In addition to being a health ally, dancing has many virtues. What are the mechanisms triggered by our psyche when dancing is practiced? How can it have a positive impact on cognition, memory and creativity? How are certain artistic approaches recognized as curative, but also preventive? Let’s talk about well-being for body and mind through dance therapy.
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Dancing combines sport with pleasure
Whether modern, classical, jazz or contemporary, dance is practiced for its physical benefits, but not only that. We often talk about art and sensory connection. Coupled with physical activity, dance allows you to maintain your metabolism (muscle strengthening, flexibility, balance, etc.), but also to develop your concentration and creativity. Through a dance classes in Paris or in different cities, it is possible to practice the discipline in pairs or in groups, in order to have fun, but also maintain your health. Do yourself some good, relieve stress, and start dancing!
Maintaining memory and social ties through dance
Remember steps, learn choreography, align your movements and coordinate with others to the music. Dancing brings many things together and encourages both our metabolism and our brain. Through a succession of gestures, memorizing, reproducing, and coordinating one’s movements therefore promotes concentration. We then talk about memory:
- visual (or even all the senses)
- sensitive (taking your body into account)
- rhythmic (coordinate on tempo)
- emotional (of the order of feeling)
- spatial (moving in space)
- kinesthetic (combining touch)
It is beneficial to dance for maintain your cognition, but also his relationship with others. Dancing with others strengthens social bonds and according to several scientific studies, it has been proven that empathy is more strongly developed among regular dancers. Surprising? Not really. Dance is a unique language, and much more than a simple sport, it can be a real remedy. Let’s look at this in a little more detail right after…
(Not) stupid note: to delay the effects of certain neurodegenerative diseases, INSERM also recommends “dancing to think better”.
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Focus on dance therapy: how moving can heal us?
This discipline saw the light of day in the 1930s thanks to a dancer and choreographer, Marian Chacel. She proposed this treatment alternative in order to remedy certain psychological disorders via a unique psycho-corporal approach. Dance therapy uses movement as a clinical tool to release certain blockages in the individual. With physical, cognitive, social and spiritual integration, this alternative medicine promotes letting go. It is possible to express yourself freely based on your emotions and feelings. Dance therapy is a mode of expression in its own right that ultimately connects us to our ancestral origins. The objective is neither physical performance nor aesthetics. We let the body speak for us…
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