Become a Dance/Movement Therapist! Trainings in Northern California Start June 4th!

Here ye, Here ye!

FINALLY, Northern California gets some gold! The Center for Movement Education and Research offers certification courses for aspiring dance/movement therapists at Sonoma State University starting this June, 2010.

Sign up TODAY!

INFO:

You MUST enroll in both DMT I & II if you want want to fulfill the DMT Alternate Route Training. Go online for an application and send in your 50% Deposit by April 1, 2010. Classes will be cancelled without sufficient enrollment.


Theoretical Origins of Dance/Movement Therapy: Foundations Level I
June 4,5,6 & July 9, 10, 11, 12 2010

This is an introductory level course reviewing the theoretical origins of dance/movement therapy as a therapeutic modality. The foundational tenets defining dance/movement therapy as a creative, healing and integrating process will be presented in relation to self and other awareness and insight oriented symbolic functioning. The course will review the history and conceptual development of the major pioneers in the field and the application of their work within various settings. Additionally the cultural, ritual, modern dance and nonverbal communication historical elements will be reviewed.

Course Hours: 45 Contact Hours
Course Instructor and Credentials: Janet Lester, Psy.D., ADTR
Dates: June 4,5,6 & July 9,10,11 2010
Location: Sonoma State University
Times: 9-5:30 Friday-Sunday
Fee: $1200.00/ 45 Hour CE Credit for MFT/LCSW (Provider #3888)


Theoretical Developments in Dance/Movement Therapy: Elaborations Level II
Aug 6, 7, 8 & Oct 8, 9, 10 2010

This course has been approved by the American Dance Therapy Association as meeting requirements for the Alternate Route D.T.R. credential and satisfies 45 hours of DMT Theory & Practice Training. This is a Theory Course in Dance/Movement Therapy elaborating on the concepts of the creative process, the creative process in dance/ movement therapy and the role of the “moving imagination” in promoting psychological transformation. The importance of fostering creative processes in therapeutic dance experience will be reviewed from a depth oriented perspective. The course will also investigate the creative process involved in developing an empathic therapeutic relationship in dance/movement therapy. Each day movement experientials will be offered to explore the presented concepts as well as the creative aspects of improvisational and choreographic processes as they pertain to dance/movement therapy.(A prerequisite for alternate route training course enrollment is the satisfactory completion of a Foundations Theory Course in Dance/Movement Therapy – Level I.).
Course Hours: 45 Contact Hours
Course Instructor and Credentials: Paula Perlman LMFT, ADTR, CLMA
Dates: Aug 6, 7, 8 & Oct 8, 9, 10 2010
Location: Sonoma State University
Times: 9-5:30 Friday-Sunday
Fee: $1200.00/ 45 Hour CE Credit for MFT/LCSW (Provider #3888)

For Information and Application Contact:
Judy Gantz-CMER Director
POB 2001
Sebastopol, CA 95473
judy@movement-education.org
(310) 477-9535
www.movement-education.org

CMER DMT with Seniors CANCELLED

Dance/Movement Therapy with Seniors Course for January and February is CANCELLED.

Yes. Another course has been cancelled due to low enrollment. Sigh.

Without attending (or hence, graduating) from these classes, I will not be able to become a dance/movement therapist. I feel held back while I'm rarin' to go!

My efforts and energies are currently focused on my thesis, but when it's done, it's on. Nobody will be able to hide! I plan on recruiting everyone I know and everyone I don't know to become dance therapists in California. This profession will thrive with a new generation of DMTs in this wonderful state!

New R-DMT Paperwork and Anti-Aging Yoga

If you are a dance/movement therapy alternate route student, or plan to become one in the future, you should definitely check out the ADTA's new website to become familiar with the R-DMT packet. There is a bunch of downloadable paperwork as well, which is newly added since the website makeover. Make sure you're organized!

Also, I came across the Gaiam blog this weekend, and thought I'd share the "anti-aging" yoga slideshow with you. Although I'm not a fan of gimmicky incentives as the only motivation for movement and health, this one is at least interesting enough to pass along. Let me know what you think.


Anti-Aging Yoga: How-to Slideshow
by Sadie Nardini

What yogis have known for centuries, science now backs up: When it comes to looking and feeling young, skin creams and injections ain’t got nothing on the practice of yoga. Yoga changes the body’s system as a whole, so the glow on your more youthful face actually comes from an inner transformation and slowing down of the aging process. This means fewer wrinkles, less stress, more immunity, increased brain power and yes, a body that stays healthy and beautiful for a lifetime. So forget botox. Try yoga!

I’m not talking about face yoga here — though that’s fine to do, too.

More and more research is finding that people who practice a vigorous form of yoga just three hours a week are investing in maintaining a youthful glow by switching on the anti-aging hormones that slow down the process from the inside out. In fact, some studies show that on average, these three hourly sessions make practitioners biologically nine years younger than their non-yogi counterparts. Now that’s change we can believe in! Yoga does this by stimulating the endocrine system to produce balanced amounts of hormones, and helps switch on and off genes that we need (or don’t!) to keep us running smoothly. It’s been shown, among other things, to reduce stress hormones like cortisol, a major factor in disease and aging.

Make this practice part of your regular routine, and reap the benefits of invigorated health and beauty that will have people asking you what your secret is. You’ll just smile slyly (with fewer wrinkles) and say, “It’s the yoga.”

