Dancing for Health

What in the world are you talking about, you ask me?
Dancing is an art form.
 It also is away to become active, healthy, and a way to release emotions.

  Dancing can be a form of meditation, where you just listen to the music and flow with it.  When we dance to music we love, we enter into a state of joy.  We move our bodies in any way that feels good.  Whether we learn a certain dance and flow with it or make up or own steps as we go along, dance helps you to release any pent-up emotions by letting you feel your body.

Dance brings you down into your body, so you can experience every physical sensation.  Dance will ground you.  Have you ever felt like you were in another world, mentally feeling separate from your body?  You need to ground yourself.

I will put on my 50-60's rock music and I will dance with whatever step I think of and desire to perform.  I even have placed in my karate kicks in between my Latin dance moves.  I use dance as a healthy exercise, off and on during the week.  By the time I'm done with bopping and twisting to the oldies, or swaying with my Latin dance, I have built up a healthy sweat.

 

Tip- A word of caution with dancing and our shoes.  Dancing with tennis shoes on can be detrimental to our knees.  Why?  Because when we wear tennis shoes (athletic shoes) the soles are meant to be sticky.  The stickiness of the soles catches onto the matting, carpet, and flooring.  When this happens, it causes jolts to the ligaments around the knee.  After enough jolting to this area, a small tear in the muscle fibers or ligament can form.  This happened to me.  Try wearing dancing shoes or shoes that have a leather sole.  Leather (suede) when it is worn stops any catching of the shoe's sole to the floor, providing you with ease of movement and no twisting trauma.  I have used my Native American leather moccasins.  

 On my Facebook site, I had some ladies that did what is called "Journey Dancing".  A great way to become open, expressive, and release pent-up emotions.  

These people and others are enjoying their bodies, getting healthy, and meeting new people.  What better way to do this?  Anyone can dance.  As long as you have a body, it doesn't matter what size it is or if you're in a wheelchair, you can dance.

I invite you to try dancing yourself to health!  Here are some sites that can get you up and dancing.

http://journeydance.com/what-is-journey-dance
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Qi Gong (I consider this a slow dance.)  https://youtu.be/Gtj7ogU78AU 

Fifties and sixties music     https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiSwI5nCqw2hVPds1Yqxw0CExdnzWC7a7

Latin Dance    https://youtu.be/8DZktowZo_k

Belly Dance (With Kathy Smith.  Helps you to connect to your body and sensual emotions.)
https://youtu.be/XqbHYSQ5lhM    
Have a great time finding yourself and becoming healthy through  movement and music.

Re-written by Cynthia Bergsbaken Dec. 4, 2019.  Original Feb. 18, 2017.
Reiki in the Prairie LLC

 

Disclaimer by Reiki in the Prairie LLC and Cynthia Bergsbaken copyright 2015

I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or medical doctor.  These articles I have written, are from reading and experiencing them.  Many of these articles are my own experiences with my own inventions to heal as well.

If you have a medical condition-physically/mentally/emotionally, please see a qualified medical doctor.  Do not substitute my articles for proper medical care.  You are too important to the world.

I have used all procedures I have written about and have found them to be helpful as tools to help myself become a better person.   I am sharing them with you because used as a tool, they are helpful in Shadow working on ourselves.  (Shadow working is healing our inner shadows that are unconscious or subconscious.  Inner shadows are our belief systems, our thoughts, our behaviors, our life experiences.)

I created this blog for my Reiki clients originally.  Combining these tools with Reiki creates a happy, healthy person.  These tools, when used alone are also beneficial!

 

 

***All original content is copyrighted by Cynthia Bergsbaken, Perceptive Blogger & Reiki in the Prairie LLC.

Reiki in the Prairie LLC is a legal Entity under law, 2015.

April 11, 2020

Plagiarism is a crime.  Share only by URL without changing the content!  Thank you.

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What in the world are you talking about, you ask me?
Dancing is an art form.
 It also is away to become active, healthy, and a way to release emotions.

  Dancing can be a form of meditation, where you just listen to the music and flow with it.  When we dance to music we love, we enter into a state of joy.  We move our bodies in any way that feels good.  Whether we learn a certain dance and flow with it or we make up or own steps as we go along, dance helps you to release any pent-up emotions by letting you feel your body.

