Libre Magazine

Recession, job cuts, pressure, appraisals, the IT world is being subjected to a lot of pressure day by day. 9 to 5 jobs have been expanded to 9 to 11; stress in offices is slowly creeping up and interfering with every one’s personal life.

What is the solution for this?

How can stress be reduced in the IT world?

The answer, may be surprising, but is very simple:

Creative dance Education

Dance, as a balanced social, physical, emotional and spiritual activity, touches every part of us.

The study of creative dance deepens our understanding of movement expression as a basic human need.

Through dance we can connect to our inner selves as well as to others transcending barriers of language, race and gender, with the potential to overcome negative attitudes due to different economical, social, religious and cultural backgrounds. At the same time we maintain our own particular identity. Creative educational dance uses our natural abilities to encourage potential and inspire confidence while the movement vocabulary of the participants continuously develops.

Dance as a stress reliever

“There is a dancing bone in every body” said a prolific philosopher. Dancing is known to have a number of beneficial effects. After a good bout of dance, the release of endorphins is immense. The reasoning behind this is simple - if you are dancing to tune that you enjoy, you tend to grin and smile a lot more than you ordinarily would.

Dance and its forms reduce the occurrence of wrinkles to almost 63 per cent.
Dance therapy is recognized world over as a methodology to bring down the stress. Commonly known as DMT, Dance Movement Therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement (and dance) for emotional, cognitive, social, behavioural and physical conditions. It is a form of expressive therapy.

Dance therapy is founded on the premise that the body and mind are an interrelated continuum (refer body-mind), that the state of the body may affect mental and emotional wellbeing in manifold ways. In contrast to artistic dance, which is usually concerned with the aesthetic appearance of movement, dance therapy explores the nature of all movement. Through observing and altering the kinaesthetic movements of a client, dance movement therapists diagnose and help solve various psychological problems. As any conscious person can move on some level, this therapy can work with any population.