dance TRANSMUTATIONS

 

"When we master our emotions, we master our creations.”

_Dr Joe Dispenza

Dance has the capacity to both enrich and transmute our emotional experience. By activating an area of the brain called the somatosensory cortex dance allows us to experience the world around and ourselves more deeply and completely. This enriches our emotional experience and improves our mental health.

Activating the same areas in the brain that deepen our emotional connection also has the capacity to process and modulate them. By connecting to our feelings dance develops the capacity to regulate these. Both feeling deeply and permitting the flow means that we don’t hold onto emotion. Holding and blocking, especially difficult and negative emotions have a detrimental effect both mentally and physically.

Dance works because it uses the entire body to access what we are feeling. When we remain in the head, thinking and mulling over things it’s sometimes difficult to move on. Dance activates our entire sensory awareness which includes the physical markers of emotions such as our breathing and heart rate. This self-awareness provides an opportunity to work through and transmute emotion and feeling through movement, especially in the mindful practices of conscious dance.

_Christos Daskalakos