ARBN 679 434 649
Keywords: Dance Movement Therapy, inner child, transformation, true self, soul self, habitual patterns, maladaptive patterns, integration
Page #: 50
Assuming that the essence of the child shares a great deal in common with the essence of the adult ‘real self’, Dance Movement Therapy is an appropriate and powerful tool to address old childhood issues, beliefs and patterns to manifest change in one’s present behaviours and outlooks.
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Keywords: Dance/movement therapy, autistic children, kinaesthetic, proprioceptive activity, mirroring, rhythmic interaction, object relations
Page #: 12
This article offers a description of a therapeutic program for children with autism offered within the special school setting. Dance movement therapy was found to be an effective tool for engaging with these children’s otherwise ‘closed-off and confused’ worlds. A brief introduction to the features of autism is followed by a discussion of the program and therapeutic interventions offered. These include tactile activities to assist development of body image, mirroring as a means of engaging non-verbally as assisting development of movement patterning and behaviours. Rhythmic interaction is also discussed as a tool that assists in building object relations.
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Keywords
Feldenkrais, trauma, sexual abuse, healing, spirituality, private practice
This paper describes long-term dance therapy with a client with a history of trauma. The description is taken from two perspectives. That is, My Story – which is the perspective of the therapist and Her Story which is the perspective of the client. Through the two papers the dance therapist describes her experience of working for approximately 7 years with a woman who has a history of childhood and adult trauma. The client, a psychiatrist, in her paper, writes of the integration of mind, body and spiritual experience through dance therapy and how it enriched her life, work, teaching and spiritual journey. (pp 9-13)
Keywords
Feldenkrais method, Awareness Through Movement, Functional Integration, professional development
The purpose of this article of personal discovery through learning the Feldenkrais method is to introduce Awareness Through Movement (ATM) and Functional Integration (FI) to those unfamiliar with the techniques. Guided by the author’s integration with ATM and FI, the experience of reading the dance practitioner’s active reflection moves beyond an evaluation of the practice to an informative journey that conversationally explains Feldenkrais within the joy of discovery and learning. (pp 14-16)
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