Dancing aids trauma release by eliciting emotions which can be discharged and expressed through movement.
In Flomotion we deliberately play certain tracks that evoke a heightened feeling response, so that they can be included and tolerated by the moving body rather than shut out..
More often than not, therapeutic dance is teaching movement or dance steps, while dance therapy is using movement to process emotional or behavioral health.
While both may assist in development of self-esteem, confidence and awareness, the process by which that occurs can be vastly different..
Dance/Movement Therapy at Pratt
Experiential processes translate the theoretical framework into personal and practical application.
You'll focus on a variety of populations over the course of two years of clinical training..
Dance/movement therapy is based on the concept that the mind and body are interrelated and mutually influential: moving the body impacts how you feel emotionally and mentally, and vice versa..
Dance/movement therapists focus on helping their clients improve self-esteem and body image, develop effective communication skills and relationships, expand their movement vocabulary, gain insight into patterns of behavior, as well as create new options for coping with problems..
Dance Movement therapy can help individuals, with different abilities, capacities and life conditions since it works with the individual's body at that time of their life.
Dance movement therapy is beneficial for individuals with developmental, medical, social, physical, and psychological impairments..
DMT emerged in the 1940s, led by Marian Chace, one of the founders of modern dance and dance therapy
She worked at St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D C, where dance and movement became a language for "shell-shocked" veterans — what we now call PTSD — to begin communicating and expressing as an integral part of their mental health treatment
Dance therapists work with people in therapy to help them improve their body image and self-esteem
Dance/movement therapy is a versatile form of therapy founded on the idea that motion and emotion are interconnected
The creative expression of dance therapy can bolster communication skills and inspire dynamic relationships
According to the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA), dance movement therapy, also known as dance therapy, is the psychotherapeutic use of movement to improve health and well-being
The intervention is a holistic approach to healing that emerged in the 1940s