Dance brings you down into your body, so you can experience every physical sensation.  Dance will ground you.  Have you ever felt like you were in another world, mentally feeling separate from your body?  You need to ground yourself.

I will put on my 50-60's rock music and I will dance with whatever step I think of and desire to perform.  I even have placed in my karate kicks in between my Latin dance moves.  I use dance as a healthy exercise, off and on during the week.  By the time I'm done with bopping and twisting to the oldies, or swaying with my Latin dance, I have built up a healthy sweat.

Tip- A word of caution with dancing and our shoes.  Dancing with tennis shoes on can be detrimental to our knees.  Why?  Because when we wear tennis shoes (athletic shoes) the soles are meant to be sticky.  The stickiness of the soles catches onto the matting or carpet.  When this happens, it causes jolts to the ligaments around the knee.  After enough jolting to this area, a small tear in the muscles fibers or ligament can form.  This happened to me.  Try wearing dancing shoes or shoes that have a leather sole.  Leather (suede) when it is worn stops any catching of the shoe's sole to the floor, providing you with ease of movement and no twisting trauma.

 On my Facebook site, I had some ladies that did what is called "Journey Dancing".  A great way to become open, expressive, and release pent-up emotions.

Here is what one of the ladies posted.  I write this here with her permission.

"Mark your calendars, next Journey Dance class at Avalon, 404 W. Superior Street, Duluth, MN.  March 11th at 3-4:00 pm.  My heart is full, filled with love.  Have had an expansive past few month with a few deflation.  Yesterday I shared one of my passions, Journey Dance.  It was a global event!  Even though there was only three of us on the dance floor, it felt like so much more.  I've always told myself I married my toughest student if I can get him to believe in what I am doing.  I can conquer anything.  Dave was right there with me dancing every step of the way along with a lovely acquaintance Lisa, whom I met at a Journey Dance/yoga event.  We filled the room, the world, with all the joy and love we could muster up." said Kim Buskala. 

These people and others are enjoying their bodies, getting healthy, and meeting new people.  What better way to do this?  Anyone can dance.  As long as you have a body, it doesn't matter what size it is or if you're in a wheelchair, you can dance.

I invite you to try dancing yourself to health!  Here are some sites that can get you up and dancing.

http://journeydance.com/what-is-journey-dance

http://journeydance.com/kim-buskala     Kim Buskala, as of Feb. 2017 was a facilitator of the Superior, WI group of Journey Dance.

Qi Gong (I consider this a slow dance.)  https://youtu.be/Gtj7ogU78AU 

Fifties and sixties music     https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiSwI5nCqw2hVPds1Yqxw0CExdnzWC7a7

Latin Dance    https://youtu.be/8DZktowZo_k

Belly Dance (With Kathy Smith.  Helps you to connect to your body and sensual emotions.)
https://youtu.be/XqbHYSQ5lhM

Have a great time finding yourself and becoming healthy through  movement and music.

Re-written by Cynthia Bergsbaken Dec. 4, 2019.  Original Feb. 18, 2017.
Reiki in the Prairie LLC

 

Disclaimer by Reiki in the Prairie LLC and Cynthia Bergsbaken copyright 2015

I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or medical doctor.  These articles I have written, are from reading and experiencing them.  Many of these articles are my own experiences with my own inventions to heal as well.

If you have a medical condition-physically/mentally/emotionally, please see a qualified medical doctor.  Do not substitute my articles for proper medical care.  You are too important to the world.

I have used all procedures I have written about and have found them to be helpful as tools to help myself become a better person.   I am sharing them with you because used as a tool, they are helpful in Shadow working on ourselves.  (Shadow working is healing our inner shadows that are unconscious or subconscious.  Inner shadows are our belief systems, our thoughts, our behaviors, our life experiences.)

I created this blog for my Reiki clients originally.  Combining these tools with Reiki creates a happy, healthy person.  These tools, when used alone are also beneficial!

 

 

***All original content is copyrighted by Cynthia Bergsbaken, Perceptive Blogger & Reiki in the Prairie LLC.

Reiki in the Prairie LLC is a legal Entity under law, 2015.

April 11, 2020

Plagiarism is a crime.  Share only by URL without changing the content!  Thank you.