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Do you find yourself feeling foggy, lacking clarity, and depleted of creative energy? Do you want to release emotional and physical stress blockages in order to better connect your mind, body, and spirit? If so, then somatic dance is for you. And don’t fret! Prior dancing experience is not required as somatic dance is a form of movement practice that focuses on the experience of the body with emphasis on the internal sensations and feelings of each movement.

Dance Therapy and Trauma. Why trauma processing works best with movement and dance! Movement therapy & dance therapy create new neural pathways that help us move past trauma. About moving past childhood trauma, trauma and the brain, trauma processing, and how to have healthy relationships.

The field of somatic psychotherapy has grown greatly over the past thirty years. Bioenergetic Analysis, founded by Alexander Lowen and John Pierrakos in the 1950s, was one of the first such modalities. Bioenergetic Analysis has grown and changed over the years, especially in the areas of attachment and attunement by the therapist, the understanding based on neuro-psychology of the difference in working with clients with different levels of self-regulation, and the research into common…

movement to help individuals achieve emotional, cognitive, physical, and social integration. Beneficial for both physical and mental health, dance therapy can be used for stress reduction, disease prevention, and mood management. In addition, DMT's physical component offers increased muscular strength, coordination, mobility, and decreased muscular tension. Dance/movement therapy can be used with all populations and with individuals, couples, families, or groups. In general, dance therapy…

The complexity and diversity of dance movement therapy is both clarified and celebrated in the contributions to this book which documents pioneering practice in a variety of settings in the UK. Experienced dance movement therapists from many different theoretical orientations and working with a range of clients, from the very young to the very old, come together to reveal their thinking, working methods and techniques.Dance Movement Therapy: Theory and Practice offers practising dance…

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Special breathwork meditation journeys for deep experiences, emotional release and healing Exploring different styles of yoga, mantra chanting and movement practices

The effects of trauma can be far-reaching. But there is hope for healing & gaining inner balance through somatic exercises to release trauma.

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Let’s face it - our cultural relationship with exercise is pretty messed up. With no pain, no gain as a mantra, we often overlook more pleasurable types of movement, or shorter exercise sessions we don’t think will count. This post teaches one of our favorite tools for building a more intuitive relationship with movement - how to build a movement menu!

When you think of the word exercise, what comes to mind? If the answer is something like, “It feels like a chore” or “I don’t enjoy it,” don’t worry. You are not alone. Get ready to see exercise in a new light through joyful movement. Check out helpful tips, plus fun ways to move and celebrate your body! #joyfulmovement #funworkouts

Going in to #dancetherapy I figured I would either roll my eyes—hard—at the uncomfortableness of using movement as expression or it would tap into something inside me and I’d weep openly.It was the latter. Maybe not weep, but I definitely cried.Erica Hornthal, founder of #ChicagoDanceTherapy, assured me that while not everyone cries in dance therapy, it is normal and it does happen. She then ran to get me some tissues. Here's what happened.... #mentalhealth #wellness #therapy

The Feldenkrais Method, a type of somatic movement, aims to strengthen the mind-body connection through small, gentle motions that can improve function and awareness.