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Ecstatic Dance and Subtance Abuse
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Are you feeling the pinch of cuts to Drug Treatment services?
Less clients coming your way means that you need to make sure they stay when they do arrive!
Are you looking for cost effective ways to get more into your programs? |
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| After many years of both working within the field of Addiction and studying various movement energy and Mindfulness practices I now feel able and ready to offer this powerful life changing tool to help sufferers of Addictions to move beyond the their self limiting beliefs and habits. |
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Ecstatic Trance Dance™ works on many different levels and can be accessed by all. On a practical level there are no steps to learn so you can go at your own pace, which means that people of any age or experience can benefit from it. Its done with the eyes closed which creates an environment that is not threatening allowing participants to go through varying thoughts feelings and emotional states, which do not need to be verbalized, taking away the fear of being judged or criticized by others. It also makes you feel good! :- Physically releasing endorphins, and harmonising all parts of the brain, super oxygenating every cell of the body, energising and shaking off trauma which may have been holding us back for years.
In every person there is a dance waiting to happen it is the unique story of our body.
Everything that we have ever experienced is held in the body, often things get stuck or are difficult to express because they are pre-verbal experiences, when we are given the freedom to express that story through movement we tap into our innate ability to heal ourselves. Our job is to provide the safety, experience and gentle encouragement to allow that to happen.
There are various studies that show when using physical activity and mindfulness in Drug treatment Services, the integration of new ways of thinking and feeling are faster, cohesive and much more likely to produce the stamina to “stick with the programme”.
EcstaticTrance Dance™ at its essence is a moving meditation and addresses these 2 approaches in a powerful, non-judgemental way that energises and develops awareness at the same time.
At this time of transition from one way of being to another, introducing a safe non-addictive form of creative self-expression is not only healing to ourselves but also the planet we live on with the taking back of our own power and responsibility we can better respond to the stresses of modern society from a place of integration.
To make this as easy and as cost effective as possible we would encourage your service users to come to our
Drop in Classes in London, Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare for details of these events go to events, workshops and retreats page, or if you are outside of these areas we can absolutely come to you, We have many high quality teachers of this method around the country and could also provide Teacher training to any of your staff who may be interested in implementing it directly into the programme in-house.
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 Please contact us with any questions and bookings.
When we are born the only thing that is important is our body we cry when we need food, when we need cuddling or when we need changing, as we grow we delight in discovering our different body parts and functioning, positive encouragement is given to us when we start to walk, to talk and to dance.
We revel in being naked and feel anything is possible. Somewhere along the line and often earlier in drug users a sad fall from grace happens we are subtly forced into the rhythms of our caregivers and society our body and it’s rhythms become alien and often scary. We start to live in the mind and are sold images by mass media of the perfect body, the perfect relationship,
the perfect life and we punish ourselves for not achieving this perfection.
Our bodies become a dumping ground for this toxic shame however it manifests and we no longer feel the pulse of life that is always there underneath with all the answers to propel you along in life and not just survive but to thrive.
It’s as simple as that really come join us on a dancing path into your beautiful unique body wisdom. You will be guided to explore Intimacy
(in-to-me-see). You are here at this time for a reason.
Aren’t you at least a little bit curious about what that might be?
Being Ecstatic it’s who you are! |
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