The art therapists' job is to know the elements of art, the process of therapeutic change, and how to stimulate, then look at and learn from the art product. In the past two decades there has been a resurgence in body movement and dance therapy, along with a recognition of the profound benefits of motor activity on the mind and body. Broad in its application and diverse in methodology, the psychomotor expressions experienced in dance movement therapy sessions often do not resemble dance in any formal sense. Like art therapy, dance therapy is a form of psychotherapy, differentiated in that it utilizes psychomotor expression. Everyone has an individual way of moving and how one uses their body can relate to issues that may have occurred before you learned to speak, when movement was a natural means of expression.
Movement is used to reclaim creativity, energy and playfulness.
Our dreams reveal the deepest patterns of feeling, conviction and behavior that determine the overall shape and direction of our lives. True symbols always serve multiple purposes and convey many layers of meaning and significance simultaneously. Dreams are living examples of the process by which we discover and renew the meaning in our lives and global culture. When we fail to understand them we are plunging ourselves into counterproductive unconscious behavior both personal and collective. The dreamer is the only one that can say what the dream means with any certainty.