During a lecture on May 21, 2013, inthe Auditorium of UFBA Lecture Pavilion III, Ondina Campus, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, psychiatrist, professor ofmedicine at Boston University, told us about how the central nervous system reactsto trauma. He explained that from the trauma, the left lobe of the brain,responsible for curiosity, development of thought and language, is completely knockedout. The limbic system - the most primitive one, responsible for vegetativefunctions: hunger, thirst, sleep - is activated, attempting to recall thetrauma, which affects systems that cannot be controlled by rational will. Sothe traumatized person becomes depressed, loses control over sleep, hunger andits vegetative functions and experiencessymptoms such as insomnia and eating disorders.Recent studies suggest, according toDr. Bessel van der Kolk, that bodily activities involving relationship - such ascontact improvisation, capoeira and martial arts - favor the interpersonalrhythm through movement and provide respiratory changes, mobilizing back to theprefrontal part of the brain cortex, which provides broad understanding of theworld, anticipates actions and makes relationships possible. Through thesepractices, the central nervous system is reestablished and the vegetativefunctions as well as the general regulation of hormones are rebalanced, fosteringpaths to healing.Lily Ehrenfried, heiress and star of revolutionarychanges on the ways of thinking body and movement, in the early twentiethcentury, offers us this beautiful statement:[...] we have never seen a humanbeing modify his/her bodily habits without deeply and definitely changing his/herpsyche. [...] (EHRENFRIED, 1991, p.17)This strict parallelism betweenpsyche and palpable body, indicated by Lyli (Mabel Todd, Gerda Alexander, IdaRolf and manyothers who I've been quoting here), makes visible and explicit the potential ofmovement as a solution for many of our problems in this early XXI century.These intuitions, studies andstatements from those who lived and studied movement, observing in themselvesand others the effects caused by the moving throughout life, converge andvalidate the need for movement.More people need to know. Morepeople need to believe, practice and give it the proper value. It's on thesetracks that I want to go on.P.S.: I leave here my late homelytribute to the friends, lovers and professionals of the Circus, through the imageof Physical Education students of UFBA (Ticiane Calmon), from the class ofAmelia Conrado, full of determination, guts and courage to risk on thisunstable and poetic way of the Professionals of Movement.Em palestra no dia 21 de maio de 2013, no Auditorio do Pavilhao de Aulas III da UFBa, Campus de Ondina, o Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, psiquiatra, professor da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Boston, nos falou sobre como o sistema nervoso central reage ao trauma. Ele explicou que, a partir do trauma, o lobo esquerdo do cerebro, responsavel pela curiosidade, desenvolvimento do pensamento e linguagem, fica completamente nockouteado. O sistema limbico - o mais primitivo, responsavel pelas funcoes vegetativas: fome, sede, sono - fica ativado, cuidando de rememorar o trauma, o que afeta sistemas que nao podem ser controlados pela vontade racional. Entao a pessoa traumatizada se deprime, perde o controle sobre o sono, a fome e suas funcoes vegetativas e apresenta sintomas como insonia e disturbios alimentares. Estudos recentes sugerem, segundo Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, que atividades