Dance Movement Therapy

I'm an emerging dance/movement therapist & counselor. Currently I am working as an intern striving for my 900 clinical hours.

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What is Dance/Movement Therapy?

Defined, dance/movement therapy (DMT) in the US is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body. As a form of expressive therapy, DMT looks at the correlation between movement and emotion.[1]

Psychologytoday.com

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Truth.

So true.

When I am struggling, stressed, or feel like the obstacles will never reach the end...I remember this quote (well actually from now on I forever will)--Cheers to irony of mistakes-& anxiously clicking away, this quote unexpectedly popped up while cramming for my deadline today . Laughing now, but in the midst of feeling an overwhelming amount of frustration and exhaustion --due to lack of sleep and work overload-- my concentration was disrupted and again productivity and focus hijacked.  Honestly, I almost screamed at a screen..expecting a hard restart or some annoying Ad, nothing but a bold quote presented itself & then something inside me slightly shifted. I took a deep breath, took another moment, and read it again. My new motto- &It is so relatively & true. My insight. So True. From me to you. 

"If it doesn't challenge you, it wont change you". 

If everything in life came to us with ease, how would it feel to truly succeed? What - would we even wish to achieve? Would the taste of triumph even exists? I guess I am enlighten by the way our universe twists. I believe that we are presented with challenges so we can change and continue to grow. Life is not always sunny in spring time, sometimes there is unexpected snow.. 

So.. "if it doesn't challenge you, it wont change you" 

I will keep this quote in mind throughout my perceived difficult times. & maybe just a note to self --or to -- if you’re reading this my friends, to you... Acknowledge your feelings and accept the reality of the process when you feel challenged.& For those days when it seems like everything just constantly backfires..  Accept the experience of the challenge &keep moving forward through the wildfires, overcome the obstacles and feel the ultimate satisfaction of finally reaching your hard earned desires...

Change. Grow. Be Challenged. Be Changed. & Continue to Grow, because your not done sprouting, -little spring butterflies, you have much yet to learn and much more know.. “

x.Kk

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Keep looking up .... if you just let go for one second & breathe.. You might just fly free and finally You Will just Be... keep looking up. Let go. Don't let anything or anyone hold you down. Fly high my friend.. soar like the solo balloon filled with air.. Breathe.. believe.. look up It's possible I swear. Look Just the one solo balloon escaped now dancing free Swimming sweet Floating Up Up Up there.. in the sky, so high- Keep looking up my friend... keep breathing Fill yourself up with air like this balloon.. then let it all go... and watch yourself ... when you feel the ease of floating You will know. :) Happiness is achieved by choice. Stay positive my friends. Keep looking up. Keep breathing. Believe you can soar. 🎈

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7 Things You Should Never Be Ashamed Of

1. Listening to your intuition.

2. Respecting and standing up for yourself.

3. Making your own choices/ living your own life.

4. Taking time for yourself/ investing in self care.

5. Feeling and respecting your own emotions.

6. Following your heart, and Investing in your dreams.

7. Letting go of the past (that’s not who you are now.)

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Love this.

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Science tells us that motion. Is an essential of exsistence. The stars wandering across the sky are born and die. They wax and wane, some colliding with others, some burning themselves out. Everywhere is change. The ceasless motion throughout measureless space and rndless time has its parallel in the smaller motions of shorter duration that occur on earth. Even inanimate things, crystals, rivers, clouds, islands, grow and dwindle, accumulate and break up, appear and disappear.

Rudolf Laban

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Techniques for Intuitive Awareness

