Dance Therapy
The body is central for interaction. We perform most of our actions in daily life without reflecting on how we do them. Everyday skills are the basis of the knowledge that we need to perform our lives, knowledge is done, and It is based on interaction with others and is the background from which we achieve understanding of what others are doing. Therefore the performance possibilities that we offer others will enhance the abilities that they have.
Gestures are a central feature of a communicative setting for the ecology that we call understanding. to repair performance we have to offer a structure in time. That is what we do in Dance Therapy. The south Indian dance called “Bharatanatyam” is a unique blend of – it has gestures, postures, movements called as “Adavus” and Mudras. It has not only the use of these gestures it also has “Abhinaya” that is expression of different moods and emotions is called as “Navarasa”.
The dance therapy has helped our children in visual -motor and spatial perceptions, hand movements, body movements, leg coordination and expressing of emotions. The rhythmic “Mudras” which stimulates brain also has the concept of acupressure.
We at USHAS are practicing Dance Therapy, since a long time, what we lack is documenting, for we lack the resources. We need to document case studies. As we follow a multidisciplinary approach in our therapy, we are unable to isolate any specific therapy which has benefited our children. We are waiting for resources so that we would be able to do research in each of these areas, so as to create a multiplier effect.
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