THE PRACTICE

The following 6 power poses work specifically to trigger the main endocrine glands: reproductive, adrenals, thymus, thyroid, hypothalamus, pituitary and pineal, and the major organs, which all work together to regulate stress, metabolism, aging, sleep and immunity.


1. Seated Cat/Cow

Regulates: reproductive and stress hormones

Come into an Easy Seat. Place your hands on knees, and with each inhale, arch your back, drawing shoulder blades closer. Exhale, and round in, shoulder blades move apart, chin towards chest.

Repeat for one minute or more.

2. Metabolic Spark

Regulates: metabolism and weight management, immunity

Return to Easy Seat. Inhale into the chest and ribs, and reach your arms out parallel to the floor, palms facing forward. Exhale more quickly from the navel, and swing your arms to reach out in front of you, palms face each other.

Repeat for one minute.

3. Twisted Lunge


Regulates: organ health, overall system function.

Come into a Lunge Position, back heel up, hips squared. Bring your palms together at the chest and plant your right elbow onto the left knee. Keep the hips level as you exhale and spin your heart and top shoulder to the sky. Place your back knee down onto the floor if needed.

Take 5-10 breaths here, then switch sides.

Read the full article here.

Dance Therapy Coursework at Kinections in NY

Right around the corner in 2010!

May
Dance/Movement Therapy Theory & Practice I
Foundations and Principles of Dance/Movement Therapy
May 24, 2010 - May 28, 2010
Danielle L. Fraenkel, Ph.D., BC-DMT, NCC, LCAT, LMHC

June
Group Processes in Dance/Movement Therapy
The Marian Chace Approach
June 2, 2010 - June 5, 2010
Elissa White, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT

A Bill Evans Approach to Laban Movement Analysis
June 7, 2010 - June 10, 2010
Bill Evans, MFA, CLMA, CMA

An Experiential and Theoretical Introduction to the Kestenberg Movement Profile
Janet Lemon Williams, R-DMT, KMP Analyst Level I
June 12 - June 15, 2009

The CenterPost Trauma & Resiliency Framework
Dance Movement Therapy for Survivors of War, Torture and Violence in Cross-Cultural Settings
June 16, 2010 - June 19, 2010
Amber Elizabeth Gray, MPH, MA, BC-DMT, LPCC

Group Processes in LivingDance~LivingMusic
June 23, 2010 - June 27, 2010
Danielle L. Fraenkel, Ph.D., BC-DMT, NCC, LCAT, LMHC

Diane Duggan is Amazing.

If you ever get the opportunity, take a workshop by this woman.

Related Articles and Videos

I've been getting back into the swing of things at work this week after a fabulous two weeks off in Maui (friend's wedding) and Portland (ADTA conference). If you haven't yet been to the ADTA conference, GO NEXT YEAR IN BROOKLYN. It's a profound experience to be with hundreds of dance/movement therapists. I felt as though I was with "my people."

While I adjust back to my regular schedule, here are some articles you may find interesting:

*The act of exercise can improve body image.

*How can taking the stairs be more fun?

Interactive Swedish Piano Stairs - Watch more Funny Videos

*"Breath Made Visible" a documentary about Anna Halprin, co-founder of the Tamalpa Institute (my movement based, expressive arts therapy school), and postmodern dancer extraordinaire.

American Dance Therapy Association Conference

And the countdown begins!!!

The American Dance Therapy Association conference is next week, October 8-11th in Portland, Oregon.



I will be co-presenting with the fabulous Lora Wilson Mau, DTR, and Ty Tedmon-Jones, ADTR on the topic of BLOGGING! This is where it all began, folks. We are so thrilled to be presenting such a great topic. I've learned so much about blogging, Twitter, and marketing since my first post November of 2008. Hope you all can join us in the dance across the world wide web presentation.

If you are able to come to the conference, it promises to be an educational time filled with fun and a huge dance party on Saturday night.

Hope to see you there!

Calling all Alternate Route Students!

Have you registered as an alternate route student with the American Dance Therapy Association?

I spent this past weekend in Claremont, California, for the first half of a course on Dance / Movement Therapy with Children and Adolescents.

Some of us, myself included, were meeting for our first course in dance therapy (see earlier blog posts regarding low enrollment in the Northern California classes). We alternate route students were reminded to email the ADTA AND send in a hard copy declaration of beginning the process of becoming Dance Therapist Registered (DTR). The ADTA is in the process of modifying and changing DTR requirements, so if you get your letter to them now (and soon) you will most likely not be responsible for the changes they make in the future.

Here is some helpful information:

Email the ADTA office: info@adta.org (you may need to ask for a specific name of who to send your email and letter to.)

The ADTA national office address to send the hard copy of your letter:
10632 Little Patuxent Parkway
Suite 108
Columbia, MD 21044-3263
Fax: (410) 997-4048
Telephone: (410) 997-4040


If you have questions about being credentialed as a dance therapist, contact Gabrielle Kaufman, head of the credentialing committee at dmt@leventhal.com .

To email CMER instructor Janet Lester, ADTR, PsyD: janetlester@earthlink.com .

Remember to also join the ADTA as a student here! You will get 50% off membership as a student member.

Enjoy the dance!