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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. Does Your Child Have Behavioural, Mobility or Learning Difficulties? Are the following some of the questions you ask yourself?:- How can I bring greater Joy into my child's life? How can I Calm/Stimulate him or her? HOW can I find ways to experience an even Deeper Level of Communication with him or her? How can I have more Funand explore the Full Potential of my child? HOW can I help my child to Integrate Socially? HOW can I increase my child's Confidenceand feelings of Self-Worth? HOW can I improve my child's Postsure, Co-ordination and General Health? If your answer to these questions is "Yes" then Dance and Movement Therapy may be part of the answer. 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 childrens 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 behavioural problems caled 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. 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 abuse, 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.
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Dzagbe Cudjoe has an MA un Ethnology and has worked in Ghana and Nigeria. It was while undertaking field research in these countries that she first became aware of the power of Dance as a healing tool. This realisation led her to train as a Dance Movement Therapist.Her main area of interest is children with special needs. She is the author of the e-manual "Dance to Health -H elp Your Special Needs Child Through Inspirational Dance". www.dance-to-health-help-your-special-needs-child.com
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