I am a Certified Nia Floor Play Teacher and a Nia First Degree Black Belt. I name this not as a claim of authority over bodies, but as transparency about the lineage and training that inform my work. Nia offered me a structured language for understanding movement through sensation, awareness, and relationship rather than force. Through Floor Play in particular, I learned how profoundly regulating it can be for the body to move close to the ground—where support is constant