Steps step easy steps:)

Hi Miss and my beloved friends,

Finally, I have decided what I want to share in this blog. Art therapy is one of the therapy most used and familiar in group counseling. Art can be expressed through dance also. 

Friends, actually dance therapy is really interesting. It suitable to all age people. 

          Children :)                                                     Adolescents:)

  

                  adult:)                                                              Elderly people

     

                                                                                                                           (Google images)

Dance therapy uses movement to improve mental and physical well-being. It is the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a process which furthers the emotional and physical integration of the individual” (soma+psyche). The advantages of dance therapy is following:

1) Non-verbal (mute or autistic)

2) To increase expression of feelings

3) To decrease isolation

4) Increased body awareness, individual    expression, spontaneous, creative, intra 

    &interpersonal, inner music starts to play

5) Unexpected insights, repressed emotions expressed

6) Social & ritual interaction in group  

Friends, if would like to try dance therapy in group,  the leader have consider the 

approprieateness of the activity. The leader should know which dance movement suitable 

for difference age people and objective of the dance. The leader should pertains to activity 

and communicate immediate observations. 

Wanna try for counseling session? Come on and try this. All the best guys:)

MAYPOLE

Objective : to provide less verbal members with an activity in which they may participate more fully and to promote socialization via group interaction and cooperation

Materials : A maypole and colorful strings, sounds, a large open area

Leads : counselor explain maypole and introduce possible movements. the group may             

           decide on some for what is to be done with maypole before dance and one group     

           member leads directions

Schulberg, Cecilia H. (1981)The Music Therapy Sourcebook:A Collection of Activities Categorized and Analyzed : Human Science Press, Inc.

Steps 

•Each person take hold of an end of a string and spread out into a circle, with maypole as its center.

•Follow the directions of the leader, members walk, hop, skip, and run around in a circle to the left, 

right,forwards, backwards, turning at different speeds, with an outer circle goes in the other, do dance in 

time to music.

•Switching hands in the air, walk-squat sequence, or imitating animals walking can be used in advanced.

•All movements patterns can be worked out with varicolored strings.

Dance therapy is not learning dance but it is one way to express feelings. Adolescents cannot 

express their feeling easily. leader can use dance as tool to express feelings. to see the 

power full magic of dance, what all of you to do???

Go try now, all the best:)

Love,