Corporate Nia Testimonials

Here are some of the thing clients for Corporate Nia have been saying about Maria Contreras and the importance of practicing physical intelligence at in industry:

Roxane Loiseaux, coach and facilitator for Oxford Leadership Academy and CTI

"Maria creates magic in the room by inviting us to play with music and movement. With her warm energy and her playful comments she makes it fun, easy and enjoyable. She has an amazing presence that wakes up our bodies and spirits and inevitably she sprinkles smiles and laughter in the room."

Alasdare Llambert, Shirlaws coach and consultant

"Maria is a truly joyful spirit to be around. Love her work! In fact
it doesn't feel like work at all..."

Graham J. Bird, Leadership Development Coach and Consultant

"Maria brings a different sort of contribution to training as she is able to lift the physical and mental energy of a group like no other person I have seen. Her enthusiasm, energy and positive input is an invaluable addition to any event.

I can sincerely recommend her."

Juan Rovira, director of Telefonica O2 Corporate University shares the benefits of Nia with Maria Contreras (ENGLISH). See the Spanish original version.

Hortensia Rosas, directora de Regulación de Telefónica Peru, habla de como Nia ha sido sumamente refrescante, relajante y motivador (Spanish)

Graham Bird, associate coach of Oxford Leadership Academy is interviewed by Maria Contreras (aka Nia Maria) on the joyful and energizing benefits of using Physical Intelligence and the practice of the Nia Technique on Leadership training courses:

Elena Mendez, director of enEvolucion, a Spanish communications training company speaks of how Nia facilitaes communication (Spanish)

Alvaro Fernandez Alfonso Business director of Telefonica Corporate speaks of the benefits of Nia:

Gayle Cogswell, B2B Marketing Propositions team, Telefonica O2 UK Limited

"I've experienced Maria's work on a couple of occasions now - one with 150+ people at a conference, another with 20 people in a University lecture room, and both times been bowled over by her effectiveness. Maria's approach is so naturally engaging that a room full of people who claim they would never dance in public find themselves not only willingly participating but watching the clock the next day in anticipation of the next session.

The exercise is fun, uplifting and great at removing any barriers in a room of strangers, the aftermath is a focused audience. At the end of a long and taxing day, a 10 minute session with Maria gave me sufficient mental focus to carry on for another 2 hours. I didn't realise the importance of physical intelligence before this but I am most definitely a convert now! Thanks"

Andy Little, Lifestyle Programme Manager, Pfeizer

"I took part in my first Nia session as part of a wellbeing project in
the workplace. Maria attended the 2nd morning of an off site conference,
and was up against it, an early morning (7:15am) start, and a 'semi
sceptical' bleary eyed crowd! As the session started there were a few
quizzical looks amongst the participants. These were soon replaced by
grins, as people went with Maria and the music. Where we went I'm not
sure, but it was certainly a fun and uplifting experience that made my
day. Highly recommended!"

Kevin Lawless, former Head of Business Marketing
Telefónica O2 UK Limited:

"Maria Contreras provides the most innovative addition to a conference / meeting format I have seen, as well as being good for the soul! Whilst in Barcelona recently on a Telefonica leadership event, Maria started each of our sessions (so 2 or 3 times a day) with a introduction to ‘Nia’ with music. Basically try and imagine the whole audience being led to movement by following Maria’s commentary and moves. It is at once great fun and gets everyone energised.

Even from an event organiser perspective I observed two other benefits. 1. It was a great incentive for us all to be on time for sessions (if you were late you missed Maria!), and 2. Audience attention and participation was greatly improved (simply because you are more alert and happy after Nia)."

Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein, Corporate Communications
Telefónica o2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG

“Maria Contreras’s Nia openings for the work sessions of ‘Strategic Cultural Change’ were an extra special experience. Change is not only brain work; it takes your whole body to understand how you can get things moving. The freedom of choice is built upon movement and therefore open and active progress goes hand in hand with a good feeling in the body. And in just five minutes, Maria is able to loosen up the body, get the energy to flow and prepare the brain to focus on the essentials.”

Raúl César Godoy Vila, Facilities Management   
Telefónica, Peru

[SPANISH]

"Los bailes y las dinámicas que lideraste en el reciente taller de Telefónica y Oxford en Barcelona, fueron espectaculares. Me fueron de mucha utilidad para relajarme y encontrar el espacio necesario para la siguiente sesión."

[ENGLISH]

"The dance and dynamic of the recent Telefónica event with Oxford Leadershp Academy in Barcelona was spectacular. It was incredibly useful for me to relax and create the necesarry space in order to begin the next session."

Francisco Giménez Plano, Augere Foundation for Leadership and Coaching
Spain. www.augere.es

“Nia is a very good tool to create awareness in leaders about physical intelligence. A leader must be connected with their physical body because they have their own impact in communication with their own body. I strongly recommend the Nia Maria work for your training, your leadership processes and your team building work in your own company.”

Gilberto Lozano, President of People & Quantum Leadership Training,
Mexico www.gilbertolozano.com

“In this event with Telefonica, it’s a very intensive seminar, a very intensive workshop we use the Nia Technique and Maria Contreras teaches about energy management.

I do a lot of seminars and workshops and they are very intensive for executives. I really believe that through the experience and use of the Nia Technique we can capitalise more during the deep process for the executives by having more physical energy in the moment that our group discussions and our small group process take place. I think that it’s very important in order to reach a better performance.

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