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Embodiment of Movement

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Healing with the Arts

University of Florida

4.6 (166 ratings) | 19K Students Enrolled

Through art projects—including visual arts, dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing With the Arts gives you the tools to heal what you need to heal in your life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

Skills You'll Learn

Music, Art, Meditation, Visual Arts

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VT

Mar 19, 2018

I learnt such a grateful skill now I am feeling more confident, now I am able to help a lot of people in my community who are suffering with negative thoughts and psychological problems .

MW

Sep 24, 2018

This is a dream come true. Working with art and healing. I feel so lucky to be attending this course. It gets my essence- juises flowing. It is so calming and uplifting. Thank you <3

From the lesson

Movement

Movement Intro2:09

The Sacred Groove12:18

Contact Improv Dance3:28

Dance of Liberation8:50

Dance Montage2:42

Embodiment of Movement5:23

Taught By

Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
Michael Samuels, MD

Transcript

How do we step into ourselves and become conscious of the way we move and

how we move through our environments?

In this module, imagining yourself as a dancer,

a dancer that just lives in your day.

How do you move through your day?

How do you experience your body?

What's happening inside you?

In this module I want you to explore what it means to be in your body,

how you move in your body.

Moving all parts of your self, I don't want to say everyone has to be a dancer,

but we can actually engage in movement in a variety of different ways,

in a variety of different levels.

When I did my work in the hospital, sometimes simply using a scarf

to begin to move your body and get into a flow.

Movement is very powerful and very healing,

in ancient times movement was very integral in community healing circles.

Where there would be drumming, there would be musicians and

the community would begin to move.

And the movement actually got and many people in the community really really hot.

And through this physiology of heat,

people were able to feel the power of healing through

their movement, movement is incredibly intense.

As we move with our bodies we can unlock schematic things that we've closed in,

maybe trauma has happened you in the past and it's locked you and

your body's actually frozen.

And that freezing holds, is held in your body, in injuries,

in tension, in places in your body that physically hurt.

In this module,

I want you to explore different dance modalities if they appeal to you.

And if they don't appeal to you,

I want you to explore modalities that may be more accessible to you.

Thinking about how your body teaches you and

takes you into these places inside yourself that need to be healed,

and how you begin to release, and how you begin to move.

Because this is really important, semantically,

our body holds our stories and holds our experiences.

And as we release movement in our body, it opens

up a neuro, the neurotransmitters, and allows us to reenact,

sometimes, and actually release and then rebalance our whole body.

So dance and movement can be extraordinarily powerful.

And sometimes when you create space and you're just dancing alone,

putting on your favorite song and dancing alone.

Move the way your body wants to move, follow your body,

allow your body to lead you into its expression.

Dwell in the places where you move into feeling states and

express them through body, through the body's movement or

activity or expressions.

So in this module, the body and

movement is incredibly accessible to all of us.

Everyone is a dancer in some way, we dance, we move,

we walk, we run, we're constantly in motion or

we're not, movement is very healing.

It's our natural desire to move,

healing with movement is something that we don't need to be prescribed how to move.

Our body is the healing force of our movement,

simply allow your body to move and let it take you where it wants to go.

Your body will hold you safe,

your body is to be trusted, I recommend you being grounded.

Connected and allow the energy to flow up from the earth

into your body giving yourself permission to open yourself up

to the possibilities of dancing and the possibility of movement.

Have a wonderful time, have fun, enjoy it.

Just get yourself in dealing with the lusciousness of simply moving.

And sometimes it can begin just with our fingers and just with our hands.

And then it'll be amazing where your body takes you.

So I invite you to move, and dance, and heal.

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