Creative Movement Therapy

Endorphin creative movement course is a part of Art Therapies section and is derived from Dance Movement Therapy.

It makes use of natural human expressive movements. Creative movement uses dance like movements of body. It also includes expressions and drama.

These are powerful imaginative tools that can be used to help clients to form a positive image of themselves and build healthy self-identities. It also serves as a wonderful way for children to work on their self-awareness and self-esteem while being physically active. Creative movements require heads, hearts, and hands to work in sync. The movements are to be coordinated with what the child is trying to express while ensuring balance. This process helps to exercise the brain as it works out the complexity of combining both the dexterity and the emotive language of the movements.

Benefits of Creative Movement Therapy:

• Self-Confidence : Humans are visual animals. The way we see ourselves affects the way we feel about ourselves. Our body is the primary cue for us to connect to our surrounding. It is also a great medium of expression. More proficient we feel in using it, more confident we are about ourselves.
• Imagination : Imagination is the key to expression. It develops abilities of interpreting the routine things and events in a new perspective. Use of new ideas immensely benefit the health of our mind and thereby improves quality of life.
• Redressal of Subconscious Iissues : Expression is cathartic. A lot of suppressed emotions add to inappropriate behavioral issues. By working on systematic release of those emotions helps in correction of those issues.
• Concentration : Improved kinesthetic intelligence adds to development of a sustained focus of mind and body. This is enormously helpful in learning anything including new behavior.
• With the above benefits, Creative Movement is used with children and hence is stated as the inner state or inner nature of child. It is a joyful way of exploring movements with the help of music.
• Creative movement is also used as a learning methodology and a therapy approach where it is a set of objective driven activities through which clients explore movement for the purpose of developing skills, building efficacy, or stimulating imagination with the intent of communicating knowledge of facts, concepts, principles, ideas, and/or feelings.