…Why Dancing Keeps us Sane!

If there is one aspect of Belly Dancing that everyone, who has experienced this dance agrees upon, it is it’s ‘Theraputic Value’.

In my personal experience of teaching many women in and from different cultures, the responses are the same. Although expressed in various ways, the acknowledgement of the joyful, liberating ,physically freeing, meditative and self-acceptance qualities of Oriental Dance are unanimous.  It is this fundamental core that ‘keeps us coming back for more!’

We can explore this subject of Belly Dance as Therapy intellectually while knowing that the actual experience is the ‘Holy Grail’. Nonetheless, we are creatures of intellect and it is fun to dissect, analyze, validate and confirm ‘why’ we do the things we do.

There is certainly a long list of the benefits of Belly Dance as Mind, Body, Heart,Spirit integration to be found in many sources.

My Heart Has Wings!

But ,today I ran across an interesting source from the Dance Therapy domain. Read the rest of this entry »