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about Nyla Newman
From the Performax website!
Nyla has been teaching Pilates for 20 years and yoga for 18. It has been a lifelong love of the body and its potential. Born with the joy of movement in her heart, she was introduced to the world of yoga and dance at age three. Her passion for dance led her to be a soloist with the Nannette Brodie Dance Theater. When a car accident interrupted her dance career, she discovered Pilates as a form of rehabilitation. After years of teaching dance and fitness, Nyla decided to train and certify in The Pilates Method with Rael Isacowitz and the Pilates Institute of Santa Fe. She had the blessing of receiving first generation instruction from Elders Ron Fletcher, Carola Trier and Ramona Kryzanowska.
Certifications
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Nyla is also a certified yoga instructor, personal trainer and Thai massage therapist and has studied extensively throughout the world. She has owned and operated the fitness and rehabilitation studio Inner Foundations in Colorado Springs. Informing her work is the integration of training with Eric Franklin, Liz Koch, Ida Thomas, and in Somatics, Feldenkrais, and Yamuna Body Rolling. Nyla's goal is for your body to be pain free and fun to be in.
Specialities
Inflicting pain on others
!From the Reel Performace website!
Nyla Newman has been teaching Pilates for over 25 years and yoga for 23. It has been a lifelong love of the body and its potential. The blessing of being trained by first and second generation Pilates greats, has given her a deep appreciation for both the contemporary ingenuity and the depth of the classical work. Nyla is also a certified yoga instructor and trained in 5 styles. She owned and operated a Pilates and yoga studio in Colorado Springs where besides group instruction, she specialized in personalized rehabilitative programs. Nyla has instructed national teacher trainings and large group workshops in both Pilates and yoga, created a yoga program for the US Olympic downhill ski team, and worked with many professional athletes. Her comprehensive background includes being certified for Thai Massage, The Rossiter System, the OOV, a GZ Sobel’s Parkinson’s Network instructor and Metamorphosis Reflexology. Informing her work includes intensive training with Rael Isacowitz, Eric Franklin, Liz Koch, Ida Thomas, Daniel Vladeta and more. A traumatic brain injury opened the door to her fascination with how training the brain can upregulate our entire system and affect our body's potential thus leading her to the OOV and Z-Health. She embraces a Somatic approach to her work and desires for everyone she works with to have the highest functioning body they are capable of, so they can enjoy the things they love in life.
Inner Foundations