Dance Therapy - Where Fitness Meets Psychology (Udemy.com)

DANCE THERAPY is an online course on how to learn to dance gracefully and control your body, work through stress, inner blocks, and heal psychological state through movement. The author of the course is an international trainer with 25 years of experience, choreographer, professional dancer and psychologist.

This course is for those, who want

• Learn to dance in 6 different styles, feel your body.
  

• Develop flexibility and plasticity, be healthy and mobile.
  

• Work through inner fears, blocks and problems through dance.
  

• Relieve stress and psychological tension, reboot with movement.
  

• Release inner resentment, negative emotions, discontent without accumulating them inside.
  

• Become more confident, not being ashamed of your body, feel free and easy on the dance floor.
  

• Understand your needs and desires, unleash your potential.

The course includes

17 video lessons,

5 meditations and 12 psychological practices in text and audio format

Why should you choose this course?

In this course dance acts not only as a way to strengthen and improve physical health, develop flexibility and mobility of the body, but also as a therapeutic practice aimed at solving emotional and psychological problems of a person, getting rid of negative emotions through movement.

Yulia is an experienced dancer with 25 years of experience, will show a variety of styles in the video lessons, will give 6 prepared staged dances and step by step will analyze the choreography of their performance. The movements are presented in such way that even those, who think they cannot dance, learned to control their bodies, move easily and gracefully, without scruple and constraint, enjoying the process.

Also practices and meditations are presented in the lessons, the tasks of which is to eliminate inner conflicts, stress, difficulties in various spheres of life and find harmony, the ability to cope with negative states.

The program is designed for beginners, who want to learn how to dance, for continuing dancers, as well as for experienced psychologists, in order to introduce this type of therapy into their work. All video lessons were recorded as detailed as possible, so that it would be easy to learn choreography with a trainer as well as to dance on your own, improvising and adding new elements to an already prepared choreography.

Lesson Plan

Introduction

Lesson 1 Check-list.

Lesson 2 Personal story. How dance therapy changed my life.

Lesson 3 Why Dance Therapy?

Lesson 4 Safety measures

Lesson 5 Briefly About The Modules

Lesson 6 The Rules of Choreography

Module 1. Preparation, exit from the negative state

Lesson 1. Ecstatic dance for complete relaxation and feeling more confident.

Lesson 2. Practice "4 chair legs".

Lesson 3. The Key Balance of Life

Module 2. Self-acceptance

Lesson 1. Warm up. We warm up the body and prepare it for dance practice.

Lesson 2. “Chakras Dance".

Lesson 3. “Chakras Dance". We learn choreography.

Lesson 4. Meditation "Relaxation" for deep relaxation and stress relief.

Lesson 5. Ritual “Self-acceptance”.

Module 3. Opening Up To Love

Lesson 1. Warm up. We warm up the body and prepare it for dance practice.

Lesson 2. Dance style "Tutting".

Lesson 3. Learning the Tutting style. Choreography.

Lesson 4. Manifest Love Meditation

Module 4. Purpose and realization.

Lesson 1. Warm up. We warm up the body and prepare it for dance practice.

Lesson 2.”Vogue" style.

Lesson 3. Learning the "Vogue" style. Choreography.

Lesson 4. Practice "Who am I?"

Module 5. Self-confidence, self-esteem and feminine energy

Lesson 1. Warm up. We warm up the body and prepare it for dance practice.

Lesson 2.”Strip-plastic” style.

Lesson 3. Learning the “Strip-plastic" style. Choreography.

Lesson 4. Practice "Masculine and Feminine”.

Module 6. Success and financial abundance

Lesson 1. Warm up. We warm up the body and prepare it for dance practice.

Lesson 2. “Hip-hop" style.

Lesson 3. Learning the "Hip-Hop" style. Choreography.

Lesson 4. Meditation “Breathing with the Earth”.

Bonus module

Lesson 1. Video of the dance for self-study. We balance the energy in the body with movement.

Lesson 2. The "I Am" Practice

Conclusion.

Author of the course:

Julia Dobrovolskaia

Dancing experience of 25 years.

Certified teacher (Moscow State Pedagogical University).

Certified psychologist.

Studied at the Higher School of Psychology and Psychosomatic Therapy.

Certified international trainer, choreographer and dancer (Association of Fitness Professionals, Ereps, Higher School of Yoga Technology, Les Mills, Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness).

Movie actress.

Winner of the awards in the fitness and film industries.