Flowing the Body, Easing the Mind, Lifting the Spirit-Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine and Philosophical Concepts into Dance Movement Therapy

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainbow T. H. Ho
Author(s):  
Mehrnaz Dehghan

The aim associated with this is to theorizing to the developing example of therapists educated in both of the dance/movement therapy (DMT) and yoga and also to give information regarding the combination of DMT and yoga and practitioners’ perceptions of how this might influence their routines mindfulness. Yoga, dance movement therapy, and mindfulness intention to accomplish the same aim of quieting the mind and requiring participants seek inside. Within this article, yoga principles are described because of their possibilities aspect in mindfulness skill progress as well as DMT. A consideration of the literature presents a description of yoga, DMT and additionally the theory of mindfulness, which includes relieves negative performing and boost of mental well-being, actual physical well-being, and behavior maintenance. The procedure during which yoga is theorized to operate as a mindfulness skill discussed alongside future guidelines for theoretical development. Because of both DMT and yoga really are mind-body methods that show positive psychotherapeutic usefulness patients undergoing treatment with them concurrently, this might be the inspiration for so many DMTs to be given learning yoga as well by using mindfulness techniques. The particular sections the perfect two modalities complement one another are, briefly, as shown below: both address the undeniable fact that emotions are handled in practice; they actually focus on the subject of understanding the body/body awareness, observation techniques, and more than that anatomy; DMT discusses to the concern about verbalizing the psychological process; and yoga offers a pattern of self-care regarding the therapist along with a method to take more people into the movement practical experience and produce to the mindfulness as powerful tools.


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