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Movement Therapy

Dance is an excellent way to help one experience and express their emotions. The process of movement therapy is often helpful in resolving inner conflicts.
Movement Therapy
There are many forms of movement therapies that focus on deliberate actions intended to promote physical health and emotional wellbeing. Conscious movement is a great mind-body awareness tool that can be used to resolve inner conflicts and gain better insights into the needs of your physical body.
NIA - Neuromuscular Integrative Action
Movement therapy that combines the martial arts, yoga, and modern dance.
Maypole Dance Gallery - Beltane Photos
Maypole Dance Photo Gallery
Heart Health - How Dancing Improves Hearth Health
Dance Your Way to a Healthier Heart - Italian study shows dancing improves heart health more than cycling or walking.
Israeli Dance - History of Israeli Dancing
Since Biblical times, the Jewish people have expressed joy through dance. Throughout the centuries, dance has become a part of religious, communal, and family celebrations.
Yoga of Dance
<i>In the linkages, the partnering between yoga and dance, there is a connection with hatha yoga, the aspects of the sun (ha) and moon (tha).</i>
The Body's Way
Nia classes integrate dance, martial arts and healing arts.
Subbody Butoh Dance School
Workshop in Himalaya India - Dance therapy to meet whole self and open creativity and resonance ability.
Healing Dance Network
Yahoo list group - "various healing dance studies, theories, practitioners and proponents through which to find, share and expand knowledge and understanding into the possibilities and realities of healing through dance."
Butoh Dance School
Dance Workshop in Himalaya India
Healing Dance
ynthesis of Watsu, Trager Work, WaterDance, and pure movement.
Dance Empowers
Dance Therapy Resource Directory
Danse Orientale - A Healing Dance
Healing Dance program designed to make movement and dance accessible tools for relaxation and/or improved health and well-being.
Benefits of Belly Dancing
Healing through Oriental Dance.
Trance Dance
TranceDance is a unique blend of healing sounds, dynamic percussive rhythms, transformational breathing techniques and the innovative use of a blindfold or bandana - together stimulating an 'trance' state that promotes spiritual awakenings, mental clarity, physical stamina and emotional well-being.
Odissi Dance
Odissi dance originates from the dances which were once performed by the temple dancers or Maharis in the temples of Orissa.
Bellydancing as Healing Dance
Interactive monthly column here devoted to the subject of Belly Dancing as a healing art.
Synergy Dance Classes
SynergyDance aims for rediscovery of the dancer within us all, and through that dancer to reconnection with a life of meaning, spirit and self-awareness.
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