Ecstatic States Through Dance, answering a question
Channel: Laura-Marie Strawberry Nopales
Date: 2021-05-23

Ecstatic dance is my favorite healing modality.  In this video, I talk more about the experience of transcendence and ecstatic states, and how ecstatic dance can create its own energy. I answer a question about the previous video: It's possible to dance with just part of your body, and to dance for just a few minutes and work up to longer dance sessions.  

There are many ways to be thin, fat, disabled, and not disabled.  Ecstatic dance can create fitness as a helpful side-result.  But the main goal is a spiritual experience of bodily healing through movement rather than language.

Thank you for healing on your own terms, with self-empowerment, rather than what big systems have set out for us to do.  Radical mental health is a way of taking our well-being into our own hands, and caring for ourselves and one another authentically.  We have more choices and a home-grown way of care, where we can maintain our bodily autonomy and be treated with respect and consent.  It's much happier than having our rights stripped from us in a hospital, or getting sedated on too many medications.

I choose to dance, when I have a choice of how to care for myself.  I love to have many tools in my toolbox, so I can avoid the tools that harm me.