Interested in becoming a Dance/Movement Therapist?

It's been a while since I started my blog for anyone interested in going into the fascinating field of dance/movement therapy (DMT). If you live in California, we have the particular challenge of becoming certified through the American Dance Therapy Association, since there are no approved graduate level programs in DMT yet in the state. Thus, alternate route certification is possible, and the Center for Movement Education and Research (CMER) has programs available in both Northern and Southern California.

Check here for information on CMERs alternate route training, including dates of the next program offerings and introduction to DMT workshops (highly recommended).

There is also information on the ADTA website regarding general answers about the career of DMT, educational opportunities for certification, recommended reading, and much more.

Britney Spears on Dancing as Therapy

After hearing about my career goal of becoming a dance/movement therapist, my cousin told me about a quote from MTV's documentary, Britney: For the Record, where Britney talks about expressing her life issues through dance.

She said: "Everybody has a world that they create around themselves. If I have a lot of nervous energy, when I start dancing it goes away and I just feel emotion."

"People think that if you go through something in your life you need to go to therapy, but for me art is therapy because you are expressing yourself in such a spiritual way."

"Sometimes you don't need to use words to go through what you need to go through. Sometimes it's an emotion that you need to feel when you dance, that you touch on and the only way you can touch it is if you move a certain way."

We Shake with Joy: A Poem by Mary Oliver

We Shake with Joy
by Mary Oliver

We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
What a time they have, these two
housed as they are in the same body.

Best Yoga Video

I have a really hard time sticking to a yoga video routine. There's something about the ritual of going to a class with others, getting corrections and attention from a live teacher that I love. If I am in my living room doing a video I become easily distracted by time, what I need to do, phone calls, etc. But this video from the Monterey Channel is done by one of the best yoga teachers I've ever had. If I can't go to her class, this video is the very next best thing.

Namaste.

http://www.ampmedia.org/asx/11785.asx

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