#movement therapy

[liorainbloom]

Layback & hello boys combo always eats ❤️‍🔥

[treasurem]

Exhibit C - Unfamiliar Energy, 2024

Supawood Carving - 0,3x30x30cm

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Matin🖐💙🤍❤️🆕️

Folamour🎶 Ça Va Aller

(Movement Therapy)

[cactusandcosmos]

Second official workout on the books. I added a minute tonight (21, vs 20 last night). The goal is to beat myself daily. I'm still gym shy and keeping to my little chosen corner, but that means I'm showing up consistently instead of being paralyzed by decisions and opting not to show up at all. Would you believe I even read a few pages while doing it? That shit ain't last. 😂

Anywho, here's some pics of my sweaty adventures.

Last ones for the freaks lmao. Iykyk. 😘

[returntothewilderness]

A Continued Midrash on Tending to Grief Through Movement, Song, and a Look at Amazigh Rituals

Image of Imazighen in traditional dress and tattoos, holding a drum for a dance (image found on Google and is not my own).

Grief, like any emotion, is energy that demands to be tended to and deserves to be treated with gentleness, curiosity, and lots of love and patience. In contemporary western society, grief is given almost no time to exist. We lost over one million people to covid and haven't had so much as a national day of mourning. Lives have dramatically changed, mental illness is heavy for a lot of people, and grief is given no adequate time to be felt and processed. I will never forgive this capitalist & individualist world for robbing people of their human need to grieve deeply and to be cared for by a loving community.

Unfortunately, grief will not sit idle as you try to ignore it. Some of the best teachers of how to tend to grief are young babies and children. Overwhelmed with emotion and energy they don't understand, babies and toddlers do what feels intuitive: they scream, they cry, they thrash their arms about, they kick their little legs, they stomp and roar. We've been taught that big displays of emotion are inherently troubling things that need to be tamed; this isn't true. These big emotions, this big bout of energy, it needs to be moved and soothed out of the body. I've been working on feeling the emotions of grief, and then much like a child, exploring the different ways my body can move to honor and ease that tension. Where is the grief storing itself? Does it feel better to move my legs, is it bound to my chest and need arm movements? I've also learned that vocalizing has a very soothing effect on me when I'm deep in grief. One of my music projects includes creating a warm blanket of vocalizations and sounds that comfort me. Different pitches and movements of the tongue/mouth/breathe through the throat have different impacts on how I'm feeling. It reminds me of the Chassidic Jewish leader who said something along the lines of "there are gates in heaven that will only open to song".

Music and sounds and singing aren't inherently artistic expression for the sake art. Western culture has created this idea that song belongs in a separate category from everyday life. That we have to somehow be "good" at it, that dance, singing, and music making are meant to be of high caliber done by professionals. This is also wildly not true. I had a beautiful conversation with one of my friends who is Native about the use of singing to connect with nature. They told me about their friend who is learning her family's tribal language and singing to her plants in her native tongue. Think of the experiments done on how plants grow differently depending on the energy you bring to them. Inspired by this I have begun singing prayers in tones that feel healing to me to the plants I'm growing. Connecting to sound is our way of communicating not just with one another as humans, it's our way of communicating with our bodies, and with the natural world.

I come from an Amazigh family; the Imazighen are the indigenous peoples of North Africa. In learning more about the history as best as I can, I came across a couple of rituals that spoke deeply to me. One ritual is the grief wailing ritual that occurs shortly after someone close passes away. A group of women (usually) will get together and wail out loud. This is a beautifully cathartic ritual that both intends to honor the deceased by dedicating time to feeling the grief of the loss and tend to the body that needs to release this grief. The Imazighen also have dances that involve whipping hair around; I'm not sure the origins of this ritual or why it came to be, but it's very clear that making song/sound and movement was a core part of living. Not just something meant for professionals, to grieve and to love and communicate through movement and sound has always been a core part of the human experience.

[drmonishamallik]

Movement & Alignment Therapy | Chelsea,NYC

Movement & Alignment therapy in Chelsea, NYC to restore posture, stability, and pain-free movement using DNS, MDT, NKT, PRI & gait analysis.

[londrya]

"Everything is always connected"

But it's me in therapy.

What do you mean part of my anxiety comes from the fact that my eye muscles aren't stretched enough?!

[storyvoice]

Ways of moving

I have learned a lot about the Creative Arts and Dance Movement Therapy in particular over many years as first a participant, then co-facilitator, then facilitator. I have come to know the far reaching effects that movement has in discovering one’s own thoughts and feelings. I have come to recognize others feelings by witnessing their movement as well. In one situation I spend time directing a…

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