Benefits of Movement Medicine

Movement Medicine is a physical, emotional. soulful and spiritual practice. A key work is practice, the more we move the deeper we can go.

Everyone's experience is unique but some of the following are frequently said:

Movement gives us liberty and freedom
Movement quietens the mind
Movement wakes up our awareness of the body
Knowing that the body is awaken enables the heart to free
The moving body lets our energy flow
Moving can give us insight
Moving can let us explore, create, move in new ways
Moving helps us discover our interconnection and integral
relationship with the living earth and elements
As we move we can sense how our lives are in flow with the living world
Movement Medicine recalls us to our sacred relationship to life
Movement Medicine connects us to mystery
Movement Medicine invites us to connect to the pulse of being a human and our relationship to Spirit

This clip shares peoples experience of dance and how it helps them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8qUKxQiQU

Dancing in general is a great form of exercise and studies suggest it helps with health, fitness, and stress reduction. Research on dance in suggests that it helps with mental agility and creative thinking

It is worth listening to Anna Halprin and her story to see the potential of dance to enrich our lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKHnxIa1ltg

Movement Medicine was the subject investigated in a recent PhD thesis that can be read here http://roehampton.openrepository.com/roehampton/handle/10142/283073.