Hi I have a question lately I have been very freaked out by myself for a few small reasons. Lately before a song will come on (when on Spotify which is shuffled) I already know it’s gonna come on and then I get freaked out when the song I guessed comes on. Not only that my gut feeling is always right, I’m always listening to it. Lately someone will be telling me something but as they are I’ll be scrolling through my phone & will read exactly what they’ve said same time. Lately I just know things beforehand they keep happening and its frightening. I’ll think of someone I haven’t talked to in forever & they’ll text me later on that night. Am I going crazy??? — th0ughtl3sscreature No you’re not crazy, you’re just waking up. Welcome :) It’s quite humorous what once terrifies us due to the unknown eventually turns into a joyful often playful energy of realization. These type of occurrences happen to me every day, it’s become so normal that i often laugh and say “the universe is playful”. It is perfectly natural to feel this way because this is something outside of your comfort zone. When we start going outside of our comfort zone, the ego is intimidated, it doesn’t know what to do how can this be, there is something more than MY reality? How can this be my reality if this no longer feels real? So it creates a shield of cognitive dissonance, a fear that something is wrong in my personal reality. But is it? As we start to awaken our mind likes to give us triggers or maybe you could call them easter eggs but basically the subconscious likes to give you archetypal triggers to Awaken you. Often they are given across in master numbers but they also start happening by paying attention through conscious awareness. Conscious Awareness is when you begin to start watching your present surroundings and notice symbols, deja vu, numerology, little signs that seem surreal and almost as if you’re in a dream. The more our observations increase, the stronger our intuitive awareness becomes, hence the gut feeling. So the stronger the intuition becomes, the more you start paying attention to the signs all around you. We are telepathic by nature, our minds garnish thoughts that manifest and mold into our reality. However we instead label this as pseudoscience or insanity when in actuality if you can think something, it has to come from somewhere doesn’t it? What are thoughts really? The idea we need to embrace is that as ONE collective consciousness, we are not separate beings but we believe through the ego that we are all having individual experiences. However this is merely the illusion of separation and in truth our minds are linked with one another in a very telekinetic way through our experiences. This is why intuition can be viewed as insanity because we are conditioned to believe our minds aren’t connected to others when in reality they are. So if you suddenly think of someone and then in five seconds they call you, this is a direct telepathic communication taking place unconsciously. Terence Mckenna called this linking with the Gaian Mind: “The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind” We call all of this synchronicity but it’s so much more than that, it’s using your innate talents, your intuition and especially your conscious awareness to empower your limitless potential inside of you

Techniques for Intuitive Awareness

I am very hands on and something I love encouraging is the utilization of our mind’s potential. For me, I like to have fun with it, it is something so simple we forget that we are the ones with the compass to our mind. See if you can reverse  those experiences of fear into fun. Let me give you some basic exercises to try, if you are focusing correctly all of them will work but you have to believe in yourself.   Ipod Shuffle - Music divination is fun and really easy to do if you have a music player and some time to yourself. Now what you do is put your music player on shuffle, big catalogs of music work best for this but as long as it’s an iPod, iTunes player or any music player that shuffles you’re good. Clear your mind and think of one particular emotion such as love, sadness, joy, anger, or whatever emotion you want. Begin listening to the songs that come up, if you do it correctly you will begin seeing a pattern emerging what you are feeling starts correlating with the songs that come up through the shuffle. This is because the energy you emit is connecting to the vibrations of the music. If it didn’t work make sure your mind is clear and relaxed. I promise it works every time! It’s also a great way to see messages from spirit because what you are emitting is what you are receiving.

Number Reveal - Grab a big book roughly 500 pages or more, close your eyes, COMPLETELY clear your mind and emotion and focus on a number, any number. Then flip through the book with your eyes closed, until you feel focused on that precise number, with practice you will flip directly to the number, like magic. ;) Guessing game - Before checking your message or text box when you hear the alert button going off saying you have a message, rather than instantly grabbing the phone to see who it is, GUESS who it is…you may surprise yourself and get it right.  Symbolism - Rather than just going about your day like normal, begin watching what you are attracting in your reality, where does your attention go? Objects, animals, billboards, people, what symbol is your subconscious mind attracting?  Hide and Seek - I use this when i need to find an item I lost, sometimes this one doesn’t always work because you need to be emotionally clear, if you are not relaxed it won’t always work. Stressed to find the car keys? yeah..it won’t work lol. You need to feel the object in your mind, picture it, see it, visualize it completely, then don’t even ask yourself where it is, let yourself relax and move, move to where you think it is, don’t let the thoughts cloud you, just let go and move to the location of the object. I swear if your emotions are in check, you will go right to the object. no joke.  We never give ourselves enough credit, our mind is powerful and intuitive awareness is very useful! It might even give you a spark of magic you felt you lost or a remembrance for a distance past. We feel fearful about these new experiences or gut feelings because it is unknown territory to the old consciousness. However the more we begin to observe, the more we begin to open our eyes and slowly see we are evolving… Are you paying attention? ;)

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I can speak to each of these. As an emerging dance movement therapist being intuitive comes with the journey, but as practice it also becomes more natural and habitual. Everyday I trust my intuitive self without judgement or without attachment. Using the body to lead you, thw mind to guide without any judgement, beautiful results are revealed. Truly after, meaning making falls into place ♡ Trust your body mind connection.