Dance Improves Health

Released on = March 17, 2007, 9:24 am

Press Release Author = Dance to Health

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = HELP YOUR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD THROUGH INSPIRATIONAL DANCE -
A resource to help your Child with Special Needs through Dance.

Press Release Body = DANCE IMPROVES HEALTH

Modern popular dance the world over now centers solidly on sexual attraction. Even
the slow numbers which thirty years ago were used to try and induce an element of
romance are gone. Everything about popular dance is earthier and more direct. This,
however, is only one aspect of dance and life.

More than ever we need to re-connect with our inner silent self which requires
expression through movement and not through words. Many cultures have already lost
the concept of dance being vital to all the great events of life whether personal,
spiritual, mundane or cosmic. Dance needs to be re-introduced into peoples\' lives as
a therapeutic, self-revelatory and self-harmonizing activity. Peoples innermost
Being must initiate and sustain the manner in which the dance manifests itself
physically.

My primary interest has been working as a Dance and Movement Therapist with children
experiencing multiple-physical disability, severe learning difficulties and often
challenging behaviour. There is no doubt that over a period of time dance and
movement therapy led to a marked improvement in many aspects of these children\'s
lives. they were in better shape physically. They derived a feeling of
accomplishment, experienced greater self-confidence and improved social
relationships as a result of their dance and movement therapy sessions. Children
with behavioral problems calmed down and autistic children joined in the
proceedings. This awakening of the children\'s creative inner energies showed itself
in the marvelous drawings which they produced showing themselves dancing. Fore
further details visit www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com

I have recently begun to feel ever more strongly that my own personal form of dance
and movement therapy would be extremely effective with children who have suffered
severe trauma due to events in their lives such as displacement and civil unrest.
Dance and Movement therapy is a subtle, non-threatening treatment which benefits not
just the individual but the group, resulting at the very least in a lessening of
resentment and suspicion amongst its members.

My method of improvisational Dance Movement therapy can help parents, teachers and
careers find a new and ever deepening bond with children who have Special Needs.
Valerie Richey a medical doctor interested in autism writes that the manual \"\"Dance
to Health\" is a necessary asset for anyone interested in a fun yet effective therapy
for pediatric disabilities\". Dr Judith Lynne Hanna, Senior Research Scholar at the
University of Maryland also endorses this view. She writes \"Trying Dance Movement
Therapy at home or forming groups that meet outside is feasible for any parent.
Dance Movement experience is not needed. Cudjoe\'s rich experience and sensitivity in
working with children with special needs shines throughout the valuable manual.\" If
you would like further details please visit
http:www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com or email
info@dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com

Web Site = http://www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com

Contact Details = Dzagbe Cudjoe

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