DANCING in NATURE Healing Benefits
Ecosomatic dance teaches us how to connect kinaesthetically, imaginatively, spiritually and experientially with the natural world, bringing us more powerfully into our bodies, awakening our aliveness, creativity and wellness. Through dance, we can experience a renewed sense of self and a radical change in the way we view our relationship to the environment. For example, different elements offer us different possibilities in movement: Working in rocky terrains, brings our awareness to the strength and versatility of bone and the body’s capacity for endurance and stability Our relationship to blue spaces speaks to us of the tides of change, of the 60% water that makes up the average human body, of the rhythmic pulse of our life force and the flow of bodily fluids Plants and trees support us to work with concepts of verticality, the cycle of life and the connection between the earth and s...