Where To Find Dance Therapy in Montreal?
By Mayssa Moukarzel
LAMSA Montreal ambassador Montreal
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Dance Movement Therapy (DMT):
- Uses movement to help individual achieve emotional, cognitive, physical, and social integration
- Versatile form of therapy founded on the idea that motion and emotion are interconnected
- Can be used with all populations and with individuals, couples, families, or groups
- Promotes self-awareness, self-esteem, and a safe space for the expression of feelings
Benefits of Dance Therapy:
- Mental Health
- Promotes calm/reduces stress
- Self-awareness
- Coping skills
- Disease prevention
- Mood management
- Physical Health
- Muscular strength
- Coordination
- Mobility
- Decreased muscular tension
Where To Find Dance Therapy in Montreal?
- The National Centre for Dance Therapy (NCDT), a division of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
- Workshops at Concordia University
- Dance Movement Therapy Association in Canada (DMTAC)
- Individual dance therapists