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Heal Through Dance: A Guidebook for Creating Somatic Movement Practices
A guidebook for creating your own somatic movement practice, Heal Through Dance distills the essence of Arielle Star Triana’s teachings for a worldwide audience. Designed for instructors, dancers and beginners interested in freeform movement, Heal through Dance celebrates physical embodiment within the context of the sacred feminine.
Star as she is known to her students masterfully weaves together exercises known to heal trauma with ancient cultural practices ranging from Indian, Egyptian, and Hawaiian to Native American, Essene and Celtic.
Heal through Dance is an invitation to become your own healer and an ecstatic dance facilitator. Let your dance become an embodied prayer through the layers of Earth, water, fire, love, SOUND, and light.
Quotes from
“A work of beauty sourced from the stars.”
“The playlists for trance dance, tribal dance, and infinity dance are exquisite.”
“The alchemy you create in this work is that of a true healer.”
Star as she is known to her students masterfully weaves together exercises known to heal trauma with ancient cultural practices ranging from Indian, Egyptian, and Hawaiian to Native American, Essene and Celtic.
Heal through Dance is an invitation to become your own healer and an ecstatic dance facilitator. Let your dance become an embodied prayer through the layers of Earth, water, fire, love, SOUND, and light.
Quotes from
“A work of beauty sourced from the stars.”
“The playlists for trance dance, tribal dance, and infinity dance are exquisite.”
“The alchemy you create in this work is that of a true healer.”
190 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 11, 2021
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February 11, 2024
So, I definitely got some nuggets of good stuff out of this book. I appreciate the specifics of how to create playlists using different instrumentation, bpm, etc. and I appreciate the descriptions of how to move your body in different ways. I also liked the description of elements to use in movement practices. Overall, this book is very scattered, and did not focus enough on the act of dance or movement.
1) Somatic movement & dance is about an internal body experience, and the book sets you up with all sorts of spiritual and religious tasks and practices to engage in to support the "healing dance". Somatic movement theory argues against this and instead suggests that we should simply learn to move without the agenda of trauma release or any other agenda or intention, and we learn from the practice itself. Most of the book contradicts this theory.
2) Most of the information in this book is information that's available elsewhere that's been cobbled together. We're certainly not reinventing the wheel. Whether it be spiritual practices or scientific or medical anecdotes, none of this info is cited and no sources are listed. For 2021, this is poor writing.
1) Somatic movement & dance is about an internal body experience, and the book sets you up with all sorts of spiritual and religious tasks and practices to engage in to support the "healing dance". Somatic movement theory argues against this and instead suggests that we should simply learn to move without the agenda of trauma release or any other agenda or intention, and we learn from the practice itself. Most of the book contradicts this theory.
2) Most of the information in this book is information that's available elsewhere that's been cobbled together. We're certainly not reinventing the wheel. Whether it be spiritual practices or scientific or medical anecdotes, none of this info is cited and no sources are listed. For 2021, this is poor writing.
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