult a medical practitioner before beginning any workout program. A gentle Kina Nima™ core routine will begin with controlled movements, breath, short-term isometrics and possible visualization (if the teacher and student enjoy visual stimulations). Each isometric hold is designed to allow gravity to work with the body and form. The student will focus consciousness upon a particular body area during an isometric hold. Then, as the body experiences physical sensations in gravity the student will begin to adjust the form until the body is willing to relaxed state. The student will experience an inner knowing from the physical body as if the intuitive wisdom of the body encourages a kinetic voice allowing the student to move in a direction that is pleasurable, natural or aligned with the direction of the gravitational pull.
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| Imagine resting supine (on your back) on a mat. Your arms are at your side. You are relaxed and breathing inward. Your back is slightly arched. Your heals are down on the mat as your toes point upward. You are asked by your Kina Nima™ instructor to contract the girdle-like muscle that runs horizontal around your hip/naval area. As you contract you are asked to lift your right leg maintaining a straight leg. You are guided to lift this leg to a form of comfortability. |
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| You notice that lifting the leg approximately one foot off the ground is a greater challenge than lifting the let four feet from the ground. You are prompted to find the form that feels the most comfortable. So, you hold the leg four feet from the ground. As you hold this form you begin to notice a sensation around your foot and ankle. You are guided to point the toes back toward your face allowing the bottom of your foot to be stretched. You begin this simple stretch feeling a new sensation in the foot and calf. Now, your body is speaking to you again sharing with you the sensation of pleasure mixed with an uneasy sensation of stretching the calf. Your teacher guides you to find the exact form of comfort that allows a natural stretch to occur within your calf. As you move your calf you begin to find a place that feels pleasure when stretched. You then hold that form. |
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As you hold the form of a designated time period other physical aspects of your body are noticed by your conscious mind. You continue to aim your focus on the area of the calf. After this momentary hold in form-you are asked to repeat the entire move. With a guided pace you lower the leg to the mat. Then life the leg from the mat to the form your physical body enjoys. You then bend the toes to the exact form you are comfortable allowing the calf to be gently stimulated. You will repeat this move one, two up to a total of ten times depending on your present level of physical conditioning. |
| As you move through the sequential program of Kina Nima™ you will be guided to maintain a contracted core. The strength and contraction of the core protects the back during all moves. While your conscious mind strives to remain focused on the areas that are movement-a meditation like connection with the physical body can be experienced with practice. The student will be encouraged be breath from a variety of specialized efforts. A quick breath will allow increase vibrations allowing increased stimulation to the nerve centers of the body and expansion of the lung cavities. |
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A rhythmic breath will encourage the meditative state of mind. And, a slow breath designed with inhalation through the nose and exhalation through the mouth will work to relax the heart rate. A normal intuitive breath will allow the student to breathe without a conscious effort thus allowing the student to give additional attention to physical sensations within the body. A fifth breath form is the deep breath form. The student will practice breathing into the entire lung. There are five moves that will encourage an opening of the breath way-encouraging breath to be physically experienced from the point of view of the physical body. After a student has recognized the ability to deep breath using the deep breath five forms - deep breathing will become a natural form of breathing for the Kina Nima™ practitioner.
An instructor of Kina Nima™ is aware area of the human body that are most vulnerable including the neck, shoulders, elbows, back, knees and ankle
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The student of Kina Nima™ will always be guided to intellectually (as well as instinctually) remain aware of sensations of joints, ligaments and other vulnerable components of the body. Safety is always the first step when beginning a Kina Nima™ program.
The practice of Kina Nima™ will strengthen the entire physical body focusing mainly on the strengthening of the core and the stimulating of the areas of clustered nerves that run along the spine as well as smaller nerve centers in the feet, ankles, calves, thighs and hip.
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| As Kina Nima™ is a specialized practice, it is essential to work with a qualified and certified practitioner.
Levels of gentle, intermediate and advanced Kina Nima™ are available.
Kina Nima™ is not affiliated with a religion or spirituality. However, students of spirituality report experiencing a state of "clairgnosis" after a directed and dedicated practice of Kina Nima™.
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Additional components of Kina Nima™ are hand positions to increase flow of subtle body energy, hands-on modalities of touch designed to release the flow of subtle body energy, posture, balance and visualization.
Shealy International offers the following Instructor Certification programs in Kina Nima™:
- The Philosophy and Practice of Kina Nima™ Level One Core Conditioning
- Masters of Kina Nima™
For further information on the Kina Nima™ Instructor Certification Programs, please contact us at cs@shealyinternational.com.
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