She showed me how to tap into it and to be more aware of it, to physically dance to it and mentally dance to it. That was really a very consistent period of spiritual learning on a daily level, and I would say it contributed to my beginning to be interested also in holistic healing . I noticed that when I worked with this woman's methods, old knots of tension and pain stored in my body would start to release. And as they released and my body came into a more proper alignment, these releases would either be accompanied with non-emotional surges of energy or with very intense emotional releases. Well, she had us focus on our breath a lot.
Most people have just really horrendous posture, which creates a lot of problems.
And she would also work with having us become sensitized to energy flows through our body, and to working with pulling energy up from the earth or feeling energy in the air around us, or bouncing off the energy from other people in the room or the music we were working with. Everybody had their own personal experiences. For me, it was spiritual and it was really healing. These emotional releases started getting me to look at the connections between the body, the mind and the emotions as well as the spirit. So I became a pioneer in the new field of dance therapy back in the late '60s.