Movement meditation is the use of movement and dance through which you can engage creatively to further your emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration. It is founded on the principle that movement reflects an individual’s patterns of thinking and feeling. Through acknowledging and supporting each participant’s movements the facilitator encourages development and integration of new adaptive movement patterns together with the emotional experiences that accompany such changes. The 5Rhythms is practiced in group classes and workshops, educational and social service setting and in private practice.
The 5Rhythms works with a wide variety of people who are emotionally and physically distressed, people with personal difficulties, those with physical or mental illness and people who want to use the medium for personal growth.
Benefits of Meditative Movement and the 5Rhythms
- Increasing self-awareness, self-esteem and personal autonomy.
- Experiencing links between thought, feelings and actions.
- Expressing and managing overwhelming feelings or thoughts.
- Maximising resources of communication.
- Contacting inner resources through contained creative movement play.
- Testing the impact of self on others.
- Testing inner with outer reality.
- Initiating physical, emotional and/or cognitive shifts.
- Helps with focus & concentration.
- Increase creativity.
- Improved learning ability and memory.
- Developing a trusting relationship.
- Manage feelings that interrupt learning.
- Enhancing social interaction skills.
- Enhances energy, strength and vigor.
- Increased productivity.
- Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres.
- Less aggressiveness.
- Advises people suffering from verbal communication, or coping with traumatic experiences, proximity issues and many others.
- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways.
- Helps you discover your purpose.
- Increased acceptance of oneself.
- Helps living in the present moment.
- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego.
- Helps co-ordinate physical movements in individuals with any kind of physical impairment.
- Able to cope with the ups and downs of work and home life.
